Accountability and Plagiarism:

The editors of a peer-reviewed journal are accountable and responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the journal should be published.

The editor may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. It is our standard procedure to run all submissions through plagiarism-detection software. Our acceptance rate is around 60%. The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers when making this decision.

Fair play:

An editor should evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual 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.

Disclosure and conflicts 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 connected to the papers.

Reporting standards:

Authors should present their results clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data manipulation. Authors should describe their methods clearly and unambiguously so that their findings can be confirmed by others.

Originality, plagiarism and acknowledgment of sources:

Authors should adhere to publication requirements that submitted work is original, is not plagiarized, and has not been published elsewhere - fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable. If an author has used the work and/or words of others, the original source has been appropriately cited or quoted and accurately reflects individuals' contributions to the work and its reporting.

All manuscripts submitted to JCIA are subject to similarity screening using Turnitin. Authors are responsible for ensuring that the overall similarity index is below 20% before submission. A similarity score below 20% does not automatically guarantee acceptance, as the editorial team may further assess the nature and sources of matched content. Manuscripts with inappropriate textual overlap, plagiarism, or excessive similarity may be returned to the authors or rejected.

Data Access and Retention:

Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication (see more about JCIA Data Availability Statement).

Ethics:

Authors should only submit papers only on work that has been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner, and that complies with all relevant legislation. Authors should only submit papers based on work that has been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner, and that complies with all relevant legislation. The use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies in authoring must also adhere to the principles of transparency, human oversight, and scholarly integrity. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, interpretation, references, and final content of the manuscript. Generative AI must not be used to fabricate data, results, references, or other research evidence, nor listed as an author or co-author. Any substantive use of generative AI in manuscript preparation must be appropriately disclosed in accordance with the JCIA Generative AI Use Policy.

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 interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

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. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. Authors should also provide an Author Contribution Statement clearly specifying the contribution of each author to the research and preparation of the manuscript.

The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

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. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

Fundamental errors in published works:

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her 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.