The International Journal of Economics, Education, Law and Social Sciences is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and to ensuring the integrity of the academic record. The following ethics statement is based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines.

1. Duties of Authors

• Originality and Plagiarism: Authors must ensure that their work is original and has not been previously published elsewhere. Proper citation and acknowledgment must be given for all sources of content.
• Reporting Standards: Authors should accurately present their research and discuss its significance objectively. False statements or deliberately inaccurate information are unethical and unacceptable.
• Data Access and Retention: Authors may be asked to provide raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review. They should be prepared to provide public access to such data, if practicable, and retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.
• Authorship of the Paper: Only those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study should be listed as authors. All contributors should be acknowledged.
• Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: Authors should disclose any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that could be seen to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript.
• Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication: Authors should not submit the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently. Submitting the same research to multiple journals constitutes unethical publishing behavior.

2. Duties of Editors

• Fair Play: Editors evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
• Confidentiality: Editors must ensure that information regarding manuscripts submitted by authors is kept confidential.
• Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: Editors will not use unpublished information disclosed in a submitted manuscript for their own research purposes without the author’s explicit written consent.
• Decision-making: The editor is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. Editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

3. Duties of Reviewers

• Contribution to Editorial Decisions: Peer reviewers assist the editors in making editorial decisions and may assist authors in improving their manuscript.
• Confidentiality: Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.
• Standards of Objectivity: Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate, and reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
• Acknowledgment of Sources: Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument has been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation.
• Disclosure and Conflict of Interest: Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest.

4. Ethical Oversight

• Handling Allegations of Misconduct: The journal takes any allegations of misconduct seriously and will investigate in accordance with COPE guidelines. All necessary measures will be taken to correct the academic record if ethical issues arise after publication.
• Data and Reproducibility: The journal encourages transparency and reproducibility of research. Authors may be asked to provide data and methodological details to verify results.

5. Anti-Plagiarism Policy

The International Journal of Economics, Education, Law and Social Sciences strictly prohibits plagiarism. All submissions are subject to plagiarism detection software. Articles that are found to contain significant amounts of plagiarized material will be rejected or retracted, depending on the case.

6. Addressing Complaints

The journal welcomes constructive feedback on its processes. Complaints should be directed to the editorial office and will be reviewed according to COPE guidelines. The journal is committed to resolving complaints fairly and effectively.