Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Academics Education International Journals (A Division of Academic Journal Editing Enterprise) and its academic editors are committed to publishing original work for the academic community of the highest possible standards. Honesty, originality, and fairness by authors and editors, and reviewers in evaluating scholarly work are expected.

Academics Education International Journals endorses and behaves in accordance with strict codes of conduct and international standards.

Duties of Editors

  • are accountable and shall take responsibility for everything they review and publish
  • shall make fair and unbiased decisions independent of commercial considerations, and should ensure a fair and appropriate peer review process in a very timely way
  • where the Editor believes the review may be delayed or will be delayed, he/she shall inform the Chief Editor immediately and revert the paper to the Chief Editor for re-assignment. The Chief Editor shall at all times advise the author of any delay
  • must adopt editorial policies that encourage maximum transparency and complete, honest reporting
  • should guard the integrity of the published record by issuing corrections and retractions when needed and pursuing suspected or alleged research and publication misconduct and advising the Chief Editor of such instance
  • should pursue reviewer and/or editorial misconduct immediately and advise the Chief Editor of said instance
  • should make it clear to peer reviewers and authors, what is expected of them
  • when editorial conflicts of interest exist or may possibly exist, advise the Chief Editor and cease reviewing of said paper immediately
  • and that the Chief Editor shall not assign any paper to any Editor where it is possible a conflict of interest exists
  • And that Reviewers are absolutely independent of the authors, i.e. must not be affiliated with the same institution or have or have had a close connection/affiliation. That where such possibility arises the reviewer shall inform the Chief Editor and decline to review the paper
  • that the Chief Editor shall at all times replace any editor whose review is taking longer than accepted or who fails to respond in a timely manner to author/Chief editor’s inquiry and appoint a new Reviewer or continue the review him/herself
  • that any editorial concerns that the Chief Editor is unable to handle or is unsure of shall be referred to the Managing Director who shall advise all Chief Editors of the policy which shall be clearly posted online

Duties of Authors

  • should submit papers only on work that has been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner and that complies with all relevant legislation;
  • should present their results clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification, or inappropriate data manipulation;
  • should endeavor to describe their methods clearly and unambiguously so that their findings can be confirmed by others;
  • should adhere to publication requirements that submitted work is original, is not plagiarized, has not been published, and is not under review elsewhere;
  • should take collective responsibility for submitted and published work;
  • should ensure that the authorship (as represented in the byline for the paper) accurately reflects individuals’ contributions to the work and its reporting;
  • should disclose relevant funding sources and any existing or potential conflicts of interest and
  • should include a statement of research ethics for research-based papers dealing with, or affecting, human participants. Studies dealing with minors are to be particularly scrutinized for such ethical procedures.

All papers which are screened into the blind peer review system undergo a plagiarism check and cannot be sent out for review if found to include plagiarized content. We also respectfully refer submitting authors to the submission guidelines for individual journals in the Academics Education International Journals Group.

Peer Review Process

Initial Manuscript Evaluation

All articles submitted for evaluation are first subject to a plagiarism check. Article(s) that are concluded to have plagiarism are rejected and returned to the author(s). The articles that pass are sent to the Editor-in-Chief for the blind referee process. The author(s) of the article rejected in the pre-evaluation stage is/are informed within 2 weeks.

Editor in Chief Evaluation

The editor-in-chief reviews the article that passes the preliminary evaluation to the refereeing process or to reject without refereeing. The article rejected at this stage has at least one of the following flaws: it is outside the aim and scope of the journal, it is not unique enough, it has insufficient and/or weak language, it has conceptual/methodological/literature flaws. The author(s) of the article rejected in this phase is informed within 1 week of the article’s submission to the Editor-in-Chief. The article found suitable for the referee process is sent to an Associate editor who then sends it to 2 referees who are experts in their fields.

Double-blind Peer Review

In the evaluation of the articles, a double-blind peer review system is made by two reviewers who are experts in their fields. In this process, both the authors’ and the reviewers’ information is kept confidential. The reviewers are asked to make objective comments to authors without revealing their identity information. Although language correction is not a part of the double-blind peer review system, reviewers can make suggestions for correcting the language and style of the articles they have reviewed.

The editing process of the articles is completed in approximately 2-5 months.

In cases where the reviewers’ opinions contradict, the Chief Editor is authorized to decide whether to publish the article or not.

In-house editorial submissions

Editors of our journals may submit papers for review. Papers are only accepted through the Submission channel and the Review is “a blind process.” In cases where the Reviewing editor  “can guess the identity” of the author, the paper must be returned to the Chief Editor without review and the paper will be re-assigned by the Chief Editor for blind review by another editor.

Ownership and Management

Academic Journal Editing Enterprise Inc.
A corporate entity registered with SEC Philippines. The website Academics Education ( https://www.academics.education) is a registered entity wholly owned by Academic Journal Editing Enterprise Inc.

The journal management may be contacted at amr@academics.education

Governing Body

The journals are published by the Academics Education International Journals, a division of AJEE.

Editorial team/contact information

The Chief Editor overseeing all journal operations is Prof. Paul Robertson who can be contacted at amr@academics.education.

Each journal has its own  Editorial Board.

