Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Computer Science and Information Technologies is an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes high quality and refereed papers which reports original research and innovative applications in all areas of Computer Science, Informatics, Electronics, Communication and Information Technologies. Papers for publication in the journal are selected through rigorous peer review, to ensure originality, timeliness, relevance, and readability. The journal also seeks clearly written survey and review articles from experts in the field, to promote insightful understanding of the state-of-the-art and technology trends.

Topics of interest include but not limited to:

  • 3G, 4G, 5G, 6G and Next Generation Technologies (Network Evolution)
  • Ad-Hoc, Mobile, Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing
  • Advanced Numerical Algorithms
  • Algorithms and Bioinformatics
  • Architectures and Computation Models, Compiler, Hardware and OS Issues
  • Artifial Intelligence& Pattern/Image Recognition
  • Authentication/Authorization Issues
  • CDMA/GSM Communication Protocol
  • Complex Systems: Modeling and Simulation
  • Computational Intelligence, Granular Computing and Soft Computing
  • Computational Science Aspects of Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Text Mining
  • Computer Architecture and Real Time Systems
  • Cryptography and Foundation of Computer Security
  • Data Base Management Systems (DBMS) & Information Retrieval
  • Data Visualization and Virtual Reality
  • Database and Data Mining
  • Dependable, Reliable and Autonomic Computing
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Distributed and Parallel Systems & Algorithms
  • DSP/Image Processing/Pattern Recognition/Multimedia
  • e-Business Applications
  • Embedded System and Software
  • Foundations of High-performance Computing
  • Game and Software Engineering
  • Geographical Information Systems/ Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GIS/GNSS)
  • Grid and Scalable Computing
  • Hardware/Software Co-design and VLSI Support
  • Hybrid Computational Methods
  • IDS/Firewall, Anti-Spam mail, Anti-virus issues
  • Intelligent Information & Database Systems
  • IT policy and Business Management
  • Mobile Agent Computing
  • Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
  • Mobile Computing for e-Commerce
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Multimedia Systems and Services
  • Networking and Communications
  • New Algorithmic Approaches to Computational Kernels and Applications
  • Parallel and Distributed Systems
  • PKI (Public Key Infrastructures)
  • Possibility Theory, Bayes Network and Hidden Markov Models
  • Problem Solving Environments
  • Quality of Services and Communication Protocol
  • Scientific and Engineering Computing
  • Security and Information Assurance
  • Soft Computing (AI, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, etc.)
  • Software Engineering
  • Theory of Parallel Processing and Distributed Computing
  • Web and Grid-based Computing and Simulation
  • Web and Internet Computing
  • Wireless Security System
  • Any other topics relevant to latest trends in Computer Science and Information Technologies

 

Section Policies

 

Peer Review Process

This journal operates a conventional single-blind reviewing policy in which the reviewer's name is always concealed from the submitting author. Authors should present their papers honestly without fabrication, falsification, plagiarism or inappropriate data manipulation. Submitted papers are evaluated by anonymous referees for contribution, originality, relevance, and presentation. Papers will be sent for anonymous review by at least two reviewers who will either be members of the Editorial Board or others of similar standing in the field. In order to shorten the review process and respond quickly to authors, the Editors may triage a submission and come to a decision without sending the paper for external review. The Editor shall inform you of the results of the review as soon as possible, hopefully in 6-10 weeks. The Editors’ decision is final and no correspondence can be entered into concerning manuscripts considered unsuitable for publication in this ournal. All correspondence, including notification of the Editors’ decision and requests for revisions, will be sent by email.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. 

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science (IAES) is a non-profit international scientific association of distinguished scholars engaged in engineering and science devoted to promoting researches and technologies in engineering and science field through digital technology. IAES Journals are peer-reviewed international journals. This statement clarifies ethical behaviour of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in our journals, including the authors, the editors, the peer-reviewer­­­­­s and the publisher (Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science). This statement is based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Click here for more information on Research and Publication Ethics.

 

Abstracting and Indexing

- Crossref
- Dimensions
- Fatcat
Google Scholar

 

