Publication Ethics

The American Journal of Management and Economics Innovations (TAJMEI)
ISSN: 2693-0811

The American Journal of Management and Economics Innovations is committed to integrity, transparency, and accountability in scholarly publishing. Authors, editors, reviewers, and the publisher share responsibility for maintaining ethical standards throughout submission, peer review, and publication.

1. Originality and Proper Attribution

Authors must submit original work and acknowledge all sources appropriately. Plagiarism—including unattributed use of text, ideas, data, images, models, code, or research instruments—is unacceptable.

Reuse of previously published material must be cited and disclosed. Authors must obtain permission for third-party content where required and identify any separate copyright or licensing conditions.

2. Accurate and Transparent Reporting

Research methods, data sources, analyses, and conclusions must be reported honestly and accurately.

The journal does not accept:

• Fabricated or falsified data.

• Invented interviews, surveys, organizational records, or financial results.

• Deceptive manipulation of figures or statistical outputs.

• Selective reporting that materially misrepresents findings.

• Unsupported claims about organizational performance, economic effects, or policy outcomes.

Authors must explain relevant assumptions, analytical choices, uncertainty, and limitations. Associations must not be presented as established causal relationships without appropriate supporting methods and evidence.

3. Exclusive Submission and Duplicate Publication

A manuscript must not be submitted to another journal while under consideration by TAJMEI. Previously published research must not be presented as new work.

Authors must disclose related manuscripts, preprints, working papers, conference publications, and substantial overlap with earlier work.

Secondary analyses of existing datasets must identify the source and explain the distinct contribution. Dividing a study into multiple publications without sufficient scholarly justification is unacceptable.

4. Authorship and Contributions

Authorship should reflect substantial intellectual contributions to the research and manuscript. All listed authors must approve the final submission and accept accountability for their contributions.

Individuals whose contributions do not qualify for authorship should be acknowledged with their permission. Gift, guest, purchased, and ghost authorship are unacceptable.

Changes to author names or order require an explanation and written agreement from all affected authors. Unresolved authorship disputes may delay assessment or publication.

5. Research Involving Human Participants

Research involving participants or identifiable personal information must receive appropriate ethics approval before the research begins, where required.

Authors must identify the approving committee and provide approval details where available. Any exemption or waiver must be explained and attributed to the responsible authority.

Participation must be voluntary. Authors must explain how informed consent, confidentiality, and participants’ right to withdraw were addressed, as applicable to the study design.

Research involving employees, customers, managers, or other organizational participants must account for power relationships. Participation or refusal must not adversely affect employment, performance assessment, or access to services.

6. Organizational Data and Confidentiality

Authors must obtain authorization to use restricted organizational, commercial, or financial information.

Institutional permission does not replace individual consent where consent is required. Confidential business records and identifiable participant information must be protected throughout collection, analysis, sharing, and publication.

Authors should consider whether quotations, job titles, organizational descriptions, or combinations of contextual details could reveal identities. Identifiable material requires appropriate consent for publication.

7. Data, Code, and Reproducibility

Authors must retain supporting research records and may be asked to provide data, analytical code, instruments, or other documentation during assessment or investigation.

Manuscripts should include data and code availability statements where relevant. Restrictions arising from privacy, commercial confidentiality, licensing, or other legitimate requirements must be explained.

Secondary datasets, software, and analytical resources must be cited appropriately. Material processing steps, variable definitions, and model specifications should be transparent.

8. Funding and Conflicts of Interest

Authors must disclose funding sources and relevant financial or non-financial interests that could influence the research or its interpretation.

Relevant interests may include employment, consultancy, share ownership, paid advisory work, advocacy roles, or relationships with organizations examined in the study.

The funder’s role in research design, data collection, analysis, writing, and publication decisions must be stated. If no relevant conflicts exist, an explicit declaration should be included.

9. Responsibilities of Editors

Editors must assess manuscripts fairly according to scholarly quality, originality, relevance, methodological soundness, and ethical integrity.

Editors must:

• Protect manuscript confidentiality.

• Select reviewers with appropriate expertise.

• Manage conflicts of interest and recuse themselves where necessary.

• Make decisions without discrimination based on authors’ personal characteristics or institutional affiliation.

• Investigate credible concerns about submitted or published work.

• Keep editorial decisions independent of payments and commercial interests.

Submissions from editors or editorial board members must receive independent handling. The submitting individual must not participate in reviewer selection or the decision on their own manuscript.

10. Responsibilities of Reviewers

Reviewers must provide objective, constructive, respectful, and timely assessments. They should decline assignments when they lack appropriate expertise, cannot complete the review, or have a conflict that compromises impartiality.

Reviewers must not disclose confidential material, use unpublished findings for personal or financial advantage, or contact authors directly about the review without authorization.

Suspected plagiarism, data irregularities, substantial overlap, or ethical concerns must be reported to the editor. Citation requests must have a scholarly justification and must not primarily serve to increase personal or journal citation counts.

11. Use of Artificial Intelligence

Authors must disclose substantive use of generative AI in manuscript preparation, analysis, or content creation, identifying the tool and explaining its purpose.

When AI forms part of the research method, authors must describe relevant models, data, evaluation procedures, and limitations sufficiently for assessment.

AI tools cannot be listed as authors. Human authors remain responsible for the accuracy, originality, references, and integrity of submitted work.

AI-generated content must not be presented as genuine participant responses, organizational records, or observed economic data. Legitimate use of synthetic data must be clearly identified and explained.

Editors and reviewers must not upload confidential manuscripts, commercial information, or sensitive participant data to external AI services without appropriate authorization and confidentiality protections.

12. Unacceptable Publishing Practices

The journal does not accept:

• Plagiarism, data fabrication, or falsification.

• Paper-mill submissions or purchased manuscripts.

• Fraudulent authorship or fabricated reviewer identities.

• Manipulation of peer review.

• Coercive citations or coordinated citation manipulation.

• False statements about approvals, permissions, funding, or conflicts of interest.

• Deliberate misrepresentation of submission, acceptance, or publication dates.

Publication charges do not guarantee acceptance or influence editorial decisions.

13. Complaints and Investigations

Suspected misconduct should be reported to the editorial office with relevant article details and supporting evidence.

The journal will assess concerns fairly, seek explanations from the individuals involved, and examine available documentation. Where appropriate, it may contact institutions, funders, ethics committees, or other responsible bodies.

Actions may include requesting clarification, suspending assessment, rejecting a submission, publishing an editorial notice, or correcting the scholarly record. Decisions will reflect the evidence and seriousness of the concern.

14. Corrections, Expressions of Concern, and Retractions

A correction may be issued when an error affects part of an article without invalidating its overall findings.

An expression of concern may be issued when a serious concern remains unresolved or an investigation is ongoing.

A retraction may be issued when findings are unreliable or publication involved a serious ethical breach. Retraction notices will explain the reason and link to the affected article. Retracted articles will normally remain accessible and clearly marked to preserve the scholarly record.

Authors must promptly report significant errors and cooperate in correcting their published work.

15. Appeals

Authors may appeal an editorial decision by submitting a reasoned explanation and supporting evidence. Appeals will be assessed fairly, with independent editorial input where appropriate.

An appeal does not guarantee that the original decision will be changed.

Contact

Questions, complaints, appeals, and reports of suspected misconduct should be directed to the editorial office through the journal’s official Contact page.