Editorial policy and ethic norms

 ETHICS REGULATIONS

The editorial board of the journal “Economics of Ukraine” abided in its work by the international ethical rules of scientific publications, which involve the observance of the principles of fairness, confidentiality, impartiality and objectivity, high quality demands of scientific research, support for new knowledge, collegiality in decision-making regarding the publication of articles, strict observance of copyright and related rights, categorical rejection of plagiarism in any of its manifestations, as well as prevention of possible conflicts of interests, etc. The activity of the editorial board is organized and carried out following internationally recognized standards of the quality of scientific works, based on the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics and the Elsevier Publishing Ethics Resource Kit, in particular, and also relies on the experience of reputable international publishing houses.Compliance with the rules of scientific publications ethics by all participants in the publishing process ensures the authors' rights to intellectual property, increases the quality of the publication, and prevents the possibility of improper use of the author's materials for the particular person's benefit. Free publication of articles is aimed at supporting economic research, primarily domestic, and the development of open science.

AUTHORS ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Authors warrant that the manuscript is their original work, has not been previously published, has not been submitted to, or is under consideration for publication in another periodical. Parallel submission of the same manuscript to another Journal is illegal.It is the journal's policy not to publish preprints of articles.

If the submitted manuscript is the result of a research project or its previous version was presented at a conference (under the same or a similar title) in the form of an oral presentation, detailed information about the project, conference, etc., should be provided in a footnote or the “Acknowledgments” section.

Authors must consider international and national copyright laws. Research results in the article should be presented transparently, and the author's and someone else's achievements should be clearly defined.All citations and borrowings must come with properly fashioned bibliographic references. Excessive borrowing, piracy, and plagiarism in any form, including citations without appropriate references, paraphrasing, and appropriation of other people's research results, are unacceptable and considered unethical actions.If the research was conducted by a group of scientists, all who participated in it — made their intellectual contribution to the concept and structure of the article, and the interpretation of the research results should be listed as authors when publishing the results.The personal researcher's contribution may be noted particularly.The criterion of authorship, in this case, is the real creative contribution of the scientist.All authors mentioned in the article must take public responsibility for the content of the article.

If the provisions (elements) of the article have already been published by the author, it is necessary to refer to the previous article(s), indicating clearly how the new work differs from the previous one(s). Verbatim copying, repetition of one's works, and paraphrasing are not allowed; they can be used only as a basis for new conclusions.

Reporting standards

The Journal, as the academic communication basis, ensures that all articles contain enough information to enable others to recreate the work described. The submitted manuscript should contain sufficient detail and references to enable reviewers and subsequent readers to verify the statements made in it and supply full details of the methods used, including time frames, etc.Authors must disclose research sources on the editorial team's demand.

Authors are solely responsible for the content of their materials and must ensure that they have permission from all parties involved to publish the content. The authors confirm that data protection regulations, ethical standards, copyrights of third parties, and other rights are respected in the data collection process, processing, and data sharing.

Authors who intend to include figures, tables, or other material that has already been published elsewhere must obtain permission from the copyright holder. Any material received without such confirmation is assumed to be from the authors.

Authors should name all sources of funding for the project, if available.

Authorship

Only contributors who have made a significant contribution to the manuscript are considered as authors. Contributions of persons who were just involved in important aspects of the research project and manuscript preparation should be listed in the appropriate footnote or “Acknowledgments” section.

Authors should consider the authorship criteria. To be on the list of authors, they must:

  • make a significant contribution to the work concept or design; or collect, analyze, or interpret data for the work;
  • contribute to the writing of a work or a critical review of its important intellectual content;
  • make final approval of the version to be published; agree to be responsible for all aspects of the work;
  • ensure that questions relating to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are investigated and resolved properly;
  • agree to be on the list of authors and approve the full list of authors.

Adding or removing the authors during the editorial process is allowed only by providing reasonable explanations to the Editorial board.

Sources of information and citations

Authors are required to cite sources that have significantly influenced their research and manuscript properly. Information received in private conversation or correspondence with third parties during the examination of project applications, manuscripts, and similar materials is not to be used without the written consent of the source of the information.

ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence

When preparing the article, it is not desirable for the author(s) to use ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence. If artificial intelligence was used at any stage of the research, the author(s) must indicate how he/she used AI when submitting the article for consideration. In particular, if ChatGPT was used to generate research results or convert text clues into tables, figures, this should be reflected both in the text (directly below the tables, figures) and in the Abstract and Summary.

