Journals

 

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

 

 

Section A: Publication and authorship
Section B: Authors' responsibilities
Section C: Reviewers' responsibilities
Section D: Editors' responsibilities
Section E: Retraction Policy

 

 

Section A: Publication and authorship

  1. All submitted papers are subject to strict peer-review process by at least three international reviewers that are experts in the area of the particular paper.
     
  2. The factors that are taken into account in review are relevance, soundness, significance, originality, readability and language.
     
  3. The possible decisions include acceptance, acceptance with revisions, or rejection.
     
  4. If authors are encouraged to revise and resubmit a submission, there is no guarantee that the revised submission will be accepted.
     
  5. Rejected articles will not be re-reviewed.
     
  6. The paper acceptance is constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism.
     
  7. No research can be included in more than one publication.
     
  8. Authors with accepted papers cannot withdraw after the completion of the review process.
     

 

Section B: Authors' responsibilities

  1. Authors must certify that their manuscripts are their original work.
     
  2. Authors must certify that the manuscript has not previously been published elsewhere.
     
  3. Authors must certify that the manuscript is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere.
     
  4. Authors must participate in the peer review process.
     
  5. Authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.
     
  6. All Authors mentioned in the paper must have significantly contributed to the research.
     
  7. Authors must state that all data in the paper are real and authentic.
     
  8. Authors must notify the Editors of any conflicts of interest.
     
  9. Authors must identify all sources used in the creation of their manuscript.
     
  10. Authors must report any errors they discover in their published paper to the Editors.

 

Section C: Reviewers' responsibilities

  1. Reviewers should keep all information regarding papers confidential and treat them as privileged information.
     
  2. Reviews should be conducted objectively, with no personal criticism of the author
     
  3. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments
     
  4. Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.
     
  5. Reviewers should also call to the Editor in Chief's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
     
  6. Reviewers should not review manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

 

Section D: Editors' responsibilities

  1. Editors have complete responsibility and authority to reject/accept an article.
     
  2. Editors are responsible for the contents and overall quality of the publication.
     
  3. Editors should always consider the needs of the authors and the readers when attempting to improve the publication.
     
  4. Editors should guarantee the quality of the papers and the integrity of the academic record.
     
  5. Editors should publish errata pages or make corrections when needed.
     
  6. Editors should have a clear picture of a research's funding sources.
     
  7. Editors should base their decisions solely one the papers' importance, originality, clarity and relevance to publication's scope.
     
  8. Editors should not reverse their decisions nor overturn the ones of previous editors without serious reason.
     
  9. Editors should preserve the anonymity of reviewers.
     
  10. Editors should ensure that all research material they publish conforms to internationally accepted ethical guidelines.
     
  11. Editors should only accept a paper when reasonably certain.
     
  12. Editors should act if they suspect misconduct, whether a paper is published or unpublished, and make all reasonable attempts to persist in obtaining a resolution to the problem.
     
  13. Editors should not reject papers based on suspicions, they should have proof of misconduct.
     
  14. Editors should not allow any conflicts of interest between staff, authors, reviewers and board members.

Bulletin Board


Get recognition for your reviews for WSEAS. The WSEAS participates now in the great program of Publons. Reviewers of WSEAS can contact us to learn how to update their profile in Publons with their Reviews in WSEAS.

Examples:
https://publons.com/researcher/1681487/danuta-szpilko/peer-review/

https://publons.com/researcher/1749776/dr-tarkeshwar-patil/peer-review/


Before the peer-review, each article in WSEAS Journals and Conferences are checked for possible plagiarism and self-plagiarism by Turnitin

 


Each published article in WSEAS has DOI by Crossref

 


 Google Scholar

 


WSEAS participates now in Semantic Scholar search engine

 


WSEAS Publication have digital preservation in Portico

 


WSEAS participates now in CNKI

 


Before the peer-review  and after the anti-plagiarism control by Turnitin, we check the names of the authors and their affiliations very carefully. We also check using Google Scholar  if they have published enough papers in the last 5 years.


What do the Authors say about publishing in our Journals


Prof. Nicholas Tritos from Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, joined us as Associate Editor in our Journal WSEAS Transactions on Biology and Biomedicine

Prof. V.R.Singh Fellow-IEEE/EMBS-IMS, Fellow IET, National Physical Laboratory, India, joined us as Associate Editor in our Journal WSEAS Transactions on Biology and Biomedicine

Prof. George Vachtsevanos, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, joined us as Co-Editor-in-Chief in our Journal WSEAS Transactions on Computers


 












Photos from the WSEAS Conferences in Rome, Italy



 

Photos from the WSEAS Conferences in Salerno, Italy

 




 









Photos from the WSEAS Conferences in Florence, Italy






















Photos from the WSEAS Conferences in Salerno, Italy
and from the Conference Excursion in Pompei


Prof. Paul G. Mezey, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Prof. Paul D. Sclavounos, MIT
Prof. George Vachtsevanos, GIT, USA












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