Publication Ethics

is committed to ensuring ethics in publication and quality of articles. In order to maintain the standards of publication ethics IJITEST takes all possible measures and steps against any publication misconducts. Authors while submitting their manuscript to the IJITEST journal for publication should ensure that their work is entirely original work, and if the work and/or words of others (whole or part) have been used, this has been appropriately acknowledged. In no case the journal or the editors encourage any type of misconduct, or knowingly allow any type of misconduct to take place.

IJITEST panel is committed to objective and unbiased peer review process conducted in collaboration with editorial board members and independent referees, to prevent any type of conflict of interests between the editorial and review personnel and the reviewed paper. If there are any discrepancy from the above, it should be reported to in order to take required actions immediately.

When a scholarly work is submitted to the journal, it first undergoes a preliminary review. The Editor-in-chief decides if the manuscript should be sent for peer review or be immediately rejected. Next step is to select experts from the same field who are qualified and able to review the work impartially and the papers will be sent to them. If a submitted paper is rejected, this does not necessarily mean it is of poor quality. A paper may also be rejected because it doesn't fall within the journal's area of specialisation or because it doesn't meet the high standards of novelty and originality required by the journal in question.

In order to ensure maximum reach of the papers published by , Open Access Policy is adopted; meaning that:

• All the papers published by are made freely accessible online immediately after they are published in an easily readable format, without any subscription or any type of registration.

The works submitted by the authors for publication must be original, previously unpublished, and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. If the author uses any previously published figures, tables, or parts of text are to be included, the copyright-holder's permission must have been obtained prior to submission of the paper.

Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable in any manner. Also submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. So the author(s) are requested not to submit their manuscripts to more than one journal at the same time.

Papers not in accordance with publications ethics and found malpractices will be removed immediately from publication if detected at any point of time.

IJITEST publishers reserves the right to use any plagiarism detecting tool to screen the submitted papers at any time and if any suspected plagiarism or duplicate publishing will be reported immediately.

To minimise requests for post-publication edits:

• Editors will ensure that the author(s) has been given an opportunity to sign off their final draft prior to the files being sent to typesetting. It should be made clear that future edits will not be possible
• Editors shall give the final draft a thorough read through prior to sending it to typesetting to make sure that they are happy with the content
• All articles will have their PDF proofs checked by the author or editor prior to publication. This is a final chance to catch layout errors and minor editorial issues such as typos. This is not an opportunity for wider content editing

i) Amendment

For very minor content or metadata issues, IJITEST may directly amend the article (PDF) if the error is reported very soon after publication (normally 2 days) and the publication has not yet been sent out for indexing.

ii) Correction Article

Once this indexing process has begun (usually within a day or so of publication), all corrections must be released as a separate publication, linked to the original. This ensures that the integrity and transparency of the academic record is maintained.

iii) Retraction

Retractions are used to remove a published paper from the scientific record. Retractions are used when editors have clear evidence that the article’s findings are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct or honest error.

While submitting the proposals for Special Issues, Guest Editors of the special issue must make it sure that the proposal adheres to aims and scopes of the journal.

We are an open access journal and charges applicable for publishing in Special Issue is to compensate the expenses for processing and production of the manuscript.

As part of our commitment to the protection and enhancement of the peer review process, IJITEST journal would like to ensure that all published articles are within the accepted level of plagiarism. The publisher uses plagiarism detection tool to check the plagiarism of the paper submitted. In case, plagiarism is detected during review/editorial process, such manuscript(s) will be rejected immediately.

Please report the plagiarism to

IJITEST Policy on the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Research and Manuscript Preparation

Authors must explicitly disclose all GenAI use in their research and manuscript preparation. This disclosure should appear in the Acknowledgements section.