Copyright and Licensing

Authors are allowed to publish under a Creative Commons license with no restrictions. Final accepted versions of published articles may be published on third-party repositories provided always the journal name and edition are clearly marked.

Authors may deposit their papers in any long-term preservation service.

Authors’ Legal Rights

Authors retain (rights that you retain as an author) the copyright and full publishing rights without restriction.

Author fees/Publishing fees

  1. No fee to submit. An APC (Article Processing Charge) of US $25.00 per published research paper is levied. There are no other fees levied.

Process for identification of and dealing with allegations of research misconduct.

In the event that our editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct relating to a published article in any of our journals, the editor will follow COPE’s guidelines (or equivalent) in dealing with allegations.

Publication Ethics

Publication Ethics applicable to all journals under this publication can be viewed here.

COPE Publication Ethics and Malpractice Guidelines

Publishing Schedule

Each journal will indicate its publishing schedule clearly.

Access

In keeping with our corporate policy to provide the academic world of English language acquisition with as much free content as possible, the Academics Education International Journals policy shall provide Open Access to all content.

Impact of Open Access

All content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher.

Archiving/Journal repository

An application has been made on July 27th 2022 to CLOCKSS for repository services.

Authors may use their University Repository service as well.

Advertising

We do not accept paid advertising. If any university or academic association wishes to promote an event on our websites, there will be no charge.

Direct marketing

We do not undertake marketing.

AI and AI-assisted tools in scientific writing

New author policy on AI and AI-assisted tools in scientific writing.

Computer code assistance – Deep Learning Algorithms.

A large language model, or LLM, is a deep learning algorithm that can recognize, summarize, translate, predict, and generate text and other content based on knowledge gained from massive datasets.

Any custom computer code used to generate results reported in the manuscript and that is central to the main claims must be made available to editors and referees upon request. Any practical issues preventing code sharing will be evaluated by the editors who reserve the right to decline the manuscript if important code is unavailable. At publication, Academic Education journals consider it best practice to release custom computer code in a way that allows readers/researchers to repeat the published results.

For all studies using custom code that is deemed central to the conclusions, a statement must be included in the Methods section, under the heading “Code availability”, indicating whether and how the code can be accessed, including any restrictions.

Authors submitting research papers using LLM and substantially reproducing said LLM in the paper must make full disclosure to the editors.

Informed Consent

Research participants must give their permission to be part of a study and they must be given pertinent information to make an “informed” consent to participate. This means you have provided your research participants with everything they need to know about the study to make an “informed” decision about participating in your research. Researchers must obtain a participant’s (and parents’ if the participant is a minor) permission before interacting with the participant or if the participant is the focus of the study. Generally, this permission is given in writing; however, there are cases where the research participant’s completion of a task (such as a survey) constitutes giving informed consent. Research participants have the right to refuse to participate without penalty if they wish.

Researchers are bound by a code of ethics that includes the following protections for subjects

  1. Protected from physical or psychological harm (including loss of dignity, loss of autonomy, and loss of self-esteem)
  2. Protection of privacy and confidentiality
  3. Protection against unjustifiable deception
  4. The research participant must give voluntary informed consent to participate in research. Guardians must give consent for minors to participate. In addition to guardian consent, minors over age 7 (the age may vary) must also give their consent to participate.

NOTE: Voluntary informed consent means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraints or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable them to make an understanding and enlightened decision. This latter element requires that before the acceptance of an affirmation decision by the participant, there should be made known to them the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment; the method and means by which it is to be conducted; all inconveniences and hazards reasonably to be expected; and the effects upon their health or person which may possibly come from their participation in the study.

The consent form that study participants signs should cover the following main points:

  1. It should tell the participants what they are being asked to do, by whom, and for what purpose. Participants must know the identity of the researcher, his or her affiliations if any, and whom to contact for information if they have problems with the research process. This not only includes contact information for the researcher but also contact information for the university IRB.
  2. It should inform the participants of any risks they might be taking by participating in the research.
  3. It should inform the participants of what rights they have in the process, particularly the right of review of material and the right to withdraw from the process.
  4. It should indicate whether or not participants’ names will be used in the study, whether any other names will be used, or whether pseudonyms will be substituted.
  5. It should indicate how the results of the study will be disseminated and whether participants can expect to benefit in any way, monetarily or otherwise, from participating in the study.
  6. It should indicate that participants are free to participate or not participate in the research without prejudice to them.
  7. In the case of children, it must be signed by the child’s legal guardian. Children cannot be expected to give total informed consent.
  8. The consent form should be written in the second person (e.g., “You have the right to …”) and in easy to understand language.

For more detailed information consult your University Research guidelines or see https://researchbasics.education.uconn.edu/ethics-and-informed-consent/

Special Editions

From time to time, per public announcement, we shall run Special Editions. Special editions may be called for by our Editorial team or by way of Request from any members of the academic community.  Full papers will be sent out by a supervising editor to two reviewers for blind review. The supervising editor will convey review feedback to the author in the case of revisions being required. Final verdicts on submission acceptance or rejection will be issued by the guest editor. Special Edition requests shall  be overseen by the Chief Editor Patricia Anesa.

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