A) Publication Policies
1. Manuscript Submission
Manuscripts submitted to the International Journal of Economics and Innovation (IJEI) must comply with the journal’s author guidelines, formatting rules, and submission requirements. Submissions must be made through the journal’s online submission system, and authors are required to provide the necessary metadata, including the title, abstract, keywords, and references, in the prescribed format. All authors are required to provide their ORCID iDs during the submission process.
2. Publication Frequency
IJEI is published twice a year, in April and October. Authors may submit manuscripts at any time throughout the year. Articles that successfully complete the editorial and peer-review processes are scheduled for publication according to the dates of submission and completion of the evaluation process.
3. Open Access Policy
IJEI is an open-access journal. All published content is made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. This policy supports the wide dissemination, visibility, and academic impact of research.
4. Privacy Statement
The names, email addresses, and other personal information entered into this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal. Such information will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party, except where required for the management of the editorial and publishing process.
5. Copyright Notice
Authors who submit manuscripts to IJEI confirm that their work has not been previously published, accepted for publication, or submitted elsewhere for consideration. Authors retain the copyright of their work while granting the journal the right of first publication. The legal, scientific, and ethical responsibility for the content of the manuscript belongs entirely to the author(s). No royalties are paid to authors. Published material may be cited provided that proper academic reference is given.
6. Peer-Review Process
All submissions to IJEI undergo a double-blind peer-review process. Each manuscript is evaluated by at least two independent reviewers with relevant expertise in the subject area. Reviewers assess originality, methodological rigor, scientific contribution, clarity, and relevance to the journal’s scope. Reviewer identities are kept confidential, and author identities are not disclosed to reviewers.
The evaluation process generally takes approximately 2 to 3 months. Following positive reviewer reports and editorial approval, authors may request an acceptance letter signed by the Editor-in-Chief.
7. Editorial Evaluation and Final Decision
Revision and Acceptance: If revisions are required on the basis of reviewer reports, the manuscript is returned to the author(s) for revision within a specified period. Revised manuscripts may be re-evaluated by the reviewers and/or the editorial board when necessary.
Final Decision: The final publication decision is made by the Editor-in-Chief on the basis of reviewer reports, author revisions, editorial assessment, and the journal’s publication policies. In making this decision, the Editor-in-Chief considers the scientific merit of the study, the quality of the peer-review reports, the consistency of revisions, and the ethical and editorial suitability of the manuscript.
8. Originality and Plagiarism Screening
IJEI requires that all submitted works be original and not under consideration or published elsewhere. Manuscripts may be screened for similarity using plagiarism detection software such as iThenticate and intihal.net. Authors are responsible for ensuring proper citation, quotation, and acknowledgment of all sources used in their work.
9. Data Accessibility
Authors are encouraged to make the data underlying their findings available whenever possible in order to support transparency, reproducibility, and scholarly verification. Data may be shared through public repositories, appendices, or supplementary files, where appropriate and feasible. For original research articles, authors are required to include a “Data Availability Statement” at the end of the manuscript, indicating where the data can be accessed and under what conditions, or clearly explaining the reasons why the data are not publicly available.
10. Appeals and Complaints
Authors may appeal editorial decisions by contacting the editorial office with a reasoned explanation. Complaints concerning editorial procedures, peer review, or publication ethics are reviewed carefully and handled in accordance with the journal’s policies and ethical standards.
B) Ethical Principles
IJEI is committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics, academic integrity, and transparency in scholarly publishing. Authors, reviewers, editors, and the publisher are expected to act in accordance with internationally accepted ethical principles throughout the submission, review, and publication processes.
The journal follows the principles and guidance of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Allegations or findings of misconduct, including but not limited to plagiarism, duplicate submission, redundant publication, data fabrication, data falsification, citation manipulation, undisclosed conflicts of interest, and inappropriate authorship, are handled in accordance with COPE guidance and relevant COPE flowcharts.
COPE Guidance: https://publicationethics.org/guidance
COPE Guidance and Tools: https://publicationethics.org/guidance-and-tools
COPE Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing: https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guideline/principles-transparency-and-best-practice-scholarly-publishing
1. Conflict of Interest Statement
Authors must disclose any financial, institutional, or personal relationships that may influence, or be perceived to influence, the results or interpretation of their work. Relevant conflict of interest declarations should be provided during the submission process and, where necessary, included in the published article.
