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 Privacy Statement

Information supplied to the journal for the purposes of manuscript submission and peer review will not be sold or provided to any third parties for marketing or other purposes. However, it may be used for the purposes of communicating about the journal.

Ethic Policy 

The Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies (JECS) is committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics and integrity. The journal follows internationally recognized ethical publishing standards and adheres to the principles and guidelines established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME). Authors, reviewers, editors, and publishers are expected to comply with these ethical standards to ensure transparency, accountability, and integrity in scholarly publishing.

1. Misconduct & Plagiarism

The editors and the publisher have the right to alert potential misconduct to appropriate agents (for example, funders, employers or the editorial board). Authors and peer-reviewers have the right to respond to allegations and for investigations to be carried out with diligence. An allegation should be substantiated and proved right or wrong by the editors.

• When errors affect the interpretation of information, the journal has the right to publish 'corrections' (errata), whatever the cause of the error. Likewise, JECS has the right to publish 'retractions' if work is proven to be fraudulent or 'expressions of concern' when there is a suspicion of misconduct. Depending on the size of the misconduct, the author's institution may be informed, and the author can be refused for a time to publish in the journal.
• Plagiarism or duplication of another text is forbidden even if it is an author's previous publication. Plagiarism includes misappropriation or theft of intellectual property by copying another's work. Authors must thereby avoid duplication of another's research and must always make explicit what the source of their information is. The way to refer to sources is set out by the submission guidelines of the journal. Editors have the right to refuse publishing articles that are suspected of duplicating another's work.
• Duplication is not applicable to the copying of information from a university dissertation or thesis, posters or abstracts or results presented at meetings, provided that it is the author's own work. Results in databases and clinical trials registries can also be duplicated.
• Authors that translate and publish material that has been published elsewhere should ensure that they have appropriate permission. They should always identify the source of the original material.
• AJQR reserves the right to reject any manuscript found to contain plagiarized content or that misuses third-party copyrighted material. JECS uses iThenticate to detect plagiarism.

2. Open Access Policy/ License & Copyright

JECS promotes the free exchange of knowledge by providing open access to all its published content. This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

Copyright on any article is retained by the author(s). Regarding copyright usage, please see below.

Authors grant CECS journals a license to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.

Authors give any third party the right to use the article freely as long as its original authors and citation details are identified.

The article and any associated published material are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0):

Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0)

Under the principles of the ‘Creative Commons’, anyone is free:

• to Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
• to Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material
  for any purpose, even commercially.

Under the following conditions:

• Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

Click https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/  to find out more about it.

a) Copyright Usage

Any usage rights are regulated through the Creative Commons License. As CECS journals is using the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), anyone (the author, his/her institution/company, the publisher, as well as the public) is free to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work as long as the original author is credited (see above). Therefore, specific usage rights cannot be reserved by the author or his/her institution/company, and the publisher cannot include a statement "all rights reserved" in any published paper.

This license allows authors to use all articles, data sets, graphics and appendices in data mining applications, search engines, websites, blogs and other platforms by providing appropriate reference.

b) Copyright Policy:

Copyright on any article is retained by the author(s). Regarding copyright usage, please see below.

Authors give any third party the right to use the article freely as long as its original authors and citation details are identified.

The article and any associated published material are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

3. Publication Fees

There are no submission or publication fees for manuscripts submitted to or published in the Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies.

4. Archiving and Self-Archiving

Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies (JECS) utilizes the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system to ensure the long-term digital preservation of published content. This system enables participating libraries to create permanent archival copies of the journal for preservation and restoration purposes.

JECS supports the broad dissemination of research and allows authors to self-archive their work. Authors may deposit the final published version (Version of Record) of their articles in institutional repositories, subject repositories, personal websites, or other scholarly platforms without any embargo period. When depositing their work, authors should include the full citation of the published article and provide a link to the article’s DOI on the JECS website.

All articles published in JECS are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction, and adaptation of the work in any medium, including use in data mining applications, search engines, websites, and other platforms, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and the source.

