Guideline to Editors
The Journal of Global Economy (JGE) is committed to maintaining an editorial process that is fair, independent, transparent, confidential, and based on scholarly merit. Editors are responsible for ensuring that manuscripts are evaluated objectively and that editorial decisions contribute to the quality and integrity of the journal.
1. Editorial Independence
Editors should make editorial decisions independently and on the basis of scholarly considerations.
Decisions concerning the review, revision, acceptance, or rejection of manuscripts should be based on factors such as originality, relevance to the journal's scope, methodological soundness, academic contribution, and quality of presentation.
Editors should not allow commercial, personal, institutional, political, or other non-academic considerations to influence editorial decisions.
2. Fair and Impartial Treatment
Editors should evaluate manuscripts fairly without discrimination based on an author's nationality, institutional affiliation, gender, ethnicity, religion, political views, seniority, or other personal characteristics.
The scholarly quality and relevance of the manuscript should be the primary considerations.
3. Confidentiality
Editors must maintain the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts and information obtained during the editorial and peer-review process.
Manuscripts should not be disclosed to anyone other than individuals directly involved in the editorial process, unless disclosure is necessary for a legitimate editorial or ethical purpose.
Editors must not use unpublished information from submitted manuscripts for their own research or professional advantage.
4. Selection of Reviewers
Editors should select reviewers who have appropriate expertise and are reasonably able to provide an independent and constructive assessment.
Where possible, editors should avoid selecting reviewers with identifiable conflicts of interest.
Editors should consider the expertise, availability, and previous performance of reviewers when making reviewer assignments.
5. Conflicts of Interest
Editors should disclose and appropriately manage any actual, potential, or perceived conflict of interest.
An editor should not normally handle a manuscript where they have a close personal, professional, institutional, financial, or other relationship that could reasonably compromise independent judgment.
Where appropriate, the manuscript should be assigned to another qualified editor.
6. Peer-Review Process
Editors are responsible for ensuring that manuscripts undergo an appropriate peer-review process consistent with the journal's Peer Review Policy.
Editors should consider reviewer reports carefully but should not automatically accept or reject a manuscript solely on the basis of one review.
Where reviewer recommendations substantially differ, the editor may seek an additional independent assessment or use their own scholarly judgment.
7. Editorial Decisions
Editorial decisions should be based on the overall scholarly assessment of the manuscript.
Editors should provide authors with appropriate information about the reasons for major editorial decisions, particularly where a manuscript is rejected following peer review.
Editors should not reject manuscripts solely because their findings are unexpected, negative, or contrary to prevailing views, provided that the research is methodologically sound and makes a legitimate scholarly contribution.
8. Timeliness
Editors should make reasonable efforts to ensure that manuscripts are processed and reviewed without unnecessary delay.
Reviewers should be invited and followed up appropriately, and authors should receive editorial decisions within a reasonable period.
Where delays occur, appropriate communication should be maintained with authors and reviewers.
9. Research and Publication Misconduct
Editors should take reasonable steps to identify and address suspected plagiarism, duplicate publication, fabrication, falsification, manipulated citations, peer-review manipulation, undisclosed conflicts of interest, and other forms of academic misconduct.
Concerns should be assessed fairly and, where appropriate, investigated in consultation with the authors, reviewers, publisher, or relevant institutions.
Editors should follow the journal's Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement and relevant policies concerning corrections, retractions, and withdrawals.
10. Corrections and Retractions
Editors have a responsibility to protect the integrity of the published scholarly record.
When a significant error or integrity concern is identified in a published article, editors should assess the matter and take appropriate action in accordance with the journal's Retraction, Correction and Withdrawal Policy.
Corrections or retractions should be made transparently and should not be delayed unnecessarily when the integrity of the scholarly record is at stake.
11. Appeals and Complaints
Editors should consider legitimate appeals and complaints fairly and objectively.
An appeal should normally identify a specific procedural, factual, or substantive reason why an editorial decision should be reconsidered.
Complaints concerning editorial conduct, peer review, authorship, or publication ethics should be handled in accordance with the relevant journal policies.
12. Citation and Academic Influence
Editors should not require authors to cite articles from JGE, the editor's own publications, or the publications of particular individuals merely to increase citation counts or journal metrics.
Any recommendation for additional citations should be based on genuine scholarly relevance to the manuscript.
13. Use of Generative AI
Editors should protect the confidentiality of manuscripts and should not upload unpublished manuscripts, confidential reviewer reports, personal information, or other confidential material to generative AI tools or external systems where confidentiality cannot be assured.
Where AI-assisted tools are used in editorial work, editors remain responsible for maintaining confidentiality, exercising appropriate judgment, and complying with the journal's Policy on the Use of Generative AI (GenAI).
AI tools do not replace the responsibility of editors to make independent and accountable editorial decisions.
14. Editorial Responsibility and Accountability
Editors should act in the best interests of the journal, its authors, reviewers, readers, and the wider scholarly community.
