Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Axinova International Journal of Computer Science is committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics, transparency, integrity, and scholarly excellence in academic publishing. The journal follows the principles, recommendations, and best practices prescribed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) to ensure a fair, transparent, unbiased, and ethical publication process for authors, reviewers, editors, and publishers.

1. Duties of Editors

Publication Decisions: Editors are responsible for making publication decisions regarding submitted manuscripts based on originality, scientific quality, technical merit, significance, and relevance to the journal's scope.

Manuscript Evaluation: All submissions undergo an initial editorial screening, plagiarism assessment, and a rigorous double-blind peer-review process before a publication decision is made.

Fair Review: Manuscripts are evaluated solely on academic and scientific merit without discrimination based on gender, race, nationality, religion, institutional affiliation, or political beliefs.

Confidentiality: Editors must maintain the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts and all associated communications throughout the review and publication process.

Conflict of Interest: Editors shall not use unpublished materials, research findings, algorithms, software models, or data disclosed in submitted manuscripts for personal research without the authors’ explicit written consent.

Corrections and Retractions: Editors are responsible for publishing corrections, clarifications, expressions of concern, or retractions whenever necessary.

Ethical Oversight: Editors must take appropriate action in cases of suspected research misconduct, plagiarism, duplicate publication, data manipulation, or unethical practices supported by credible evidence.

2. Duties of Authors

Originality and Plagiarism: Authors must ensure that submitted manuscripts are original, plagiarism-free, and represent their own scholarly work.

Exclusive Submission: Manuscripts submitted to AIJCS must not be simultaneously submitted to or under consideration by another journal or publisher.

Authorship: All listed authors must have made significant intellectual contributions to the conception, design, implementation, analysis, or preparation of the manuscript.

Data Integrity: Authors are responsible for ensuring the accuracy, validity, reproducibility, and reliability of research data, software implementations, algorithms, and experimental results.

Source Acknowledgment: Proper citation and acknowledgment of all sources, datasets, software libraries, and previously published works are mandatory.

Conflict of Interest: Authors must disclose any financial, personal, professional, or institutional conflicts of interest that may influence the research.

Research Ethics: Research involving human participants, sensitive data, privacy-related information, or experimental systems must comply with applicable ethical and legal standards.

Corrections: Authors must promptly inform the editor if significant errors or inaccuracies are discovered after publication and cooperate in issuing corrections or retractions when necessary.

3. Duties of Reviewers

Confidentiality: Manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents and must not be shared or discussed with unauthorized individuals.

Objectivity: Reviews should be conducted objectively, professionally, and constructively without personal criticism or bias.

Acknowledgment of Sources: Reviewers should identify relevant published work, datasets, software frameworks, or references not cited by the authors whenever appropriate.

Ethical Concerns: Reviewers should immediately notify editors regarding suspected plagiarism, duplicate publication, fabricated results, manipulated data, or other unethical practices.

Conflict of Interest: Reviewers must disclose any conflicts of interest and decline review assignments where impartiality may be compromised.

Timeliness: Reviewers should complete their evaluations within the stipulated timeframe or promptly notify the editor if additional time is required.

4. Responsibilities of the Journal

Ethical Standards: The journal is committed to upholding internationally recognized standards of publication ethics and academic integrity.

Transparency: Clear editorial, peer-review, and publication policies are maintained to ensure transparency throughout the publication process.

Monitoring and Enforcement: The journal actively monitors compliance with ethical standards and takes appropriate action when violations are identified.

Awareness: Axinova International Journal of Computer Science promotes awareness of ethical publishing practices among authors, reviewers, editors, and readers.

5. Misconduct and Malpractice

Plagiarism, self-plagiarism, data fabrication, data falsification, duplicate publication, fake references, image manipulation, citation manipulation, authorship manipulation, and other unethical practices are considered serious forms of academic misconduct.

Manuscripts found to be involved in unethical practices may be rejected, withdrawn, corrected, or retracted depending on the severity of the violation.

Authors involved in serious ethical misconduct may be restricted from future submissions to the journal.

6. Retraction and Correction Policy

Articles may be retracted in cases of proven ethical violations, plagiarism, fraudulent research, fabricated data, manipulated results, or significant errors affecting the reliability of the publication.

Minor errors that do not affect the scientific validity of the article may be corrected through an erratum or corrigendum.

Retraction and correction notices will be clearly linked to the original published article to maintain transparency in the scholarly record.

7. Archiving and Access

The publisher ensures that all published content remains permanently accessible through the journal website and appropriate digital archiving systems to preserve scholarly work for future research, education, and reference purposes.

The journal is committed to maintaining long-term accessibility and preservation of published articles in accordance with accepted academic publishing practices.

Policy Updates

Axinova International Journal of Computer Science reserves the right to revise, modify, or update this Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement in accordance with evolving international publishing standards, ethical guidelines, technological developments, and best practices in scholarly communication.