EDITORIAL POLICIES
PEER REVIEW PROCESS
The Internal Auditing & Risk Management Journal places great emphasis on the quality of the papers it publishes. Following Editorial recommendation, papers are submitted to a double-blind review process before publication. As a result of the technical review process, a manuscript may be accepted without change, recommended for modification and further review, or rejected.
Commentary by reviewers will be summarized and sent by email to authors, who can choose to revise their papers in line with these remarks. Re-submitted papers should be accompanied by descriptions of the changes so that the desk-editor can easily see where changes have been made.
The Editor reserves the right to reject papers that, in the view of the editorial board, are either of insufficient quality, or are not relevant enough to the subject area.
The reviewers will evaluate the submitted papers according to the following criteria: originality, scientific significance, relevance to the journal presentation, linguistic quality. Manuscripts currently under peer review may not be submitted to another journal. The manuscripts in which plagiarism is detected will be rejected.
OPEN ACCESS POLICY
The Internal Auditing & Risk Management provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. The articles are freely available online and for download. You may copy, distribute and transmit the work with proper attribution under the following conditions:
The publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
Fees
Participation fee for Romanian: 100 lei (until 30.04.2013) and 150 lei (after 30.04.2013)
Participation fee for foreigner: 100 euro
Fee will be paid in cash at the "Athenaeum" University of Bucharest Cashier or by bank transfer to: "Athenaeum" University of Bucharest, RO30RNCB0072060112380001 account, Sector 1 BCR for lei and to “Athenaeum” University of Bucharest, RO33RNCB0072060112380044, Sector 1 BCR for euro.
publication FREQUENCY
The Editorial Board decided that starting with 2022, the Internal Auditing & Risk Management Journal will be published twice a year, respectively, in March and September.
DISCLAIMER
The views and opinions expressed in articles are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the Internal Auditing & Risk Management Journal editors. The authors assume all responsibility for the ideas expressed in the published materials.
ORIGINALITY AND PLAGIARISM POLICY
By submitting Author(s) manuscript to the journal it is understood that it is an original manuscript and is unpublished work and is not under consideration elsewhere. Plagiarism, including duplicate publication of the author's own work, in whole or in part without proper citation is not tolerated by the journal. All manuscripts submitted to the Internal Auditing & Risk Management Journal are actively screened for plagiarism using a plagiarism checker software. The manuscripts in which plagiarism is detected will be rejected. Plagiarism misrepresents ideas, words, and other creative expressions as one's own. Plagiarism represents the violation of copyright law. Plagiarism appears in various forms.
- Copying the exact content from the other source. Purposely using portions of another author's paper.
- Copying elements of another author's paper, such as figures, tables, equations or illustrations that are not common knowledge, or copying or purposely using sentences without citing the source.
- Using text downloaded from the internet.
- Copying or downloading figures, photographs, pictures or diagrams without acknowledging your sources.
- In the case of a publication being submitted that was originally published in another language, the title, date and journal of the original publication must be identified by the authors, and the copyright must be obtained. The editor may accept such a translated publication to bring it to the attention of a wider audience.
- In case author wants to use material from the other work then it is mandatory to cite the same in references. Else the author needs to change the language completely and use his/ her own language.
ETHICS POLICY
The Internal Auditing & Risk Management Journal aims to base its publication on ethical grounds and will reject any form of plagiarism, preserve the confidentiality of submitted work, protect the copyrights of published materials and publish only original content. The Internal Auditing & Risk Management Journal endeavors to follow the guidelines and best practice recommendations published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Authors Responsibilities
All authors must ensure that they have written entirely original work, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, they need to make sure that it is appropriately credited and referenced. The author should not submit the same manuscript to more than one Journal. Each person listed as an Author should have contributed significantly to the paper, and agree to be accountable for all aspects related to its accuracy or integrity. It is the responsibility of the first author to ensure the agreement of the other authors to be mentioned as co-authors of the article. The manuscripts submitted to the Internal Auditing & Risk Management Journal should follow the Author Guidelines. Plagiarism is considered unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. The author should notify the editor if a significant error in their publication is identified. Authors should fully disclose related financial interests and outside activities in publications (including articles, abstracts, manuscripts submitted for publication), presentations at professional meetings, and applications for funding. The authors retain copyright and grant the Internal Auditing & Risk Management Journal the right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
Editor Responsibilities
The editor must ensure that information or ideas regarding manuscripts submitted by the authors must be kept confidential and not used for any personal advantage. A submitted manuscript is confidential material. The Editor must avoid making decisions on manuscripts for which they might have a conflict of interest, financial or otherwise. The editor can reject a paper without reviewing it if he considers that the quality is too low for the journal standards, is out of the journal’s scope, or contains plagiarism, or misappropriation, research standards violations, undisclosed conflicts of interest. Rejected articles will not be re-reviewed.
Reviewers Responsibilities
Reviewers must maintain confidentiality about the manuscripts they review. Reviewers evaluate the submissions based on the requirements of the Internal Auditing & Risk Management Journal, predefined criteria, consistency, completeness, and accuracy of the research presented. Reviewers ensure the scientific quality of the manuscript, make an evaluation, suggest improvements and provide a recommendation to the editor about whether to accept, reject or request changes to the article. Reviewers have the right to identify relevant published work that has not been cited in the manuscript by authors. The Editor selects the reviewers and makes the final decision on the acceptance or rejection of the manuscript.
