Antisemitism Studies (AS) follows the code of conduct on publication ethics as laid out in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Code of Conduct for Journal Editors.
Duties of the Editor
- Standards: The editor is responsible for guaranteeing that the material published in AS meets a rigorous academic standard for accuracy, originality, and clarity.
- Review of Manuscripts: The editor reviews each manuscript submitted, and if the work merits consideration, the manuscript will be sent to experts in the area for double-blind peer review.
- Fairness: The editor ensures that each manuscript received is reviewed for its intellectual content without regard to sex, gender, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, etc. of the authors.
- Confidentiality: The editor ensures that information regarding manuscripts submitted by authors is kept confidential.
- Final Decisions: The editor is responsible for accepting, rejecting, or requesting changes to manuscripts, after considering the conclusions of the peer review process.
- Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: The editor will not use unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript for his or her own research without written consent of the author.
Duties of Authors
- Deadlines: Authors ensure that they will have the manuscript edited and finalized by the deadline(s) agreed to with the editor.
- Accuracy: Manuscripts must adhere to scholarly standards of accuracy, use of evidence, and objective analysis, and follow the submission guidelines of AS.
- Serious Errors: If at any point of time, the author(s) discover(s) a significant error or inaccuracy in the submitted manuscript, the error or inaccuracy must be reported to the editor immediately.
- Originality: Authors ensure that the work they have submitted for publication is entirely original.
- Concurrent Submissions and Multiple Publications: Authors ensure that the manuscript submitted to AS has not been published elsewhere, in English or any other language, or submitted to another publication for consideration.
- Evidence and Sources: Authors ensure acknowledgment of all sources used in their research and the citation of all publications that have been influential in their work.
- Authorship: If the manuscript has more than one author, all the authors ensure that they have seen and agreed to the submitted version of the manuscript and include all names as co-authors.
- Data Access and Retention: If applicable, authors must provide raw data related to their manuscript for editorial review and must retain such data.
Duties of Reviewers
- Deadlines: Reviewers ensure that they will have the manuscript evaluated by the deadline agreed to with the editor.
- Objectivity: Review of manuscripts must be completed in an objective manner and the reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
- Conflicts of Interest: All peer reviews for AS are double-blind; however, if reviewers discover any potential competing interests or conflicts in their review, they must disclose this to the editor immediately.
- Confidentiality: Information regarding manuscripts submitted by authors should be kept confidential and be treated as privileged information.
- Evidence and Sources: Manuscript reviewers ensure that authors have acknowledged all sources used in their research. Any similarity between manuscripts under consideration or with any other publication of which the reviewer has personal knowledge must be brought to the editor’s attention immediately.
