Publication Ethics
Publication Ethics
Authors’ Responsibilities
Authors of ITCEA are responsible to obey Author Guidelines of ITCEA, ITCEA Copyright and those 10 policies adopted from COPE which is described below.
Reviewers’ Responsibilities
Reviewers of ITCEA should be responsible to comply with the above 10 policies from COPE which is described below. Factors that are considered in review process are relevance, soundness, significance, originality, readability and language.
Editors’ Responsibilities
Editors of ITCEA should be responsible to adhere to 10 policies from COPE which is described below. Editors should set up their decisions completely on the papers’ importance, originality, clarity and relevance to publication’s focus and scope.
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Publication ethics, which is adapted by Journal of Information Technology, Computer Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (ITCEA) is based on COPE's Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors
1. Allegations of Misconduct
Should there is any allegation of misconduct relating to ITCEA's publication, ITCEA will pay attention on this case and listen to its editorial board members advice.
2. Authorship and Contributorship
All submitted papers are based on single-blind peer-review process. This process usually involves a reviewer who are experts in the area of the particular paper. The possible decisions of the review process are acceptance, acceptance with revisions, resubmit for review, or rejection. The acceptance of a paper is constrained by legal requirements such as it does not contain any libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. All contributor authors should be added as authors for the paper. ITCEA are not responsible for any complaints about authorship.
3. Complaints and Appeals
ITCEA are responsible for the contents and overall quality of the publication. ITCEA is also responsible for fair publications and do not have any conflicts of interest between editors and authors. Should there is any complaints or appeals relating to publication of paper, ITCEA is responsible to give clear explanations and it is possible to show evidence.
4. Conflicts of Interest/ Competing Interests
As explained by COPE, "a conflict of interests or competing interests is a situation in which a person or organization is involved in multiple interests, financial interest, or otherwise, one of which could possibly corrupt the motivation of the individual or organization. The presence of a COI is independent of the occurrence of impropriety." ITCEA will not involve in or accept any COI or CI in all its publication. Should they occur, ITCEA will retract the involved paper and put an embargo on suspects.
5. Data and Reproducibility
ITCEA is encouraging authors to welcome readers of accessing their data shared on their paper. Authors should follow guidelines according to standard practice in their disciplines about data and reproducibility. However, ITCEA is promoting data confendiality for certain cases.
6. Ethical Oversight
In publishing paper, ITCEA welcomes all quality, scholarly paper from authors, which fulfil ethical conduct of research in authors discipline research.
7. Intellectual Property
ITCEA does not take any money from authors on publishing their paper. It is also stated clearly on Author Fees section. Policy relating to copyright has been given on ITCEA Copyright. ITCEA checks papers using plagiarism checker that ITCEA has access to use it. Should there is any further research of any ITCEA's paper, this extended version should be clearly mentioned on the upcoming paper and the related ITCEA's paper should be cited.
8. Journal Management
Dedicated scholar in their disciplines supports ITCEA. ITCEA encourages its editors to attend workshops or seminars relate to journal management.
9. Peer-Review Processes
ITCEA adopts single-blind peer-review process for its prospective paper. Regarding to this issue, ITCEA has provided its policies on Peer Review section.
10. Post-publication Discussions and Corrections
ITCEA allows debate post publication by using ITCEA website, letters to ITCEA's editor, or external moderated site. All of these debates should follow government rules.
Source: COPE – Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors available online
