Journal of Industrial Engineering

Publishing Ethics and Malpractice Statement

1. Editorial Board

Journals should have editorial boards or other governing bodies whose members are recognized experts in the field; the full names and affiliations of the members should be provided on the journal’s web site; and journals shall provide contact information for the editorial office on the journal’s web site.

The Journal of IEEM has all recognized experts on the editorial board. The full names and affiliations of all the editorial board members are provided on the journal web site.

2. Authors and Authors Responsibilities

Any fees or charges that are required for manuscript processing and/or publishing materials in the journal shall be clearly stated in a place before authors begin preparing their manuscript for submission; authors are obliged to participate in peer review process; all authors have significantly contributed to the research; the author(s) are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes; and authors should provide a list of references, financial support; it should also be forbidden to publish same research in more than one journal.

2.1 Publication Fees or Charges

Authors are notified of publication fees in the IEEM’s online submission system when they start preparing their manuscripts for submitting to the IEEM. The publication fee is only charged after the submitted article is accepted. The current publication fee of the IEEM is RMB1500 per 1000 words. This fee is destined to the article’s publication process such as editing etc. No fee is applicable to rejected papers.

Once the article is accepted, the staff members in the publisher’s office will contact the author(s) to make payment. When authors make payment, they can split the payment between different authors and different institutions that fund their research in this article.

2.2 Authors’ Obligations

  • Authors are invited by Editors of the IEEM to obligately participate the journal peer review process.
  • Authors are obliged to make all the corrections of any mistakes commented by reviewers and Editors.
  • Authors need to acknowledge any financial supports from any parties such as governments, industrials, organizations in their paper.
  • Authors are required to provide a complete reference list in their paper.
  • Authors can only publish their research that was not published somewhere else before, such as other journal or conference proceedings. If the paper submitted to the IEEM is an expanded version from a conference presentation, the authors need to make at least 90% of expansions such as additions and modifications.
  • There is no payment associated with revisions by authors nor reviews by reviewers.

3. Peer-Review Process

All of a journal’s content should be subjected to peer-review; peer-review is defined as "obtaining advice on individual manuscripts from reviewers’ expert in the field of publication,"; the process should be clearly described on the journal’s web site; all judgments and findings in the peer-review process should be objective; reviewers should have no conflict of interest; reviewers should point out relevant published work which is not yet cited; and reviewed articles should be treated confidentially prior to their publication.

The IEEM journal keeps double blinded peer-review process. Each submitted manuscript is initially reviewed and appraised by the Editor-in-Chief based on its fit with the journal focus and scope, interests of the topics to the journal readers, their timelines and novelty, significance of the research in the fields, quality of the presentation, and potential impacts to the subject fields. If the manuscript passes the initial review by the Editor-in-Chief, the Editor-in-Chief will send the manuscript to the Session Editor who oversees a session that the paper fits. The Session Chair will send that paper to at least two reviewers to review it. Those reviewers have no potential conflicts of interests, who can be editorial board members or external experts in the fields.

After completing reviews, the reviewers will return their review reports to the Section Editor. The reviewer’s report includes reviewer’s recommendations (such as major revision, minor revision, reject), general comments to the Editor. The Section Editor will add in his/her recommendation to the Editor-in-Chief based on evaluating review reports collectively from the reviewers. The constructive review reports also include the evaluation on whether relevant published work is not yet cited.

The Editor-in-Chief will then make a final decision (rejected, major revision, minor revision, or accept) on his/her own or in consultation with the other editors. The decision letter will be sent to the author(s) by the Editor-in-Chief including his/her decision.

The Editor-in-Chief will determine if a revised manuscript needs further peer reviews, which will be the same procedure as the first-round review. The Editor-in-Chief makes the final acceptance decision of publication for all papers.

All judgements in the peer-review process are objective. All submissions are treated confidentially including the articles prior to their publications.

4. Publication Ethics

Publishers and editors shall take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred; in no event shall a journal or its editors encourage such misconduct, or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place; in the event that a journal’s publisher or editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct the publisher or editor shall deal with allegations appropriately; the journal should have available guidelines for retracting or correcting articles when needed; and finally publishers and editors should always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.

