ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies

Focus and Scope

DOI: 10.21409/essachess.1775-352x

ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies is the only French journal in communication sciences to promote in French and English language original contributions in the field of social, cultural, symbolic or economic communication. All contributions in the humanities and social sciences fields related to communication inquiries are welcomed. The journal publishes original articles whose diversity of reading levels and disciplinary boundaries, help through international innovative contributions to a better understanding of a regional issues.

ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies stands out by five essential features that together confer its uniqueness:

1.  ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies is the only French journal that meets the need to promote and make available the results of international research in the areas of the communication sciences to French researchers and among themselves, taking into account that the results of the international research in the area of the communication sciences are virtually absent in the French academic journals on communication.

2. ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies is the only French journal that publishes the best research interdisciplinary papers on social, cultural, symbolic, and economic communication.

3. ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies is the only French journal that integrates and covers all the subfields on the communication sciences.

4. ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies is the only French journal that builds bridges through the thematic fields covered between the French network of research in the communication sciences, and the networks of international research both disciplinary and interdisciplinary in the Americas, Canada, Asia, Africa, as well as Eastern, Central, and Western Europe.

5. ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies achieves an exceptional quality for the published articles through a double-blind peer review process of evaluation involving systematically for each article French and foreign experts at the same time.

Essachess Academic Association is the journal's owner.

Organizations publishing the journal: University Paul Valéry of Montpellier 3, ESSACHESS and IARSIC for the electronic version.

European Institute for the printed version.

The articles peer reviewed and published in Essachess are not previously subjected to any fee.

This journal benefits from the patronage of the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF).

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ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies est la seule revue française dans le domaine des Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication à promouvoir en français et en anglais des Etudes Scientifiques Spécialisées Appliquées aux Communications Humaines, Economiques, Sociales et Symboliques. La revue publie des articles scientifiques originaux dont la diversité des niveaux de lecture et des découpages disciplinaires, contribuent par des apports internationaux innovants à une meilleure compréhension des problématiques régionales.

Les articles évalués et publiés dans Essachess ne sont préalablement soumis à aucun frais.

Essachess bénéficie du parrainage de l'Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF).

Section Policies

Introduction

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Dossier

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Varia

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Research notes/Book reviews

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

Papers are selected by a committee of national and international researchers (from the referees committee or another international experts, both external to the editorial team members) with reputation in their research domains. In the peer-review process, two referees independently evaluate the scientific quality of the submitted manuscripts. ESSACHESS uses a blind peer-review system. When the reviewers have completed their work, the editors examine their comments and decide whether the paper is ready to be published, needs another round of revisions, or should be rejected. Where contributions are judged as acceptable for publication on the basis of content, the Editorial Board reserves the right to modify the typescripts to eliminate ambiguity and repetition and improve communication between author and reader.

Typically the manuscript will be reviewed within 3-8 months. After acceptance, it currently takes 3-6 months to compile the article into an online volume and issue. The print copy follows 5-8 weeks later.

Reviewer reports
Reviewers are asked to evaluate a manuscript for:

• originality and significance of contribution
• international relevance
• coverage of appropriate existing literature
• adequacy of methodology, analysis and interpretation
• clear, concise and jargon-free writing style
• organisation

Due to the high volume of manuscripts being submitted we do not send editorial comments for unpublished texts.

Prospective authors should be aware that ESSACHESS normally publishes only around 15% of the texts received.

