Publication Ethics
Indian Journal of Economics and Development is being published by Indian Society for Education and Environment (iSee) and follows the following Publication Policies:
I. Open Access Policy
In order to ensure maximum reach of contents published by Indian Society for Education and Environment (iSee), we have adopted the open access policy, meaning that;
• All the articles published by Indian Society for Education and Environment (iSee) are made freely accessible online immediately after publication in an easily readable format, without any subscription or registration barrier.
• All the published articles are licensed under a Creative Commons license.
Articles can be shared and adapted, provided the attribution for the work is given
II. Peer-review Policy
All the manuscripts submitted to Journals Published by iSee will be subjected to double blinded peer review process;
o The manuscript will be reviewed by two suitable experts in respective subject area.
o The reports of both the reviewers will be considered while deciding on acceptance/revision or rejection of a manuscript.
o Editor-In-Chief will make the final decision, based on reviewer’s comments.
o Editor-In-Chief can ask one or more of the advisory board members for their suggestions upon a manuscript, before making the final decision.
o Associate editor and review editors provide the administrative support to maintain the integrity of peer review process.
o In case, authors challenge editor's negative decision with suitable arguments, the manuscript can be sent to one more reviewer and the final decision will be made based upon his recommendations.
III. Licensing Policy
To fully realize the potential of open access to research literature, barriers to reuse
need to be removed. The Creative Commons (CC) licenses have emerged as an effective legal instrument to achieve this.
Instead of transferring rights exclusively to publishers (the approach usually followed in subscription publishing), authors grant a non-exclusive license to the publisher to distribute the work, and all users and readers are granted rights to reuse the work.
CC-BY allows for unrestricted reuse of content, subject only to the requirement that the source work is appropriately attributed. The CC-BY license thereby requires that authors are given appropriate credit for their work, as explained in a recent post from Creative Commons (http://wiki.creativecommons.org/BIS_committee_UK_OA_Policy).
IV. Archiving Policy
This journals published by iSee utilizes the AWS system to create permanent archives of the journal contents for purposes of preservation and restoration.
PUBLICATION ETHICS
• The Journals published by Indian Society for Education and Environment is an electronic Double Blind peer reviewed journals upholding the highest standards.
• Articles not in accordance with publication ethics and malpractices will be removed from publication if detected at any time.
• Plagiarism and research fabrication such as making up of data, manipulation of existing data, tables etc. and ethical clearance on the use of humans or animals for the study will also be checked.
• The publisher reserves the right to use plagiarism detecting software to screen submitted papers at any time and suspected plagiarism or duplicate publishing will be reported immediately.
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) during the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity in Singapore in 2010 has developed the below mentioned guidelines. Indian Society for Education and Environment Journals, as a publisher follows COPE, WAME and has adopted COPE’s best practice guidelines for dealing with ethical issues in a journal. The Journal Members (Advisory Board, editors and the journal manager) have consented to adopt the COPE as it meets the purpose and objective of the Journals.
iSee publications adapt COPE’s international standards for authors of scholarly research publications which also describes responsible research reporting practice.
▪ The research being reported should have been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner and should comply with all relevant legislation.
▪ Researchers should present their results clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification, or inappropriate data manipulation.
▪ Researchers should strive to describe their methods clearly and unambiguously so that their findings can be confirmed by others.
