Policies

Peer Review Policy

JISAR aims to maintain a fair, transparent, and rigorous peer-review process. All research articles and review articles are subject to an initial editorial assessment before external review.

The initial assessment considers the manuscript’s relevance to the journal’s aims and scope, its basic scholarly quality, completeness, and compliance with the submission requirements. Manuscripts that do not meet these criteria may be declined without external review.

Manuscripts proceeding to external review are normally evaluated by at least two independent reviewers with relevant subject expertise. JISAR uses a single-blind peer-review model: reviewers are aware of the authors’ identities, while reviewers’ identities are not disclosed to authors.

Reviewers are expected to assess the originality, methodological soundness, relevance, clarity, and significance of each submission. They must treat manuscripts as confidential and disclose potential conflicts of interest. Editors consider the reviewers’ recommendations but retain responsibility for the final editorial decision.

Possible decisions include acceptance, revision, or rejection. Revised manuscripts may be returned to reviewers when further assessment is necessary.

Conference abstracts and special issue submissions may follow additional procedures described in the relevant conference announcement or special issue call. These procedures must be communicated to authors before submission.

Publication Ethics

JISAR is committed to maintaining academic integrity and responsible research and publication practices. Authors, reviewers, and editors are expected to act honestly, fairly, and transparently throughout the publication process.

Originality and redundant publication: Submitted work must be original and must not be under consideration by another journal at the same time. Authors must disclose relevant prior publications, overlapping submissions, and related work. Reuse of previously published material must be appropriately acknowledged and must not misrepresent the originality of the contribution.

Plagiarism and text similarity: Manuscripts may be screened using text-similarity tools or other appropriate methods. Potential plagiarism, unattributed reuse, and other concerns will be assessed by the editorial team. A similarity score alone does not determine whether misconduct has occurred.

Research and data integrity: Authors must report methods and results accurately and must not fabricate, falsify, or selectively misrepresent research findings. Underlying data, code, and other research materials should be retained and made available when reasonably requested, where permitted by legal, ethical, confidentiality, and privacy requirements. Authors should explain relevant limitations affecting reproducibility.

Ethical approval and privacy: Research involving human participants, personal data, or other ethically sensitive material must comply with applicable ethical requirements. Where relevant, authors must report appropriate ethics approval, consent procedures, and measures taken to protect privacy.

Use of generative AI tools: AI tools cannot be listed as authors because they cannot take responsibility for the integrity of the work. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, citations, analysis, and conclusions of their submissions. Substantive use of generative AI tools in producing manuscript content, analyses, code, or research outputs must be disclosed appropriately. AI-generated material must not be presented as verified evidence or as work performed by the authors when that is not the case.

Conflicts of interest and funding: Authors must disclose relevant financial, professional, institutional, or personal relationships that could reasonably be perceived as influencing their work. Sources of funding and the funders’ role in the research must also be reported where applicable.

Allegations of misconduct will be assessed by the editorial team and handled in accordance with the seriousness and nature of the concern. Where necessary, the journal may request explanations or supporting documentation, reject a manuscript, issue a correction, or retract a published article.

Authorship and Conflicts of Interest

Authorship must reflect substantial contributions to the research and manuscript. These may include research conception or design, methodology, data acquisition or analysis, software development, interpretation of results, or substantial drafting and critical revision.

All listed authors must approve the final manuscript and agree to its submission to JISAR. Authors share responsibility for the integrity of the work and must be able to identify their respective contributions.

Contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be acknowledged appropriately, with their consent where applicable.

The corresponding author is responsible for coordinating communication with the journal and ensuring that all co-authors are informed about submission, revisions, and editorial decisions.

All authors must disclose relevant conflicts of interest. Editors and reviewers must also disclose conflicts that could affect their impartiality and, where appropriate, withdraw from handling or reviewing the manuscript.

Authorship disputes or requests to change the author list after submission must be explained to the editorial team and may require written agreement from all affected authors.

Access and Download Policy

JISAR makes journal information, article metadata, and abstracts available to website visitors without requiring an account.

Under the planned access model, full-text article files are available for download only to registered users. Registration and article downloads are free of charge. Users must sign in to their accounts to access the available download links.

Account registration is an access requirement for downloading files; it does not transfer copyright or grant users any rights beyond those established by the applicable license and copyright law. Users must respect the rights of authors and other rights holders when using or distributing downloaded material.

JISAR will clearly communicate the access requirements to visitors and authors. The journal will not describe full-text content as fully open access while access to that content requires registration. Any future change to the access model or adoption of an open-access license must be reflected in this policy and on the relevant article pages.

Unless otherwise stated in an individual publication agreement, authors retain copyright in their work.

By accepting publication in JISAR, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive right to publish, display, distribute, and preserve the accepted work in accordance with the terms agreed with the journal.

The applicable license and any permitted forms of reuse must be clearly identified for each published article. A Creative Commons license, including CC BY 4.0, must not be claimed for an article unless that license has been formally adopted for the work and the necessary rights have been secured.

Authors are responsible for identifying third-party material included in their manuscripts and obtaining any permissions required for its publication.

The journal’s access arrangements do not alter the copyright ownership of published works or replace the terms of their applicable license.

Archiving Policy

JISAR intends to maintain the integrity and availability of its published articles, associated metadata, and publication records.

The journal will maintain copies of publication files and relevant metadata as part of its publishing workflow. Long-term digital preservation through external repositories or dedicated preservation services will be identified in this policy once the relevant arrangements have been established.

The journal will not claim participation in a preservation service or guarantee long-term preservation through a third-party repository unless that arrangement has been implemented and can be verified.

Where a publication is corrected, updated, or retracted, the journal will seek to preserve the publication record and clearly indicate the status of the affected work.

Corrections and Retractions

JISAR recognizes its responsibility to maintain the accuracy and integrity of the scholarly record after publication.

When a material error is identified, the editorial team will assess its significance and determine whether a correction notice is appropriate. Corrections may address errors that do not invalidate the main findings or conclusions of the work. Notices will clearly describe the correction and be linked to the original publication.

A retraction may be considered where the reliability of a publication is seriously compromised, including cases involving fabricated or falsified data, significant plagiarism, serious ethical violations, or fundamental errors that invalidate the findings or conclusions.

Retractions are intended to correct the scholarly record, not simply to punish authors. Where practicable, the original publication will remain part of the record with a clearly linked retraction notice explaining the reason for the action.

In cases where concerns have been raised but the evidence is inconclusive, the journal may investigate further and consider an appropriate notice while the matter is reviewed.

Decisions concerning corrections and retractions will be made by the editorial team following an assessment of the available evidence and, where appropriate, consultation with the authors or relevant institutions.