Publication ethics

Author responsibilities

• Submit original work that is not under consideration elsewhere.
• Acknowledge all sources used and obtain permissions where necessary.
• Disclose any conflicts of interest, funding, and ethical approvals (e.g. IRB).
• Ensure all listed co-authors have approved the submission and authorship order.
• Provide raw data on reasonable request.

Reviewer responsibilities

• Maintain confidentiality of the manuscript and its contents.
• Provide constructive, evidence-based feedback in a timely manner.
• Decline to review where there is a conflict of interest.
• Use AI-generated review drafts only as a starting point — final reviews must be the reviewer's own scholarly judgment.

Editor responsibilities

• Make decisions based on the manuscript's scholarly merit.
• Maintain author and reviewer confidentiality.
• Investigate allegations of misconduct following COPE guidelines.

Plagiarism, data fabrication, misconduct

All submissions are screened for textual overlap. Substantiated misconduct results in rejection or retraction, with notification to author institutions where appropriate.

Use of AI by authors

Authors who use generative AI in preparing a submission must disclose this in the methods or acknowledgements. AI cannot be listed as an author. The intellectual responsibility for the work rests entirely with the human authors.

Questions or concerns? Contact the editorial office at editor@ajesi.org.