Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Journal of Privacy-Aware Computing Systems is committed to maintaining ethical standards in scholarly publishing. Authors, editors, reviewers, and publisher representatives are expected to follow responsible publication practices and avoid all forms of academic misconduct.

Author Responsibilities

Authors must submit original work that is accurate, properly cited, and not under consideration elsewhere. All listed authors must have made a meaningful contribution to the manuscript and must approve the final version before submission. Authors must disclose conflicts of interest, funding sources, data sources, software dependencies, ethics approvals where applicable, and any information that may influence interpretation of the research.

Editor Responsibilities

Editors are responsible for evaluating manuscripts based on academic merit, relevance to the journal scope, originality, ethical compliance, privacy responsibility, security relevance, and technical quality. Editorial decisions should not be influenced by personal, commercial, political, institutional, or discriminatory considerations.

Reviewer Responsibilities

Reviewers should provide objective, constructive, and timely feedback. Reviewers must treat manuscripts as confidential documents and must not use unpublished content, technical models, software ideas, datasets, algorithms, privacy frameworks, security findings, or results for personal advantage. Reviewers should declare any conflict of interest before accepting a review assignment.

Publication Misconduct

Publication misconduct includes plagiarism, duplicate submission, data fabrication, data falsification, image manipulation, result manipulation, authorship manipulation, citation manipulation, undisclosed conflicts of interest, unethical research practices, privacy violations, irresponsible disclosure of sensitive data, and any deliberate attempt to mislead editors, reviewers, or readers.

Corrections and Retractions

If errors or ethical concerns are identified after publication, the journal may issue a correction, expression of concern, or retraction depending on the nature and severity of the issue. The editorial team will review each case carefully and take appropriate action.