The IEEM is a peer-review journal where the rigor scientific publication is expected. We are responsible to ensure that all manuscripts submitted to the IEEM have been evaluated based on their scientific merits in the research domain. To ensure that, all parties involved in each step of the IEEM journal publishing processes are required to perform ethical behavior, including journal editors, journal publisher, authors and peer reviewers.

4.1 Editors and Publisher’s Ethics

  • The IEEM publish and editor take their effort to identify and prevent the research misconduct of paper publications in the IEEM journal. In order to prevent the publication of plagiarized papers, the IEEM is utilizing CNKI Research Misconduct Reference Checking System (Version 5.3) (https://check.cnki.net) to check plagiarism to ensure originality for all submissions to the IEEM. This system is a dominant cross reference checking software from CNKI, and widely used for detecting plagiarism in China. Moreover, the content of the IEEM journal is added into the CNKI Research Misconduct Reference Checking System for others to detect plagiarism.
  • If any allegation of research misconduct occurs (such as plagiarism, copyright infringement or libel), the IEEM journal editor and publisher will deal with it appropriately. If a published article was detected any misconducts such as plagiarism or not disclosure of revenant competing interests even it was published, appropriate actions will be taken such as retract or correct the article and publish a retraction. Announcements will then be published in the current issue for any retraction, clarifications or correction on the article. The IEEM publisher and editors are always willing to express apologies when needed if any of these misconducts happens.
  • The Editor-in-Chief makes the final decisions on manuscripts submitted to the IEEM journal that should be published based on evaluation reports from reviewers, as well as his/her own judgement on the rigor scientific merits of intellectual contents from the manuscripts without commercial considerations. The merits include quality of the presentation, timeline and novelty of the research, potential impacts to the subject fields, and interests to readers.
  • When the Editor-in-Chief evaluates the manuscripts submitted to the IEEM journal, there is no bias regarding race, gender, sexual, ethnic origin, citizenship, or religious belief of authors.
  • IIn the double-blind review processes, the editor and staff in the editorial office will be guided to the peer-review policies. Author’s professional profiles will not be provided to the reviewers, and the reviewers’ identities will not be provided to authors. The editor and staff in the editorial office will also keep the submitted manuscripts to the IEEM journal and the review reports confidential without disclosing any information to a third party. The appropriate information about the manuscripts will only be disclosed to the appropriate persons such as corresponding authors, editors and reviewers.
  • Editors should require authors to disclose any conflicts of interest such as connections of their papers with any institutions or organizations.
  • Editors should not use any unpublished materials in the submitted manuscripts to the IEEM journal and ideas from peer reviewers’ reports for their self-advantages such as their own research or commercial advantages without the written consent from authors.
  • The review processes on sponsored supplements will be the same as those on the manuscripts.

4.2 Authors’ Ethics

  • Authors are required to present original research in the IEEM scientific publications with an acceptable ethical practice such as provide precise research procedures and accurate data sources.
  • Authors are required to cite references and quote literature sources appropriately in their submitted manuscripts to the IEEM journal. Any copying or rephrasing from other articles should be cited accurately and appropriately. Plagiarism is an unethical behavior and unacceptable no matter it is intentional or unintentional.
  • Authors are required to explicitly express or report any information used in the manuscripts submitted to the IEEM journal that are obtained from any other sources such as confidential organizations, grant agencies, services or third parties. Written permissions must be obtained from these sources should any information be used in the manuscripts.
  • Co-authors listed in the manuscripts to the IEEM journal are only those who make significant contributions to their research work. Persons who make certain substantive rather than significant contribution to the research work in the submitted manuscript should be acknowledged.
  • Authors should disclose and acknowledge all sources of related financial or other conflicts of interest (such as grants, patents, etc.) at the initial submission of their manuscripts to the IEEM journal.
  • Corresponding authors should communicate with the other co-authors throughout the whole peer review process, starting from the submission to the final version approval.
  • If there is a significant error found in the publications by authors or third parties, authors should retract or correct their paper promptly and provide any correctness to the Editor-in-Chief.
  • Authors should not submit their manuscripts to the IEEM journal that was published before.
  • Authors should not submit their same manuscript or same research to more than one journal simultaneously.

