Journal Policies
Academic Forum Journal is committed to maintaining high standards of scholarly quality, research integrity, transparency and responsible academic publishing.
The journal's editorial and publishing practices are governed by the following policies:
Publication Rules provide a concise overview of the journal's publication model, submission requirements, peer review, publication frequency, formatting and referencing requirements.
Publication Policy defines the journal's open-access model, licensing and copyright, submission conditions, publication fees, funding disclosure, data availability, publication ethics, corrections and retractions, complaints and appeals, and editorial independence.
Peer Review Policy describes the journal's double-anonymous peer-review procedure, initial editorial assessment, reviewer selection, review timelines, revision procedure and final editorial decision.
Conflict of Interest Policy defines actual, potential and perceived conflicts of interest and establishes procedures for authors, reviewers and editors, including the handling of submissions involving editors or authors from the same institution.
Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement sets out the responsibilities of editors, authors and reviewers and the procedures for dealing with plagiarism, duplicate publication, fabrication, falsification, inappropriate authorship, research integrity concerns, corrections and retractions.
Open Access, Copyright and Licensing
Open Access
Academic Forum Journal is an open access, peer-reviewed academic journal. All published articles are freely available online immediately upon publication, without subscription or access charges.
Copyright
Authors retain copyright in their published work. By submitting a manuscript for publication, authors grant the University of Insurance and Finance a non-exclusive licence to publish, reproduce, distribute and make the article publicly available in electronic form.
Licensing
All articles published in [Journal name] are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence.
Under this licence, users may share and redistribute the published work for non-commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given to the author(s), the journal and the original publication. The licence also permits non-commercial adaptation of the work, subject to proper attribution.
The applicable Creative Commons licence should also be indicated on each published article and in its full-text version.
No Publication Fees
There are no submission, article processing or publication fees for authors.