Background
Asia-Pacific
Applied Economics Association (APAEA) conference proceedings publishes high quality papers selected
out of papers presented at APAEA’s conferences. Each APAEA conference is
affiliated with either SCOPUS indexed or social science citation indexed
journals. The APAEA conferences encourage presentation of papers broadly in the
fields of economics and finance that make use of advanced econometric
techniques and new datasets to test economic models and hypotheses related to
finance and economics. Common topics of importance to conference participants
are those that test economic models and hypothesis using new datasets and/or
methods, forecasting financial time-series data, financial market performance,
macroeconomic stability issues, panel data models, energy finance, economic
growth and productivity, and econometrics methods including financial
econometrics. These are the types of papers that are ultimately published in
the APAEA conference proceedings.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief:
Paresh Kumar Narayan, Alfred Deakin Professor, Deakin University
Series
Editor: Seema Narayan, Associate Professor, RMIT University
Advisory
Board: http://www.a-paea.org/governance/advisory-board
Authors and Authors Responsibilities
The APAEA conference proceedings will, at all times, uphold the
integrity of the scientific record and will, as a result, follow the Committee
on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines to deal with potential acts of
misconduct. Publications in the APAEA
conference proceedings are free for viewing and reading in that there is no
submission fee. Authors submitting their papers for consideration to the proceedings must adhere to the
following:
·
Manuscript should not include author(s)
already published manuscript either in full or part that would deem to
represent self-plagiarism.
·
There should not be any fabrication and/or
manipulation of data to support a particular conclusion and/or hypothesis.
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No data, text or theory should be copied from
others (either published or unpublished). Proper acknowledgement all works of others
must be provided.
·
The conference proceeding may use the ithenticate
(or equivalent) software to screen articles for plagiarism.
·
The corresponding author who submits papers
to the conference proceedings must
duly include full names and affiliations of all co-authors and must have
secured the approval of all co-authors before any submission to the proceedings.
·
Authors whose names appear on the manuscript
should have contributed sufficiently to warrant authorship and must share
collective responsibility and accountability for the results.
·
Authors should ensure that the order of
authors and correct team of authors is listed on the title page of the
manuscript. No changes to these can be made after the proceedings is published.
·
Requests for addition or deletion of authors
at the revision stage or before an editorial decision is reached is possible
conditional on written consent of all authors concerned. If the editorial board
requires more information to make such a decision, this will be conveyed to the
authors in writing.
·
Upon request the corresponding author should
be prepared to send all relevant data (data documentation including
construction) and codes in order to verify the validity of results. Sensitive
information in the form of confidential or proprietary data is excluded from
the said request.
·
If author(s) discover significant errors or
inaccuracies, they must promptly notify the proceedings
editor and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper. Each
author is therefore obliged to participate in the peer review process and
provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.
·
Author(s) must notify the proceedings editor of any conflicts of
interest.
Peer
Review Process
The APAEA conference
proceedings follow a single blind review procedure. All papers submitted to
the conference go through a single blind review procedure such that those
papers that are ultimately published in the Proceedings have undergone a
review process. The conference and, therefore, the proceedings rejection
rate stands at 50%. The low-quality papers, which in the view of the conference
scientific committee and the Editor of the proceedings have low chance
of advancing knowledge and contributing to the literature are desk rejected
without sending them for a formal review.
The objective of the review
process is to evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without
regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnic origin,
citizenship, of political philosophy. The reviewer(s) comments are aimed at
improving the quality of manuscripts.
The APAEA conference
proceedings ensures that reviews are conducted objectively, where personal criticism
of the author(s) is not entertained. Reviewers are encouraged to express their
views clearly (in the English language) with supporting evidence. Reviewers are
encouraged to notify the proceedings
editor of any cases of any substantial similarity or overlap between the
manuscript under consideration and any other published paper that the reviewer
is aware of.
Publication
Ethics
Editors take responsibility
for upholding the scientific rigor of conference proceedings papers. Editors will be guided by reviewers in making
well-informed decisions regarding acceptance or rejection of a manuscript
keeping in mind the manuscript’s originality, clarity, and relevance to the
scientific literature. In this editorial pursuit, the editor will ensure that
the manuscript conforms to internationally accepted ethical guidelines.
Editors will be ready to
deal with any cases of research misconduct by way of publishing corrections,
retractions, clarifications and/or apologies where appropriate. The editors will not entertain any form of
research misconduct and will also seek solutions following the COPE guidelines.
Copyright
and Access
Authors retain copyright of
their papers. Publications can be reused and redistributed as long as the original
author(s) and publisher are correctly acknowledged and at the same time the
highest publishing and ethical standards are ensured.
All papers will be published
in a proceeding named after a conference online at http://www.a-paea.org/conferenceproceeding
and will be available for free download.
Archiving
All conference proceeding
issues will be archived online at http://www.a-paea.org/conferenceproceeding
