Publication Ethics

Publication Ethics

To maintain the integrity and quality of JCIA, the following principles of Publication Ethics are strictly adhered to:

 

As Editors:

  1. JCIA practices a double-blind peer-review process and maximizes effort to prevent any conflict of interests between the authors, the editors, and the reviewers.
  2. JCIA is committed to using plagiarism detecting software to screen submitted papers and reserves the right to reject any paper with a high similarity score.
  3. Ensures that the confidentiality of all information related to the submitted papers is upheld.
  4. Editors evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or the political philosophy of the authors.
  5. The editor must ensure that each manuscript is initially evaluated by the editor for originality.
  6. The editor should organize and use peer reviews fairly and wisely.
  7. Editors should explain their peer review processes in the information for authors and also indicate which parts of the journal are peer-reviewed.
  8. The editor should use appropriate peer reviewers for papers that are considered for publication by selecting people with sufficient expertise and avoiding those with conflicts of interest.

 

As Authors:

  1. Only original works are submitted. Any plagiarism detected would lead to outright rejection.
  2. The submitted papers are not concurrently submitted to other journals.
  3. The use of all works from other sources should be acknowledged by appropriate citation and referencing.
  4. Any fundamental and significant error discovered in the published work must be immediately communicated to the journal editor.
  5. All possible conflicts of interest must be disclosed during the submission of the first draft.
  6. The agreement shall be given to transfer the copyright of the publication before submitting the article.
  7. The author's reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance.

 

As Reviewers:

  1. All information related to the submitted papers must be kept confidential.
  2. Any detection of copyright infringement and plagiarism on the author’s side must be promptly communicated to the editor.
  3. All submitted papers shall be reviewed fairly and objectively.
  4. Reviewers who feel unqualified to review a submitted article or are aware of any conflict of interest, which may influence the quality of the review, should promptly notify the editor to be excluded from that particular assignment.