Academic integrity is the cornerstone of scientific and technological innovation, and it is vital for everyone involved in academic research, article writing and publishing. Computer Engineering and Applications follows the recognized publication ethics. The authors, reviewers and editors of Computer Engineering and Applications should perform the following responsibilities:
Reviewers’ Responsibilities
1. Reviewers should use their professional knowledge to review the innovation, scientificity and practicability of the manuscript, and give an objective and fair evaluation to assists the editors in making editorial decisions. Reviewers should put forward detailed revision opinions to assist the authors in improving the manuscript.
2. Reviewers should ensure that manuscripts are examined scientifically and accurately, and clearly express their views with sufficient evidence and facts.
3. Reviewers should promptly disclose the relevant conflict of interest to the editorial office and recuse themselves from the review process when there is a conflict of interest between reviewers and authors (such as kinship, supervisor-student, colleague, competitive relationships, etc).
4. Reviewers should identify the sources of data used in the research. If the reviewers find plagiarism or a manuscript submitted to more journals, they should immediately tell the editors.
5. Reviewers should point out the relevant published work which is not yet cited.
6. Any manuscript for review must be treated as confidential documents. Discussing or disseminating the data, viewpoints and conclusions in the manuscript is forbidden.
7. Reviewers should complete the evaluation of the manuscript within time limit and feedback the review opinions to the editorial department in time. In case of failure to finish review on time for some reason, reviewers should timely inform the editorial department, so that the manuscript could be sent to another reviewer.
Editors’ Responsibilities
1. Editors should follow the relevant national regulations, comply with the publication ethics strictly, maintain the academic integrity, deal with all manuscripts in a timely and fair manner, and ensure manuscripts published with high quality on time.
2. Editors should select manuscript fairly and justly, not be prejudiced against the authors’ unit, gender, professional title, academic honor, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship and so on. The decision will be based on the manuscript’s importance, originality and clarity, and its relevance to the journal’s scope.
3. Editors should protect the information of authors’ contributions, the identity information of reviewers and other concerned people in the editorial department.
4. Editors should avoid handling the manuscript when there is a conflict of interest between editors and authors (such as kinship, supervisor-student, colleague, or competitive relationships, etc).
5. Editors have the responsibility to investigate academic misconducts and take effective measures.
6. Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript will not be used by the editors for their own research purposes without the authors’ explicit written consent.
Authors’ Responsibilities
1. The content of the
manuscript should comply with the national laws and regulations and the
requirements of submission guidelines of the journal, and does not
involve confidential information, no academic misconducts such as
plagiarism, data forgery, etc.
2. Authors should present an accurate
account of their original research as well as an objective discussion
of its significance. Manuscript should contain sufficient details and
references to permit others to replicate the work.
3. Authors should
submit only entirely original work which is never published before, and
appropriately cite or quote the work of others.
4. Authors should
not submit the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently,
not publish redundant manuscripts or manuscripts describing same
research in more than one journal.
5. Authorship should be limited
to those who have made a significant contribution to concept, design,
execution or interpretation of the reported research. Others who have
made significant contribution must be listed as co-authors. The
corresponding author ensures that all contributing co-authors are
included in the author list. The corresponding author also verifies that
all co-authors have approved the final version of the article and have
agreed to its submission for publication.
6. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
7. Authors should declare whether there are conflicts of interest when
submitting their manuscripts. If there are conflicts of interest, they
should explain all economic/personal relationships that may affect the
results of their research.
8.
When authors discover a significant error or inaccuracy in their
published work, it is the authors’obligation to promptly notify the
journal editor or publisher, and to cooperate with the editor to retract
or correct the article in form of an erratum.
9. Authors should respect the opinions of reviewers. If they have any objection, they can appeal to the editorial department.
Conflict of Interests
Authors must disclose all potential conflicts of interest that may affect or bias the manuscript. Although these conflicts of interest do not necessarily lead to bias or errors in the research, the possibility of conflicts of interest arising from them exists, which may prevent the author from collecting, analyzing, presenting or judging the data objectively and impartially. Therefore, elaborating on such existing conflicts of interest, or clearly stating that they do not exist, is beneficial for peer review experts and readers to judge the objectivity and fairness of the content.
Examples of potential conflicts of interest that are directly or indirectly related to the research may include but are not limited to the following:
1. Honoraria for speaking at symposia;
2. Financial support for attending symposia;
3. Financial support for educational programs;
4. Employment or consultation;
5. Support from a project sponsor;
6. Position on advisory board or board of directors or other types of management relationships;
7. Multiple affiliations;
8. Financial relationships, for example, equity ownership or investment interest;
9. Intellectual property rights (e.g. patents, copyrights and royalties from such rights);
10. Holdings of spouse and/or children that may have a financial interest in the work.
