Publication Standards and Transparency
A practical hardening map for keeping JOTS aligned with credible academic journal expectations.
Current position
A strong open-access base, with continuing hardening work
JOTS already has several important signals of a serious journal architecture: open access, retained author rights, a public editorial board, double-anonymous review, no author fees, DOI-linked records, and DOAJ listing.
- The journal record identifies title, ISSN, publisher, licence, and indexing status.
- Published articles use a permissive open-access licence.
- Policy work should continue so the public record remains specific, current, and easy to audit.
Access, rights, and fees
The journal should keep its open-access, copyright, licensing, repository, and no-fee statements visible from the public site and consistent across author guidance, article pages, and policy pages.
Editorial and research integrity
Policies should continue to spell out publication ethics, authorship, contributorship, conflicts of interest, peer review, complaints, appeals, corrections, retractions, and research ethics in enough detail for authors, reviewers, readers, and indexers.
Research ethics hardening
Tourism research can involve communities, destinations, workers, minors, personal data, vulnerable participants, fieldwork, and cross-border contexts. The policy set should make those safeguards explicit.
Preservation and continuity
The journal should keep preservation statements aligned with implemented services, including canonical article pages, DOI records, repository deposits, database exports, and operational backups.
Editorial board transparency
The public board page should keep role, affiliation, country, consent status, review date, and profile links current, with a visible conflict-handling statement for board or editor submissions.
Continued review
The policy set should be reviewed regularly so indexing metadata, ethics text, peer-review procedure, fees, business model, preservation wording, and editorial governance remain current.