The GRWS International Journal of Applied Commerce and Strategic Management is committed to maintaining integrity, transparency, fairness, accountability, confidentiality, and academic independence throughout the publication process.
This statement applies to authors, editors, editorial-board members, reviewers, publishers, and institutional representatives. The journal's ethical framework aligns with recognised principles of responsible scholarly publishing, including guidance associated with COPE.
All parties involved in the publication process must act with honesty, accuracy, objectivity, confidentiality, fairness, accountability, professional respect, and academic independence.
Decisions are completely free from commercial, financial, institutional, political, or personal pressure. Standard APC is ₹0.
Ensures fair evaluations, recuses from conflicted papers, protects confidentiality, and manages peer-review integrity unbiasedly.
Papers by editors or board members are handled by independent editors without the author participating in reviewer selection or decisions.
Zero tolerance for direct/mosaic plagiarism, text recycling, unacknowledged translation, or copying. Similarity tools screen all submissions.
Simultaneous submissions, republishing identical data, or salami slicing are prohibited. Preprints and theses must be fully declared.
Prohibits inventing or altering research data, selective statistical reporting, or image manipulation. Raw data files may be requested for audit.
Requires ethics committee approvals, reference numbers, participant consent, and data protection for studies involving human data or records.
Limited to substantial intellectual contributors. Strictly bans guest, gift, ghost, coercive, or purchased authorship. Author order changes require full written consensus.
Requires complete funding and conflict declarations. Bans citation cartels, manipulative self-citations, fabricated references, or fake DOIs.
AI tools cannot be listed as authors. Material AI usage in drafting, coding, or data analysis must be disclosed. AI generation of false data/references is banned.
The journal strictly prohibits manuscripts obtained via commercial paper mills, purchased research/data, paid peer-review manipulation, or third-party submission agencies. Confirmed involvement results in immediate rejection/retraction, submission bans, and institutional notification.
Reviewers must keep manuscripts strictly confidential, decline conflicted invitations, and never upload files into public generative AI platforms.
Double-blind peer review protects against review rings, fake reviewer identities, coerced citations, or impersonation fraud.
Reviewers offer advisory recommendations (Accept, Revisions, Reject). Final authority rests with the Editor-in-Chief.
Credible reports trigger evidence-based assessments, author inquiries, and institutional/ethics board communication. Good-faith whistleblowers are protected confidentially.
Sanctions range from formal warnings, desk rejections, expressions of concern, and article retractions to institutional alerts and future submission bans.
Errors affecting interpretation prompt linked Corrections. Proven misconduct or invalid data leads to permanent Retraction notices.
Published under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0. Authors retain copyright while granting non-exclusive publishing rights.
Permanent preservation via publisher backups and digital preservation networks in accordance with copyright and privacy laws.
The GRWS International Journal of Applied Commerce and Strategic Management is committed to publishing research that is original, reliable, ethically conducted, transparently reported, and responsibly reviewed. All participants in the publication process share responsibility for maintaining the integrity and credibility of scholarly communication.