Polices & Guidelines
Publication Malpractice Statement
The journal CARC Research in Social Sciences (CRISS) follows the guidelines and policies of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Editors and Referees
Our editors and referees are required to declare any conflicts of interest related to the manuscript they are requested to evaluate. To ensure transparent double-blind peer-review, the identities of authors are not disclosed to referees, and vice versa. Manuscripts submission by the editor/associate editor or by any member of the editorial board is not allowed.
Authors
Authors are expected to adopt the general ethical standards in their research and writing, ensuring that:
- The submitted work or any of its essential content has not been previously published in a refereed journal and is not being considered for publication elsewhere. To ensure this, the editors screen out the submissions using the anti-plagiarism software, i.e. Turnitin.com.
- Published relevant material/work referred by the authors in their research must be properly cited as per APA formatting guidelines.
- Mentioning and acknowledging the sources of funding and significant help is the ethical obligation of the authors. It must be explicitly mentioned under the heading of ‘Compliance with the Ethical Standards’ at the end of the manuscript.
- Obtaining the consents from the parties with vested interests is the ethical responsibility of the authors.
If a published paper or its essential content is found to have been published before or if any other unethical conduct by the authors is verified, the journal will take one or more of the following actions:
- Publishing a notice
- Retracting the paper
- Preventing the corresponding author from publishing in CRISS
- Reporting the impropriety to the corresponding author’s, co-authors, employer, head of department (HOD), funding body, and HEC.
Complaints
CRISS publishes corrections only when significant errors arise from author error (Corrigenda) or editorial mistakes (Errata). If there is a serious complaint about a journal’s own procedures, the Chief Editor will confer with the corresponding author and any relevant members of the editorial board in order to resolve the problem. The advisory board of CRISS will be consulted if further guidance is required, and if the above procedures prove unacceptable, the matter will be referred for outside adjudication as per COPE guidelines.
The journal CARC Research in Social Sciences (CRISS) is published by the International Research and Publishing Academy that has a membership of Turnitin, an online tool to help the editors verify the originality of submitted manuscripts. All submitted manuscripts are scanned with Turnitin to calculate the similarity index or plagiarism.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is when an author attempts to pass off someone else works as his or her own. Duplicate publication, sometimes called self-plagiarism, occurs when an author reuses substantial parts of his or her own published work without providing the appropriate references. This can range from getting an identical paper published in multiple journals, to salami-slicing, where authors add small amounts of new data to a previous paper.
Plagiarism Policy of CRISS
- CRISS is committed to promote and disseminate the original research work relating to the field of economic sciences.
- Plagiarism comes in several forms for that reason, Plagiarism in any form cannot be tolerated by CRISS at any stage as it shows unethical publishing behavior.
- All submitted manuscripts are screened for plagiarism by using Turnitin software.
- The manuscript in which the plagiarism is detected is handled based on the extent of the plagiarism. A manuscript with less than a 19% similarity index can be accepted for publication.
- If the manuscript has plagiarism < 15%, the manuscript will be given an ID and the manuscript is sent to the review process.
- If the manuscript has plagiarism 15-30%, the manuscript will be given an ID and the manuscript is sent back to the author for content revision.
- If the plagiarism is detected more than 30%, it is found that the authors are very unlikely to revise the manuscript and submit the revised version. However, authors are welcome to do the required revisions and submit the manuscript as a new submission.
In the case of suspected plagiarism in a published article:
- A specific process is followed to manage a case of plagiarism. CRISS follows the guidelines contained in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) flowcharts
- The person who advised us of the situation is informed about the process to be followed.
- The articles are compared to check the degree of copying.
- All Editors of the CRISS, are informed and asked for their comments.
- The corresponding author of the article in question is contacted with documentary evidence of the case of plagiarism and is asked for a response.
If the authors are found guilty of plagiarism
- The editor of the journal in which the original plagiarized article was published and the authors of the plagiarized article are informed.
- CRISS publishes an official retraction of the paper.
- The online version of the CRISS article is withdrawn from the OJS host site, and CRISS will not publish any article by any of the authors concerned for a period of 5 years.
All CRISS manuscripts are reviewed through 'double-blind' peer review process that means the identities of the authors are kept confidential from the reviewers, and vice versa.
To make this possible, anonymous versions of the manuscript are sent to referees. Submitted papers are first considered by the CRISS Editor after submission. Papers that do not fall within the scope of CRISS are 'desk-rejected'. In addition, papers that fail to meet a minimum threshold for quality and originality are also rejected without being sent out to the reviewers.
Papers passing through this initial editorial scrutiny are then typically sent out to four referees (2 national and two international). If one or more of these turn down the invitation to provide a review, other referees will subsequently be appointed. Normally, at least three authoritative reviews are needed before the handling Editor can make a decision as to whether to accept, reject, or ask for a 'revise and resubmit' of the submitted paper. Currently, approximately 50% of the manuscripts submitted to CRISS are desk-rejected, about 35% are rejected after peer review, and 15% are eventually accepted (most after being revised once if not twice). The Editor is responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of articles. The Editor's decision is final.
CRISS provides professional English editing services exclusively for the accepted manuscripts. These manuscripts are carefully scrutinized by our professional proof-readers who help ensure the accuracy of the paper by resolving any problems with the language to conform to the international standards for journal publications.
PUBLICATION MALPRACTICE STATEMENT
The journal CARC Research in Social Sciences (CRISS) and its publisher, Center for Advocacy Research & Communication (CARC) follow the ethical guidelines for publication outlined by the COPE (Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and the Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers). In view of that, the authors, the reviewers, and the editors are expected to follow the best-practice guidelines.
CRISS is an open-access research journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.
Open Access License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
CARC Research in Social Sciences (CRISS) accepts advertising support for its print and online publications and maintains editorial integrity through the policy that defines the Editorial and Advertiser relationship:
- The editorial decisions are not influenced by print and online advertising. The decision to publish a manuscript is not dependent upon any monetary or commercial interest.
- CRISS reserves the right to refuse any advertising
- CRISS’s Editor-in-Chief has the authority to approve print and online advertisements and to enforce the advertising policy
- Print advertisements are interspersed throughout the journal but do not interrupt the flow of any article.
- The online ads are displayed on the journal’s website that may contain online top and/or sidebar banners
- To avoid implied endorsement by the journal, the article, or the authors of the article, advertisements are not adjacent to articles addressing the product or its disease state
- The Publisher reserves the right to print the word “Advertisement” on any advertisement where it may not be clear, so that readers can distinguish readily between advertising and editorial work
It is the responsibility of the advertiser and its agencies to adhere to appropriate legal requirements and regulations (for example, FDA regulations regarding advertising and promotion).
