Public Ethics and Malpractices

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Publication Policy of Journal Trends in Management Research
A research piece is the result of a researcher's intellectual labor. When an article is published in the Journal of Trends in Management Research, it gives the authors the opportunity to share their research findings with a wide audience of academics and practitioners. The writers gain from it as well because it strengthens their credentials. It is well known for having made a substantial contribution to the advancement of modern management techniques. This means that the published work must exhibit a high degree of academic rigor and provide insightful analysis that is pertinent to both present-day and future management concerns. An intricate process of evaluation and review is followed before an article is published in a journal.
The Publishing Ethics Committee's (COPE) fundamental principles and rules will be adhered to by Trends in Management Journal (TMR).

The standards and guidelines created by the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), and Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) serve as a major foundation for the Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement published in Trends in Management Journal (TMR). Below are the pertinent responsibilities and standards that apply to authors, reviewers, and journal editors.

Copyrights and Access policy
Every academic work published in the Journal of Trends in Management Research is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license and is available to the public. As a result, the journal's published articles have a greater audience and readership, which raises the author's stature in academia. The author retains copyright to the submitted work, while the journal has first publishing rights for both online and print publications. Authors are not required to pay publishing fees to the journal. This gives everyone permission to reproduce, remix, distribute, transmit, and modify the work as long as the original and source materials are properly credited.

Plagiarism

Every manuscript that is submitted needs to be a unique work of art. It cannot be an article that has already been published or discussed elsewhere.

All submissions are subject to plagiarism detection; if plagiarism is found, an article may be rejected.

If the problematic portions of the work cannot be deleted, copyright violations may result in rejection.

Written consent from the copyright holders is required when duplicating a table or figure from any publication that is protected by copyright. Proper citation of the original source is also required

The accepted level of similarity is 10% (with proper citations), AI Similarity should be 0%

Open Access Policy
All research articles will be freely accessible and simply readable upon acceptance and publication. The research articles are freely available and widely accessible via the internet. They will all be accessible in an easily understandable format. The publication's open access will be provided without charge to the author.

Article renunciation
The article may be removed from the publisher’s database if it:

Violates ethical codes.

Is subject to a legal dispute.

Consists of fraudulent data.

Duties of Editors

The journal's editor is ultimately in charge of it. The reputation of the journal must be upheld by him or her. He or she bears responsibility for the upkeep of the caliber of the scholarly writing in the publication.

Common roles and responsibilities of Editors:

Recognize new areas of interest and make sure a high-caliber manuscript is submitted to the publication.

Create and oversee the journal development's overarching plan. Maintaining regular communication with their publishing contacts is crucial for reporting on the journal's performance and suggesting strategies for future development based on editor recommendations.

Manage daily correspondence, respond to journal submission inquiries, and set up the process for the timely flow of manuscripts, i.e., author to reviewer and back, then to publisher. As the journal's representative, the editor is responsible for allocating content in accordance with publisher and journal norms as well as recognized industry standards for integrity.

Identify new areas of interest and ensure that a high-quality paper is submitted to the publication.

Formulate and supervise the overall plan for journal development. It is imperative that they stay in constant contact with their publishing connections in order to report on the journal's performance and provide recommendations for future development strategies based on editor recommendations.

Oversee daily contact, reply to queries about journal submissions, and establish the procedure for the timely submission of manuscripts—from author to reviewer to publisher. The editor, as the journal's representative, is in charge of assigning content in line with accepted industry standards for integrity as well as publisher and journal policies.

Duties of Authors

Manuscripts may be rejected by the editorial board if it is felt that the work was not done within an ethical framework;

Plagiarism in any form is a serious violation of the most basic principles of scholarship and cannot be tolerated;

All authors must attest to having read and approved the content of the submitted manuscript.

Examples of plagiarism include the following:

Copying a whole paragraph verbatim from another person's work without putting it in quotation marks or properly citing the source according to academic standards.

Using a term or idea that one has read about that is especially original without giving credit to the author or source.

The paraphrase or condensed repetition of another person's thoughts without citing the original text as the source.

False citation: Information shouldn't be cited without proper attribution to the source from which it originated.

False data: Information created or changed during an experiment or laboratory setting; while not strictly speaking plagiarism, this is unquestionably a type of academic fraud.
unacknowledged submission of a paper many times for different reasons without previous consent by relevant stakeholders.
Unacknowledged collaboration or numerous writers: It is important to acknowledge the work of all collaborators or authors.
The simultaneous submission of the same or a very similar work to two or more periodicals is known as self-plagiarism or double submission.

Peer Review Policy
An article is assigned to a panel of reviewers by the editor if it is determined that it fits the scope of the Journal of Trends in Management Research and complies with author requirements. Each paper that is submitted to the journal will go through a double-blind peer review process. The review's goals are to evaluate the degree of scientific rigor, provide a thorough analysis of the study proposal, and develop a scientific process for deriving conclusions.
The journal's peer reviewers are chosen based on both their availability and their field of expertise. Reviewers are asked to assess the following: the degree of originality in the research idea; the suitability of the methodology in relation to the identified research problem; adherence to ethical standards; the clarity and alignment of research results with the objectives; and the depth of the discussions and conclusions drawn from the study. It is expected of the reviewers to verify that the prior work that has been quoted or paraphrased is properly cited.
While it is not required of reviewers to fix the language, they are welcome to offer suggestions in order to improve the submission's quality.

It is imperative that authors comprehend that the purpose of the peer review process is to offer constructive yet critical feedback, enabling them to make necessary revisions to the article. The Journal of Trends in Management Research's peer review procedure is a time-bound undertaking. It is anticipated that the reviewers would finish the peer review within the recommended time range. The reviewers' advice and the reviews themselves will be forwarded to the authors. After reading the thorough evaluations, the Editor could request one more review in the extremely unusual instance if the recommendations are inconsistent.
The Editor alone has the final say in whether to accept or reject a manuscript.

Duties of the Publisher It is the publisher's responsibility to deal with unethical and illegal publishing practices. When there are allegations of dishonesty, misconduct, publishing malpractices, or misconstrued plagiarism, the publisher and editors will work together to take any necessary legal action to set the record straight and make the necessary changes to the offending article. This covers the timely release of an update, an explanation, or, in the worst situation, the withdrawal of the impacted work. When research misconduct occurs, the publisher and editors will take appropriate action to find the papers and stop them from being published. They will never, ever, condone or deliberately permit research misconduct to occur.

Archiving policy The Trends in Management Research strongly encourages its authors to self-archive. The acceptable versions of the papers can be self-archived by authors on their personal and professional webpages. After their manuscript is published, authors can deposit their published work in their institutional repository, provided they have provided a link to the final printed article and acknowledged the publication's source with a reference.