Integrity, Transparency, and Accountability
GCRS promotes responsible research practice across publishing, policy analysis, conference activity, and research collaboration. Contributors are expected to follow standards of originality, accurate citation, ethical data use, and transparent authorship.
Originality and Attribution
Manuscripts, policy briefs, conference papers, and institutional proposals should be original, properly cited, and free from plagiarism, redundant publication, fabricated data, manipulated citations, ghost authorship, undisclosed artificial generation, and misleading claims of affiliation or funding.
Authorship and Contribution
Authorship should reflect substantial intellectual contribution, accountability for the work, and approval of the final version. Contributors should disclose funding sources, institutional support, competing interests, use of research assistants, and any material role played by tools, sponsors, or external consultants.
Peer Review and Editorial Conduct
Peer review should remain confidential, fair, timely, and free from improper influence. Reviewers and editors should disclose conflicts of interest when they exist and should not use unpublished material for personal advantage. Editorial decisions should be based on relevance, quality, evidence, ethics, and contribution to knowledge.
Human Subjects, Data, and Sensitive Topics
Research involving people, communities, clinical contexts, vulnerable groups, private data, or politically sensitive information should follow applicable consent, privacy, safety, and institutional review requirements. Data should be collected and represented honestly, stored responsibly, and shared only when lawful, ethical, and consistent with participant expectations.
Corrections, Concerns, and Retractions
GCRS may review concerns about plagiarism, authorship disputes, data integrity, citation manipulation, conflicts of interest, or harmful misrepresentation. Outcomes may include clarification, correction, editorial notice, withdrawal from consideration, referral to a partner journal, or retraction recommendation where appropriate.
Questions about ethics or compliance may be directed through the GCRS contact page.