Checklist for preparing your paper for publication

  1. Is your manuscript written in IAES format?  At this stage, it is essential that you follow every detail of IAES format. Please try to follow the format as closely as possible.
  2. is your title adequate and is your abstract correctly written? The title of the paper is max 10 words, without Acronym or abbreviation. The Abstract (MAX 200 WORDS) should be informative and completely self-explanatory (no citation in the abstract), provide a clear statement of the problem, the proposed approach or solution, and point out major findings and conclusions.
  3. Authors are suggested to present their articles in the structure of the section: 1. Introduction - 2. The Proposed Method/Algorithm/Procedure specifically designed (optional) - 3. Research Method - 4. Results and Discussion – 5. Conclusion. Authors may present complex proofs of theorems or non-obvious proofs of correctness of algorithms after the introduction section (obvious theorems & straightforward proofs of existing theorems are NOT needed).
  4. Introduction section: explain the context of the study and state the precise objective. An Introduction should contain the following three parts:
    - Background: Authors have to make clear what the context is. Ideally, authors should give an idea of the state-of-the-art of field the report is about.
    - The Problem: If there was no problem, there would be no reason for writing a manuscript, and definitely no reason for reading it. So, please tell readers why they should proceed with reading. Experience shows that for this part a few lines are often sufficient.
    - The Proposed Solution: Now and only now! - authors may outline the contribution of the manuscript. Here authors have to make sure readers point out what are the novel aspects of authors' work.
    Authors should place the paper in proper context by citing relevant papers. At least, 5 references (recently journal articles) are used in this section.
  5. Method section: the presentation of the experimental methods should be clear and complete in every detail facilitating reproducibility by other scientists.
  6. Results and discussion section: The presentation of results should be simple and straightforward in style. This section reports the most important findings, including results of statistical analyses as appropriate and comparisons to other research results. Results given in figures should not be repeated in tables. This is where the author(s) should explain in words what he/she/they discovered in the research. It should be clearly laid out and in a logical sequence. This section should be supported suitable references.
  7. Conclusion section: Summarize sentences the primary outcomes of the study in a paragraph. Are the claims in this section supported by the results, do they seem reasonable? Have the authors indicated how the results relate to expectations and to earlier research? Does the article support or contradict previous theories? Does the conclusion explain how the research has moved the body of scientific knowledge forward?
  8. Language. If an article is poorly written due to grammatical errors, while it may make it more difficult to understand the science.
  9. Please be sure that the manuscript is up to date. The number of minimum references is 25 to 30 entries (and the 20 entries are recent journal articles) for original research articles; and minimum references is 50 to 55 entries for review papers.
  10. Is the manuscript clearly written?  Is the article exciting? Does the content flow well from one section to another? Please try to keep your manuscript on the proper level.  It should be easy to understand by well-qualified professionals, but at the same time please avoid describing well-known facts (use proper references instead). Often manuscripts receive negative reviews because reviewers are not able to understand the manuscript and this is the authors' (not reviewers') fault.  Notice, that if reviewers have difficulties, then other readers will face the same problem and there is no reason to publish the manuscript.
  11. Do you have enough references?  We will usually expect a minimum of 20 to 25 references primarily to journal papers, depending on the length of the paper. Citations of textbooks should be used very rarely and citations to web pages should be avoided. All cited papers should be referenced within the text of the manuscript.
  12. Figures and Tables. Relation of Tables or Figures and Text: Because tables and figures supplement the text, all tables and figures should be referenced in the text. Avoid placing figures and tables before their first mention in the text. Authors also must explain what the reader should look for when using the table or figure. Focus only on the important point the reader should draw from them, and leave the details for the reader to examine on her own.

    Figures:
    a.    All figures appearing in the article must be numbered in the order that they appear in the text.
    b.    Each figure must have a caption fully explaining the content
    c.    Figure captions are presented as a paragraph starting with the figure number i.e. Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.
    d.    Figure captions appear below the figure
    e.    Each figure must be fully cited if taken from another article
    f.    all figures must be referred to in the body of the article

    Tables:
    a.    Material that is tabular in nature must appear in a numbered captioned table.
    b.    All tables appearing in the article must be numbered in the order that they appear in the text.
    c.    Each table must have a caption fully explaining the content with the table number i.e. Table 1, Table 2, etc.
    d.    Each column must have a clear and concise heading
    e.    Tables are to be presented with a single horizontal line under: the table caption, the column headings, and at the end of the table.
    f.    All tables must be referred to in the body of the article
    g.    Each table must be fully cited if taken from another article
  13. Each citation should be written in the order of appearance in the text in square brackets. For example, the first citation [1], the second citation [2], and the third and fourth citations [3], [4]. When citing multiple sources at once, the preferred method is to list each number separately, in its own brackets, using a comma or dash between numbers, as such: [1], [3], [5] or [4]-[8]. It is not necessary to mention an author's name, pages used, or date of publication in the in-text citation. Instead, refer to the source with a number in a square bracket, e.g. [9], that will then correspond to the full citation in your reference list. Examples of in-text citations:
    • This theory was first put forward in 1970 [9].
    • Sutikno [10] has argued that...
    • Several recent studies [7], [9], [11]-[15] have suggested that...
    • ...end of the line for my research [16].
  14. Self-citations: to control for citation manipulation (COPE, 2019), this journal asks that authors keep self-citation to a minimum. We would strongly recommend no more than 5 (including jointly authored publications), or 20% self-citations, whichever number is lower.
  15. Please be aware that for the final submission of a regular paper you will be asked to tailor your paper so the last page is not half empty.

 

Withdrawal of Manuscripts

The author is not allowed to withdraw submitted manuscripts because the withdrawal is a waste of valuable resources. Editors and referees spent a great deal of time processing submitted manuscripts and invested money and time. If the author still requests withdrawal of his or her manuscript when the manuscript is still in the peer-reviewing process, the author will be punished by paying $200 per manuscript as a withdrawal penalty to the publisher. However, it is unethical to withdraw a submitted manuscript from one journal if it is accepted by another journal. If the author withdraws a manuscript after it is accepted for publication, the author will be punished by paying US$500 per manuscript. Withdrawal of an accepted manuscript is only allowed after the withdrawal penalty has been fully paid to the publisher. If the author doesn't agree to pay the penalty, the author and his or her affiliation will be blacklisted for publication in this journal in the future. Even his or her previously published articles will be removed from our online system.