4.3 Reviewers’ Ethics

  • Reviewers should keep any manuscript review requests from the editor as confidential including the manuscripts, and not show them to anyone except being permitted by the editor.
  • Reviewers should inform the editor and excused themselves from the review processes if they are unable to conduct the reviews by the due dates, unfamiliar with the subjects or unqualified for the reviews.
  • Reviewers should conduct their reviews objectively and provide their own review reports to help authors improve their papers, as well as provide recommendations (reject, minor revision, major revision, acceptance) to the Editor-in-Chief.
  • Reviewers should report any substantial similarity found in the reviewed manuscript submitted to the IEEM journal with other published articles to the Editor-in-Chief, if there is any.
  • Reviewers should report any plagiarism found in the reviewed manuscript to the Editor-in-Chief, if there is any. Examples of plagiarism are copying or rephrasing form other articles without proper citations, referring results from the other publications without proper citations.
  • Reviewers should provide uncited relevant publications to the authors, if there is any.
  • Reviewers should provide criticism to paper citations to the authors if they found any citations in it are inappropriate.
  • Reviewers should not consider any financial or other conflicts of interest of the manuscript such as connections of the manuscript with the authors, organizations and institutions.
  • Reviewers should not use any unpublished materials in the submitted manuscripts to the IEEM journal and ideas obtained from the peer review process (including the other reviewers’ reports) for their self-advantages such as their own research or commercial advantages without the written consent from authors.

5. Copyright and Access

Copyright and licensing information shall be clearly described on the journal’s web site; and the way(s) in which the journal and individual articles are available to readers and whether there are associated subscriptions (or pay-per-view fees) should be clearly stated.

The IEEM journal website shows the copyright.

All accepted papers by the IEEM will be published by OCNKI online. The subscriptions for the IEEM journal and individual published articles online are pay-per-view or pay-per-download. Subscribers need to make payment to the CNKI before viewing or downloading the journal or individual articles.

6. Archiving

A journal’s plan for electronic backup and preservation of access to the journal content in the event a journal is no longer published shall be clearly indicated.

The archives of all the IEEM publications are kept electronically. The journal contents are backup by creating archived files and storing on external hard drives for the purpose of preservation in any events.

All the prints of the IEEM journal are kept in the Editorial Office.

7. Ownership and Management

Information about the ownership and/or management of a journal shall be clearly indicated on the journal’s web site; publishers shall not use organizational names that would mislead potential authors and editors about the nature of the journal’s owner.

The IEEM journal is owned by Editorial Dept. of IEEM journal, Zhejiang University, P. R. China. It is managed by Zhejiang University. The IEEM journal website clearly declared the journal ownership and management.

8. The web site

A journal’s web site (including the text that it contains) shall demonstrate that care has been taken to ensure high ethical and professional standards.

To ensure the high ethical and professional standards of the IEEM journal, the journal website provides peer review procedures, authors’ obligations, publication ethics, copyright and access information etc. on the journal website.

9. Publishing schedule

For serial publications, this is the periodicity at which a journal publishes. This should be clearly indicated.

The IEEM journal is published 12 regular issues per year starting 2024. One volume contains all issues of one year.

The IEEM journal is also published special issues, which focus on specific research themes. The special issues editors can be invited by the IEEM journal editors to edit these special issues. The call-for-papers are announced on the IEEM journal website.

10. Name of the Journal

TThe journal name shall be unique and not be one that is easily confused with other journal(s) or that might mislead potential authors and readers about the journal’s origin or association with other journals.

The name of the journal, Journal of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management is unique, which has no confusion with other journals.

References:

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement (based on Elsevier recommendations and COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors). Retrieved from https://publicationethics.org/ [2019-10-16]

Publication Ethics (based on the Omnia Publisher Publication Ethics statement.). Retrieved from https://www.omniascience.com [2019-10-16]