Policies and ethics for publication are listed in this page. The topics for the policies and publication ethics include authorship, peer-review process, submitting original papers and plagiarism, archiving, copyright, fees, open access, duplicate publication, competing interests, publication malpractice, and conflicts of interest. All authors should be aware of and comply with the policies and ethics in publishing articles in IEIE SPC.
Authorship
Authors are expected to be aware of, and comply with, the best practice in authorship. To avoid authorship issues such as ghost or guest authorship and make the author contributions transparent, biographies of all authors must be included after the references. It is expected that all authors have made significant contributions and are aware of, and obliged to follow the listed policies on this page. At least one lead contact with the corresponding author should be stated in the submitting article. The corresponding author should be responsible for the supervision of the work, approval of all contents and the submission of the paper, appropriate authorship designation of all authors, and cooperation with the journal throughout the submission, review process, and after publication. For equal contributors, you must note this in the first page of the article.
Peer-review process
All authors are obliged to participate in the peer review process. All articles are subjected to peer-review by at least two reviewers, so that the authors obtain advice of their manuscript from reviewers’ expert. The judgments made by these reviewers are to be objective, with no conflict of interest between the reviewer pool. In cases where the author has not cited required references of published work, reviewers may notify the author of such issue. All articles will be treated confidentially prior to publication.
Submitting Original Papers and Plagiarism
The contents of IEIE SPC journal are peer-reviewed and archival. Authors must convince both peer reviewers and the editors of the scientific and technical merit of a paper. All authors should submit the manuscript containing original contents. We strictly prohibit plagiarism (reproduction of text from other articles without crediting the source) and self-plagiarism (production of a paper with the same content by the same authors). It is unethical to submit the same results to more than one journal simultaneously. However, the review article is an exception. If plagiarism is found in a paper in review or in the publication, the Steering Committee of the IEIE SPC journal will immediately investigate the case. The severe penalty will be imposed on the author(s) related to the plagiarism case based on the investigation.
Duplicate Publication
An author should not publish the same research in any other journal or primary publication. The manuscript which has not been simultaneously submitted to, nor published in any other publication channels, solely can be accepted. If the same paper is found appearing or published in any other publications, the paper will be rejected without consideration. The paper previously published in other minor publications of an abstract form, academic thesis, and preprints (i.e. conference, workshop, seminar, or proceedings) can be eligible for being reviewed and published in this transaction. However, we require that the paper be substantially revised with at least 30% new contents which have never been published in the previous publications. Although new results are not required, the revised manuscript version should include distinct-key-ideas, examples, explanations, figures, tables, elaborations, etc. The manuscript should indicate its previously published conference name and date as a footnote in the left bottom of the first page. Authors should briefly indicate how the new submission offers substantial novel contributions beyond those of the previously published paper(s) or proceedings. In such cases, it is mandatory that authors include the details, explanation, and accessible information of such publications in the cover letter. Otherwise, the editorial members may withdraw their decision to the article due to potential issues and conflict. This may also apply to cases of direct/indirect duplicate/multiple publication or concurrent submission.
Competing Interests
As an integral part of the submission process, authors should declare any potential competing interests prior to any publication of the article. Competing interests include any financial interests, personal relationships with other people or organizations, employment, grants for funding and patent, that could influence the scope of their work. If you are requested to identify the funding source(s) or sponsor(s) for the research, these should be given a separate section, such as ‘Acknowledgements’. For full official funding agencies, an abstract of the project name or grant numbers should be included, however, it is crucial that these acknowledgement phrases should be approved by the funding agencies prior to submission.
Publication Malpractice
An author is obliged to promptly inform the journal editorial members or publisher for any fundamental errors or inaccuracy in his/her published paper. For such errors, an author must retract or correct the mistakes and notify at least one editorial member. IEIE SPC will publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed. In cases where the referees or readers may question the research (i.e. manipulation of data or results), or any violation of the journal polices, the editorial members will inform the corresponding author, and likely inform the institution at which the research origins, and may withdraw the article. This is unless the author provides the editorial members with reasonable explanations that are thoroughly investigated and confirmed.
Citation Manipulation
Submitted manuscripts should not include citations for the purpose of increasing the number of citations to the authors’ work, or articles published in a specific journal.
Editors and Reviewers
Editors and reviewers should be excluded with a submission when they have close personal connection to any author, share an affiliation with any author, recently published/submitted a work with any author, have collaboration with any author, have a financial interest in the subject of the work, or are not able to be objective. IEIE SPC does not assign submissions to editors and reviewers having a conflict addressed above. In addition, editors and reviewers must declare whether to have discussed a manuscript with its authors.
Archiving
All articles of IEIE SPC are archived in RISS, where the articles will be accessed in the event this journal is no longer published.
Copyright
When the manuscripts are accepted at IEIE SPC journal, authors will be invited to complete a copyright license.
The copyright in the accepted paper is assigned and transferred to The Institution of Electronics and Information Engineers (IEIE) for the full term thereof throughout the world, subject to the term of the agreement and to acceptance of the paper for publication in IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing. The IEIE shall have the right to publish the paper in any medium or form, or by any means, now known or later developed.
However, the original authors retain the right to copy, translate or modify their own manuscripts. In cases when a manuscript is translated into another language or when any portion of the manuscript is to be submitted to another publication, the original manuscript should be clearly cited in the publications.