ETHICAL STANDARDS

ETHICAL STANDARDS

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

In order to implement ethical standards at the highest level, the procedures recommended by the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) were implemented in the Modern Management Review.

All data collected in the publishing process are compliant with the RODO 2018 information clause.

Journal Modern Management Review  published by the Publishing House of Rzeszow University of Technology fulfils requirements related to publishing policy that is defined in the following Policy document.

Open Access Policy  

  1. An Open Access Policy for scientific journals published by the Publishing House of Rzeszow University of Technology can help ensure that research is freely available to anyone who wishes to read it:
  2. All articles published in the journal Modern Management Review are made available in full open access immediately upon. This means that anyone can read, download, copy, and distribute the articles without any restrictions or fees.
  3. The authors retain copyright of their work, but they are required to grant the journal a non-exclusive license to publish the article under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). This license allows others to distribute, remix, and build upon the work, even commercially, as long as they give credit to the original author(s).
  4. The journal makes its content available on its own website and through recognized open access repository: https://journals.prz.edu.pl/mmr/indeksacja.
  5. The journal requires authors to disclose any potential conflicts of interest related to their research, and will publish this information alongside their papers.
  6. The journal maintains an archival system to ensure that all articles remain accessible over time, even if the journal ceases publication or changes its business model (https://oficyna.prz.edu.pl/en/scientific-research-papers/the-faculty-of-management/modern-management-review).
  7. By adopting an Open Access Policy, the journal helps promoting the widespread dissemination of research and increases the impact of scientific discoveries.

Creative Commons

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0)

This license allows others to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of the CC licenses, and it is recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.

Under the terms of this license, users are free to:

  1. Share: copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
  2. Adapt: remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
  3. Under the following terms:
  4. Attribution: You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  5. No additional restrictions: You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

By using this license, you allow others to use your work in a wide range of contexts while ensuring that you receive proper attribution for your original contribution. This can help promote the dissemination and impact of scientific research.

Ethics

An Ethics Policy for scientific journal Modern Management Review published by Publishing House of Rzeszow University of Technology can help ensure that research is conducted and published in an ethical manner.

  1. Research integrity: The journal only considers manuscripts that report original research that has been conducted in an ethical manner. The journal expects authors to conduct their research with integrity and to follow recognized ethical guidelines, such as those outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki, the Belmont Report, and the International Ethical Guidelines for Health-related Research Involving Humans.
  2. Informed consent: For studies involving human subjects, the journal requires that authors obtain informed consent from participants. The journal expects authors to follow recognized ethical guidelines for obtaining informed consent, such as those outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki.
  3. Conflict of interest: The journal requires authors to disclose any potential conflicts of interest related to their research, including any financial or personal relationships that could influence their work.
  4. Plagiarism: The journal not tolerate plagiarism in any form, including self-plagiarism. The journal expect authors to submit original work that has not been published previously. Each article is checked in the anti-plagiarism system also in terms of the use of AI in the text. By 2023 system Plagiat.pl was used. Since 2024 system iThenticate has been in use.
  5. Data integrity: The journal expects authors to report their findings accurately and to provide access to the underlying data upon request. The journal will investigate any allegations of data falsification or fabrication.
  6. Authorship: The journal expects authors to follow recognized guidelines for authorship, especially those outlined by Modern Management Review: https://journals.prz.edu.pl/mmr/about/submissions.
  7. Each author provides the statement of copyright to the text and is obliged to indicated who contributed to the work and in what capacity. The journal will investigate any allegations of ghostwriting or guest authorship. In conflict cases the decision is made by the editor-in-chief in consultation with the members of the Editorial
  8. Peer review: The journal expects reviewers to conduct their reviews in an ethical and constructive manner, and to disclose any potential conflicts of interest, especially those outlined by: https://journals.prz.edu.pl/mmr/recenzja.
  9. Review form is available here. Eligibility or rejection criteria are included in the review form.
  10. Each reviewer and reviewer submits the reviewer's declaration of no conflict of interest. The reviewer is obliged to inform the editorial office of the journal about the occurrence of a conflict of interest.

The journal will investigate any allegations of misconduct or bias in the peer review process. The journal helps to promote the highest standards of research integrity and ensures that published research is conducted in an ethical and responsible manner.

 

Editorial Policies

  1. Scope: The journal publishes original research articles, reviews, and other types of scientific content that are relevant to the journal’s scope and mission. More details are given on Aims and Scope page: https://journals.prz.edu.pl/mmr/about.
  2. Peer review: All manuscripts submitted to the journal undergo rigorous peer review. The journal strives to ensure that the review process is fair, constructive, and timely.
  3. Editorial independence: The journal is committed to editorial independence and will make decisions based on the scientific content of the manuscript, without regard to the author's institutional affiliation, nationality, or other personal characteristics.
  4. Authorship: The journal expects all authors to meet recognized criteria for authorship.
  5. Plagiarism: The journal does not tolerate plagiarism in any form, including self-plagiarism. The journal expects authors to submit original work that has not been published previously.
  6. Conflict of interest: The journal requires authors to disclose any potential conflicts of interest related to their research, including any financial or personal relationships that could influence their work. The journal will evaluate any potential conflicts of interest and make appropriate disclosures.
  7. Corrections and retractions: The journal will publish corrections and retractions when errors or misconduct are identified in published articles.
  8. Copyright: The journal will obtain appropriate copyright permissions for all published material, and will provide clear information to authors and readers about the journal's copyright policies.
  9. Editorial board: The journal maintains an appropriate editorial board that reflects the scope and mission of the journal, and will ensure that editorial board members are experts in their respective fields.
  10. Editorial processes: The journal maintains clear and transparent processes for manuscript submission, peer review, editorial decision-making, and publication.

