The publication of a research paper/Original Articles/case study/short communication in a double blinded peer-reviewed journal is an important building entity in the development of a knowledge repository. In an age of information abundance, it is very important and vital to helping readers and research scholars to segregate quality information.  It is the mirror reflection of the quality work of the authors and the publishers who support them.International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering Research (IJCSER) understand the importance of publication ethics and we had established standards of ethical behavior for all parties involved such as the authors, the peer review experts, the editors, and the publisher.

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering Research (IJCSER) is committed to ensuring robust peer review and ethical standards in publication and quality of articles. Strict adherence to standards of ethical practices as defined by Code of Conduct of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) is expected from all the parties involved: Editors, Authors, Expert Reviewers, and the Publisher.  We work to educate researchers, authors, contributors, reviewers, and editors on understanding and delivering those standards, in partnership with others. 

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering Research (IJCSER)  is committed to supporting stringent peer review process, scientific, ethical and quality standards in publishing and as such we work hard to educate researchers, authors, board members, editors and reviewers on understanding and meeting those standards, as a team. 

  Role & responsibility of Editors: 

• Publication Decisions & Accountability
• Confidentiality of contents & source
• Disclosure, conflicts of interest, and other issues
• Fair play 

Role & responsibility of Reviewers: 

• Assistance to Editors
• Confidentiality
• Firm on Objectivity / Eradication of subjectivity
• Promptness
• Acknowledgment of sources
• Disclosure and conflict of interest  

Role & responsibility of Authors:   

• Reporting standards
• The originality of contents and plagiarism
• Avoidance of concurrent publication
• Acknowledgment of sources, persons
• Disclosure and conflicts of interest
• Notification of Fundamental errors in published works 

Role & responsibility of Publishers: 

• Editorial autonomy
• Intellectual property and copyright
• Scientific misconduct

Handling Publication Misconduct: 

We have Publication Ethics Committee (PEC) which advices editors and publishers on all aspects of publication ethics and, in particular, how to handle cases of research and publication misconduct. It also provides a platform for its stakeholders to discuss such misconduct cases and encourages journal editors to ensure that cases are investigated by the appropriate expert’s teams.

Plagiarism:

Each article submitted to IJCSER is scanned for plagiarism, including similarity to an author’s own work.

Article submissions that plagiarize another author’s work will be rejected from IJCSER , and cases will be reported to the IJCSER Intellectual Property Rights (IPR).

IJCSER accepts expanded versions of an author’s own referenced conference articles, as long as the similarity is less than 35%. If the overlap is higher (effectively duplicate publication) or the source article is not referenced, the article will be returned to the author. Reuse of an author’s own thesis or dissertation is allowed, as long as it is cited and has not been published elsewhere.

Preprints of authors articles to their own website, their employer’s site, or to another server that invites constructive comment from colleagues and provides a publication timestamp are allowed. Upon submission of an article to IJCSER , an author is required to transfer copyright in the article to IJCSER, and the author must update any previously posted version of the article with a prominently displayed IJCSER copyright notice.

Improper Author Attribution: 

All listed authors are expected to make significant scientific contributions to the research in the article and authenticated all its claims. It is important to list everyone who made a significant scientific contribution, including students, lecturers, professors, laboratory assistants & technicians. 

Data Falsification: 

Submitted research materials that are found to have falsified experimental outcomes will incur falsification penalty. The penalty will be decided by the Publication Ethics Committee (PEC). 

Citation Manipulation: 

Citation Manipulated articles are those articles that are found to include citations whose objective is to increase the number of citations to a given author’s work, or to articles published in a particular journal. These Citation Manipulated manuscripts will incur the penalty. The penalty will be decided by the Publication Ethics Committee (PEC).

Copyright Form

  Authors are asked to sign a warranty and copyright agreement upon acceptance of their manuscript before the manuscript can be published. Submission of your paper to this journal implies that the paper is not under submission for publication elsewhere. Material which has been previously copyrighted, published, or accepted for publication will not be considered for publication in this journal. Submission of a manuscript is interpreted as a statement of certification that no part of the manuscript is copyrighted by any other publisher nor is under review by any other formal publication. By submitting your manuscript to us, you agree on International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering Research (IJCSER) publication copyright guidelines. It is your responsibility to ensure that your manuscript does not cause any copyright infringements, defamation, and other problems. Submitted papers are assumed to contain no proprietary material unprotected by patent or patent application; responsibility for technical content and for protection of proprietary material rests solely with the author(s) and their organizations and is not a responsibility of the International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering Research (IJCSER)  publications or its Editorial Staff. The main author is responsible for ensuring that the article has been seen and approved by all the other authors. It is the responsibility of the author to obtain all necessary copyright release permissions for the use of any copyrighted materials in the manuscript prior to the submission.