Publication Ethics

The Proceeding of the International Conference on Applied Sciences, Information and Technology (ICo-ASCNITech) is dedicated to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and takes all possible measures against any publication malpractices. Our ethical statements are based on the guidelines and core practices developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

All parties involved in the act of publishing—including the authors, the peer reviewers, the editorial board, and the publisher—must agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior.

1. Duties of Authors

  • Originality and Plagiarism: Authors must ensure that they have written entirely original works. If the authors have used the work and/or words of others, this must be appropriately cited or quoted. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is strictly unacceptable. All submitted manuscripts will be screened for similarity; papers with a similarity index exceeding 30% will be immediately rejected.

  • Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication: Authors should not publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one conference/journal concurrently constitutes unethical behavior and is unacceptable.

  • Authorship of the Paper: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. The corresponding author must ensure that all appropriate co-authors are included on the paper and that they have approved the final version of the document.

  • Data Access and Retention: Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data if practicable.

  • Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: All authors must disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript.

2. Duties of Reviewers

  • Contribution to Editorial Decisions: Peer review assists the editors in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper. This proceeding strictly employs a double-blind peer review process.

  • Promptness: Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse themselves from the review process.

  • Confidentiality: Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

  • Standards of Objectivity: Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

  • Acknowledgement of Sources: Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge must be reported to the editor.

3. Duties of Editors and Organizing Committee

  • Publication Decisions: The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board are responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the conference should be published in the proceeding. The decisions are based on the paper's importance, originality, clarity, and its relevance to the conference's scope, without regard to the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy.

  • Confidentiality: The editors and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

  • Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author. Editors will recuse themselves from considering manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships/connections with any of the authors or institutions connected to the papers.