Editorial responcibilities
The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board of the journal Proceedings of the Faculty of Economics Brčko is responsible for deciding which manuscripts will be published. When making a decision, the Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board are guided by the Editorial Policy and constrained by legal requirements in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism.
The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board reserve the discretionary right to evaluate and not publish received manuscripts if they determine that they do not meet the relevant standards concerning the content and formal aspects. The Editorial Board will inform the authors whether the manuscript is accepted for publication within 4 to 6 weeks from the date of the manuscript submission.
The Editor-in-Chief must not hold any conflict of interest in relation to the manuscripts under consideration. If the Editor feels that there is likely to be a perception of a conflict of interest in relation to their handling of a submission, the selection of reviewers and all decisions on the manuscript shall be made by the Editorial Bord. If one or more members of the Editorial Board have a conflict of interest, those members are excluded from the process of selecting reviewers and deciding on the manuscript. The Editor and members of the Editorial Board are required to report the existence of a conflict of interest in a timely manner.
The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board shall evaluate manuscripts for their scientific content free from any racial, gender, sexual, religious, ethnic, or political bias.
The Editor and the Editorial Staff must not use unpublished materials disclosed in submitted manuscripts without the express written consent of the authors. The information and ideas presented in submitted manuscripts shall be kept confidential and must not be used for personal gain.
Editors and the Editorial Staff shall take all reasonable measures to ensure that the reviewers remain anonymous to the authors before, during and after the evaluation process. In order to ensure the independence of reviewers from the authors, the journal Proceedings of the Faculty of Economics Brčko, implements an external/independent review procedure that includes the following key steps:
- Selection of reviewers: the Editorial Board selects independent reviewers with appropriate expertise (academic degree of PhD, academic affiliation, recognized academic and research contribution, relevant scientific field of research) who are not directly or indirectly affiliated with the same institution as the authors, in order to avoid conflicts of interest.
- Anonymity of review: the review process is conducted in the form of double anonymous review, i.e. the reviewers do not know the identity of the authors, nor do the authors know the identity of the reviewers, which ensures the impartiality of the review.
- Selection of multiple reviewers: the Editorial Board engages two to three independent external reviewers to assess each manuscript in order to obtain multiple unbiased opinions.
- Confirmation of reviewers: the Editorial Board concludes a cooperation agreement with the selected reviewers, in which they express their willingness and qualifications to perform an impartial review of the manuscript within a certain time frame.
- Submission of manuscripts to reviewers: the Editorial Board pays special attention to ensuring the anonymity of authors by providing reviewers with a version of the manuscript without data that could determine or infer the identity of the author (name and surname, affiliation, email, ORCID, etc.).
- Content of the review: reviewers evaluate manuscripts based on scientific value, originality, methodology and relevance, without the influence of the identity or affiliation of the authors.
- Editorial Board supervision: the Editorial Board mediates communication and ensures that all reviewer comments are anonymous before being sent to the authors, thus achieving the integrity of the independent review process.