Publication Ethics

The ethical policy of IJSRNSC is based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines (http://publicationethics.org (Core Practices and Guidelines)). The IJSRNSC is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal. All parties involved in publishing an article in this journal (editors, peer reviewers, authors, and publishers) must follow appropriate guidelines for ethical behavior. In general, editors and reviewers must maintain objectivity and confidentiality and manage potential conflicts of interest; authors must be honest and disclose their sources and funders. More precisely, to assure high-quality publications, public trust in scientific findings, and proper credit for ideas and results, ethical standards for publication in the International Journal of Scientific Research in Network Security and Communication include.

Duties and Responsibilities of Editors
  • Publication Decisions and Accountability: The editor of a journal is responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the journal should be published, and, moreover, is accountable for everything published in the journal. In making these decisions, the editor may be guided by the policies of the journal’s editorial board and/or the policies of the publisher, as well as, by the legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers when making publication decisions. The editor should maintain the integrity of the academic record, preclude business needs from compromising intellectual and ethical standards, and always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed.
  • Fair Play: The editor should evaluate manuscripts for intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the author(s). 
  • Confidentiality: The editor maintains strict confidentiality regarding all submitted manuscripts, sharing them only with the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
  • Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: Unpublished materials contained in a submitted manuscript must not be used in the own research of an Editor without explicit written permission of the author(s). Privileged information or ideas that editors receive as a result of manuscript handling would be kept confidential and not used for their personal benefit. Editors will refuse to act as an editor for manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest arising from financial, competitive, collaborative or other relationships/association with any of the authors, companies or organisations linked to the manuscripts; instead, they will ask another board member to handle the manuscript.
  • Involvement and cooperation in investigations: Editors should guard the integrity of the published record by issuing corrections and retractions when needed and pursuing suspected or alleged research and publication misconduct. Editors should pursue reviewer and editorial misconduct. An editor should take reasonably responsive measures when ethical complaints have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or published manuscript.
Duties and Responsibilities of Reviewers-
  • Contribution to Editorial Decisions: Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and, through the editorial communication with the author, may also assist the author in improving the manuscript.
  • Punctuality: Any invited referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its timely review will be impossible should immediately notify the editor so that alternative reviewers can be contacted.
  • Promptness: Reviewers are expected to complete their review in a timely manner while maintaining the highest professional standards. If reviewers are unable to meet the deadline, they should inform the editor immediately.
  • Confidentiality: Reviewers must also adhere to the confidentiality rules established for editors. They should refrain from discussing or sharing the manuscript with any third party except as authorized by the editor.
  • Standards of objectivity: Reviews should be conducted objectively and fairly, avoiding personal criticism of the author. Reviewers should clearly express their views with supportive and logical arguments.
  • Acknowledgement of sources: Reviewers should identify relevant published work that the authors may have overlooked and also identify cases in which relevant published work referred to in the manuscript has not been cited in the reference section. Any claim that an observation, derivation, or argument has been previously reported should be supported by a citation or reference. Reviewers should also notify the editor of any significant similarities or overlaps between the manuscript under consideration and any other published manuscripts they are aware of.
  • Disclosure and conflict of interest: Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should 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 manuscripts .
  • Usage of Generative AI: When a researcher is invited to review another researcher’s manuscript, the manuscript must be treated as a confidential document. Reviewers should not upload a submitted manuscript or any part of it into a generative AI tool as this may violate the authors’ confidentiality and proprietary rights and, where the manuscript contains personally identifiable information, may breach data privacy rights.
Duties and Responsibilities of Authors'
  • Reporting standards: Authors reporting results of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. The underlying data should be represented accurately in the manuscript. A manuscript should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
  • Originality and plagiarism: The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted. Plagiarism takes many forms, from ‘passing off’ another’s manuscript as the author’s own manuscript, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another’s manuscript (without attribution), to claiming results from research conducted by others. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.
  • Multiple, redundant, or concurrent publication: An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Parallel submission of the same manuscript to more than one publisher concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
  • Acknowledgment of Sources: Proper citation of the work of other authors must always be included in your research article. Authors should acknowledge and cite significant publications that have played a crucial role in shaping their research.
  • Hazards- If the research involves chemicals, procedures, or equipment that pose any unusual hazards, the authors must clearly highlight these in the manuscript.
  • Disclosure and conflicts of interest: All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or their interpretation in the manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
  • Data Access and Retention: Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a manuscript for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such, if practicable, and should in any event, be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.
  • Authorship of a manuscript: Authorship must 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. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be named in an Acknowledgement section.
  • Corresponding Author: The corresponding author is the author responsible for communicating with the journal for publication. The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the manuscript and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript and have agreed to its submission for publication.
  • Acknowledgment of Funding Sources: The funding sources for the research reported in the manuscript should be duly acknowledged. It is the responsibility of the authors to follow any publishing mandates outlined by their funding organizations.
  • Fundamental errors in published works: When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his or her own published work, it is the author's obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and to cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the manuscript in the form of an erratum.
  • Disclosure of Generative AI Usage: Authors should explicitly declare their use of AI tools in the manuscript, including those for grammar checking or paraphrasing.