Plagiarism and Publication malpractice Policy

Authors must ensure that they submit a completely new publication containing their own work. If they have used the work, ideas, or intellectual properties of others, this must be appropriately cited or referenced.
The Journal is strictly against any unethical act of copying or plagiarism in any form. All manuscripts submitted for publication to JCEEAS are cross-checked for plagiarism in a three-step method using different software

Plagiarism is considered any case where the author presents the published or unpublished written works, words, or ideas of others without attribution or permission, and presents them as new and original.There are various forms plagiarism can take.

  • Verbatim copying: An exact copy of, or a significant passage or section of text taken from, another person's work without acknowledgement, references or use of quotation marks.
  • Paraphrasing: More than one sentence within a paragraph or section of text has been changed, or sentences have been rearranged without appropriate attribution. Significant improper paraphrasing without appropriate attribution is treated seriously as verbatim copying.
  •  Reusing parts of a work without attribution: for example, using a figure, table, or paragraph without acknowledgement, references, or quotation marks. It is the authors responsibility to obtain the necessary permissions from the copyright holder.
  • Self-plagiarism or text recycling: Authors must submit original content to Budapest Management Review. (Exceptions can be made for work that has been presented partially at a conference, and work that originates from the main author’s PhD studies.) Research should only be repeated if it leads to different or new conclusions, or you want to compare it with new data. If any element of your latest submission has been published previously, you must ensure that the original work is fully referenced and make this clear to the editors at the point of submission.

 

Manuscripts found to be plagiarized during the initial stages of review are out-rightly rejected and not considered for publication in the Journal.

 

Redundant publication

This is also known as dual publication. Any work you submit to us must be original and previously unpublished. It is an unacceptable academic practice to submit to more than one journal at the same time and it can lead to manuscript rejection. Authors are expected to wait until they receive a decision from one journal before submitting to the next. Authors declare during submission that the work has not been submitted elsewhere and is not under consideration with any other publication.

Manuscripts based on the same dataset

Sometimes for large data collections it is planned from the beginning to produce numerous separate publications regarding different research questions but using the same original database/sample. If the papers have significantly different research questions/hypotheses, and therefore also discuss different results, and have less than 10% textual overlap between each other, they can be subject to editorial consideration.

Citation manipulation and data falsification/fabrication

Citation manipulation

Citations and referencing are important when writing any research, however, researchers should be mindful of the following behaviours:

  • Self-citation: Authors should not excessively self-cite their own previously published works. Included citations must be relevant and add value to the article, and they should not be included just to increase the author's citation score. Authors should keep their self-citations to a minimum when discussing methodologies or literature reviews.
  • Coercive citation: During the peer-review process, you may be referred to papers the reviewer believes can further develop and improve your ideas. While there may be legitimate reasons to reference other publications, 'coercive citation' is unethical (this is where a reference is included as a condition of acceptance or without academic justification). We are an advocate of both author freedom and editorial independence. If you feel you have been pressured to include a particular reference in your article, or that an editor is unclear on best ethical practice, please contact our Editor-in-Chief.
  • Citation pushing: 'Citation pushing' is where an author includes superfluous or irrelevant references with the intention of boosting another specific individual’s citation score; this often occurs amongst groups of individuals who aim to boost each other’s citation scores. This kind of behaviour is unwelcome in Vezetéstudomány / Budapest Management Review.

Whenever possible authors are encouraged to cite the primary literature in favour of reviews in order to give credit to the group(s) who first reported a finding.

Fabricated data

To fabricate or manipulate data is fundamentally wrong and a breach of research integrity. The journal reserves the right to review data or request the original data files. If there is reason to suspect that the data is not plausible, we reserve the right to reject that paper, and to notify your institution, as appropriate.

Figure or image manipulation

Image manipulation falls into two categories:

  1. Inappropriate manipulation: the adjustment of an image or figure, which violates established research guidelines, but does not impact the interpretation of the data shown.
  2. Fraudulent manipulation: the deliberate adjustment or manipulation of an image or figure to affect the interpretation of the data.

Manipulation may include the addition or removal of elements from a figure, or adjustments to image formatting designed to obscure or highlight a particular result.

 

Unnecessary or excessive use of external texts

Manuscripts that consist of more than 25% of texts imported from elsewhere, based on the software check, will be rejected without further consideration, even if the text refers to the other work (with the exception of critical reprints of source texts).
Publications may contain no more than 15% of referenced content taken from elsewhere. Similarity per each detected reference must also be a maximum 2%.
Manuscripts that, consisting of between 15-25% of referenced texts imported from elsewhere, based on the software check will be sent back to the author for further content revision.