Principles of Transparency

COPE is a forum for editors and publishers of peer reviewed journals to discuss all aspects of publication ethics. COPE provides advice to editors and publishers on all aspects of publication ethics and, in particular, how to handle cases of research and publication misconduct. As a peer reviewed journal Asian Business Review is practicing to be transparent as the authors in particular may be able to judge the legitimacy of this journal. COPE Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing, practices by Asian Business Review are shown below.

Peer review process

Peer review is defined as obtaining advice on individual manuscripts from reviewers expert in the field who are not part of the journal’s editorial staff. This process is clearly described in the journal’s Web site. Details here.

Governing Body

This Journal has editorial board whose members are experts in the subject areas included within the journal’s scope. The full names with affiliation of the editors is clearly shown in the Editorial Board page.

Editorial office contact info

Full names and affiliations of the editors are written in the journal’s Editorial Board Page as well as contact information for the editorial office is written in the Contact page.

Author fees

Fees and charges that are required for manuscript processing and/or publishing materials in this journal is clearly stated in the APC page for potential authors to find prior to submitting their manuscripts.

Name of journal

The Journal name 'Asian Business Review' is unique and not be one that is easily confused with another journal. This journal have ISSN (online) and ISSN (print) from ISSN International Centre, France. Abbreviated key title of this journal is: Asian bus. rev.

dealing with allegations

EIC's office shall take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, among others. Complaints policy details here.

Ownership and management

Asian Business Review is patronized and published by Asian Business Consortium (ABC). ABC is a self supporting and not for profit organization and does not receive funding from any institution/government.

Web site

ABR web site demonstrates that care has been taken to ensure high ethical and professional standards. It does not contain any misleading information, including any attempt to mimic another journal/publisher’s site.

Copyright

Copyright and licensing info is clearly described in the journal’s OJS Web site, and licensing terms is indicated on all published articles, both Web URL and PDFs.

Conflicts of interest

This journal have clear policies on handling potential conflicts of interest of editors, authors, and reviewers and the policies is clearly stated here.

Access

It is Open Access journal and full accessible for free on the Internet. We guarantee that no university library or individual reader will ever have to buy a subscription or pay any pay-per-view fees to access articles in the electronic version of the journal.

Direct marketing

Direct marketing activities, including call for paper, announcement of article publication that are conducted on behalf of the journal, is appropriate, well targeted, and unobtrusive. We dispense email to only our Google Group members and Ready Graph members.

Advertising

As the ideal media for Asian Business Review exchange, right now this journal does not accept advertising and sponsorship for its website.

Revenue sources

Business models or revenue sources (eg, author fees) is clearly stated is the Fees page. Details regarding revenue sources here.

Archiving

Journal’s plan for electronic backup and preservation of access to the journal content in the event this is no longer published is clearly indicated here.

Publishing schedule

Asian Business Review is published 3 issues a year. The periodicity at which a journal publishes is clearly indicated here.