Publication Ethics

Public Management and Public Value (PMPV) is committed to maintaining integrity, transparency, fairness, and academic responsibility throughout the scholarly publishing process. The journal applies ethical principles to authors, editors, reviewers, and the publisher and uses internationally recognized publication ethics practices as guidance for handling manuscripts and published articles. All parties involved in publication are expected to protect the credibility of the scholarly record and prevent practices that may compromise research integrity.

Duties of Editors

Fair and Independent Editorial Decisions
Editors evaluate manuscripts on the basis of academic quality, originality, relevance to the journal's focus and scope, methodological rigor, and contribution to public management and public value scholarship. Editorial decisions must remain independent of the authors' nationality, institutional affiliation, gender, personal background, or other characteristics unrelated to scholarly merit.

Confidentiality
Editors must protect information contained in submitted manuscripts and may only disclose manuscript-related information to the corresponding author, reviewers, editorial staff, or other parties directly involved in the editorial process when necessary.

Conflict of Interest
Editors must not use unpublished information obtained from submitted manuscripts for personal research or other purposes without the author's explicit permission. Editors who have a financial, professional, institutional, or personal conflict of interest with a manuscript must withdraw from its evaluation and assign the editorial process to another qualified editor.

Editorial Integrity
Editors are responsible for ensuring that manuscripts receive an appropriate and impartial evaluation. Decisions to accept, revise, or reject manuscripts must be based on scholarly considerations and supported by the editorial and peer-review process.

Handling Ethical Concerns
Editors must respond appropriately when credible concerns arise regarding plagiarism, data manipulation, duplicate publication, authorship disputes, undisclosed conflicts of interest, or other forms of research and publication misconduct. Ethical concerns may be investigated before or after publication, and the journal may issue corrections, expressions of concern, or retractions when necessary.

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions
Reviewers assist editors in assessing the academic quality, methodological rigor, originality, clarity, and contribution of submitted manuscripts. Constructive reviewer comments may also help authors improve their manuscripts.

Objectivity and Professional Conduct
Reviews must be conducted objectively and professionally. Reviewers should provide clear academic arguments and avoid personal criticism, discriminatory statements, or comments unrelated to the scholarly quality of the manuscript.

Confidentiality
Manuscripts received for review are confidential documents. Reviewers must not share, reproduce, discuss, or use information contained in a manuscript for purposes unrelated to the review process.

Conflict of Interest
Reviewers must decline an invitation when a financial, institutional, collaborative, professional, or personal relationship could reasonably affect their impartiality.

Identification of Relevant Sources and Ethical Problems
Reviewers should inform editors when they identify substantial similarities between a submitted manuscript and previously published work or become aware of possible plagiarism, redundant publication, inappropriate citation practices, or other ethical concerns.

Duties of Authors

Originality and Research Integrity
Authors must submit original scholarly work and accurately present the research process, analysis, results, and conclusions. Fabrication, falsification, manipulation of research materials or data, plagiarism, and misleading representation of findings are unacceptable.

Original Submission and Duplicate Publication
A manuscript submitted to PMPV must not be under simultaneous consideration by another journal. Authors must not publish substantially the same research in more than one journal unless legitimate secondary publication has been explicitly permitted and appropriately acknowledged.

Acknowledgement and Citation of Sources
Authors must appropriately acknowledge theories, ideas, data, methods, instruments, and other intellectual contributions obtained from previous scholarship. Citations should accurately represent the sources used and should not be added solely to manipulate citation indicators.

Authorship and Contributorship
Authorship must reflect substantial scholarly contributions to the conception, design, execution, analysis, or preparation of the manuscript. All listed authors must approve the final manuscript and agree to its submission. Individuals who contributed to the research but do not meet authorship criteria should be acknowledged appropriately.

Accuracy and Availability of Data
Authors are responsible for the accuracy and integrity of the data supporting their findings. When appropriate and ethically permissible, authors should retain research records and provide supporting information when reasonably requested during editorial evaluation or an investigation of research integrity.

Research Involving Human Participants
Research involving individuals, communities, public employees, organizational participants, or other human subjects must comply with applicable ethical standards. Where institutional ethical approval or informed consent is required, authors should provide appropriate information in the manuscript and protect confidential or sensitive participant information.

Conflict of Interest and Funding Disclosure
Authors must disclose financial, institutional, professional, or personal relationships that could reasonably influence the research or its interpretation. Sources of research funding and relevant institutional support should also be disclosed.

Fundamental Errors after Publication
Authors who discover a significant error or inaccuracy in their published work must promptly inform the journal and cooperate with the editors in correcting or, when necessary, retracting the article.

Use of Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI

Public Management and Public Value (PMPV) permits the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI tools under meaningful human oversight. Authors remain fully responsible for the originality, accuracy, integrity, citations, interpretation, and conclusions of their manuscripts, and AI tools must not be listed as authors or co-authors. Any substantive use of AI in manuscript preparation, coding, data analysis, literature processing, or other research procedures must be transparently disclosed, while routine language editing does not require declaration. AI must not be used to fabricate data, references, findings, or other scholarly content, and authors must protect confidential, personal, copyrighted, and unpublished information when using third-party AI systems. Editors and reviewers must also preserve manuscript confidentiality and ensure that editorial and peer-review decisions remain under qualified human judgment.

Duties of the Publisher

Panengen Publishing, as the publisher of Public Management and Public Value, supports editorial independence and does not interfere with editorial decisions based on commercial, institutional, or personal interests. The publisher works with the editorial team to maintain the integrity, accessibility, preservation, and reliability of the scholarly record.

The publisher supports appropriate investigation of suspected publication misconduct and the publication of corrections, clarifications, expressions of concern, or retractions when justified. Editorial and publishing processes should prioritize academic integrity and transparency over commercial considerations.

Research and Publication Misconduct

PMPV does not tolerate practices that compromise the reliability or integrity of scholarly communication. These practices include, but are not limited to, plagiarism, fabrication or falsification of data, duplicate or redundant publication, inappropriate authorship, citation manipulation, undisclosed conflicts of interest, unethical research practices, misuse of artificial intelligence, and interference with the peer-review process.

When suspected misconduct is identified, the editorial team will evaluate the available evidence and may request explanations, supporting documents, or original research materials from the authors or other relevant parties. The journal may communicate with authors' institutions or other appropriate bodies when further investigation is necessary.

Corrections and Retractions

PMPV recognizes its responsibility to maintain an accurate scholarly record after publication. When an error does not invalidate the central findings of an article, the journal may publish an appropriate correction. When findings are substantially unreliable because of serious error or misconduct, or when other significant ethical violations are established, the journal may retract the publication.

All decisions concerning corrections, expressions of concern, or retractions will prioritize transparency, fairness, and the integrity of the scholarly record.

Ethical Guidance

This publication ethics policy is informed by internationally recognized principles of responsible scholarly publishing, particularly guidance developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The journal may refer to relevant ethical guidance when addressing cases that are not explicitly covered by this policy.