Ethical Policy

  • SJSPM South Asian Journal of Supply Chain and Project Management has the server moral value in the process of paper characters publication. The code of ethics under SJSPM ethics and malpractice statement has been borrowed from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Researchers are solely accountable on the subject of the first-rate origin and reliability of the findings of research and should meet the following standards of conduct.
  • The authors of original research papers need to be meticulous in describing the work as it was performed and the resulting data, leading to unbiased interpretation and concluding remarks of the work's significance.
  • Findings of research work should be detailed as well as include references to enable an audience to follow the same procedure in (duplicating/replicating) the work.
  • Dissemination of false or knowingly inaccurate information belong to a culture of ethical misconduct which is not permissible.
  • Editorial review of raw data and publication of the data itself are a common practice in such cases.  However, in some cases authors can be asked to make their data private through anonymization in order to achieve the balance between the need to conform to legal rights and the right of participants to data privacy.
  • By ensuring that the data and results of the research are authentic and credible, the area concerned shall be used as the source of supply.
  • Authors need to make sure they have produced and submitted only totally original pieces of work, and only if the use of third party works and words is necessary, their citations properly by using the required referencing style.
  • Authors also ought to cite those publications which are critical in ensuring that the nature of the task that has been reported in the manuscript is clear by nature.
  • Plagiarism means using the work of another student as your own, or borrowing substantial parts from another paper (violating the rules on quotation), or by claiming results from other research which you have not personally conducted. All the different types of plagiarism form the basis of unethical publication and are incompatible with the standards of the publishing house.
  • Besides taking some ideas from previous works, I will make sure I am properly acknowledging and referring to them. Data sources and evidence the text along with a references section need to be cited properly.
  • Results of featured research project nor can it be a repeated finding.
  • The paper cannot be published elsewhere if there is already a published manuscript or it has been sent for publication to another journal. From a standpoint of ethic, the submission of a manuscript all at the same time to different journals is completely unacceptable.
  • The definition should exclude those who need to remain anonymous from being listed as co-authors since they will not be able to publicly claim ownership of the content and take responsibility for the quality of the research.
  • The most significant contribution to the research project was thought of, designed, conducted, data collection, or data interpretation; or data collection or analysis (also can be)
  • I co-wrote or critically revised it for important intellectual content; moreover, I served as a subject expert who provided an expert opinion about foundational aspect.
  • Agree that this text is final and confirm by signing the appropriate consent form to publish our study.
  • A person who is not the author yet contributed substantially to the work reported in the manuscript may appear in the acknowledgment section, not the author one.  It is after obtaining that person’s permission written that they can appear in that section.
  • The corresponding author has a duty to approve co-authors verifying that they are the ones who truly deserve a credit for their contribution according to the above-mentioned definition of co-authors and also that they do not belong to those who are excluded from the Author list and a final version of the text has been approved by them.
  • Any information borrowed (through a conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third persons) ought to be documented in the order of this source providing expressed written consent.
  • Authorizations should not be used to examine any confidential matters obtained from performing functions such as refereeing the manuscripts and applications for grant unless written permission is acquired from authors of such materials.
  • These should be consistent with copyright laws.
  • Authors are to contribute to the peer review process and to fully cooperate by giving prompt information when editors ask for raw data, clarifications, and proof of the ethics approvals, patient consents or copyright permissions as may be required.
  • As SJSPM does not allow any kind of breaching of ethics and copyrights of the articles it publishes, such violations must be rigorously and strictly prohibited. Authors owe moral responsibility for any type of plagiarism in their writing and the Editorial board is stringently oriented to the strategies of timely detection of such misconduct.
  • The authors maintain the integrity of the facts they provide in the form of statistics, first-person reactions, geographical objects, companies, organizations and institutions etc.
  • The Author does not say that the viewpoints expressed in the research article are the opinion of the editorial board for that matter. Thus, no responsibility is required for the SJSPM editorial board when using this method.