Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

• Chinese Journal of Management Science：Publication Academic Ethics and Malpractice Statement
   

  In order to strengthen ethics implementation, promote research integrity, and maintain the seriousness and reputation of academic activities, Chinese Journal of Management Science (Print ISSN 1003-2007X, CN 11-2835/G3, published monthly) is now making the following statement on the subject of ethical behavior standards, which all editors, editorial staff, authors, reviewers and publishers who are involved in the publishing process must follow.

  1. Editorial Responsibility
  Confidentiality agreement: For a submission involving confidential matters, the authors take on all the liability. They may request the exclusion of particular reviewers, which will be considered by the editors. Editors and editorial staff are required to keep confidential all information of the peer reviewers and submitted manuscripts.

  
  

  Preliminary review of the manuscript: For a new user, please create an account and submit a manuscript following the guidance. The editorial office will send the authors an acknowledgement letter within 2 weeks. If the authors have not received any notification 4 months after submission, they can handle the manuscript by themselves and inform the editorial office of the situation. Duplicate submission is forbidden.

  Manuscript peer-review: A manuscript will be peer reviewed by at least 2 parallel experts. Given no conflicts of interest, a decision will be made in the light of at least 2 review reports with objectivity and impartiality.

  
  

  Article copyright: The authors will need to complete and return the Copyright Transfer Statement once upon acceptance by the journal.  Editors and editorial staff reserve the right to amend the submitted manuscripts and own the copyright of published manuscripts.

  
  

  Proofreading before printing: Page proofs will be sent to the corresponding author. To avoid publication delay, corrections must be returned within one week. The author is liable for all changes rather than typesetting errors. For an accurate understanding of the scientific content, you may want to ask a native speaker to help you with paper preparation prior to submission. 

  Academic ethics regulation: All editorial board members and editorial staff are required to supervise the implementation of academic ethics to ensure non-commercial and non-profit submissions, logical and reliable arguments, sufficient scientific evidence, etc., by upholding academic ethics regulations.

  
  

  Archiving: The editorial office is responsible for the long-term online access via the journal website. Archiving of all published articles electronic version would always be available.

  2. Reviewer Responsibility

  Objective standard of review: We ask reviewers to avoid statements that may cause needless offence. Reviewers are required to offer sufficient evidence and clear arguments to make review reports objective and impartial.

  
  

  Manuscript confidentiality: To keep confidential all details of review results, manuscript information must not be disclosed or discussed without the Editor-in-Chief’s knowledge.

  
  

  The efficiency of review: To guarantee rapid peer review, reviewers are required to return review reports within an agreed time limit. If they anticipate a longer delay or cannot make full and fair review, we ask them to let us know as soon as possible.

  
  

  Reference confirmation: To verify the correctness and originality of a manuscript, peer reviewers are required to check reference citations throughout a manuscript, as well as its similarity with published articles. Any suspected manuscripts should be reported.

  
  

  Avoid conflict or relationship with a manuscript: To avoid conflicts of interest, Chinese Journal of Management Science requires reviewers to disclose any competing interests before starting to assess a paper. The review process will be immediately terminated once a competing/cooperative relationship, or any kind of relation between the authors and reviewers is disclosed. If such conflict and relationship are deliberately hidden or disclosed by a third party, the reviewers will be given a warning or a lifetime ban on reviewing or public disclosure, as well as other sanctions according to the case seriousness.

  
  

  3. Author Responsibility

  Submission agreement: The authors submitting to Chinese Journal of Management Science will be considered of voluntary compliance of all journal regulations. They may appeal against the review   results, but should not make any attempt to determine the identities of reviewers.

  
  

  Academic standardization: A manuscript should be well organized and written concisely and clearly, with innovative and informative content supported by reliable data and logical arguments. The use of   measurement units, numbers, punctuation, etc. should comply with the relevant rules.

  
  

  Originality: Only articles that have not been published previously will be accepted. The following acts of misconduct are strictly forbidden: duplicate submission; repeat submission (including submission   in different categories); plagiarism. A manuscript with any such act will be rejected, and its author will be blacklisted. The editorial office will also inform the institutions of the authors as well as other   relevant professional journals. The authors are liable for the confidential matters involved in manuscripts.

  
  

  Revising or withdrawing manuscript: Before publishing, the authors are allowed to revise their drafts but required to inform the editors of those corrections promptly. Let editors have all your corrections   within two months after the review process. Note that the editors may consider a manuscript withdrawn if they cannot have manuscripts returned in six months without any explanation.

  
  

  Copyright transfer agreement: The copyright of a manuscript belongs to the authors who take full responsibility for their own writings. In order to guarantee the authorship and intellectual property, all   authors should complete and return the "Copyright Transfer Statement" once upon acceptance by the journal. Editors and editorial staff have the right to amend submitted manuscript sand own the   copyright of published manuscripts. Once published, a manuscript will automatically have its copyright transferred to the journal, including but not limited to electronic publishing, multimedia publishing,   and web publishing.

  
  

  Fees: The authors will be notified of publishing charge prior to paper publishing.

  
  

  References: The authors should cite and list all the references and clarify financial supports of the manuscript to avoid conflicts of interest.

  
  

  4. Regarding Duplicate Submission and Redundant Publication

  Duplicate Submission: Submission of the same original research report to two or more journals simultaneously, or submission of papers with substantially similar content (identical primary data and figures, with only minor textual variations) to different journals, constitutes duplicate submission. If the same work is published in two or more journals, this is considered redundant publication.

  
  

  Editorial Review Process: If the editorial office suspects duplicate submission or redundant publication, we will rigorously gather documentation, verify the claims, and notify the author. The author must provide a written explanation before a final decision is made. If the author disputes the editorial determination, they may submit a formal appeal, which will be escalated to the relevant higher authorities for arbitration.

  Consequences of Violation: If duplicate submission is confirmed, the manuscript will be immediately rejected; The author, as the first author or corresponding author, will be barred from submitting any papers to this journal for a period of 2 years; The editorial office will compile all relevant  documentation into a written report on the case and retain it for archival purposes.

  
  

  5. Plagiarism check

  Publisher and editors use AMLC（https://check7.cnki.net/amlc/） to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred; in no event shall a journal or its editors encourage such misconduct, or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place; in the event that a journal’s publisher or editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct the publisher or editor shall deal with allegations appropriately; the journal should have available guidelines for retracting or correcting articles when needed; and finally publishers and editors should always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed. Papers with a similarity rate exceeding 20% (including excessive citation, plagiarism, or self-citation of previously published papers or dissertations) will be rejected.

  Sanctions: Once an act of misconduct mentioned above is found, where ever it occurs, the editorial office will take the following measures: A formal warning letter will be issued and the paid publication fees will not be refunded. For severe cases causing financial losses to the journal, the author may face further accountability, including but not limited to: notification to the author’s affiliated institution, a 2-year ban on paper submissions, dissemination of the violation to relevant journals, and financial compensation.

  
  

  All aforementioned commitments and measures become effective upon releasing. Newsroom editorial staff, editorial board members, authors, reviewers, publishers and the public have the right to supervise the implementation of these items.

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