Ethics

The Publication Ethics, Rights and Malpractice
The Publication Ethics, Rights and Malpractice are in agreement with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

The International Journal of Conservation Science (IJCS) is a high quality peer-reviewed journal devoted to the publication of original research papers in the broad field of materials science and engineering.
IJCS is an OPEN ACCESS journal. 
The journal DOES NOT HAVE a submission or retraction fee.

Article Publication Charge (APC) is 500 EUR.
Outstanding articles, invited scholars and the ones from lower income countries are eligible for discounts. The APC is paid only after evaluation and acceptance of the article.

The Authors are encouraged to support the journal’s development with any amount, this doesn’t influence the acceptance for publication of an article.

IJCS publishes original research papers, review articles, survey articles and book and project reviews in all areas dedicated to materials research.
IJCS is edited by Romanian Inventors Forum. See Editorial Board [ here ].

Publication ethics
Publishers and editors will take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred. Plagiarism software is used for primary check-up of manuscripts. We do not encourage any misconduct or fraud.

In the event that a published article doesn’t respect the ethics, will be retracted and the information will be displayed on the webpage of the journal, respectively all databases will be informed. The authors involved in non-ethical issues will be banned from publication for a specific amount of time.

Corrections or clarifications are possible on articles, based on letter to editor, if issues are identified. If is the case the authors will offer apologies.

Duplicate Publication      
It is unethical for authors to submit multiple similar manuscripts for publication at a time. It is also unethical for authors to submit a manuscript that has already been published or is in the process of review elsewhere.

The publication which exhibits substantial overlapping from two or more previous publications without appropriate cross-referencing or justification for the overlap, i.e. redundant publications, are accepted only if: (i) it is felt that editorially this will strengthen the academic discourse and (ii) citation to the original source is included.

Reproducibility, Plagiarism and Falsification          
Authors must report their work accurately and precisely in order to be reproduced by other researchers independently. Plagiarism and falsification in any parts of the submitted paper are serious offences to the scientific community and must strictly be avoided.

Using artificial intelligence (AI) to create written or visual content

Authors should not include generative AI technology as a co-author or author on any submitted manuscript. Generative AI technologies cannot be held accountable for all aspects of a manuscript, and thus do not meet the criteria for authorship.

If the author of a submitted manuscript used written or visual content created or edited with generative AI technology, the use must adhere to all publishing guidelines and policies. Specifically, the author is responsible for verifying the factual accuracy of any content generated by generative AI technology. This includes, but is not limited to, all quotes, citations, and references. Figures created or edited with generative AI technology must be verified to ensure they accurately reflect the data presented in the manuscript. Authors must also ensure that any written or visual content created or edited using generative AI technology is plagiarism-free.

If the author of a submitted manuscript used written or visual content created or edited with generative AI technology, such use must be acknowledged in the manuscript’s acknowledgements section as well as the methods section, if applicable. This explanation must include the name, version, model, and source of the generative AI technology.
We encourage authors to include all input prompts and outputs received from generative AI technology in the manuscript’s supplementary files.

Data and Supporting Evidence
We support transparency and openness around data, code, and other materials associated with research. We expect authors to maintain accurate records of supporting evidence necessary to allow others to understand, verify, and replicate new findings, and to supply or provide access to this supporting evidence, on reasonable request.

Peer-review Process         
All articles published in the IJCS are subjected to peer-review. Single blind Peer-review is used, involving minimum 2 top experts in the field for each article (Reviewers aware of the name of authors, but authors do not know the name of reviewers). All reviewers involved in the journal’s work should not have any conflict of interest.

Authorship
The co-authors should be limited to those who have sufficiently contributed to the content of the work in responsible and accountable manners. The corresponding author must confirm that submission of the manuscript has been approved by all co-authors. Authors are obliged to participate in peer review process. All authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes. Please make sure that financial support is presented, if any.

Conflict of Interest           
Authors must disclose conflicts of interest and state all funding sources that have supported the work.

Research with Humans or Animals
Research involving humans or animals should be approved by relevant ethics committee(s) and should conform to international ethical and legal standards for research. We also expect authors to respect human participants’ right to privacy, and to gain any necessary consent to publish before submitting to IJCS.

Copyright – CC BY-NC  
IJCS is an OPEN ACCESS journal. All content is freely available without charge to any user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. It is compulsory to insert reference/to cite the article source.

Concerning the permission for copyrighted images used in your manuscript, this is entirely the responsibility of authors (whether they’ll be screenshots – e.g. of a scene from a video, photos, figures, tables, maps, graphics, etc.), and the author must have the copyright agreement for the images/data used from non open access journals.

As an author, you retain rights for large number of authors uses, including use by your employing institute or company. These rights are retained and permitted without the need to obtain specific permission from Editor. These include:

  • the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to full texts of the article;
  • the right to present the journal article at a meeting or a conference;
  • the right to include the journal article, in full or in part, in a thesis or dissertation;
  • patent and trademark rights and rights to any process or procedure described in the journal article;
  • the right to use the journal article or any part thereof in a printed compilation of works of the author,
  • the right to prepare other derivative works, to extend the journal article into book-length form, or to otherwise re-use portions or excerpts in other works, with full acknowledgement of its original publication in the journal.

Publication Fee: 500 EUR – waived until December 2023. 

The IJCS publishes 4 regular issues/year (March/June/September/December).

Digital Archiving Policy
     LOCKSS – multiple copies – saved on different servers and backups.