Dominican Journal of Management and Social Sciences is committed to strict guidelines, standards and international best practice governing quality publication and the roles of all key stakeholders such as authors, editors and reviewers. This is in total compliance to the specifications established by the Committee on Publication Ethics.
Responsibilities of Authors
*It is the responsibility of the author to ensure originality of the manuscripts and ensure that such has never been published or considered for publication.
*Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the submitted manuscript.
*Authors should immediately notify the editors for corrections when they identify significant errors or inadequacy in their submitted manuscripts.
* Authors should ensure that their research conforms to national, local and institutional laws and requirements.
Responsibilities of Editor-in- Chief
- Editors have ultimate responsibility for deciding if a manuscript submitted to DUJMSS should be published. Chief Editors’ decisions to accept or reject a manuscript should be based on the peer-review result and editorial boards’ reviews and articles’ importance.
- Editors must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers and the publisher.
- Editors will not use unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript for their own research without written consent of the author(s).
- Editors should evaluate each manuscript solely on their merit based on its intellectual contents without any discrimination
Responsibilities of Reviewers
- Reviewers should conduct the review objectively and express their views clearly with supporting arguments without attacking personality.
- Reviewers must ensure that the authors have acknowledged all the sources of data used in the research be accompanied by the relevant citation
- Reviewers must note that all information regarding submitted manuscripts are confidential.
- Reviewers should strive to review the manuscripts within the stipulated time.
Plagiarism Policy
DUJMSS’s Codes of Ethics on Plagiarism respect intellectual property and originality of all research papers in which one misrepresents ideas, words, computer codes or other creative expression as one’s own, is a clear violation of such ethical principles. Plagiarism manifests itself in a variety of forms, including:
- Verbatim copying or paraphrasing portions of another author’s paper for publication is not acceptable
- Copying elements of another author’s paper, such as equations or illustrations that are not common knowledge, or copying or purposely paraphrasing sentences without citing the source is unacceptable
- Copying of portions of another author’s paper with citing but not clearly differentiating what text has been copied is a violation of intellectual property right
- Plagiarism in any form, at any level, is unacceptable and is considered a serious breach of professional conduct, with potentially severe ethical and legal consequences.
- All authors are deemed to be individually and collectively responsible for the content of papers published by
Dominican Journal of Management and Social Sciences is set up as a publication outlet for quality peer-reviewed articles that will be globally acceptable and accessible. The journal will be published twice a year in the months of June and December every year. Scholars in Management and Social Sciences as well as related fields all over the world are invited to send in their contributions. The journal includes a wide range of fields in its discipline to create a platform for the authors to make their contributions towards the journal. Some of these fields include but not limited to the following: Management, Entrepreneurial Development, Human Resource Management, Marketing, Supply & Logistics Management, Operations Management, International Economics, Financial Economics, International Business, Industrial & Management Optimization, Innovation Policy & the Economy, Total Quality Management (TQM), Value based Management, Mass & Media Communication, Financial Management, Auditing & Investigation, Taxation, Insurance, Banking & Finance and Accounting.
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