Publication Ethics

 

Center for Energy and Economics Studies are eager to raise awareness around research integrity while promoting ethical standards, equity, and inclusion in scholarly publishing. We abide by COPE’s Code of Conduct an aim to adhere to its Best Practice Guidelines.

 

Authors are expected to be aware of, and comply with, best practice in publication ethics including but not limited to those pertaining to authorship disputes, competing interests, plagiarism, simultaneous submission, research fraud, salami slicing. Below are the definitions of above mentioned terms.

 

• Authorship disputes – deliberately misrepresenting a researcher’s relationship with published work
• Competing interests – not disclosing to a journal that you have a direct or indirect conflict which prevents you from being unbiased
• Plagiarism – passing off another’s work or idea as your own
• Simultaneous submission – submitting a paper to more than one publication at the same time
• Research fraud – including fabrication (making up research data) and falsification (manipulating research data, tables or images)
• Salami slicing – the “slicing-up” of research that would form one meaningful paper into several different papers.

 

If you have concerns about potential errors, research or publication ethics, misconduct, or other issues pertaining to the integrity, validity, or reliability of a Center for Energy and Economics Studies article or submission, please contact us directly. To do so, email the Center for Energy and Economics Studies Publication team and cc the journal office.

 

Center for Energy and Economics Studies will investigate concerns raised about Center for Energy and Economics Studies submissions or publications regardless of the time since publication or study completion, and regardless of whether issues are raised internally, by authors, or by anonymous, pseudonymous, or named third parties. We will take steps to correct or clarify the scientific record if necessary, which may include issuing a correction, expression of concern, or retraction.