The journal ensures that published content is of the highest quality and meets the highest standards of scientific integrity.

The Journal allows debate post publication e.g. through open access social media and mails to the Editor-in-Chief and the Editor is responsible for preparing the response and also manages the entire communication process with the authors.

Archiving Policy

  1. Preservation: The journal preserves its content in a reliable, secure, and accessible digital archive. The archive will be regularly backed up to ensure that content is not lost due to technical failures or other unforeseen events.
  • Access: The journal makes itsr content freely accessible to readers through an open access platform or repository:  https://journals.prz.edu.pl/mmr/issue/archive
  • The journal may also provides access to its content through other digital or physical channels, such as libraries or archives.
  1. Metadata: The journal ensures that its content is accompanied by appropriate metadata, including information about the authors, date of publication, and other relevant details. This metadata will be stored in a standardized format to ensure interoperability with other digital archives and repositories.
  2. Long-term preservation: The journal adopted strategies and technologies that ensure the long-term preservation of its content, including periodic migrations to new hardware and software platforms, and the use of open and standardized formats for data and metadata.
  3. Legal compliance: The journal complies with all relevant laws and regulations related to archiving and preservation, including those related to copyright, data protection, and accessibility.
  4. Data sharing: The journal encourages authors to make their underlying data openly available, either through the journal's archive or through other open access repositories.

The journal ensures that its content is preserved and accessible for the long-term, promoting the dissemination and impact of scientific research.

Article Copyright Policy

  1. Copyright ownership: The journal owns the copyright to all articles published in the journal, unless otherwise specified in a written agreement with the author.
  2. Author rights: Authors retain certain rights to their articles, including the right to use their article in their own teaching, research, and professional activities, and the right to deposit their article in institutional or subject repositories.
  3. Reuse: The journal allows articles to be reused in accordance with the terms of an open access Creative Commons license. The specific license will be indicated on each article and will provide clear guidance on how the article can be reused and attributed.
  4. Third-party content: The journal ensures that any third-party content included in published articles, such as images or excerpts from other works, is used in accordance with applicable laws and regulations, and that appropriate permissions and attributions are obtained.
  5. Enforcement: The journal takes appropriate action to enforce its copyright policy and to protect the intellectual property rights of its authors and other stakeholders.

The journal ensures that their content is properly protected and attributed, while also providing clear guidance to authors and readers on the terms of use and reuse of published articles.

JOURNAL MANAGEMENT POLICY

DUTIES OF EDITORS

Editor-in-Chief

  1. The editor is responsible for deciding which of the submitted articles should or should not be published.
  2. The decision to accept or reject a paper for publication is based on its importance, originality, clarity, and its relevance to the scope of the journal.
  3. The editor may be guided by the policy of the journal's editorial committee, as well as legal requirements governing matters of defamation, copyright infringement and plagiarism. When making decisions regarding publication, the editor may consult with other members of the editorial board and reviewers.
  4. The editor maintains the standards adopted in academic publications, excludes practices that jeopardize ethical and intellectual norms, publish corrections, clarifications, cancellations and apologies when needed.
  5. The editor and the members of the editorial board must ensure that all materials submitted to the journal remain confidential while under review. They must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the authors, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher.
  6. The Editor is responsible for preparing the response to the authors and also manages the entire communication process with them.

Editorial Board

  1. The Editorial Board publishes applicable instructions related to editorial work, makes efforts to improve the quality of the journal and supports pluralism and freedom of expression in the scientific field.
  2. The Editorial Board is monitoring the ethical standards of scientific publications and takes all possible measures against any publication malpractices.
  3. To prevent misconduct in science (ghostwriting, guest authorship), the Editorial board has introduced appropriate procedures specific to the disciplines represented and has taken the following measures:
  • The editors will require the contributions from the authors in the creation of the article (with their affiliation and the following information: who the author of the concept is, objectives, research, etc.); the primary responsibility will be borne by the person submitting the article.
  • The editors will explain the concept of ghostwriting and guest authorship to the authors, which are a manifestation of scientific misconduct, and any detected cases of this type of action on the part of the authors will be revealed, including the notification of the appropriate bodies.
  • The editors will obtain information about the sources of publications funding, contribution to research institutions and other bodies (financial disclosure).
  • The editors will document all forms of scientific misconduct, especially breaking the rules of conduct obligatory in science.

Authors

  1. Authors should follow guidelines provided on the Journal website: https://journals.prz.edu.pl/mmr/about/submissions.
  2. The texts delivered to Editor cannot be published in other publishing company. Authors should not publish a manuscript describing essentially the same research in more than one journal. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.
  3. The author is obliged to provide an original work that cannot constitute plagiarism or self-plagiarism in any part (all or parts of books published in other publishing houses). All borrowings, quotations, tables and comments used in the text should be accompanied by appropriate footnotes. Plagiarism and fraudulent data is not acceptable.
  4. Authors may be asked to provide the raw data for editorial review and should be prepared to provide public access to such data.
  5. When subitting the text to the editorial office, the author provides a statement of copyright to the text based on CC BY licence. 
  6. When an author discovers significant errors or inaccuracies in his or her own published work, it is the author's responsibility to immediately notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with them to withdraw the article or publish the appropriate erratum.
  7. Authors have the right for debate post publication through mails to the journal Editor-in-Chief. The contact details are available on the Journal’s website in the “Contact” tab, as well as in the “Editorial Team” tab.