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Les articles en français ou en anglais soumis à la revue ESSACHESS pour publication seront examinés par le comité de rédaction afin d'évaluer s’ils correspondent au projet éditorial de la revue (prescreening). Dans l'affirmative, ils seront expertisés sous anonymat par au moins deux experts, chercheurs/enseignants-chercheurs nationaux et internationaux, extérieurs au comité de rédaction. Dans le processus d'examen par les pairs, au moins deux experts évaluent indépendamment la qualité scientifique des manuscrits soumis. ESSACHESS utilise un système d'évaluation en double aveugle par les pairs. Lorsque les experts-évaluateurs ont terminé leur travail, les rédacteurs examinent leurs avis et commentaires et décident si l'article est prêt à être publié, nécessite une nouvelle série de révisions ou s'il doit être rejeté. Lorsque les contributions sont jugées acceptables pour publication sur la base du contenu, le comité de rédaction demande à l’auteur/aux auteurs de mettre son/leur texte en conformité avec la charte éditoriale de la revue ESSACHESS. Le comité de rédaction se réserve le droit de modifier les textes dactylographiés pour éliminer l'ambiguïté et la répétition et améliorer la communication entre l'auteur et le lecteur.

Un manuscrit est évalué dans 3-8 mois. Après l'acceptation, la publication suivra normalement dans les 3-5 mois à venir.

Critères d'évaluation: originalité, formulation du problème, maîtrise des concepts, connaissance de la littérature et bibliographie, logique et cohérence globale, style et lisibilité.

Les numéros thématiques de la revue Essachess suivent exactement la même procédure d'expertise des articles que celle dédiée aux numéros ordinaires. Dans l'appel à communications sont mentionnés le calendrier de soumission pour les résumés, les délais d'évaluation des résumés, la date de soumission de l'article complet une fois le résumé accepté, la deadline concernant la communication des résultats des expertises des articles complets ainsi que celle concernant l'acceptation de l'article révisé (le cas échéant). 

Lorsqu'un projet de numéro thématique est soumis à la revue, la rédaction, de concert avec des membres du comité éditoriale étendu, spécialistes de la question étudient la proposition. Si elle est en adéquation avec la charte de la revue, sa portée et ses objectifs et répondent aux critères scientifiques d'originalité, d'innovation, de portée internationale, de pertinence, de maîtrise et de connaissance de l'actualité scientifique, de logique et cohérence globale, de style et lisibilité, elle est sélectionnée. Les articles soumis pour les numéros thématiques de la revue Essachess suivent exactement la même procédure d'expertise que les articles soumis hors numéros thématiques.

En raison du nombre élevé de manuscrits soumis, ESSACHESS ne transmet pas les commentaires pour les textes qui ne sont pas retenus en vue de publication.

La revue ESSACHESS publie seulement environ 15% des textes reçus.

Publication Frequency

Beginning in 2010, the journal appears on the following dates:

(January-July) July 23^th

(July-December) December 23^th

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A partir de 2010, la revue est publiée aux mois de juillet (le 23 juillet: Janvier-Juillet-) et de décembre (le 23 décembre:Juillet-Décembre).

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...

Editorial Team / Rédaction

Fondateur et directeur de la publication / Founder and editor

Stefan BRATOSIN

Université Paul Valéry de Montpellier, France

Directrice de la rédaction et rédactrice en chef / Executive-editor in chief

Mihaela-Alexandra TUDOR

Université Paul Valéry Montpellier, France

Secrétaire de la rédaction / Assistant 

Marie JAUFFRET

CTS-IARSIC/CORHIS EA 7400, Université Paul Valéry de Montpellier, France/contact@essachess.com, essachess@gmail.com

Comité de rédaction / Members of editorial team

Stefan BRATOSIN (CTS-IARSIC/CORHIS EA 7400, Université Paul Valéry de Montpellier, France/contact@essachess.com), Denise Elaine BURRILL (Fitchburg State University, USA/denise_simion@post.harvard.edu), Catherine GHOSN (CTS-IARSIC/CORHIS EA 7400, Université de Toulouse, France/catherine.ghosn@gmail.com), Mihaela-Alexandra TUDOR (CTS-IARSIC/CORHIS EA 7400, Université Paul Valéry de Montpellier, France/essachess@gmail.com)

