Jurnal Econmark Accounting (JEA) takes all allegations of research and publication misconduct seriously. Concerns involving submitted, reviewed, accepted, or published manuscripts are assessed fairly, confidentially, objectively, and without discrimination based on institutional affiliation, nationality, academic status, religion, gender, or personal background.
The journal is committed to protecting the integrity of scholarly research in economics, management, and accounting while ensuring that allegations are examined using credible evidence, procedural fairness, appropriate confidentiality, and a reasonable opportunity for concerned individuals to respond before final editorial action.
Misconduct may include, but is not limited to:
- Data fabrication or falsification: inventing, manipulating, or misrepresenting economic indicators, survey responses, financial data, accounting records, research observations, statistical results, or other research evidence.
- Plagiarism: using another person's words, ideas, theories, datasets, research findings, or intellectual contributions without appropriate attribution.
- Duplicate or redundant publication: submitting or publishing substantially the same research in multiple journals without proper disclosure or justification.
- Authorship misconduct: ghost authorship, guest authorship, honorary authorship, exclusion of legitimate contributors, or unauthorized changes to the author list.
- Citation manipulation: deliberately inserting irrelevant citations or engaging in citation arrangements intended to artificially increase citation metrics.
- Peer-review manipulation: fabricating reviewer identities, submitting fraudulent reviewer details, interfering with reviewer independence, or manipulating editorial evaluation.
- Undisclosed conflicts of interest: concealing financial, institutional, commercial, professional, or personal interests that may influence research or editorial decisions.
- Research ethics violations: failure to obtain required ethical approval, informed consent, institutional authorization, or permissions for confidential financial and organizational data.
- Misrepresentation of financial and accounting evidence: selective reporting, intentional misclassification, inappropriate alteration of financial information, or deliberate distortion of economic and organizational findings.
- Inappropriate manipulation of research materials: unauthorized alteration of figures, tables, charts, interview transcripts, statistical outputs, or datasets.
- Misrepresentation of methodology: falsely describing sampling procedures, data sources, research instruments, econometric models, analytical methods, or research findings.
- Misuse of artificial intelligence: inappropriate or undisclosed use of AI-generated content, fabricated references or data, automated analysis, or AI tools in ways that compromise authorship accountability, research integrity, confidentiality, or originality.
Allegations of research or publication misconduct may be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief or JEA Editorial Office. Reports should be made in good faith and provide sufficient details to enable an appropriate preliminary assessment.
Where possible, reports should identify the relevant manuscript or published article, describe the suspected misconduct, and include supporting materials, references, documentation, data comparisons, or other credible evidence. Anonymous allegations may be considered when they contain specific and reasonably verifiable information.
JEA handles misconduct allegations as confidentially as reasonably possible. Information regarding the allegation, complainant, respondent, manuscript, editorial correspondence, and investigation will be disclosed only to individuals or institutions whose involvement is necessary for a fair and responsible assessment. Confidentiality obligations do not prevent the journal from communicating with competent institutions, research-integrity authorities, or other appropriate parties when justified by the circumstances.
Depending on the nature, seriousness, and available evidence of the allegation, JEA may take one or more of the following actions:
- Request clarification, original data, supporting documents, or corrections from the author.
- Temporarily suspend manuscript processing while a serious allegation is being assessed.
- Reject a manuscript if serious misconduct is established before publication.
- Publish a correction to address an identifiable error in the published scholarly record.
- Publish an expression of concern when significant unresolved questions exist regarding the reliability or integrity of an article.
- Retract a published article when its findings or scholarly record are demonstrated to be seriously unreliable or affected by major misconduct.
- Notify relevant institutions, research-integrity offices, ethics committees, funding bodies, or other competent authorities when justified.
- Take other proportionate editorial measures necessary to protect the integrity of the journal and scholarly record.
Publication does not prevent subsequent investigation. Credible concerns involving articles already published in Jurnal Econmark Accounting (JEA) will be assessed using appropriate editorial and research-integrity procedures. Depending on the circumstances, the journal may issue a correction, expression of concern, retraction notice, or another appropriate update to the scholarly record.
An editor who has an actual, potential, or perceived personal, professional, institutional, financial, or other significant conflict of interest related to an allegation must not lead the assessment of that case. Responsibility should be assigned to another qualified editor or independent individual capable of conducting an impartial evaluation.
JEA encourages researchers, reviewers, readers, editors, and other interested parties to report legitimate concerns regarding research and publication integrity in good faith. A complainant is not required to establish conclusive proof of misconduct before raising a reasonable concern supported by relevant information.
Knowingly false, fabricated, malicious, or deliberately misleading allegations may constitute unethical conduct. Such allegations may be referred to an appropriate institution or competent authority when justified by the available evidence.
Jurnal Econmark Accounting (JEA) seeks to address allegations of research and publication misconduct through confidentiality, impartiality, evidence-based assessment, procedural fairness, appropriate opportunities to respond, and proportionate editorial action. The primary purpose of this policy is to protect the accuracy, reliability, transparency, and trustworthiness of scholarly research in economics, management, and accounting.