Publishing articles in Journal of Women's Entrepreneurship and Education is a process which requires compliance with common ethical principles. Therefore it is necessary to agree upon ethical behaviour of all parties including the authors, the reviewers, the editors, and the publisher. This ethics statement is based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

General


Journal of Women's Entrepreneurship and Education is continuously seeking the opinions of authors, readers, reviewers and editorial board members in improving journal’s processes. We are introducing all available technological solutions which are ensuring that content of published papers is in accordance with ethical principles.

Authors


All papers submitted to Journal of Women's Entrepreneurship and Education need to be based on an original research. Authors should not submit manuscripts which are founded on the same research in more than one journal. Submitting such papers is treated as unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.
Research results should be presented in a way that allows analysis and review, as well as replication of work in other research by using the described methodology. Exceptions are appropriate in the case of patent protection or similar, which needs to be stated in the manuscript.
Authors are expected to avoid selective reporting of data with the intent to mislead or deceive. Authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work of others this must be appropriately cited or quoted. Such quotations and citations must be listed in the Reference at the end of the article. Any kind of plagiarism is unacceptable and the authors will be invited to retract any paper that is found to be fraud or to correct the results if possible.
It is expected that in the authors list are included all and only those authors who have substantially contributed to paper creation.

Peers


Peer reviewers are invited to disclose any potential competing interests before agreeing to review a submission. Journal of Women's Entrepreneurship and Education encourages reviewers to comment on ethical questions and possible research misconduct raised by submissions, like unethical research design, insufficient detail on methodology or similar.

Peers are presumed to review submitted paper with no impact of whatsoever party and to sustain on their work with respect to objectiveness. Any reviewer who consistently produces discourteous, poor quality or late reviews will be removed from the peers list.
Peers are invited to recommend new reviewers to the editors.

Editors

Editors of Journal of Women's Entrepreneurship and Education are responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. Editors should give prompt and unbiased consideration to all submitted manuscripts. All and any judgement on its merits has to be without regard to gender, religious belief, nationality, race, or political philosophy of the authors. Every situation that may result with conflicts of interest should be avoided.

All information about a manuscript under consideration must not be disclosed to anyone other than reviewers or corresponding author. In special cases the editor may disclose submitted manuscript to other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate, if the topic of the manuscript is interdisciplinary or has direct or indirect impact on the publisher.
If editors were offered convincing evidence that the contents of a published paper are invalid, they should promote the publication of a correction or retraction of the paper by the author(s).

Publisher


Publisher will provide help to introduce systems in place to detect falsified data, e.g. plagiarised text (either for routine use or when suspicions are raised).
Publisher will support authors whose copyright has been breached or who have been the victims of plagiarism.
Publisher will promote policies and systems in place to ensure that commercial considerations do not affect editorial decisions.