2. Authorship and Contributions
Author Contributions: Authors must ensure that each author listed in the manuscript has made significant contributions to the study. Authors should have actively participated in processes such as research design, data collection, analysis, writing, or revision.
Acknowledgment of Contributions: The contribution of each author should be clearly stated, and the order of authors should be arranged according to these contributions. Individuals who did not contribute to the research should not be included as authors.
Authorship Order and Changes: Authors should carefully consider the list and order of authors and provide the definitive list at the time of the original submission. After the manuscript has been accepted for publication, the order of authors cannot be changed, and no new authors can be added.
3. Use of Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Technologies
Artificial Intelligence (AI)-assisted tools cannot be listed as an author or co-author. Authorship entails responsibilities and duties that can only be assigned to and performed by human authors, including responsibility for the accuracy, integrity, and originality of the work.
AI-assisted technologies may be used only to support language editing, readability improvement, and presentation of the manuscript, under appropriate human oversight and control. Such tools must not replace the authors’ responsibility for the scientific content, interpretation, and conclusions of the study.
Authors must disclose the use of AI-assisted technologies in a relevant declaration within the manuscript, specifying the tool used and the purpose of its use. If no AI-assisted technologies were used, no disclosure is required.
Authors remain fully responsible for the entire content of the manuscript, including any content generated, revised, or edited with the assistance of AI tools. They must ensure that the manuscript is original, free from plagiarism, and that all cited sources, facts, and references are accurate, appropriate, and properly verified.
4. Retraction and Correction Policy
If a published manuscript is found to contain significant errors, misleading information, or unreliable findings, it may be corrected or retracted, depending on the nature and seriousness of the issue. Authors are required to notify the editorial team promptly upon discovering any significant error or inaccuracy in their work. Retraction and correction procedures are handled in accordance with the COPE Guidelines (https://publicationethics.org/guidance-and-tools).
Articles may be retracted in cases of serious ethical violations or major methodological errors, including but not limited to plagiarism, data fabrication, data falsification, or manipulation.
Retraction decisions are clearly communicated to readers. Retraction notices are published and linked to the original article. The original article remains part of the scholarly record and is clearly identified as retracted.
5. Research Ethics Involving Human Subjects
All research involving human participants must be approved by the relevant ethics committee or institutional review board, where required, and conducted in accordance with applicable ethical and legal standards. Authors must clearly state in a formal declaration at the end of the manuscript, immediately before the References section, that ethics approval has been obtained. Where applicable, this declaration must include the name of the approving committee or institution, the approval date, and the approval/protocol number. Informed consent must be obtained from participants where required. The anonymity, privacy, and confidentiality of participants must be strictly protected throughout the research and publication process. Authors should be prepared to provide official ethics approval documentation to the editorial office upon request.
6. Ethical Responsibilities of Authors
Originality and Plagiarism: Authors must ensure that their work is original and properly cite or quote the work and words of others. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
Data Access and Retention: Authors should be prepared to provide raw data related to their manuscript for editorial review and must retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.
Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication: Authors should not submit the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior.
Acknowledgment of Sources: Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.
Authorship of the Paper: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors.
Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript.
Fundamental Errors in Published Works: When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in their published work, it is the author's obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.
7. Ethical Responsibilities of Editors
Publication Decisions: The editor is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The editor is guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism.
Fair Play: The editor must ensure that each manuscript received by the journal is reviewed for its intellectual content without regard to the author's race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy.
Confidentiality: The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.
8. Ethical Responsibilities of Reviewers
Contribution to Editorial Decisions: Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.
Promptness: Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.
Confidentiality: Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.
Standards of Objectivity: Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
Acknowledgment of Sources: Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
Disclosure and Conflict of Interest: Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.
9. Ethical Responsibilities of the Publisher
Handling of Unethical Publishing Behavior: In cases of alleged or proven scientific misconduct, fraudulent publication, or plagiarism, the publisher, in close collaboration with the editors, will take all appropriate measures to clarify the situation and to amend the article in question. This includes the prompt publication of an erratum, clarification, or retraction of the affected work.
Access to Journal Content and Digital Preservation: The publisher is committed to the permanent availability and long-term preservation of scholarly content. The journal supports digital preservation and archiving through the LOCKSS system, which enables participating libraries to create distributed archiving systems for preservation and restoration purposes.