Publication Ethics

Politics, Institutions and Global Affairs is committed to high standards of publication ethics and research integrity and follows principles inspired by the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Responsibilities of Authors

Authors are expected to:

  • submit original work that has not been previously published;
  • avoid simultaneous submission of the same manuscript to multiple journals;
  • properly acknowledge and cite all sources;
  • accurately report political, institutional, statistical, documentary, and empirical evidence;
  • avoid fabrication, falsification, selective manipulation, or misleading presentation of data;
  • distinguish scholarly analysis from unsupported personal or political assertions;
  • respect confidentiality and data-protection requirements;
  • disclose financial, institutional, governmental, professional, or personal conflicts of interest;
  • disclose relevant sources of research funding where applicable;
  • ensure that authorship is limited to individuals who made genuine scholarly contributions;
  • obtain ethical approval and informed consent where required for interviews, surveys, experiments, or research involving human participants.

Responsibilities of Reviewers

Reviewers are expected to:

  • provide objective, impartial, and constructive assessments;
  • maintain strict confidentiality regarding submitted manuscripts;
  • refrain from using unpublished information or data for personal, political, academic, or professional benefit;
  • disclose any potential conflict of interest;
  • report suspected plagiarism, duplicate publication, data manipulation, citation manipulation, or other ethical concerns;
  • evaluate manuscripts according to academic standards rather than political, ideological, national, institutional, or personal preferences.

Responsibilities of Editors

Editors are expected to:

  • ensure fairness and transparency throughout the editorial process;
  • make decisions based solely on scholarly merit and relevance;
  • protect the confidentiality of authors and reviewers;
  • avoid conflicts of interest;
  • ensure that political or ideological considerations do not determine editorial decisions;
  • investigate allegations of research or publication misconduct;
  • issue corrections, retractions, expressions of concern, or other appropriate notices where necessary.

Scientific misconduct, including plagiarism, fabricated or falsified data, invented sources, duplicate publication, inappropriate self-plagiarism, authorship manipulation, citation manipulation, or interference with the peer-review process, may result in manuscript rejection, restrictions on future submissions, or retraction of published articles.