Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
The editors of The Global South (TGS) express gratitude to participating authors and reviewers for their submissions to the journal and their integrity in adhering to standards for ethical publication. This journal is dedicated to following best practices on ethical matters, errors, and retractions. Unethical behavior on the part of writers, reviewers, and editorial staff is unacceptable, and TGS does not tolerate plagiarism in any form. Authors submitting articles to TGS affirm that manuscript contents are original and that research methods follow ethical guidelines. The following duties outlined for editors, authors, and reviewers are based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Core Practices in accordance with its Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing, as well as MLA guidelines.
Duties of Editors
Publication Decisions: Based on external review report(s), the editor can accept, reject, or request modifications to the manuscript.
Review of Manuscripts: Editors shall ensure that each manuscript is initially evaluated by the editor for conformity with the journal’s thematic guidelines. Following the initial review, the manuscript will be sent out for blind peer review, which the editors will use to determine whether to accept, reject, or request revisions for the manuscript. Editors will rely on outside reviewers for expertise whenever necessary.
Fair Review: The editors shall ensure that each manuscript received by TGS is reviewed for its intellectual content without regard to the sex, gender, race, religion, citizenship, etc. of the author.
Confidentiality: The editors shall ensure that information regarding manuscripts submitted by the authors is kept confidential.
Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: The editors will not use unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript for their own research without written consent of the author.
Timely consideration of manuscripts: The editors shall undertake to consider submissions and subsequent revisions in a timely way. The time from submission to publication will vary considerably depending on the number of revisions required for acceptance, the time authors take to undertake revisions, and the available space in the journal. The editors shall take a pedagogical approach to encouraging new authors and assisting authors in improving their manuscripts. Aside from occasional special issues, articles will generally be published in the order of their acceptance.
Allegations of misconduct: Upon receipt of allegations of pre-publication or post-publication misconduct, the editors shall immediately confer with each other and with a group selected from the Board of Editorial Consultants to determine an appropriate course of action. Where misconduct is determined to have occurred, corrective measures may include the rejection of a manuscript or a statement of retraction of an article, to be posted on the journal’s website and published in the journal immediately after the misconduct is determined to have taken place.
Complaints and Appeals: The editors shall take prompt action in response to allegations against the editorial staff and its reviewers by immediately conferring with each other and with a group drawn from the Board of Editorial Consultants to consider the evidence and determine an appropriate response. The editors shall resolve complaints and appeals professionally and in a timely manner.
Conflicts of Interest and Competing Interests: The editors shall avoid conflicts of interests and competing interests during the publication process by carefully assigning reviewers and providing opportunities for post-publication dialogue.
Intellectual Property: The ownership of intellectual property of articles published in the journal is clearly stated in the Instructions to Contributors on the journal website and in the Consent to Publish and/or Permissions forms submitted to contributors before publication.
Post-publication discussions and corrections: Authors shall review copies of their articles in advance of publication to minimize errors. They also must sign Permission to Publish forms before their articles are published.
Duties of Authors
Reporting Standards: Manuscripts must follow the submission guidelines of the journal.
Originality: Authors shall affirm during the submission process and on the Consent to Publish form that they have written entirely original work and have properly cited other scholarship whenever necessary.
Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publications: Authors shall not submit the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently. It is also expected that the author will not publish redundant manuscripts or manuscripts describing the same research in more than one journal.
Acknowledgement of Sources: Authors shall acknowledge all sources of data and cite publications that have been influential in their research.
Authorship of the Paper: Authorship is limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the study. All who have made significant contribution must be listed as co-authors. Senior authors shall also ensure that all the authors have seen and agreed to the submitted version of the manuscript and to inclusion of their names as co-authors.
Fundamental Errors in Published Works: If at any point of time, the author(s) discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in a submitted manuscript, the error or inaccuracy must be reported immediately to the editor.
Duties of Reviewers
Confidentiality: Information regarding manuscripts submitted by authors shall be kept confidential and treated as privileged information.
Acknowledgement of Sources: Manuscript reviewers shall ensure that authors have acknowledged all sources used in their research. Any kind of similarity or overlap between the manuscripts under consideration or with any other published paper of which a reviewer has personal knowledge shall be brought immediately to the editor’s notice.
Standards of Objectivity: Review of submitted manuscripts shall be done carefully and objectively; reviewers shall express their views clearly, humanely, and with supporting arguments.
Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: The editors will not use unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript for their own research without written consent of the author.
Promptness: If a reviewer feels it is not possible to complete the review of manuscript within the stipulated time, then this information shall be communicated to the editor promptly so that the manuscript can be sent to another reviewer in a timely way.