Editorial Advisory Board / Comité scientifique

Ana ADI, Quadriga University of Applied Sciences, GERMANY

ana.adi@quadriga.eu 

Delia BALABAN, Université Babes-Bolyai Cluj, Roumanie

delia.balaban@ubbcluj.ro 

Lee BECKER, James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research, University of Georgia, USA

lee.becker@uga.edu

Adrian BEJAN, Duke University, USA

abejan@duke.edu

Françoise BERNARD, Université Aix-Marseille, France

francoise.bernard@univ-amu.fr 

Robert BOURE, Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse, France

robert.boure@iut-tlse3.fr 

Constantin BRATIANU, Académie d’Etudes Economiques de Bucarest, Roumanie

constantin.bratianu@gmail.com

Olivier CHANTRAINE, Université Charles de Gaulle Lille 3, France

olivier.chantraine@univ-lille3.fr 

Mihai COMAN, Université de Bucarest, Roumanie

mcoman@fjsc.ro 

Gheorghe CLITAN, Université de l'Ouest de Timisoara, Roumanie

gheorghe.clitan@e-uvt.ro

Eric DACHEUX, Université  Clermont Auvergne, France

dacheux.perso@orange.fr 

Lise DEMAILLY, CLERSE UMR 8019, Université Lille 1, France

lise.demailly@univ-lille1.fr 

Ion DUR, Ecole doctorale en Philosophie, Université technique de Cluj Napoca-Centre Baia Mare, Roumanie

iondur@yahoo.com

Jairo FERREIRA, Escola da Industria Criativa, PPGCC -Unisinos, Sao Leopoldo, BRESIL

JFERREIRA@unisinos.br 

Gustavo Daudt FISCHER, Escola da Industria Criativa, PPGCC -Unisinos, Sao Leopoldo, BRESIL

GFISCHER@unisinos.br 

Elena FELL, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia

elena.fell@ntlworld.com 

Pierre-Henri FRANCOIS, Université de Poitiers, France

pierre-henri.francois@univ-poitier.fr

Sandu FRUNZA, Université Babes-Bolyai Cluj, Roumanie

sfrunza@yahoo.com 

Magda FUSARO, Homoludens - Groupe de recherche sur la communication et la socialisation dans les jeux vidéo, Université du Montréal à Québec, Canada

fusaro.magda@uqam.ca

Amiso M. GEORGE (TC University, Fort Worth, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)

a.george2@tcu.edu

Pedro Gilberto GOMES, Escola da Industria Criativa, PPGCC -Unisinos, Sao Leopoldo, BRESIL

PGOMES@unisinos.br 

Gino GRAMACCIA, Université de Bordeaux 1, France

gino.gramaccia@u-bordeaux.fr 

Régis GUILLAUME, Université du Mirail Toulouse, France

regis.guillaume@univ-tlse2.fr 

Najwa HAMAOUI, UMONS, Belgique

najwa.hamaoui@gmail.com 

Lama HAMANDI, American University of Beyrouth, Liban

lh13@aub.edu.lb

Claudiu HERTELIU, Académie d'Etudes Economique, Bucarest, Roumanie

claudiu.herteliu@gmail.com 

Tamar KATRIEL, Université de Haifa, Israel

tamark@edu.haifa.ac.il

Roula KHOURY, Université St Joseph de Beyrouth, Liban

 roula.khoury@usj.edu.lb

Sylvie LELEU-MERVIEL, Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis, France

sylvie.merviel@univ-valenciennes.fr 

Joëlle LE MAREC, Celsa Paris Sorbonne, France

joelle.le_marec@celsa.paris-sorbonne.fr

Christian LE MOËNNE, Université de Rennes 2, France

christian.lemoenne@wanadoo.fr

Guy LOCHARD, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France

guy.lochard@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr

Margreth LŰNENBORG, Free University of Berlin, Germany

margreth.luenenborg@fu-berlin.de 

Natalia LUKIANOVA, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk State University, Russia

lukianova@tpu.ru

Noemi MARIN, Florida Atlantic University, USA.

