Ethical Guidelines

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

The Jurisocial Journal of International Law is committed to maintaining high standards of research integrity, publication ethics, and scholarly responsibility. The journal's publication-ethics framework is informed by recognized international standards and best practices, including relevant guidance issued by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Authors are expected to conduct and report their research honestly, responsibly, and transparently. By submitting a manuscript, authors confirm that they have complied with applicable ethical and scholarly standards and accept responsibility for the accuracy and integrity of their contribution.

Author Responsibilities

Authors submitting manuscripts to the Jurisocial Journal of International Law are expected to comply with the following principles:

  • Originality and Integrity: Manuscripts must contain original scholarly work and must not knowingly include fabricated, falsified, or misleading data, information, findings, or arguments.

  • Accuracy of Research: Authors are responsible for ensuring that the facts, evidence, data, analysis, citations, and conclusions presented in their manuscripts are accurate and appropriately supported.

  • Proper Attribution and Citation: All ideas, arguments, information, data, quotations, materials, and other contributions derived from the work of others must be appropriately acknowledged and cited. Sources must be accurately identified in the text and reference list.

  • Original Submission: A manuscript submitted to the journal must not have been previously published in substantially the same form and must not be simultaneously submitted to another journal or publication outlet while it is under consideration by the Jurisocial Journal of International Law.

  • Plagiarism: The journal does not tolerate plagiarism, including substantial unattributed copying, inappropriate paraphrasing, self-plagiarism, or presentation of another person's work, ideas, words, data, or findings as one's own. Manuscripts may be screened for plagiarism or other forms of inappropriate textual overlap.

  • Copyright and Third-Party Material: Authors must ensure that their manuscripts do not infringe the copyright, intellectual property, privacy, confidentiality, or other legal rights of third parties. Where permission is required for the reproduction of copyrighted material, authors are responsible for obtaining the necessary permission.

  • Data and Evidence: Where applicable, research data, documentary sources, empirical evidence, and other supporting materials must be authentic, reliable, and reported accurately. Authors should not manipulate, fabricate, falsify, or selectively misrepresent evidence in a manner that could compromise the integrity of the research.

  • Author Accountability: Authors are collectively and individually responsible for the content of their submitted manuscript, including the accuracy of factual information, names of persons, organizations, institutions, companies, geographical locations, legal authorities, references, and other relevant details.

  • Ethical Compliance: Where research involves human participants, confidential information, sensitive data, or other activities requiring ethical oversight, authors are expected to comply with applicable ethical requirements and disclose relevant approvals or considerations where appropriate.

  • Disclosure of Relevant Interests: Authors must disclose any financial, professional, institutional, personal, or other competing interests that could reasonably be perceived as influencing the research or its publication. Further requirements are set out in the journal's Conflict of Interest and Competing Interests Policy.

Research Misconduct

The Jurisocial Journal of International Law takes allegations of research and publication misconduct seriously. Such misconduct may include plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, duplicate publication, citation manipulation, authorship misconduct, copyright infringement, peer-review manipulation, undisclosed conflicts of interest