POLICIES

JCSR maintains publicly accessible policies to promote transparency, academic integrity, and responsible scholarly publishing. Authors, reviewers, editors, and readers are encouraged to consult the relevant policies before submitting a manuscript or engaging with the journal.

  • Peer Review Process: The procedures for editorial screening, external review, revision, editorial decisions, and the handling of concerns.

  • Authorship Criteria: The requirements for authorship, author contributions, and changes to the author list.

  • Manuscript Types: The types of scholarly manuscripts considered by JCSR.

  • Plagiarism Policy: The journal's approach to originality, similarity screening, and suspected plagiarism.

  • Research Misconduct: Procedures for receiving and assessing allegations of research or publication misconduct.

  • Conflict of Interest: Disclosure and management of conflicts involving authors, editors, and reviewers.

  • Post-Publication Discussion: Procedures for submitting comments or concerns about published articles.

  • Correction and Retraction: Procedures for correcting the published record and issuing expressions of concern or retractions where appropriate.

  • Open Access Policy: Information about public access to JCSR's published content.

  • Copyright and License: Copyright ownership and the terms governing reuse of published articles.

  • Digital Preservation and Archiving: Information about the journal's actual digital preservation and archiving arrangements.

  • Ownership and Management: Information about the journal's ownership, publisher, and editorial management.

Each policy is available through the corresponding link on the JCSR website.