Publication Ethics

Algora: Journal of AI, Data Science & Engineering is committed to maintaining high standards of integrity, transparency, fairness, and ethical conduct in scholarly publishing. Authors, editors, and reviewers are expected to follow responsible research and publication practices and to protect the integrity of the scholarly record.

1. Responsibilities of Authors

Authors must submit original, accurate, and ethically conducted research. All sources must be properly acknowledged and cited. Authors must not engage in plagiarism, data fabrication or falsification, duplicate publication, inappropriate authorship, citation manipulation, or other forms of research misconduct.

A manuscript must not be submitted simultaneously to more than one journal. All listed authors should have made a meaningful contribution to the work, approved the submitted manuscript, and accepted responsibility for their contributions.

2. Plagiarism and Research Misconduct

The journal may screen submitted manuscripts using appropriate similarity-detection tools. Similarity reports are evaluated by the editorial team, and a similarity percentage alone is not treated as proof of plagiarism.

Suspected plagiarism, fabricated or falsified data, inappropriate image manipulation, duplicate publication, peer review manipulation, or other misconduct will be investigated. Depending on the nature and seriousness of the concern, the journal may reject a manuscript or take appropriate post-publication action.

3. Authorship and Contributorship

Authorship should accurately reflect substantial scholarly contributions to the research. Guest, gift, and ghost authorship are not acceptable.

Requests to add, remove, or rearrange authors after submission must be appropriately justified and may require agreement from all affected authors.

Individuals who contributed to the research but do not qualify for authorship should be acknowledged appropriately.

4. Conflicts of Interest

Authors, reviewers, and editors must disclose financial, professional, institutional, personal, or other interests that could reasonably influence their work or decisions.

Reviewers and editors should not participate in the assessment of a manuscript where a significant conflict of interest prevents an independent and impartial evaluation.

5. Research Ethics and Data Integrity

Research involving human participants, personal data, animals, or other activities requiring ethical oversight must comply with applicable ethical, institutional, and legal requirements. Authors should provide information about ethical approval and informed consent where applicable.

Authors must report research data and results accurately. Fabrication, falsification, selective manipulation, or misleading presentation of data, images, computational results, or experimental findings is prohibited.

6. Artificial Intelligence and Automated Tools

Generative AI tools cannot be listed as authors. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, citations, analysis, and integrity of their manuscripts and should disclose substantive use of generative AI where appropriate.

Editors and reviewers must protect manuscript confidentiality and should not upload confidential submission materials to AI systems where confidentiality or data security cannot be assured. AI tools must not replace independent scholarly judgment in peer review or editorial decision-making.

7. Responsibilities of Reviewers

Reviewers must provide objective, constructive, and confidential assessments. They must disclose relevant conflicts of interest and must not use unpublished information obtained through peer review for personal or professional advantage.

Reviewers should inform the editor if they identify possible plagiarism, data manipulation, duplicate publication, or other ethical concerns.

8. Responsibilities of Editors

Editors are responsible for ensuring fair and independent editorial decisions based on scholarly merit, relevance, research quality, and ethical standards.

Editors must maintain confidentiality, appropriately manage conflicts of interest, and take reasonable action when credible concerns about research or publication misconduct are raised. Publication charges or other commercial considerations must not influence editorial decisions.

9. Corrections and Retractions

The journal is committed to maintaining an accurate scholarly record. When significant errors are identified after publication, an appropriate correction may be issued.

An article may be retracted where reliable evidence indicates that its findings are seriously unreliable because of major error or misconduct, plagiarism, unethical research, duplicate publication, or another serious breach of publication ethics.

Corrections, retractions, and other post-publication notices will be clearly linked to the affected article where applicable.

10. Complaints and Appeals

Authors, reviewers, and readers may raise concerns regarding editorial decisions, publication procedures, ethical issues, or published content.

Complaints and appeals should clearly explain the issue and provide relevant supporting information. Where appropriate, they will be considered by an editor who was not directly involved in the matter concerned.

An appeal does not guarantee that the original editorial decision will be changed.

11. Commitment to Publication Integrity

Algora: Journal of AI, Data Science & Engineering takes reasonable steps to identify and address research and publication misconduct. Concerns will be assessed fairly, confidentially, and on the basis of available evidence.

Where necessary, the journal may request supporting information from authors or take appropriate editorial action to preserve the integrity and reliability of the scholarly record.