Publication Ethics

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

The International Informatics Express Journal (IIEJ) is firmly committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics and takes all necessary measures to prevent publication malpractice. Our ethical statements are based on the guidelines and Core Practices developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). All parties involved in the publishing process—including the Publisher, Editors, Peer Reviewers, and Authors—must agree upon and strictly adhere to these standards of ethical behavior.

1. Duties of Authors

  • Originality and Plagiarism: Authors must ensure that they have written entirely original works. If authors use the work and/or words of others, this must be appropriately cited or quoted. Plagiarism in any form—including passing off another's paper as the author's own, copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another's paper without attribution, or claiming results from research conducted by others—constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is strictly prohibited.
  • Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication: Authors should not publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently is unacceptable and constitutes unethical behavior.
  • Authorship of the Paper: Authorship should be limited strictly 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 have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
  • Data Access and Retention: Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review. Authors should be prepared to provide public access to such data if practicable and should retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.
  • Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: All authors must explicitly 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.
  • Fundamental Errors in Published Works: When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in their own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

2. Duties of Peer 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.
  • 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 immediately notify the editor and decline the invitation to review.
  • Confidentiality: Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as highly confidential documents. They must not be shown to, shared, or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.
  • Objectivity: Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments to help authors improve their manuscript.
  • Disclosure and Conflict of Interest: Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Reviewers must not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions associated with the papers.

3. Duties of Editors

  • Publication Decisions: The Chief Editor of IIEJ is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The editor will be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.
  • Fair Play and Objectivity: The editors will evaluate manuscripts strictly for their intellectual and scientific content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
  • Confidentiality: The editor 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.
  • Handling of Unethical Publishing Behavior: The editors will take reasonably responsive measures when ethical complaints have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or published paper. Such measures will generally include contacting the author of the manuscript or paper and giving due consideration to the respective complaint or claims made.

4. Duties of the Publisher

  • Safeguarding Ethics: The publisher, CV. Media Digital Raya, and the journal editors will take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred.
  • Editorial Independence: The publisher is committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint revenue, or other commercial revenue has absolutely no impact or influence on editorial decisions.
  • Corrections and Retractions: In cases of alleged or proven scientific misconduct, fraudulent publication, or plagiarism, the publisher, in close collaboration with the editors, will take all appropriate measures to clarify the situation and amend the article in question. This includes the prompt publication of an erratum, clarification, or, in the most severe cases, the retraction of the affected work.