Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

The Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement of the Engineering and Computational Intelligence Journal (ECIJ) and its Publisher is based largely on the rules and standards published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) : https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines/principles-transparency-and-best-practice-scholarly-publishing. It is expected of authors, reviewers, editors and publisher that they follow the best-practice guidelines on ethical behaviour contained therein.

Duties of Editor

  1. Publication Decisions: The editor has complete power and authority to accept, reject, or suggest amendments to the submission based on the review report.
  2. Review of Submissions: The editor must ensure that each submission is first examined for originality by the reviewer, using appropriate software.
  3. Fair Review: The editor must ensure that each submission submitted to the Journal is evaluated for its intellectual substance regardless of the authors' sex, gender, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, or other characteristics.
  4. Confidentiality:The editor must ensure that information about the authors' submissions is kept confidential.
  5. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: Without the author's prior authorization, the editor of this Journal may not use unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript for his or her own research.
  6. Errata Information: The editor must issue errata pages or make revisions, When needed.
  7. Ethical Guidelines: The editor shall ensure that all research material they publish conforms to internationally accepted ethical guidelines available at https://publicationethics.org/
  8. Proof of Misconduct: The editor should not reject papers primarily based totally on suspicions; they need to have evidence of misconduct.
  9. Published Work : Any discripency in published work will be handled by Article Correction, Retraction & Misconduct Policy.

Duties of Reviewers

  1. Confidentiality: Reviewers should keep all information regarding papers confidential and treat them as privileged information.
  2. Acknowledgement of Sources: Reviewers must ensure that authors have acknowledged all sources of data used in the research.
  3. Standards of Objectivity: Reviews should be conducted objectively, with no personal criticism of the author.
  4. Supporting Argument: Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments
  5. Plagiarism, Fraud and Other Ethical Concerns: Reviewers should let the editor know if you suspect/find that a manuscript is a substantial copy of another work, citing the previous work in as much detail as possible.
  6. Relevant Work: Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.
  7. Conflicts of Interest: Reviewers should not review submissions in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.
  8. Promptness: In the event that a reviewer feels it is not possible for him/her to complete review of  manuscript within stipulated time then this information must be communicated to the editor, so that the manuscript could be sent to another reviewer.

Duties of Authors

  1. Publication guidelines: Authors must follow the submission guidelines of the journal available at instruction to authors of 
  2. Original Work: Authors must ensure that they have written entirely original work. Authors must certify that the submission has not previously been published elsewhere.
  3. Multiple Submissions: Authors must certify that the submission is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere.
  4. Peer Review Process: Authors must participate in the peer review process.
  5. Authorship of the Paper: All authors mentioned in the paper must have significantly contributed to the research.
  6. Data Access and Retention: Authors should provide raw data related to their manuscript for editorial review and must retain such data.
  7. Authenticity of Data: Authors must identify all sources used in the creation of their submission. Authors must state that all data in the paper are real and authentic.
  8. Conflict of Interest: Authors must notify the Editors of any conflicts of interest.
  9. Fundamental Errors: Authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes at any point of time if the author(s) discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in submitted submission.
  10. Research on Human Subjects: When appropriate, all authors must cite approval by an institutional review board (IRB) for research on human subjects.

Duties of the Publisher

Managing unethical publishing practices:

In the event of suspected or confirmed scientific misconduct, fraudulent publication, or plagiarism, the publisher will work closely with the editors to take all necessary steps to make things clear and make the necessary changes to the offending article. This covers the timely release of an update, an explanation, or, in the worst situation, the withdrawal of the impacted work. When research misconduct occurs, the publisher and editors must work together to find the papers and take appropriate action to stop them from being published. Under no circumstances should they condone or allow research misconduct to continue.

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