Publication Ethics

Publication Ethics for the Lamadjdo Accounting Journal (LAJUR)

The Lamadjdo Accounting Journal (LAJUR) is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and integrity. We adhere strictly to ethical guidelines for scholarly publishing to ensure the quality and reliability of our publications. Below are the key principles of Lamadjdo Accounting Journal (LAJUR) publication ethics:

  1. Responsibilities of Authors:

    • Originality and Plagiarism: Authors must ensure that they submit entirely original works. If the authors have used the work and/or words of others, this must be appropriately cited or quoted.
    • Data Access and Retention: Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data.
    • Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication: Authors should not submit the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently. It is also expected that the authors will not publish redundant manuscripts or manuscripts describing the same research in more than one journal.
    • Acknowledgment of Sources: Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

  2. Responsibilities of Reviewers:

    • Confidentiality: Manuscript reviewers, the editor, and the editorial staff must not disclose any information regarding submitted manuscripts. All manuscripts are to be treated as privileged information.
    • Objectivity: Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the authors is inappropriate. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
    • Conflict of Interest: Reviewers should not review 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 connected to the papers.

  3. Responsibilities of Editors:

    • Fair Play: Manuscripts shall be evaluated solely on their intellectual merit without regard to authors’ race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy.
    • Confidentiality: The editor 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: Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.

  4. Publishing Decisions:

    • The editor is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions.

  5. Handling of Errors and Retractions:

    • In cases of alleged or proven scientific misconduct, fraudulent publication or plagiarism, the publisher, in close collaboration with the editor, will take all appropriate measures to clarify the situation and to amend the article in question. This includes the prompt publication of an erratum, clarification or, in the most severe cases, the retraction of the affected work.

Lamadjdo Accounting Journal (LAJUR) is committed to following these ethical standards to ensure the respectability of scholarly publishing and to support the trust of readers and researchers in our publications.