Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is committed to maintaining the highest ethical standards.  In order to ensure the outcome of providing our readers with an academic journal of high quality, JIP is guided by the following principles:

The editors of JIP are responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published.  In evaluating the submitted works, the editors should limit themselves only to the intellectual content.  The editors can choose to ignore any material that breaks legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism.  The editors must ensure the confidentiality of the submitted works until they are published, except in the case of suspicion of double submission.  In case the editors decide not to publish a material, the manuscript should not be used for other purposes without the express written consent of the author.  The editor of a submitted manuscript must not have a stake in the authors.

The reviewers of JIP assist the editors in taking the decision of publishing a submitted manuscript.  The reviewers are bound to treat the manuscript received for peer reviewing as confidential, and must not use the information obtained through peer review for personal advantage.  The reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works.  When the authors use other materials, sources should be appropriately cited.  Any attempt of plagiarism should be followed by the rejection of the submitted manuscript.  Authors should not submit the same work or describe essentially the same research in more than one journal.  Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior, unless otherwise specified.