Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

Sun Yat-sen Management Review does not accept and publish any article with publication malpractice including fakes, plagiarism, repetition, etc. SYSMR also abides by the “Publishing Ethics” of Elsevier B. V. ( https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/publishing-ethics ). The “Publishing Ethics” is excerpted as follows:

Duties of Editors

• Publication decision

• Fair play

• Confidentiality

• Disclosure and Conflicts of interest

• Involvement and cooperation in investigations

Duties of Reviewers

• Contribution to Editorial Decision

• Promptness

• Confidentiality

• Standards of Objectivity

• Acknowledgement of Source

• Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

Duties of Authors

• Reporting standards

• Data Access and Retention

• Originality and Plagiarism

• Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication

• Acknowledgement of Sources

• Authorship of the Paper

• Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects

• Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

• Fundamental errors in published works

  Policies on the Use of Generative AI in Scientific Publishing for the Sun Yat-Sen Management Review

  Guidelines for Authors

  • Authorship:Authors should not list AI and AI-assisted technologies as an author or co-author, nor cite AI as an author.

  • Disclosure:If an author has used [Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) tools] to develop any portion of a manuscript, its use must be described, transparently and in detail, in the Methods or Acknowledgements section. The author is fully responsible for the accuracy of any information provided by the tool and for correctly referencing any supporting work on which that information depends. Tools that are used to improve spelling, grammar, and general editing are not included.
  • Our journal do not permit the use of Generative AI or AI-assisted tools to create or alter images in submitted manuscripts. The only exception is if the use of AI or AI-assisted tools is part of the research design or research methods (such as in AI-assisted imaging approaches to generate or interpret the underlying research data, for example in the field of biomedical imaging). If this is done, such use must be described in a reproducible manner in the methods section. This should include an explanation of how the AI or AI-assisted tools were used in the image creation or alteration process, and the name of the model or tool, version and extension numbers, and manufacturer. The use of generative AI or AI-assisted tools in the production of artwork such as for graphical abstracts is not permitted. The use of generative AI in the production of cover art may in some cases be allowed, if the author obtains prior permission from the journal editor and publisher, can demonstrate that all necessary rights have been cleared for the use of the relevant material, and ensures that there is correct content attribution.

  Guidelines for reviewers/ editors

  1. A submitted manuscript must be treated as a confidential document. Editors should not upload a submitted manuscript or any part of it into a generative AI tool as this may violate the authors’ confidentiality and proprietary rights and, where the paper contains personally identifiable information, may breach data privacy rights.When a researcher is invited to review another researcher’s paper, the manuscript must be treated as a confidential document. Reviewers should not upload a submitted manuscript or any part of it into a generative AI tool as this may violate the authors’ confidentiality and proprietary rights and, where the paper contains personally identifiable information, may breach data privacy rights.

  2. Generative AI or AI-assisted technologies should not be used by reviewers to assist in the scientific review of a paper as the critical thinking and original assessment needed for peer review is outside of the scope of this technology and there is a risk that the technology will generate incorrect, incomplete or biased conclusions about the manuscript