Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The Faculty of Economic Sciences of the “Danubius” University from Galaţi, Romania, has started publishing a scientific review: Acta Universitatis Danubius. Œconomica, since 2005, in English and French language, that is distributed both nationally and internationally and its main domain of study is economics. The theme of the review is very diverse. The scientific published articles encompass economic areas, from general economic theory, management, marketing, commerce, finance, accounting, insurance, banks and stock exchanges, economic analysis, international economic relations to economic mathematics and informatics, financial and commercial law and history of economics. The review presents theoretical studies from all fields of economic activity, combining theoretical approaches with the presentation of practical cases, providing well documented answers to a wide range of issues encountered in the economic environment. The review represents the theoretical and empirical studies in all economic areas and it is written by authors that are mainly from the academic world, but also researchers, master’s students, managers, entrepreneurs, business people, etc.

AUDΠis peer review journal. All research articles in this journal undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by at least 3 anonymous referees.

The peer review process is essential in terms of quality as the articles that have undertaken the process are considered highly credible because they have undergone scrutiny by experts with particular knowledge in the topic. The primary aims of peer review are 2-fold: to decide whether or not an article should be published (based on quality and relevance to the journal), and to improve the article before publication.

 

Section Policies

Articles

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Business Administration and Business Economics

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Information and Knowledge; Communication

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Financial Institutions and Services

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Miscellaneous

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Accounting and Auditing

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Business Administration

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Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

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Mathematical and Quantative Methods

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Microeconomics

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Tourism and Sustainable Development

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Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity

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Economic History

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Financial, Public and Regional Economics

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Entrepreneurship

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Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth

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Financial Economics

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History of Economic Thought

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Operations Research; Statistical Decision Theory

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International Economics

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Special Issue on Economics and Management Studies in Malaysia

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Foreign Direct Investment - Key Factor for the Economic Development of Emerging Countries

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Economic Development Models of Emerging Countries

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Peer Review Process

The quality of the AUDΠJournal is ensured by a blind review process with three - four national and international reviewers.

Internal Peer Review Process

All submissions first go through an internal peer review process. Each submission is being verified by an Anti-Plagiarism Software, and there are accepted for further reviewing only the ones that do not exceed 20-25% of information taken from other sources. The editorial secretary makes an initial decision to send the manuscript out for peer review or to reject without external review. Articles can be rejected at this stage for a variety of reasons such as: 20-25% of information taken from other sources, similarity with a recently published article, the topic is outside of the scope of the Journal, little new information is provided, important flaws in the scientific validity, or an unprofessional presentation. This process normally takes 2 days. If the editor believes the article may be of interest to our readers, it is then sent out for external peer review.

External Peer Review Process

The editors upon consulting the editorial board identify potential reviewers based on their expertise in the field, rigor and scientific methodology. Three -four reviewers are thus identified for each submitted manuscript.

When asked to be a Referee for an article submitted to AUDΠJournal, the title, the abstract of the article and a suggested deadline will be provided.

If this task is accepted by the Referee within the platform, the article (in anonymous form) will be reviewed within the deadline provided by the editor. Normally the deadline for the review is 2 weeks.

The Editorial team wants to emphasize, that reviews should take a constructive approach to its points of criticism in order to facilitate dialogue and the development of the texts. The Editor may return to authors without review any manuscript deemed to be of inadequate quality or inappropriate.

The Referee is asked to number each element of the review in order to facilitate the dialogue between author(s), Editor and Referees about revisions etc. Likewise it is important that the arguments in the review are specified. All reviews must be provided in English. The reviewer has to decide if the paper is to be accepted for publication with or without modifications. Also, the reviewer may present some personal comments about the paper (if appropriate).

Please use the AUDΠReview Form for your reviews and comments. The reviews are sent to the Editor, through the AUDΠplatform.

The information from the reviewers and editors are gathered and the corresponding author will receive an e-mail with either the acceptance notification with the results of the paper review containing all aspects to be modified, improved, and added or decline notification with the results of the paper review; in case of accepted article the Editor sets a deadline for the return of a revised version (if a revision is called for).  All notified modifications are obligatory for the paper to be published. The Editor can decide if a second round of reviews is necessary after the revision of the article, normally with a deadline of 7 days.

The online platform facilitates the reviewing process by keeping into archive all reviews for each reviewer and each reviewed article for each author.

The reviewing process can only be performed if the author subscribes the article in the platform.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal 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.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Our policy

In case of multiple submissions of the same authors or coauthors of different articles, the journal reserves the right to choose only ONE (1) accepted paper to publish per issue.

All the articles before being submitted to the peer review process are being verified by an Anti-Plagiarism Software, TURNITIN, and there are accepted only the ones that do not exceed 20-25% of information taken from other sources.

 

Open Access Statement

Danubius Journals Platform publishes fully open access journals, which means that all articles are available on the internet to all users immediately upon publication, without requiring a subscription to the journal. The journals are online first which allows authors, within a set deadline, to revise their posted article before printing. All the articles undergo blind and editorial peer-review and quality control.

The articles that are published in the journal are distributed under CC BY license. Users can distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon our articles, even commercially, as long as they are credited for the original creation. 

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Benefits of open access for authors, include:

  • Free access for all users worldwide;
  • Authors retain copyright to their work;
  • Increased visibility and readership worldwide.

This journal 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.