Editorial Policy
Open Access Policy
Full-text electronic versions of all issues of the journal “Economic Growth and Social Welfare” are freely and unrestrictedly available on the official website of the journal from the moment of publication. Thus, the journal provides open access to its content. The purpose of the open access policy is to facilitate the global exchange of knowledge.
The journal’s open access policy is implemented in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). According to the Budapest Open Access Initiative, open access means free availability of scholarly literature on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers, other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.
The only restriction on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, is to ensure authors’ control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.
Open access to all journal issues is available in the Archive section of the official website.
Archiving Policy
All articles published in the journal are stored in the Archive section of the journal’s website. In the event that the journal “Economic Growth and Social Welfare” ceases publication, all published articles will remain preserved under the supervision of the Institute of Economics of the Ministry of Science and Education, and the website will continue to function as an archive.
Licensing Policy
Articles published in the journal are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
Under the terms of this license, users are permitted to download and share the works provided that appropriate credit is given to the authors. However, users are not allowed to modify the works or use them for commercial purposes.
Conflict of Interest Policy
Unpublished materials disclosed in submitted manuscripts must not be used by editors, reviewers, or any other knowledgeable persons for personal research purposes without the written consent of the authors.
Privileged information or arguments obtained through the peer review process must be kept confidential and must not be used for personal advantage or for the benefit of third parties.
Editors and members of the editorial board must recuse themselves from considering manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the manuscript.
The Editor must require all participants to disclose relevant conflicts of interest. If conflicts of interest are discovered after publication, corrections should be published. When necessary, a retraction or an expression of concern may be issued.
The accepted method for resolving disputes among editors, authors, and third parties related to the preparation, review, or already published materials is direct communication. Therefore, in the event of complaints or claims, written appeals should be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief via the journal’s email address or the postal address indicated on the journal’s website.
Plagiarism Policy
The journal accepts only original manuscripts that have not been previously published in other scientific publications and are not under consideration by other editorial offices.
Each manuscript submitted to the editorial office is initially checked using plagiarism detection software. If the level of plagiarism exceeds 15%, the manuscript is rejected.
If plagiarism is detected at a level of up to 15%, the manuscript is returned to the author for revision and elimination of plagiarism. After revision, the author has the right to resubmit the manuscript to the editorial office.
If no plagiarism is detected in the accepted manuscript, it is forwarded to reviewers for peer review. The evaluation of the manuscript’s originality by reviewers is not excluded.