A manuscript in which AI-generated content is detected without an appropriate indication of this in the author's manuscript will be rejected.

In turn, reviewers and editors have no right to involve ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence in conducting scientific examination of manuscripts of the articles submitted for review.

Chatbots store the prompts given to them, including the manuscript’s content, so providing the material to a chatbot violates the confidentiality of the submitted manuscript.

Fundamental errors in published works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in their published work, an author must immediately notify the editor-in-chief (deputy editor-in-chief, executive secretary) about it and be ready to cooperate to retract or correct the article.

Self-archiving policy

After publication, the article is placed in the public domain, the authors reserve the copyright. Authors themselves can deposit the publishing version (final pdf) of their article in the institutional repository, thematic repository, or general-purpose repository, on a personal web page (in particular, on social networks such as Research Gate, Academia.edu, etc.), and/or the web resource of the institution, where the author works, at any time after publication.In this case, one needs to provide full bibliographic information about the original publication (authors, article title, journal title, volume, issue, pages) and a link to the article's DOI and its license.

Copyright and Licensing

Authors reserve the copyright for published articles and grant the publisher the non-exclusive right to publish the article, cite it as the publishing original for repeated usage, and distribute it in all forms and media.Articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0 license (CC BY-NC-ND license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

By submitting a manuscript, authors agree to adhere to the journal's editorial policy.

Conflict of interest

Authors must disclose in their manuscript any financial or other material conflict of interest that could affect the results presented or their interpretation. If there is no conflict of interest to declare, the following standard statement must be added: “No conflict of interest was disclosed.”The conflict of interest nature can be non-financial or financial. Examples of conflicts of interest include (but are not limited to):

  • persons who receive funding, wages, or other forms of payments from the organization; own stocks or shares of a company that may benefit financially (or lose financially) from the publication of the results;
  • natural persons or organizations or employers who finance them and own (or apply for) the relevant patents;
  • official affiliation and membership in interest groups related to the publication content;
  • political, religious, or ideological competing interests.

The Journal publications must not contain content promoting any commercial products without indicating that such publication is an advertisement.

JOURNAL'S EDITORIAL BOARD POLICIES

The procedure for the selection of members of the governing and editorial bodies involves the public approval of the Editorial Board members and founding documents of the editorial office at the Academic Council of the Institute of Economics and Forecasting of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and then at a session of the Department of Economics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

The editorial board is re-elected every five years. Leading scientists from various scientific and educational institutions of an economic specialty from all over Ukraine and other countries are involved in the Editorial Board.

The editor-in-chief, editorial boardmembers, deputy editor-in-chief, and executive secretary (hereinafter the Editorial Board) direct their efforts to publish the received new scientific knowledge, sharing the freedom of choice of research areas by scientists, but demanding their professional behavior and disapprove falsification, plagiarism, unfair practices, censorship, and pseudoscience.The editorial board, which evolves the leading scientists in their field of economic knowledge with observance of linguistic, cultural, academic, geographical, institutional pluralism, and gender parity, is responsible for the formation and implementation of the editorial policy, which will contribute to the free distribution of scientific knowledge in compliance with copyright.

The Editorial Board is responsible for deciding which submitted articles will be published. The Editorial Board follows the editorial policy and is limited by the current legal requirements regarding the observance of copyright.

The editor-in-chief and members of the editorial board act in the interests of the professional reputation of the authors-scientists and cannot have their own interests in relation to articles that are approved or rejected.When making such decisions, they are guided by the principles of impartiality, objectivity, high level of scientific research and knowledge.The author is informed whether the manuscript corresponds to the vertical of the periodical, and the decision regarding the article based on the results of the review is brought to his attention — “Publish”, “Publish accepting comments”, “For improvement and approval (by a specific member of the editorial board/reviewer)”, “For improvement with resubmission for review by the editorial board”, “Reject”.The duration of expert scientific evaluation of the manuscript is up to 1 month from the date of its submission.

The editorial board reserves the right to refuse publication of the submitted manuscript if it does not meet the content standards and if there are formal features or irrefutable evidence of the scientist's unethical behavior or signs of plagiarism.

The Editorial Board should not have a conflict of interest concerning the articles they are considering for publication.If there is a possibility of a conflict of interest in connection with the materials processing, the selection of reviewers and all decisions regarding the manuscript should be made by the Editorial Board (if one or more members of the Editorial Board have a conflict of interest regarding the submitted manuscript, these Editorial Board members must withdraw from the reviewer's selection and do not participate in decision-making related to the manuscript).

