Publishing Ethics Statement of Sinergie Italian Journal of Management
This publishing Ethics Statement complies with the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Editorial Integrity and Misconduct Prevention
Sinergie Italian Journal of Management upholds rigorous ethical standards to ensure scholarly integrity, guided by independence, confidentiality, and fairness.
Peer Review Process
Submissions undergo double-blind peer review. The editor-in-chief assigns manuscripts to an associate editor based on expertise, who selects at least two external reviewers. The editorial board oversees the process. Conflicts of interest require recusal; disputes are mediated by a senior editor. Authors receive detailed feedback via email within 6–8 weeks.
Conflicts of Interest
Conflicts—financial, personal, or professional—must be disclosed pre-publication by authors (on the title page), reviewers, and editors, with recusal if conflicted. Post-publication issues (e.g., undisclosed funding) trigger a 30-day editorial review, with outcomes published online. All stakeholders (authors, reviewers, editors, journal, publisher, scientific community) adhere to this policy.
Research Misconduct
Plagiarism, redundant publication, and data falsification are prohibited. Pre-publication screening uses software and reviewer scrutiny; violations result in rejection. Post-publication allegations, including external reports, are investigated by the editor-in-chief within 30 days, with retraction or correction notes published online.
Post-Publication Debate and Corrections
Letters or comments are accepted and published online within 60 days if relevant. Minor errors are corrected via corrigenda within 30 days; ethics breaches prompt a 30-day investigation, with retraction notes published in the journal and online.
Ethical Oversight
Authors must secure informed consent for human data (e.g., GDPR), ethical approvals for animal or vulnerable population research, and anonymize confidential data, submitting proof. The editor-in-chief verifies compliance pre-publication (within 2 weeks); post-publication concerns are reviewed by an ethics panel within 30 days, with outcomes published.
Consent and Accessibility
Written consent is required for texts, data, images, audio, and video from participants or rights holders, per disciplinary standards, with documentation submitted. Confidential data is anonymized. CC BY 4.0 ensures open access; breaches are corrected within 30 days.
Intellectual Property
Authors retain copyright, granting a non-exclusive CC BY 4.0 license for open access publication, permitting reuse with attribution. Third-party copyrighted content requires written permission, credited in the article. Redundant publication is barred. No author fees are charged, as stated online. Post-publication archiving in repositories is permitted without embargo.
Author Responsibilities
- Originality: Works must be original, citing external sources appropriately.
- Authorship: Only contributors are listed; non-contributors are acknowledged. The corresponding author secures co-authors’ consent.
- Exclusivity: Submissions are exclusive, unpublished elsewhere, except conference proceedings with editorial agreement.
- Legality: Content must be lawful, respecting rights and confidentiality.
Paper Withdrawals
Fondazione Cueim and the editorial team prevent misconduct, retracting articles for ethics violations, replacing risky content, or removing legally violative articles, with notes published and originals archived.