nmarin@fau.edu 

Regina Maria MARTELETO, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde, Université de Brésil, Brésil

regina.mar2@gmail.com

Sorin NASTASIA, Southern Illinois University, USA

snastas@siue.edu 

Antonio Fausto NETO, Escola da Industria Criativa, PPGCC -Unisinos, Sao Leopoldo, BRESIL

afaustoneto@gmail.com 

Robert NOUMEN, Université d’Orléans, France

noumen@univ-paris13.fr

Paul RASSE, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France

rasse@unice.fr 

Daniela ROVENTA-FRUMUSANI, Université de Bucarest, Roumanie

danifrumusani@yahoo.com

Constantin SALAVASTRU, Université « Al. I. Cuza » Iasi, Roumanie

csalav2006@yahoo.com 

Ilie RAD, Université Babes-Bolyai Cluj, Roumanie

ilierad@yahoo.com 

Martine ROQUES, Université de Poitiers, France

martine.roques@univ-poitiers.fr

Haytham SAFAR, UMONS, Belgique

safar@umons.ac.be 

Constantin SCHIFIRNET, Ecole Nationale d’Etudes Politiques et Administratives Bucarest, Roumanie

constantin.schifirnet@yahoo.com

Michel SENECAL, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

senecal.michel@teluq.ca

Panayiota TSATSOU, University of Leicester, Great Britain

pt133@le.ac.uk

Phillippe VIALLON (EA 2310 LISEC, UNISTRA, France)

viallon@unistra.fr 

Tudor VLAD, James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research, University of Georgia, USA