The Editorial Board evaluates manuscripts for their scientific content without any racial, gender, sexual, religious, ethnic, or political discrimination.

The Editorial Board may not use unpublished material disclosed in submitted manuscripts without the written consent of the authors. Information and ideas contained in submitted manuscripts must be kept confidential and cannot be used for self-interest. 

All accepted materials are reviewed by independent experts (external reviewers), selected and appointed for each article). The editorial board uses a double “blind” peer review model, taking all reasonable steps to ensure the anonymity of reviewers before, during, and after the review process. Articles are also reviewed by members of the Editorial Board responsible for a certain section, who express their opinion when the Editorial Board decides to publish an article.

The editor-in-chief, editorial board members, and employees of the editorial and publishing group should not inform or give information about the articles to anyone except the reviewers, the authors themselves, and the publisher, if necessary. Unpublished data from manuscripts should not be disclosed to third parties.

REVIEWERS ETHICAL PRINCIPLES

The purpose of the reviewer's activity is to objectively and impartially evaluate the quality of the article, determine the degree of novelty in the topic disclosure, its compliance with the scientific and ethical standards of publications, and the journal requirements.Expert evaluations are meant to help the author improve the quality of the material presentation and the Editorial Board to make an objective decision on the article publication.The reviewer must have advanced knowledgeof the world scientific achievementsin the scientific field in which the article submitted for review was written in order to qualitatively assess its novelty and determine the adequacy of the review of already available publications on the subject under consideration.If the reviewer does not consider himself an expert on the article topic or cannot meet the specified deadlines, he should withdraw from the review.Reviewers are to provide competent and unbiased feedback in a written form on the scientific significance and value of the manuscript on time.

Reviewers evaluate the manuscript according to the following criteria: correspondence to the journal specialty, the relevance of the researched topic and applied methods, originality and scientific relevance of information, presentation style, and scientific apparatus.Reviewers should warn about any reasonable suspicions or information about possible violations of ethical standards on the part of the authors.Reviewers should mention relevant published works that have not been cited by the authors and alert the Editorial Board of significant similarities between the reviewed manuscript and any other manuscript already published or under review in another periodical if they are aware of them.

Reviewers must not have any conflict of interest towards the research, the authors, and/or the research funding sources. If such conflicts exist, reviewers should report them immediately.

Feedback on the article should be made objectively; personal criticism of the author by the reviewer is inappropriate.Experts must express their opinions clearly and with reason.

Any manuscripts received for review should be treated as confidential documents. Reviewers should not use unpublished material disclosed in submitted manuscripts without the written consent of the authors. Information and ideas contained in submitted manuscripts are kept confidential and not used for personal profit.

PRINCIPLES OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS IN PUBLISHER'S ACTIVITIES

The publisher is responsible for publishing the author's works, observing the following basic principles and procedures:

  • monitors compliance with ethical obligations by authors and all participants of the editorial process in accordance with the requirements mentioned above and enables their implementation;
  • provides the journal with support in claim handling regarding the ethical aspects of published materials and helps to interact with other journals and/or publishers;
  • realizes that the activity of the journal is not a commercial project and is not aimed at making a profit;
  • facilitates the process of publishing corrections, clarifications, rebuttals, and apologies if necessary;
  • supports the journal in its efforts to prevent the publication of plagiarism in any of its forms or pseudo-scientific articles and provides an opportunity to retract publications that contain plagiarism and false information.

RETRACTION POLICY

Violation of publisher, copyright holder, or author(s) legal restrictions, professional codes of ethics, and research misconduct (multiple submissions, duplicate publication, false claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data and data fabrication, plain errors reported by authors, unethical research) or any other serious violations require the article to be retracted.Occasionally, a retraction procedure may be used to correct errors in a manuscript or publication. The primary purpose of a retraction is to correct an error while preserving the integrity of the scientific research, not to punish the author.

The reason for the retraction and the person initiating it is stated clearly in the retraction notice for any retracted article.The standards for working with the retraction of an already published article involve: in the electronic version, the retraction note has a link to the original article. There is a link to a retraction note in the electronic version of the original article that clearly states that the article has been retracted.The original article remains unchanged except for a watermark in the pdf file on each page stating that it is “retracted”.