Editor Guidelines
The editors of JPUB AI are responsible for maintaining the scholarly quality, editorial independence, peer-review integrity, and publication ethics of the journal.
Editorial Responsibility and Independence
Editorial decisions should be based on the scientific or scholarly quality, originality, relevance, methodological soundness, ethical compliance, and overall suitability of the manuscript.
Editorial decisions must not be influenced by authors' nationality, institutional affiliation, gender, personal characteristics, commercial interests, or ability to pay publication charges.
Editor-in-Chief Responsibility
The Editor-in-Chief has overall responsibility for the journal's editorial direction, peer-review integrity, publication ethics, and final editorial decisions.
The Editor-in-Chief may delegate manuscript handling and decision-making to a qualified Senior Editor, Associate Editor, or other formally designated editor. Such delegation does not remove the Editor-in-Chief's overall responsibility.
Initial Editorial Assessment
Editors should assess submitted manuscripts for:
- Relevance to the journal's aims and scope
- Originality and scholarly contribution
- Scientific and technical quality
- Methodological suitability
- Research integrity
- Ethical requirements
- Completeness and suitability for peer review
Peer Review
Suitable manuscripts should be assigned to reviewers with appropriate subject expertise. JPUB AI follows a single-blind peer-review process in which reviewers remain anonymous to authors.
Editors should normally seek independent and appropriately qualified reviewers and should consider reviewer expertise and potential conflicts of interest when making assignments.
Editorial Decisions
The Editor-in-Chief or a formally designated editor may decide to accept, request minor revision, request major revision, or reject a manuscript after considering reviewer reports, editorial assessment, ethical issues, and other relevant information.
Reviewer recommendations are advisory and should be considered together with the editor's independent assessment.
Subject Expertise
Editors should ensure that manuscripts are handled by individuals with appropriate expertise in areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, robotics, intelligent systems, computational methods, or relevant application domains.
Research Integrity
Editors should respond appropriately to concerns involving plagiarism, duplicate publication, fabricated or falsified data, manipulated images, inappropriate authorship, undisclosed conflicts of interest, peer-review manipulation, or other research misconduct.
AI, Data, and Computational Transparency
Editors should consider whether manuscripts provide sufficient information concerning datasets, computational methods, software, algorithms, models, evaluation procedures, and other materials necessary to assess the research where applicable.
For AI research, editors should consider relevant issues involving bias, fairness, privacy, security, transparency, safety, and responsible use where applicable.
Conflict of Interest
Editors must disclose and appropriately manage any actual, potential, or perceived conflict of interest. Editors should not handle manuscripts where their relationship with the authors, institutions, or subject matter could reasonably compromise impartiality.
Confidentiality
Editors must maintain the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts and related editorial information. Unpublished manuscript information must not be used for personal, professional, academic, or commercial advantage.
Reporting Standards
Editors may encourage authors to follow recognized reporting standards appropriate to the study design. Such standards should be applied according to the nature of the research and should not be imposed where they are irrelevant to the manuscript.
Editorial Independence and Publication Charges
Publication charges must not influence editorial decisions. Editors must not accept, reject, or prioritize manuscripts because of payment, anticipated revenue, institutional relationships, or commercial considerations.
Corrections and Post-Publication Issues
Editors should consider appropriate corrective action when significant errors, ethical concerns, or research-integrity issues are identified after publication.
Depending on the circumstances, appropriate action may include correction, retraction, expression of concern, or another transparent post-publication notice.
Complaints and Appeals
Authors may raise reasonable appeals or complaints concerning editorial processes. Editors should consider appeals objectively and independently and should seek additional editorial or subject expertise where appropriate.
Publication Ethics
Editors are expected to follow the journal's Ethical Principles and Publication Policy and relevant internationally recognized publication-ethics principles.