About the Journal
PUBLICATION ETHICS
Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
For peer-reviewed manuscripts to be published in the journal, all parties involved—authors, reviewers, the chief editor, managing editors, associate editors, editors, and board members—must continuously work together. The chief editor and managing editors are in charge of maintaining the academic record and keeping an eye on publishing ethics. The editorial office takes on the duty of checking the articles for false information or plagiarism. The editorial team's objective is to keep the journal up to the highest publishing standards, which implies not only original, high-quality articles based on research but also any necessary retractions, explanations, and apologies. We value the input that each participant provides to the works that we publish.
Authors’ Ethics and Responsibility
- Only individuals who are acknowledged as authors should be those who made a significant contribution to the paper.
- The submitted paper must be the authors' original work and must not have been previously published.
- Authors must confirm that the article they have submitted has not already been accepted for publication elsewhere.
- Only the articles that have contributed to the author's work should be cited; extraneous citations shouldn't be included.
- Writers should present their work in the most unbiased way possible.
- Discriminatory arguments based on racial, sexual, national, or religious origin are not accepted. Fake findings should not be reported.
- The authors must certify that all information is accurate and true.
- Authors must submit a corrected version of their work in accordance with the suggestions of the reviewers and must notify the Chief Editor/Editors of any problems in their published paper.
Reviewers' Responsibilities:
- Ensuring the secrecy of the entire evaluation process.
- Rapidly provide a thorough, insightful, and objective assessment of the work's scientific substance.
- Reviewers should find pertinent published works that the authors have not cited.
- Notifying the journal editor of any potential conflicts of interest, whether financial or personal, and rejecting to review a manuscript if one might be present.
- Notifying the journal editor of any ethical issues that come to light while reviewing submitted manuscripts, such as any unethical treatment of animal or human subjects or any striking similarities between the manuscripts being evaluated and previously published articles.
Chief Editor/ Editors' Responsibilities
- Editors decide which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published
- Editors are responsible for the contents and overall quality of the publication
- Editors should evaluate manuscripts exclusively on the basis of their academic merit
- Peer review assists the editors in making editorial decisions. Editors should publish only peer-reviewed, accepted articles
- Editors should have a clear picture of a research's funding sources
- An editor must not use unpublished information in the editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.
Peer-review Policy
- The papers submitted to AJERNET are subjected rigorously to double-blind peer review.
- No follow-up review is undertaken for rejected articles.
- All articles should be properly cited and the corresponding primary and secondary data sources indicated.
The Journal's Copyright Statement
- AJERNET is an open-access journal. This means that all content is freely available to all. The author retains the copyrights associated with their work within AJERNET’s policy framework.
- All articles can be accessed freely without any limitations on use, distribution, or reproduction in any medium, so long as they are expressly cited.
- The use of general descriptive names, trade names, trademarks, and so forth in this publication, even if not specifically identified, may not mean that these names are not protected by the relevant laws and regulations in their respective countries.
- The publisher believes that all information is true and accurate at the time of going to press. In this regard, the authors, editors, and publishers cannot accept any legal responsibility for any errors, typos, or omissions that may be made. There is thus no warranty for the materials contained in the articles.
The Journal's Licensing Position:
Position: Open-access
Licence: CC BY-NC
Article processing charges (APCs):
The journal charges an article processing fee of USD 70, which is only payable at the last stage before publication for accepted papers. Waivers are provided on a case-by-case basis. See payment details at the end of this web-page.
ARTICLE PROCESSING COST (APC) PAYMENT METHODS
As pointed out our APC is USD. 70 (pay the equivalent of your currency based on current exchange rates as advised by the journal)
Pay via the following accounts:
(Option 1) MPESA Paybill to Bank (Kenya):
Lipa Na MPESA:
Paybill:
Paybill Number: 8752518
Account Number: APC - Your name
Enter Amount: KES. (Amount)
(Option 2) Payment Details to Bank (KENYA):
By MPESA to Cooperative Bank
Lipa Na MPESA:
Paybill
Business Number: 400222
Account No: 1823261#
Enter Amount: 12,000/=
NB: the # in number 4 is mandatory to avoid crediting in wrong account
(Option 3) MPESA GLOBAL (Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi)
Contact the journal for guidance
(Option 4) Bank Transfer (The Rest of Africa)
BANK NAME: ECOBANK KENYA LTD
BANK CODE: 043
BRANCH NAME: ECOBANK TOWERS
BRANCH CODE: 001
Account name: African Journal of Empirical Research.
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 6580015359
DENOMINATION: Kenya Shillings (KES)
BANK SWIFT CODE: ECOCKENA
(Option 5) PAYPAL: pay to editor.ajernet@gmail.com
Terms & Conditions Policy
AJERNET will not be held responsible for the information in papers published in the journal; the author will be solely responsible for such matters (s). The opinions expressed in the articles are strictly the authors' own, and AJERNET may not entirely agree with them. Before a work is accepted for publication in AJERNET, peer reviewers assess it to gauge its efficacy, morality, and sincerity. The reviewers' conclusions should be regarded as final. The authors alone bear responsibility for the content's originality. AJERNET shall uphold the highest ethical standards for scientific publishing.
Plagiarism Check
All papers are checked for originality through the Turnitin plagiarism checker. This means that all manuscripts submitted for publication are checked for plagiarism by comparing them with billions of web pages and millions of content items.
Creative Commons
Authors publishing with AJERNET retains the copyright of their work under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY-NC). This license allows others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work, provided that the original work is properly cited.
Archiving Policy
The African Journal of Empirical Research (AJERNET) is committed to preserving and maintaining the integrity of its scholarly content to ensure long-term access for the research community and the public. This Archiving Policy Statement outlines our dedication to archiving practices and our utilization of the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) for electronic backup and content preservation.
Archiving Principles:
(1) Digital Preservation: AJERNET recognizes the importance of digital preservation as an integral part of the scholarly publishing ecosystem. We are committed to safeguarding the accessibility and authenticity of our published content in perpetuity.
(2) PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN): AJERNET partners with the PKP Preservation Network to ensure the electronic backup and preservation of our journal content. This collaboration provides a robust and distributed preservation infrastructure to protect our digital assets.
Repository Policy
The African Journal of Empirical Research maintains a robust repository, ensuring seamless content harvesting via the OAI protocol. Our repository is accessible globally, proudly featured in prestigious collections like WorldCat Digital Collections, with plans to expand to other esteemed scholarly archives. We are firmly committed to preserving and disseminating exceptional empirical research to a diverse and widespread audience. Through persistent OAI-enabled access, we guarantee that our valuable scholarly content remains easily discoverable and readily accessible to researchers and institutions worldwide. As custodians of knowledge, we are dedicated to long-term archiving and collaborative access initiatives, fostering the global dissemination of empirical research.
Crossref
CrossRef is a scholarly publishers’ association that offers a shared infrastructure to support scholarly communications. All manuscripts published in AJERNET have a Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
