Ethics Guidelines
Ethics Guidelines for Thailand and the World Economy (TWE)
- For Editors
1.1 Confidentiality: Editors are committed to maintaining the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts. Author and reviewer identities, manuscript content, and communication during the review process must not be disclosed to anyone except relevant parties such as corresponding authors, reviewers, potential reviewers, and the publisher.
- Peer Review: Editors are responsible for ensuring a fair and rigorous peer review process. This involves selecting reviewers with the appropriate expertise, avoiding conflicts of interest, and preventing review manipulation. TWE does not specify the number of reviewers but ensures that the peer review process is transparent and unbiased.
- Fair Evaluation: Manuscripts are evaluated solely on the basis of their intellectual content, without regard to the author’s race, gender, religious beliefs, or institutional affiliation. Editors ensure that the review process remains objective and that any decisions on manuscript acceptance or revision are based purely on merit.
- Protecting the Integrity of Published Work: Editors are responsible for detecting and addressing potential misconduct in both submitted and published work, including plagiarism, data fabrication, and citation manipulation. If any form of misconduct is identified, the appropriate action—such as corrections, retractions, or expressions of concern—will be taken.
- Transparency in Editorial Decisions: Editors must act transparently when making final decisions on manuscripts and must publish guidance for reviewers that outlines their expectations, which is updated as necessary.
- For Peer Reviewers
- Confidentiality: Reviewers are required to maintain confidentiality regarding all information related to the manuscripts they review. They must not use any information obtained through the review process for personal gain.
- Objectivity and Timely Review: Reviewers are expected to provide an unbiased and thorough assessment of the manuscript based on their expertise. Their evaluations should be constructive, helping the authors improve the quality of their work. Reviews should be completed in a timely manner.
- Conflict of Interest: Reviewers must decline to review manuscripts if there is any potential conflict of interest, such as close professional or personal relationships with the author(s) or institutions involved.
- Addressing Misconduct: If reviewers identify any possible ethical issues, such as plagiarism, data manipulation, or citation misuse, they are encouraged to notify the editors promptly so appropriate actions can be taken.
- For Author(s)
- Originality and Prior Publication: Submitted manuscripts must contain original material that has not been published, in whole or in substantial part, in any form (including as a book chapter, working paper with an ISBN/DOI, or conference proceedings) that would qualify as prior publication. Working papers made available on institutional repositories, personal websites, or preprint servers (e.g., SSRN, RePEc) are acceptable, provided the author discloses this at the time of submission.
- No Concurrent (Multiple) Submissions: Manuscripts must not be under consideration by any other journal at the time of submission to TWE, and must not be submitted to another journal until the review process at TWE is concluded. Submitting the same paper to more than one journal simultaneously ("dual submission") is a serious breach of publication ethics.
- Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest and Funding: Authors must disclose all sources of funding for the research and any real or perceived conflicts of interest (financial, personal, or professional) that could influence the work or its interpretation.
- Data and Code Availability: Authors are encouraged to make their data and replication code publicly available (through institutional or public repositories) upon publication, to support the reproducibility of results. Where confidentiality restrictions apply, authors should describe how the data can be accessed by qualified researchers.
- Plagiarism: TWE maintains a strict policy against plagiarism. Manuscripts must not contain any plagiarized material, and authors are responsible for ensuring that any reused content is properly cited and distinct from prior work. The journal uses Turnitin as the main tool for checking plagiarism. A manuscript will be considered for publication only when its Turnitin similarity index is below 30%.
- Use of AI-Generated Content: Authors must disclose the use of any generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, or similar large language models) in the preparation of the manuscript. The journal now uses Turnitin’s AI detector as the main tool for checking AI-Generated content and will notify the author(s) when the AI detection score exceeds 50%.
- Authorship Criteria: Authorship should be limited to individuals who have made a substantial intellectual contribution to the work. All listed authors must approve the final manuscript before submission. Any change to authorship after submission must be justified in writing and approved by all authors. Plaese note that the Journal is going to apply Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) Author Statement/Contribution very soon.
- Consequences of Violations: Any breach of the above principles, including duplicate publication, dual submission, plagiarism, undisclosed conflicts of interest, or authorship misconduct, may result in immediate rejection of the manuscript, retraction of a published article, notification of the authors' institutions and funding bodies, and a ban on future submissions to TWE