tvlad@uga.edu 

Jean-Marc ZULIANI, Université du Mirail Toulouse, France

 jean-marc.zuliani@univ-tlse2.fr

Reviewers / Evaluateurs

Ana ADI, Quadriga University of Applied Sciences, GERMANY, Serge AGOSTINELLI (Université des Antilles, France), Hasan ARSLAN, Canakkale University (Turkey), Françoise ALBERTINI (Université de Corse Pasquale Paoli, France), Enka Blanchard (CNRS, France; Hélène BREDA (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, FRance); George BONDOR (Université AL. I. Cuza, Roumanie), Anne BEYAERT-GESLIN (Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France), Michel BOURSE (Galatasaray University, Istanbul, Turkey), Cécilia BRASSIER-RODRIGUES (Université Clermont Auvergne, France), Ioana CIRSTOCEA (CNRS, CESSP Paris, France & CEFRES Prague), Aurélie OLIVESI ( Université Lyon 1, FRANCE), Wole ADAMOLEKUN (Department of Mass Communication, Elizade University, Nigeria), Elena FELL (Middlesex University London, UK); Bertrand FAURE (Paul Sabatier University, FRANCE); Lena Hübner (University of Ottawa, Canada); Daniel-Rareș OBADĂ (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania); Thomas STOECKLE (Bournemouth University, UK); Camila Pérez Lagos (ISTC, ETHICS, Université de Lille, France); Patrick PLANTE (Université TÉLUQ, CANADA), Elina ERZIKOVA (Central Michigan University, USA), Aissa MERAH (Université Bejaia, Algérie), Corina BUZOIANU, Communication Department, SNSPA (Romania), Theresa CARILLI, (Professor, Department of Communication and Creative Arts, Purdue University Norhtwest, USA), Viorel CERNICA (Université de Bucarest, Roumanie), Sophie COLAS (CeRIES, University of Lille, France), Audra Diers-Lawson (Institute for Communication, Høyskolen Kristiania, Norway), Paul F. Diehl (University of Illinois, USA), Daniela Elena DUMITRU (Académie d'Etudes Economiques de Bucarest, Roumanie), Hamida EL BOUR (Institut de Presse et des Sciences de l'nformation, Tunisie) Laurence LAROCHELLE (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, FRANCE & Université du Québec à Montréal, CANADA), Patrizia LAUDATI  (Université Valencienne, France), Eugene LOOS, Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht (The Netherlands), Krisztina Frauhammer (University of Szeged, Hungary), Pei-Chun KO, Singapore University of Social Sciences (Singapore), Natalia Raimondo Anselmino (CONICET, Centro de Investigaciones en Mediatizaciones, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina), Tereza Roncakova (Department of Journalism, Faculty  of Arts and Letters of the Catholic University in Ruzomberok, Slovaquie),Lucrecia D Alessio Ferrara (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil), Márcia Marat Grilo (Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, Portugal), Marielle METGE-AGOSTINELLI (Université des Antilles, France), Pierluigi BASSO (Université Lyon 2, France), Camil GOLUB (Rutgers University - Newark, USA), Etienne CANDEL (Université Paris-Sorbonne, France), Jean-Jacques BOUTAUD (Université de Bourgogne, France), Oana BALUTA (Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest, Romania), Romulus BRINCOVEANU (Université de Bucarest, Roumanie),Stéphane DUFOUR (Université de Bourgogne, France), Hannah MARSTON,School of Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, The Open University (UK), Valentina MARINESCU, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Sociology and Social (Romania), Isabelle RIEUSSET LEMARIE (Université Paris 1, France), Axel GRYSPEERDT (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgique), Anda BECUT (National Institute for Research and Cultural Training, Romania), Nelly QUEMENER (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France), Brigitte HIPFL (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Corina-Sorana MATEI (Université Spiru Haret, Roumanie), Cegolène FRISQUE (Université de Nantes, France), Ricarda DRUEKE (Universität Salzburg, Austria), Claire BLANDIN (Université Paris Est Créteil, France), Virginie JULLIARD (Université de technologie de Compiègne, France), Amiso M. GEORGE (TC University, Fort Worth, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA), Radha S. HEGDE (New York University, USA), Céline BRYON-PORTET (ENSIACET Toulouse, France), Catherine GHOSN (Paul Sabatier University, France), Lucian HERSCOVICI (Bibliothèque Nationale d'Israël, Université Hébraïque de Jérusalem), Diana Iulia NASTASIA (Southern Illinois University, Etats-Unis), HOSU Ramona (Petru Maior University Targu Mures, Roumanie), FENNICHE Raja (ISD, Université de la Manouba, Tunisie), Sunday ODEDELE (University of Nigeria, Nsukka; Partner, PR for Africa, Nigeria), PRICOPIE Valentina (Université Valahia, Roumanie), Delia BALABAN (Babes-Bolyai University Cluj, Roumanie), Lee BECKER (James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research, University of Georgia, USA), Françoise BERNARD (Université de Provence, France), Francine BOILLOT-GRENON (Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France), Robert BOURE (Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse, France), Constantin BRATIANU (Académie d’Etudes Economiques de Bucarest, Roumanie), Olivier CHANTRAINE (Université Charles de Gaulle Lille 3, France), Mihai COMAN (Université de Bucarest, Roumanie), Eric DACHEUX (Université Blaise Pascal de Clermont Ferrand, France), Gheorghe Clitan, Université de l'Ouest de Timisoara, Roumanie, Lise DEMAILLY (CLERSE UMR 8019, Université Lille 1, France), Ion DUR (Université Lucian Blaga Sibiu, Roumanie), Elena FELL (University of Central Lancaster, Great Britain), Sandu FRUNZA (Université Babes-Bolyai Cluj, Roumanie), Mihaela FRUNZA (Université Babes-Bolyai Cluj, Roumanie), Magda FUSARO (Homoludens - Groupe de recherche sur la communication et la socialisation dans les jeux vidéo, Université du Montréal à Québec, Canada), Gino GRAMACCIA (Université de Bordeaux 1, France), HOSU Ioan (Université Babes Bolyai, Cluj, Roumanie), Tamar KATRIEL (Université de Haifa, Israel), Roula KHOURY (Université St Joseph de Beyrouth, Liban), Gheorghe CLITAN (Université de Timisoara, Roumanie), Béatrice JALENQUES-VIGOUROUX (INSA, Toulouse 
IASCO, France), Léonard LABORIE (CNRS, France), Sylvie LELEU-MERVIEL (Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis, France), Pieter LEROY (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands), Joëlle LE MAREC (ENS de Lyon, France), Christian LE MOËNNE (Université de Rennes 2, France), Thierry LIBAERT (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgique), Florin LOBONT (Université d'Ouest Timisoara, Roumanie), Guy LOCHARD (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France), Margreth LŰNENBORG (Free University of Berlin, Germany), Dan STOICA (Université Al. I. Cuza, Roumanie), Regina Maria MARTELETO (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde, Université de Brésil, Brésil), Sorin NASTASIA (Southern Illinois University, USA), Akila NEDJAR-GUERRE (MRTE, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France), Viorica PAUS (Université de Bucarest, Roumanie), Monica PADURARU (Académie d'Etudes Economiques, Roumanie),  Dana RAD (Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania), Paul RASSE (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France), Daniela ROVENTA-FRUMUSANI (Université de Bucarest, Roumanie), Constantin SALAVASTRU (Université « Al. I. Cuza » Iasi, Roumanie), Marie-Gabrielle SURAUD (CERTOP, Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse 3, France), Ilie RAD (Université Babes-Bolyai Cluj, Roumanie), Constantin SCHIFIRNET (Ecole Nationale d’Etudes Politiques et Administratives Bucarest, Roumanie), Panayiota TSATSOU (University of Leicester, Great Britain), Tudor VLAD (James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research, University of Georgia, USA), Nicolas PELISSIER (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France), Ilie FARTE (Université Al. I. Cuza Iasi, Roumanie), ROSCA Luminita (Université de Bucarest, Roumanie), MEYER Vincent (Université de Lorraine, France), CHEVALIER Yves (Université Haute-Bretagne, France), Laurence BARNECHE-MIQUEUE (Université Paul Sabatier, France), Marie-Gabriel SURAUD (Université Paul Sabatier, France), Wilfried KOEPKE (University of Applied Science of Hanover, GERMANY), Stefan STANCIUGELU (SNSPA, Roumanie), Youcef AÏSSANI (Université Paul Sabatier, France), Cornel IATU, Université Al. I. Cuza de Iasi, Roumanie, Philippe JEANNIN (Université Paul Sabatier), Isabelle BOUCHARDY (Université Paul Sabatier, France), Anamaria BENEA (Université d'Ouest Timisoara, Roumanie), Falviu Calin RUS (Babes Bolyai University Cluj, Roumanie), Adela ROGOJINARU (Université de Bucarest, Roumanie), Marie-Michèle VENTURINI (Université de Corte, Corse), Patrice de la BROISE (Université Charles de Gaulle Lille 3, France), Irina STANCIUGELU (SNSPA, Roumanie),  Sergey SAMOYLENKO (George Mason University, USA), Marco Túlio DE SOUSA (Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais, UEMG - Brésil), Phillippe VIALLON (EA 2310 LISEC, UNISTRA, France), Constantin VICA (Université de Bucarest, Roumanie); Florian VÖRÖS (Université de Lille, France)

