Computer Engineering will always adhere to the acknowledged publishing ethics. The authors, reviewers and journal editors of Computer Engineering should abide by the following guidelines, as well as other rules and requirements of this journal.

Ethical guidelines for reviewers

1. Peer reviewers help editors decide the acceptance or rejection of submissions, and help authors improve the quality of their works.

2. Reviewers should identify the sources of data in the submissions. Should plagiarism or duplicate submissions and publications be found, it is the reviewer’s obligation to notify the editors.

3. Reviewers must give unbiased appraisements to each submitted manuscript, and the appraisements should be based on sufficient arguments.

4. Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.

5. Any manuscript received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others without the authorization of editors and authors.

6. The information acquired during the review process must be kept confidential, and unauthorized use of the information is not allowed. Reviewer must not reject a submission for interest conflicts reasons such as competition and collaboration. 

7. If review cannot be completed on time, it is the reviewer’s obligation to inform editors, so that the manuscript can be reassigned to other reviewers.

Ethical guidelines for editors

1. Editors can receive, reject or require modification of a manuscript according to the review comments of reviewers and the review reports of editorial board.

2. Editors should evaluate a manuscript in the light of their importance, originality, clarity and relevancy to the journal, without regard to race, gender, religion or nationality.

3. Editors must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone outside of the peer review process.

4. Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor’s own work without the written permission of the author.

Copyright and licensing

Authors should sign a Copyright Transfer Agreement. Once the papers are published, the copyrights of the papers are transferred to the editorial board of Computer Engineering, including the rights for publication in electronic editions, multi-media editions, online editions, and editions in other media. Authors should also permit sharing the papers and research data in proper databases.

Open access statement

Computer Engineering is an open access journal which means that all contents are freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.