EDITORIAL POLICY
BUSINESS INFORM JOURNAL
1. Mission and Objectives
Business Inform is an international peer-reviewed scientific economics journal. Its mission is to provide equal opportunities for members of the scientific community to publish their research findings and to disseminate them freely among scholars in Ukraine and worldwide, and to advance the development of economic science.
The primary objectives of the editorial office are: to ensure accurate coverage of research results in economics at the macro, meso, and micro levels; to foster the development of scientific research; to support early-career researchers; and to integrate the journal into the global scholarly information landscape.
2. Principles of Editorial Activity
The editorial policy of the journal is grounded in the following principles:
- objectivity and impartiality in the selection of articles;
- high standards for the quality of scientific research;
- double-blind peer review of all submitted manuscripts;
- collective decision-making regarding publication;
- accessibility and responsiveness in communication with authors;
- strict observance of copyright and related rights;
- adherence to the journal's publication schedule.
The editorial office conducts its activities in accordance with the principles and guidelines of the Committee
on Publication Ethics (COPE) (publicationethics.org).
3. Open Access Policy
Business Inform is a fully open-access journal. All journal content is freely available and at no cost to the user or their institution immediately upon publication.
The editorial office supports the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) (budapestopenaccessinitiative.org). Users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of articles without prior permission from the publisher or the author.
Journal content is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC
BY-SA 4.0) (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0), which permits free use, distribution, and adaptation of materials provided that appropriate credit is given and derivative works are released under the same licence.
4. Authorship and Author Contributions
Authorship of a publication requires that each person listed as an author has made a substantial contribution to the conception or design of the study, or to the collection, analysis, or interpretation of data; participated in drafting the manuscript or critically revising it; approved the final version of the manuscript for publication; and accepts responsibility for all aspects of the work.
Individuals who do not meet all of the above criteria may be acknowledged in the Acknowledgements section. Including persons who do not fulfil the authorship criteria (honorary or ghost authorship) constitutes a violation of publication ethics.
Authors are required to specify the contribution of each author to the preparation of the article. The use of the
CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) classification (credit.niso.org) is recommended.
5. Conflict of Interes
All authors are required to disclose any financial and non-financial interests that could have influenced the results or interpretation of their research. Such interests include:
- research funding;
- employment or consultancy relationships;
- shareholding or other proprietary interests;
- honoraria or other forms of remuneration;
- patents or patent applications;
- membership in organisations with an interest in the research outcomes;
- personal or professional relationships with individuals or organisations connected to the subject of the manuscript.
Members of the editorial board and peer reviewers are required to notify the editorial office of any potential conflict of interest and to recuse themselves from reviewing the relevant manuscript. A reviewer may not review manuscripts authored by individuals with whom they have close professional or personal ties.
Should a conflict of interest be identified after publication, the editorial office will take appropriate measures in accordance with COPE guidelines.
6. Peer Review
All manuscripts submitted to the editorial office undergo double-blind peer review, in which the identities of authors and reviewers remain unknown to one another. Both domestic and international specialists with scholarly publications in the field addressed by the article are engaged as reviewers.
The detailed peer review procedure is set out in the Peer Review Policy.
Indicative timelines for manuscript evaluation are as follows:
- initial screening - up to 5 business days;
- external peer review - up to 14 business days;
- notification of the author regarding the decision - up to 3 business days after receipt of reviews.
The total time from submission to decision is generally no more than three weeks.
7. Plagiarism and Academic Integrity
The editorial office categorically condemns all forms of academic misconduct, including:
- plagiarism (including self-plagiarism);
- falsification or fabrication of data;
- improper citation practices;
- duplicate or excessively fragmented publication.
All manuscripts are screened for borrowed text using specialised software. Plagiarism is defined as the verbatim or paraphrased reproduction of another author's text without appropriate attribution of the source, regardless of the extent of the borrowing. Manuscripts showing evidence of plagiarism are withdrawn from consideration at any stage; should plagiarism be detected in a published article, the article will be retracted in accordance with COPE guidelines.
8. Artificial Intelligence Policy
The use of artificial intelligence tools and generative AI is governed by a separate Policy on the Use of AI
and Generative AI Tools, available on the journal's website.
9. Corrections, Retractions, and Expressions of Concern
Corrections. If an error is identified after publication that does not affect the conclusions of the work, the editorial office will publish a correction (Erratum or Corrigendum) specifying the nature of the error and its corrected version.
Retractions. If a serious violation is identified after publication — such as data falsification, plagiarism, duplicate publication, or other substantial errors that undermine the credibility of the findings — the editorial office will retract the article in accordance with COPE guidelines. The retracted article will remain accessible on the journal's website with the designation RETRACTED.
Expressions of Concern. Where substantiated concerns are received regarding published material and an investigation is ongoing, the editorial office may publish an appropriate notice.
All decisions regarding corrections and retractions are taken in accordance with COPE principles.
10. Archiving and Digital Preservation
Business Inform ensures the long-term preservation of scholarly content through indexing in leading international repositories and bibliometric databases. Full-text versions of all articles are stored on the journal's official website and in external archives, guaranteeing permanent access to published materials.
Each article is assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), ensuring its persistent identification and citability within bibliometric systems.
11. Publication Fees
The journal charges a fee for pre-press manuscript preparation and printing, which covers the costs of editing, typesetting, abstract translation, DOI assignment, and platform maintenance. Detailed information on publication fees is provided in the Publication Conditions section. Open access to published materials for readers is free of charge.
12. Complaints and Appeals
Authors who disagree with an editorial decision have the right to submit an appeal by sending a reasoned letter to the editorial office. The editorial office considers appeals in accordance with COPE principles and provides a response within a reasonable timeframe. The editorial office does not enter into discussion with authors of rejected manuscripts in the absence of substantiated grounds for appeal.
The Editorial Policy is reviewed and updated by the editorial board as necessary. Date of last update: March
2026.
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