Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Enderun Colleges Scholarly Review is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal published by Enderun Colleges annually. It welcomes papers in line with Culinary Arts, Hotel and Restaurant Management, Business Administration, Entrepreneurship, Information Technology, Sustainability, Economics, General Education, Architecture, Interior Design and Multi-media Arts. The publication commits to publishing scholarly journal articles with a high standard of quality and academic integrity.

Enderun Colleges Scholarly Review is a peer-reviewed journal published annually with contributions from the Enderun Faculty and Non-Academic Employees. Outside contributions from other academics and from practitioners are published on a selective basis. Views and recommendations expressed in the articles are the sole responsibility of the respective authors. Acceptance decisions are based on articles’ significance, originality, clarity, relevance to the journal’s scope, and contribution to the body of management knowledge.

Enderun Colleges Scholarly Review, its publisher, editors, reviewers, and authors shall adhere to the following publication ethics and malpractice statement mainly based on CODE OF CONDUCT AND BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR JOURNAL EDITORS, Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), 2011.

Research Committee and Research Ethics Committee

The Research Committee and Research Ethics Committee are responsible for evaluating the research proposal or the full paper for publication. The author/s should be presenting the proposal/ full paper to the Research Committee and Research Ethics Committee panel members. Decisions of the committees will be given to the author/s after the presentation. The committees are composed of Research Director and Academic Heads, selected based on the subject of the proposal.

Peer Review

A Peer Review is done after acceptance of the full paper by the Research and Ethics Committees or before the final draft of a paper for publication. The editors appoint reviewers to help determine the validity, significance and originality of the work using the Article Review Format and Guide. The reviewers can suggest improvements to the manuscript and the research. Based on the reviewers’ recommendations, the editors will recommend for publication (without revision), recommend for publication (with revision), or not recommend for publication. Recommendations are made before the manuscript is published.

Courtesy and respect

Enderun Colleges Scholarly Review editors, authors, referees, and editorial staff shall observe academic and professional courtesy and mutual respect in the exercise of their roles and responsibilities at all times.

Role of the Editorial Board

It is the chief responsibility of the Editorial Board, in consultation with the Research Committee, Ethics Committee and peer reviewers to maintain the integrity of the academic process behind the generation of each issue and to constantly uphold intellectual and ethical standards when appointing reviewers and accepting articles for publication.

The Editorial Board exerts every effort to ensure the accuracy and clarity of research reporting. It expects compliance with the highest standards of ethical behavior on the part of all parties involved: authors, editors, peer reviewers, and the publisher. Authors are expected to submit original works. Current sanctions against copyright infringement and plagiarism apply.

Board of Editors’ responsibilities

Publication decisions

The board of editors is responsible and accountable for deciding which of the papers submitted to the publication will be published. The editors will evaluate manuscripts without regard to the author’s race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy. The decision will be based on the paper’s importance, originality and clarity, and the study’s validity and relevance to the journal’s scope. Current legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism should also be considered.

Confidentiality

The board of editors 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

The board of editors or the members of the editorial board will not use unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted paper for their own research purposes without the author’s explicit written consent.

Reviewers’ responsibilities

Contribution to editorial decisions

The peer-reviewing process assists the editorial board in making editorial decisions and may also serve 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 withdraw from the review process.

Confidentiality

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be disclosed to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

Standards of objectivity

Reviews should be conducted objectively based on the criteria. 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 associated with the papers. Readers should be informed about who has funded research or other scholarly work and whether the funders had any role in the research and its publication.

Author’s duties

Reporting standards

Authors of original research reports should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

Originality, plagiarism and acknowledgment of sources

Authors will submit only entirely original works, and will appropriately cite or quote the work and/or words of others. Publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work should also be cited.

Under no circumstances will authors cause to, or fail to disclose their co-authors or contributors for proper acknowledgment and attribution. Authors shall disclose conflict of interest and/or funding sources that may influence the outcome of their study. It is the authors’ duty to read, understand, and comply with the (Research Ethics Committee Manual and Institutional Research Guide), particularly in using the prescribed citation and referencing format before submitting their manuscript.

Authorship of the paper

The corresponding author ensures that all contributing co-authors and no uninvolved persons are included in the author list. The corresponding author will also verify that all co-authors have approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

All authors should include a statement disclosing any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that may be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and to cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper in form of an erratum.

Publication Ethics

Dealing with misconduct

Enderun Colleges Scholarly Review reserves the right to investigate misconduct. Misconduct is an “intention to cause others to regard as true that which is not true” (Committee on Publication Ethics, 1999, p. 46). The Editorial Board will decide on the corresponding sanctions using the Guidelines on Good Publication Practice by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) when dealing with misconduct-related matters. https://publicationethics.org/files/u7141/1999pdf13.pdf

Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication

In general, papers describing essentially the same research should not be published in more than one journal. Submitting the same paper to more than one journal constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

Manuscripts that have been published as copyrighted material elsewhere cannot be submitted. In addition, manuscripts while under review by the Enderun Colleges should not be resubmitted to copyrighted publications. However, by submitting a manuscript, the author(s) retain the rights to the published material. In case of publication they permit the use of their work under a CC-BY license [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/], which allows others to copy, distribute and transmit the work as well as to adapt the work and to make commercial use of it.

Retracting and correcting articles

In cases where errors and incorrect information are detected, the authors are informed by the editors. Corrections are made at the journal’s discretion. The correction procedure depends on the publication stage of the manuscript. But in all circumstances, correction notices are published as soon as possible on an Erratum page of a subsequent issue. The online publications could be changed for correction as soon as possible too.

Copyright and Access

Authors should agree with the publication and copyright agreement prior to the publication of their manuscripts.

Authors are free to share their research in different ways. They can also self-archive their manuscripts immediately and enable public access from the Enderun Colleges Scholarly Review archives. These manuscripts are the version that has been accepted for publication.

Archiving

All Enderun Colleges Scholarly Reviews are archived on the website https://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/pmr for electronic copies. Also, Enderun Colleges regularly prints copies of its annual issues and can be requested for free from the Enderun Colleges Research Department.

References:

Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). (2011, March 7). Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors. Retrieved from http://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors_Mar11.pdf

Guidelines on Good Publication Practice by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)