Global Journal of Digital Business, Marketing, and Social Development is committed to maintaining academic integrity, research honesty, and ethical publication practices throughout the publishing process. This publication ethics policy is based on general principles of COPE and good practices in scholarly journal management. COPE provides guidance to editors and journals on addressing publication ethics issues, including misconduct, corrections, and retractions.

Authors must ensure that submitted manuscripts are original, unpublished, and not under consideration by another journal. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of data, honesty of analysis, clarity of methodology, and validity of all information presented in the manuscript.

Authors must properly cite all sources, avoid plagiarism, and refrain from data fabrication, falsification, and result manipulation. All individuals who have made significant contributions to the research and manuscript preparation must be listed as authors.

Editors are responsible for evaluating manuscripts objectively on the basis of academic quality, originality, relevance, methodological soundness, and contribution. Editors must not make decisions based on the authors’ institutional affiliation, religion, gender, political views, personal relationships, or commercial interests.

Editors must maintain manuscript confidentiality, avoid conflicts of interest, and ensure that the peer review process is conducted fairly and professionally.

Reviewers must provide objective, constructive, and timely evaluations. Reviewers must maintain confidentiality and must not use unpublished manuscript content for personal or third-party benefit.

Reviewers must decline invitations to review if they lack relevant expertise or have a conflict of interest with the author or the manuscript.

The publisher and journal management are responsible for supporting editorial independence, maintaining the sustainability of publication, ensuring transparency of journal information, and avoiding interference in editorial decisions based on academic assessment.

The journal does not tolerate plagiarism, self-plagiarism, duplicate publication, data fabrication, data falsification, citation manipulation, or other forms of academic misconduct. Manuscripts proven to violate publication ethics may be rejected, withdrawn, or retracted.

Authors, editors, reviewers, and journal managers must disclose any potential conflict of interest. Conflicts of interest may include financial, academic, professional, personal, institutional, or other relationships that may influence objectivity in the publication process.

If serious errors or ethical violations are found after publication, the journal may issue a correction, clarification, expression of concern, or retraction, depending on the severity of the case.