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Section 1 Ethics
1. For Authors
Authors are obliged to indicate that the submitted article is an original research work (except for review articles) and does not contain any forged, deceptive and plagiarized content. The submitted article does not involve confidential issues, infringement related to intellectual property rights, multiple submission or redundant publication. Author shall promise that they will not re-submit the article to another journal unless it is rejected by this journal. Proper credit shall be given to references cited in text. Institutes, projects and individuals that provide any contribution to the article shall be acknowledged. Comments from reviewers and editors should be respected.
An author should be a person who participates in topic selection, study design, data analysis and manuscript drafting. The order of authors shall be determined before submission and shall not be changed thereafter. The change of order could be made only if a consent letter from all authors is provided. Other contributors for the manuscript should be listed in acknowledgement. “Gift author” is strictly prohibited. Manipulation of authorship is an academic misconduct and will damage the reliability of the article. The Authors Contribution Form should be signed and provided when making submission.
All authors must disclose all potential conflicts of interest, i.e., when the financing / personal status / affiliation of the authors (or the authors' organization / employer) may affect the authors' decision, work or manuscript. When a product is involved, the author should also disclose whether there is a conflict of interest against competitive products. Authors should also submit Statement of Competing Interests along with the manuscript.
Plagiarism is strictly prohibited. Plagiarism refers to the deliberate use of others' works without consent of the original authors, or without proper citation or acknowledgement. Plagiarism includes direct duplicating or rewriting of others' works, which may involve data, words, sentences, paragraphs, ideas and concepts.
Date forgery is strictly prohibited. Forgery refers to data or conclusions that are not obtained from experiments or research, but are forged and tampered by authors.
2. For Reviewers
Reviewers shall guarantee that they review the manuscripts accurately, objective and fairly on the basis of scientific quality. They should use their professional knowledge and ability to review the innovation, scientificity and practicability of manuscripts, and give a fair evaluation on whether the research method is appropriate, whether the scientific research design is reasonable, whether the results and conclusions are accurate, and whether confidential issues is involved, so as to help the editors select manuscripts.
Reviewers should respect the research achievements of authors and avoid reviewing manuscripts with competing interests. The review will only be based on academical standards instead of personal reasons. The selection of manuscripts shall not be affected by authors’ race, gender, religion, belief, social status, qualifications and authority. The review result should be clearly stated with sufficient arguments and facts.
Reviewers shall keep confidential the content of the manuscripts strictly, and shall not release or discuss the manuscripts to others, nor use or publish the data, opinions and conclusions of the manuscripts. All review comments and information must be kept confidential and not used for personal purposes. Reviewers should avoid processing manuscripts for which they have competing interests.
3. For Editors
Editors shall strictly implement laws and national regulations, follow academic and publishing ethical standards, and maintain research integrity. Editors should process manuscripts in a timely and fair manner to keep the publishing plan and article quality. Editors shall respect the research results of authors and comments of reviewers, maintain the authentic records of the review, and keep confidential the data in all aspects of review and revision.
Editors shall have obligation to investigate academic misconduct and communicate with authors. Once there is an appeal from authors, editors shall process the case timely. If necessary, editors shall publish corrections, clarifications, withdrawals or apologies in a timely manner. Editors have right to trace back the responsibility of authors and reviewers for their academic misconduct.
Editors shall protect the information submitted by authors and the identity information of reviewers and other relevant personnel in the editorial office during the blind review. Editors should avoid processing manuscripts for which they have competing interests.
Section 2 Peer Review and Editing
1 Peer Review Policy: The journal adopts double-blind and three-rounds review system. For the specific review process, please refer to the Review Process on this website.
2 Editing Policy: Authors shall be responsible for their own writing. The editorial office of this journal could make technical and textual modifications to manuscripts. Authors should make statement in their manuscripts if they don’t accept any modification.
3 Timing: The review result generally will be returned to the authors within 3 months after submission. If the authors do not receive the notice of revision more than 3 months, the submission can be regarded as rejected.
4 Editor Submission: The editorial staff / editors / editorial board members should not be involved in publishing decisions on papers which they have written themselves or have been written by their family members or colleagues. Any such submission should be strictly subject to the journal’s usual editorial process. Peer review should be handled independently from the relevant author/editor and their research groups.
5 Appeal: Authors may make an appeal if they disagree with the comment of the reviewers. Authors need to write an appeal letter (with the manuscript serial number) and send it to xuebao@ecjtu.edu.cn. Detailed reasons for appealing must be stated, including a comprehensive and reasonable answer to the reviewers’ comment. The appeal letter should also be stamped by the author’s institute. The editorial department will consider whether to change the decision on a case-by-case basis.
Section 3 Correction and Retraction
1 General Situation: Articles published online or in print are considered the final and complete version. In principle, the journal does not make corrections or retractions on published articles. However, in case of the situations described below, corrections or retractions may be carried out if truly necessary.
2 Correction: If there appears to be an unintended scientific mistake in the article which would not lead to significant impacts on the results and conclusion, the editorial office will publish corrections in the journal as soon as possible, detailing the changes made to the original article and indicating the source of the article. The journal will release the corrected new version of the article, and specify the changes to the original article and the date of update. In addition, the superseded version will also be archived. Readers can obtain it directly, but only the latest version of the article should be used for citation.
3 Retraction: In the following cases, the editorial office would retract published articles and issue retraction statements:
1) If an article is found to have severe scientific errors making the results and conclusion of the article unreliable;
2) For article suspected of academic misconduct, such as plagiarism and data falsification, the editorial office will initiate an investigation and issue a statement to inform readers of the risks associated with the article. Once the investigation is completed, the result will be made public. If the academic misconduct is confirmed, the article will be immediately retracted and a retraction statement will be issued by the editorial office.
Section 4 Open Access, Copyright and Archive
1 Open Access:Journal of East China Jiaotong University flipped to an open access journal in 2022. Once published, all articles will be immediately and permanently available for readers to read and download free of charge. Articles published from 2018 to 2021 are also open access on this website; articles published before 2018 are not open access for now. Permitted third party reuse of all open access articles published by the journal is defined by the following user license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license allows reusers to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as the license terms below are followed: reusers must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. Reusers may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses the use. Reusers may not use the material for commercial purposes. If reusers remix, transform, or build upon the material, they may not distribute the modified material. The authors have right to spread or make use of the article under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
2 Copyright Policy: Authors are required to sign the Copyright Transfer Agreement. Authors shall agree to transfer the copyright of the article, including the right of compilation (part or whole of the article), translation, reproduction of printed and electronic versions, information network dissemination, and distribution, to the editorial office of Journal of East China Jiaotong University.
3 Archive: Since 2018, all journal articles have been digitally archived and can be searched and downloaded from the journal website. In order to ensure data security. Before 2018, all information has also been backed up in the editorial office. The hard and soft copy of each issue of the journal had been kept in the editorial office for archiving. In addition, other relevant materials are also kept by the editorial office, such as supplementary information and forms provided by the authors.
4 Open Science and Data Sharing: The editorial office strives to respect the protection of intellectual property and requires editors, authors and reviewers to do so. Any potential infringement should be avoided. Third-party infringement to the intellectual property of the journal is prohibited. On the premise of intellectual property protection, the journal encourages the practice of open science. Authors are encouraged to publish or share their research data whenever appropriate. The data for sharing may include original data, observation records, experimental results, etc. The journal also encourages the sharing of software, code, models, algorithms, protocols, methods and other useful materials. Authors can upload the materials above to an accessible third-party repository and make a proper citation or add a link at the end of the article.