Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism policy

Our open access journal articles undergo strict multiple-blind peer reviews.
All articles are subjected to at least three blind-peer reviews by the Editorial Review Board of the journal, and domain experts may be invited to review an article.
Final decision with regards to acceptance, revision or rejection of an article will be based on the collated and collective review feedbacks by the reviewers.
All submissions must be submitted electronically via online submission.

We are committed to peer review integrity and encourage the highest standards of ethical publishing across all journals.
We publish only original unpublished articles.
Our publication ethics encourages integrity in research and peer review process as outlined below and we prohibit any malpractices regarding publication.
We use a number of tools and sources to verify the originality of every submitted manuscript.
We promote new research and scientific applications in the field of Cyber Situation Awareness, Cyber Security and Computer science & Engineering in general.

We use IEEE PAL to cross-check authors on the PAL list, and these authors are screened out in the peer-review process.
Manuscript found to have plagiarised other contributions without appropriate citations and references are reported to their institutions, and where this is unresolved and then added to the PAL