Ethics and malpractice statement / Déclaration d'éthique

Allegations of misconduct

Essachess’ process and policies for identification of/dealing with allegations of misconduct

Essachess – Journal for Communication Studies through his Ethics Committee is vigilant in upholding the ethical standards of research conduct and publishing, and takes appropriate actions on forms of misconduct such as (the list is not exhaustive):

-       Falsification and fabrication of data (i.e. manipulative or willful suppression and/or misrepresentation of data, omission, contradictory data, etc.);

-       Plagiarism and/or misuse of intellectual property (i.e. using language, ideas, and/or thoughts of existing or previously published articles/papers/materials without appropriate reference to the original source, etc.);

-       Non-compliance with common research practices (i.e. failure to comply with accepted and ethical practices regarding research design, manipulating procedures or results to obtain pre-determined results, etc.);

-       Non-conformity to research guidelines (i.e. conformity with recognized guidelines, laws and standards, non-violation of regulations and law involving the use of funds, care of animals, human subjects, drugs, biological or chemical materials, etc.);

-       Authorship (i.e. submitting multi-author drafts without the consent of all authors, improper attribution of author credits, etc.).

Suspected cases of misconduct should be reported to Essachess’ Ethics Committee respecting confidentiality and international established standards and guidelines. Essachess’ Ethics Committee is consisted of the Essachess Editor-in-Chief, and associate editors. The Editor-in-Chief chairs it. Its role is to respond to the complaints received by the editorial staff. If necessary, the Editor-in-Chief will include Essachess’ reviewers or/and advice from the advisory board in the process to obtain their opinion.

Concerns of any form of publication misconduct, as described above or in other established standards, laws, and guidelines, should be e-mailed to Essachess Editorial Office at essachess@gmail.com.

The form letter bellow could be used.

Form letter: To Editor regarding a suspected case of misconduct

Any letter should include all of the following:

1. First Name and Last Name

2. Title of article and elements of identification

3. Allegation of misconduct (suspected case of misconduct) – please clearly specify which violation is suspected

4. Original documents or materials (i.e. articles, papers with plagiarized passages and copy of sources not quoted, non-compliance with common research practices, falsification, authorship, etc.)

Form letter: To author regarding a published article

Date

Title of article and date of publication

To the attention of (the author)

Dear author,

Information about the existence of concerns.

Description of the nature of concern based on the communication raising the concern (which would violate the publishing policies)

Answer request within 30 days.

Further actions and measures depending on the nature of corresponding author’s response (inform or/and involve research institution, funding agency, etc.).

Sincerely,

Editor name

Journal will publish errata/corrections, clarifications, or retractions of any materials where appropriate.

Complaints process

Before submitting manuscripts authors should read all the guidelines, ethical statements and policies regarding manuscript submission, processing and publication.

The authors have the right to complain and ask clarifications and further explanations if they perceive any misconduct in guidelines, ethical statements and policies applied by the journal.

All the complaints could be raised via a letter at essachess@gmail.com. Letter forms are available in Allegations of misconduct section.

All complaints are investigated according to the publication ethics practices (see also sections Ethics and malpractice statement, Peer Review Process, Author Guidelines, Ensuring a Blind Peer Review, Privacy Statement, and Allegations of misconduct).

Subjects of complaints (but not limited): authorship issues, plagiarism, copyright violation, wrong research results, peer-review comments unsatisfactorily, conflicts of interest, violations in design standards for research, biases in review process, manuscript processing unusually late, etc. The process with dealing with complaints is detailed in Allegations of misconduct section. All decisions taken are sent to the concerned author through his/her submitted email address.

Conflicts of interest

Essachess – Journal for Communication Studies requests authors and reviewers prior to submitting or agreeing to review a manuscript provide a conflict of interest statement, to warrant no such conflicts exist.

The authors have to declare funding sources (if any).

More details regarding conflict of interests for reviewers and authors in Ethics and malpractice statement section.

The members of editorial team and editorial board must declare any conflicts of interest prior to joining the editorial team or editorial board.

Editors and journal staff are not involved in editorial process and decisions about their own research work submitted to the journal. Essachess – Journal for Communication Studies handles submissions from editors and members of its editorial board as following:

-       editors and editorial team and board are not allowed to take part to publication process and decision when they are authors or have contributed to a submitted manuscript.

-       for ensuring a fair peer review in editorial team in the case of a submission from editors and members of editorial board, the journal requests the author do not communicate directly with the editor-in-chief. The author should communicate directly only with the assistant editor in charge.

-       for ensuring a fair peer review in editorial team in the case of a submission from editors and members of editorial board, the journal requests any author will not be given special treatment.

Authorship criteria

Authorship should be composed to those who have made a significant contribution to conception, structure or interpretation of the article. Any other person who has made significant contribution for the article must be listed as co-authors. Authors also ensure that all the authors have seen and agreed to the submitted version of the manuscript and their inclusion of names as co-authors.

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Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

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