Ethical Principles
Copyright and License
Authors retain full copyright of their articles published in Economics and Financial Policymaking. The journal publishes all articles under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Under this license:
- Readers may copy, distribute, display, and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes,
- As long as appropriate credit is given to the original source,
- And the work is not used for commercial gain.
This policy ensures that the intellectual property rights of authors are preserved while promoting wide dissemination and academic reuse of their research.
Plagiarism Policy
Economics and Financial Policymaking strictly adheres to academic integrity and ethical publishing standards. All submitted manuscripts are checked for plagiarism using the iThenticate similarity detection software before entering the peer-review process.
Submissions with a similarity index exceeding the acceptable threshold (maximum 15% overall and less than 5% from any single source) are automatically rejected at the preliminary review stage. In cases of significant misconduct or duplicate publication, appropriate actions, including informing the authors’ affiliated institutions, will be taken.
Authors are solely responsible for the originality of their work and must ensure that all sources are properly cited using APA or the journal’s required citation format.
