Research Misconduct Policy

E-ISSN: 3084-0252 P-ISSN: 3084-0260
Research Misconduct & Malpractice Policy

Global Insight Journal is committed to maintaining the highest standards of research integrity, academic honesty, transparency, and ethical publishing. The journal expects all authors, reviewers, editors, and editorial board members to follow responsible research and publication practices throughout the submission, review, publication, and post-publication stages.

Research misconduct undermines the credibility of scholarly communication and may harm researchers, institutions, participants, readers, and the wider academic community. Therefore, Global Insight Journal takes all allegations of misconduct seriously and investigates concerns in a fair, confidential, and evidence-based manner.

Defining Infractions of Misconduct

Research misconduct includes any deliberate or negligent act that compromises the objectivity, originality, or transparency of data. The journal maps out and explicitly bars the following malpractice blocks:

• Fabrication of Data Making up experimental values, laboratory results, participant responses, references, or visual graphs that were never actually obtained or conducted.
• Falsification of Findings Manipulating active research materials, filtering out specific unwanted metrics, altering image properties, or misrepresenting raw outcomes to distort values.
• Plagiarism & Text Recycling Deploying another individual's text, methods, or figures without clear citation. This includes close paraphrasing, translation plagiarism, or uncredited self-recycling.
• Improper Authorship Practices Including guest, gift, or honorary profiles who made zero contributions, or excluding valid ghost investigators. Listing requires full consensus before log submission.
• Citation Manipulation Artificially padding the references block with unnecessary text links to manipulate metric counts, benefit editors, or push self-citation boundaries.
• Peer Review & Consent Forgery Providing fake reviewer emails, manipulating recommendations, or misrepresenting institutional review board ethical approval certificates.
Structured Investigation Pipeline

When structural data concerns are logged, the Editorial Office activates a standard investigation routine. Authors receive a fair, confidential opportunity to provide clarification, raw calculations, or IRB approval proofs. The portal may consult subject-matter experts, parent universities, ethics committees, or funding bodies to compile verified evidence tracks before making a final decision.

Spectrum of Enforcement Actions

Depending on the severity of the confirmed misconduct, the board may invoke one or more of the following administrative penalties:

• Request text clarification or corrections
• Put the submission on hold indefinitely
• Outright desk rejection of manuscript
• Notify university employer or funder
• Issue formal Expression of Concern
• Retract published volume article
• Enact temporary or permanent bans on future author submissions
Post-Publication Record Corrections

Minor accidental faults that leave research conclusions intact are modified using formal erratum notices. However, if conclusive proofs confirm structural data fabrication, plagiarized sections, or severe ethical clearance failures, the journal deploys a permanent Retraction Notice. This public cancel index transparently states the specific misconduct grounds, remaining permanently attached to the metadata profile to preserve the academic record.

Confidentiality & Unbiased Case Assessment

Global Insight Journal treats all incoming misconduct disclosures with maximum privacy care. Background details pass strictly between the investigative parties and target university bodies. The platform rejects any discriminatory, retaliatory, or non-academic influence, deciding case resolutions completely based on verified data evidence files, publication ethics rules, and the long-term validity of the scholarly literature archive.

Policy Periodicity & Integrity Framework Review

Authors must safeguard data transparency, retain original research logs post-publication, and cooperate with active integrity audits. This policy statement is updated periodically to stay fully aligned with emerging open science ethics protocols and international scholarly publishing rules. Submitting files automatically certifies full author compliance with these terms.