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Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
We suppose that authors, editors and reviewers agree with the following Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement that follows the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and is based on the guidelines of Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.
Editors:
The Editorial Board of the journal "Cybernetics and Computer technologies" follows the basic principles of publication declared by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
The Editorial Board makes decision on acceptance of a manuscript for publication on the basis of scientific importance of presented materials.
The Editorial Board guarantees consideration of all materials without prejudgment, regardless of ethnicity, nationality and place of work of the authors.
Materials that have not been published cannot be used by the members of the Editorial Board or passed to third parties.
In case of a conflict the Editorial Board shall take steps to restore the violated rights of the parties.
An article may be retracted in the case of disclosure of significant errors, if reasonable complaints are received, if terms of publication or rights of third parties are violated.
Submitted manuscripts should not be previously published or accepted for publication in other journals.
Submitted manuscripts are subject for independent reviewing. Peer review is carried out by independent reviewers and members of the Editorial Board.
The final decision whether or not to publish an article is made by the Editorial Board taking into account the opinion of reviewers.
Authors:
By submitting a manuscript for publication in the scientific journal "Cybernetics and Computer Technologies" the authors:
- confirm that the work presented in the paper is new, original and that it has not been published before or submitted for publication elsewhere;
- confirm that each authors made a significant contribution to the work and results described in the paper;
- confirm their authorship and copyright, agree with their contributions to the paper, confirm that publication of the paper does not violate the rights of third parties;
- agree with terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license which allows anyone to be free to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, indicating the authorship, without using the material for commercial purposes;
- agree with processing of their personal data required for editing and publication of the article.
- provide the publisher with a License to clarify their authorship, contribution and intellectual property, as well as the absence of a conflict of interest.
Reviewers:
- the reviewed paper should be treated as confidential document;
- the reviewer remarks and assessment of the paper must be well argued;
- personal critics of the author is unacceptable;
- the paper content should not be used in the reviewer own interests;
- in case the reviewer considers that he is not qualified enough to assess the article or cannot be objective, then he should refuse to review;
- the reviewer should stick to the main principles formulated by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Authorship of a manuscript should be limited to authors who have made significant contributions.
A statement describing the authors' contributions should be included in the text of the article.
Our authorship policy is base on the COPE Authorship and Contributorship policy.
Authors should disclose any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript and acknowledge individuals or organisations that have provided financial support for research.
Editors must not use materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript (published or unpublished) for their own research without the author’s written authorisation.
Reviewers should not review manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, or institutions connected to the papers.
If an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his own published work, it is the author’s obligation to notify the editors and cooperate with them to either retract the paper or to publish an appropriate correction statement or erratum.
When we issue a correction, we update the article annotations on the website and the PDF version of the article. We also note that the article was corrected on a specific date to inform readers of the update.
When an article is retracted, it will remain available in both HTML and PDF format with a clear indication that it was retracted on a specific date, and the reason for the retraction.
Our retraction policy is based on the COPE Retraction guidelines.
The journal does not publish articles if there are strong grounds for plagiarism or self-plagiarism.
The journal is an open access media, that is, all published materials are free available on the public Internet according to the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 4.0.
Authors should identify the sources of data used to conduct the research described in the article and make such data publicly available, if possible.
Authors should disclose in their manuscript the use of AI and AI-assisted technologies and a statement will appear in the published work.
Authors are ultimately responsible for the content of the work and for ensuring that the work is original.
The the journal "Cybernetics and Computer technologies" does not use or place advertising.
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