Editorial Policies

Open access

Entrepreneurship Journal for Finance and Business is an open-access journal and all the published articles can be downloaded free of charge immediately after online publication.

 

Peer-review

Entrepreneurship Journal for Finance and Business operates a double-blind review process. All contributions will be initially assessed by the Editor for suitability for the journal. Papers deemed suitable are then typically sent to a minimum of two independent expert reviewers to assess the scientific quality of the paper. The Editor is responsible for the final decision regarding the acceptance or rejection of articles. The Editor’s decision is final. Editors are not involved in decisions about papers that they have written themselves or have been written by family members or colleagues or which relate to products or services in which the Editor has an interest. Any such submission is subject to all of the journal's usual procedures, with peer review handled independently of the relevant Editor and their research groups.

 

Conflict of interest

Authors should disclose, in their manuscript, any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might have influenced the presented results or their interpretation.

 

Authorship criteria

Authors should substantially contribute to works submitted to be named authors. In other cases of assistance in the drafting and any stage of work completion, the efforts can be acknowledged in the Acknowldgments section.

 

Plagiarism

Plagiarism, where someone assumes another’s ideas, words, or other creative expressions as one’s own, is a clear violation of scientific ethics. Plagiarism may also involve a violation of copyright law, punishable by legal action. Plagiarism includes the following:

  • Word for word, or almost word for word copying, or purposely paraphrasing portions of another author’s work without clearly indicating the source or marking the copied fragment (for example, using quotation marks);
  • Copying equations, figures, or tables from someone else’s paper without properly citing the source and/or without permission from the original author or the copyright holder.

Please note that all submissions are thoroughly checked for plagiarism by Turnitin. And, any manuscript that shows obvious signs of plagiarism will be automatically rejected. The acceptable similarity index is ≤20%, with no similarities of >5% with a single reference. In case when plagiarism is discovered in a paper that has already been published by the journal, it will be retracted according to retraction policy.

 

Digital archiving

The materials published by this journal are digitally archived in the Iraqi Academic Scientific Journals (IASJ) platform, which provides long-term archiving for works published by Iraqi Journals (the Iraqi Governmental Project).

 

Charges and financial resources

Entrepreneurship Journal for Finance and Business charges authors Article Processing Charges (APCs) of 125,000 IQD. However, the waiver policy is applied to international authors who are affiliated with non-Iraq institutions (i.e. their works will be published free of charges).

The journal is only financed by its Publisher (Al-Nahrain University).

 

Allegations and research misconduct

Anyone may inform the Editors and/or Editorial Staff at any time of suspected unethical behavior or any type of misconduct by giving the necessary information/evidence to start an investigation.

Investigation:

The Editor-in-Chief will consult with the editorial board on decisions regarding the initiation of an investigation. During an investigation, any evidence should be treated as strictly confidential and only made available to those strictly involved in the investigation.

The accused will always be given the chance to respond to any charges made against them. If it is judged at the end of the investigation that misconduct has occurred, then it will be classified as either minor or serious.

Minor misconduct:

Minor misconduct will be dealt directly with those involved without involving any other parties, e.g.:

  • Communicating to authors/reviewers whenever a minor issue involving misunderstanding or misapplication of academic standards has occurred.
  • A warning letter to an author or reviewer regarding minor misconduct.

Serious misconduct:

The Editor-in-Chief, in consultation with the editorial board, and, when appropriate, further consultation with a small group of experts should make any decision regarding the course of action to be taken using the evidence available. The possible outcomes are as follows (these can be used separately or jointly):

  • Publication of a formal announcement or editorial describing the misconduct.
  • Informing the author’s (or reviewer’s) Head of Department or Employer of any misconduct by means of a formal letter.
  • The formally announced retraction of publications from the journal.
  • A ban on submissions/reviews from each involved persons for 5 years.
  • Refer a case to a professional organization or legal authority for further investigation and action.

When dealing with unethical behavior, the editorial staff will rely on the guidelines and recommendations provided by the COPE.

 

Language

The text should be written in Arabic or good English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these). Authors who feel their English language manuscript may require editing to eliminate possible grammatical or spelling errors and to conform to correct scientific English may wish to use the English Language Editing service available from certified publishers.

Please note that: The title, authors’ names, abstract, and keywords should be written in both Arabic and English.

When the references are in non-English letters should be transliterated (re-written in roman scripts).