5. Competing Interests

To maintain transparency and integrity, authors must disclose any competing interests—personal, financial, or professional—that could influence the objectivity of their research. All disclosures must be made during submission, and the editorial team will review them to ensure they do not compromise the work’s integrity.

6. Addressing Ethical Misconduct

JECS takes allegations of ethical misconduct seriously, whether it involves authors, reviewers, or editors. When misconduct is suspected, JECS follows a thorough and fair process, including:

• Initial Investigation: The editor will investigate the misconduct claim by gathering evidence and contacting those involved.
• Resolution and Sanctions: Depending on the findings, JECS may take actions such as:
  • Issuing corrections or retractions.
  • Notifying the authors’ institution.
  • Imposing bans on future submissions.
  • Reporting to relevant organizations like COPE.

7. Confidentiality

It is important that authors and peer-reviewers handle all information carefully and that informants and research subjects are protected in respect of confidentiality.

Across the scholarly disciplines, there are variations in practice and standards around privacy and confidentiality. In educational sciences, written consent of subjects or their parents/caretakers is important. This must be obtained where relevant, such as in questionnaire, observation or intervention studies, and must be available for the journal to see if requested. Authors should strive to treat the privacy of research subjects with as much care as possible and anonymize the data unless otherwise requested by the participant.

The journal's policy requires that authors who discuss a clinical trial, demonstrate that the clinical trial is registered in a publicly accessible database. Authors should include the name of the trial register and their clinical trial registration number at the end of their abstract. If you wish the editor[s] to consider an unregistered trial, please explain briefly why the trial has not been registered.

8. Funding

Readers should know who funded the research project or the publication of a document. This can be public or private funding through a charity or government department, university or commercial company. And so:

• Funders of a paper, in the form of persons, organizations, research institutions, companies or any other form should be mentioned.
• The role of the research funders or any other research contributors in the design or preparation of the article should be mentioned, if they are not mentioned in the list of authors. They can, for example, be mentioned in acknowledgment.
• If a funder wants to publish a supplement or separate section in an alternative publication within 2 years of publication in JECS, they should ask for the permission of Center for Ethnic and Cultural Studies. Applications will be handled on a case by case basis.

9. Ethical Research Involving Vulnerable Populations

Research involving vulnerable populations requires special ethical consideration to ensure the protection of participants’ rights, dignity, and well-being. In the context of ethnic and cultural studies, vulnerable populations may include children, elderly individuals, refugees, migrants, indigenous peoples, displaced communities, ethnic or linguistic minorities, and individuals in socially or politically marginalized groups.

Authors conducting research with Indigenous peoples, ethnic minorities, migrant populations, or culturally marginalized communities must ensure that their research practices are consistent with internationally recognized ethical standards and culturally appropriate research protocols.

Researchers must:

• Obtain informed consent from all participants or, where appropriate, from legal guardians prior to participation in the study.
• Ensure that participation is voluntary and that participants have the right to withdraw from the study at any time without penalty or negative consequences.
• Take appropriate measures to minimize the risk of emotional, psychological, social, or physical harm to participants.
• Protect participants’ privacy, dignity, and cultural sensitivities, particularly when working with communities that may face discrimination, social stigma, or political vulnerability.
• Ensure that confidentiality and anonymity are maintained by anonymizing data and safeguarding participants’ identities and personal information.
• Respect cultural norms, traditions, and community protocols when conducting research with indigenous or culturally distinct groups.
• Ensure that the research does not exploit vulnerable communities and that findings are reported accurately and respectfully.
• Authors must also confirm that the study received approval from an Institutional Review Board (IRB) or equivalent ethics committee when required and that the manuscript includes a statement confirming compliance with ethical research standards.
• The Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies encourages researchers to adopt community-sensitive and culturally responsible research practices, particularly when working with marginalized or underrepresented populations.

10. Disclaimer

The views, opinions, and content expressed in articles published by JECS are solely the responsibility of the individual authors. JECS does not assume responsibility for the accuracy or originality of the content. Authors are responsible for proofreading and ensuring the validity of their research data.