Policies, Copyright, License, and Privacy

Open Access Policy

The Journal Innovation of Civil Engineering (JICE) is committed to advancing scholarly knowledge by ensuring that all published research is freely accessible (open access) globally. Open access allows anyone to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full texts of articles without needing prior permission from the publisher or author.

Why Open Access?

Publishing in an open-access journal offers several key advantages:

  • Free Accessibility: Your research is available to everyone, eliminating subscription or price barriers.
  • Immediate Availability: Articles are made accessible online as soon as they are published, with no embargo period.
  • Reuse Rights: Published materials can be reused freely, provided that proper citation is given to the original source.
  • Creative Commons License: All articles are published under a Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.

By choosing open access, you contribute to the global exchange of knowledge, facilitating interdisciplinary research and providing access to research findings for scientists, researchers in developing countries, and the public. Open-access publishing ensures that your work reaches a broader audience, increasing its visibility and impact.

Benefits for Authors to Publish in Open Access

  • High Availability and Visibility: Your work is accessible to a global audience, enhancing its reach.
  • Higher Citation Impact: Open-access articles typically receive more citations due to their wide availability.

Publishing your research open access ensures that it is freely available to the global scientific community. This guarantees the broadest possible dissemination and impact of our published scholarly work.

Plagiarism Policy

The Plagiarism Screening Process for the Journal Innovation of Civil Engineering (JICE) was carried out twice using the Turnitin application with the following conditions:

  1. Manuscripts submitted first will be screened for plagiarism prior to the initial review process and peer assessment with a maximum word score of 20%.
  2. The manuscript will be screened again, the manuscript report is declared ACCEPTED and has gone through the layout edit process with a maximum word information score less than 20%.

Copyright and License

By submitting their work to the Journal Innovation of Civil Engineering (JICE), authors retain full copyright upon publication, while granting JICE the right of first publication under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This arrangement allows authors to maintain control over their intellectual property while enabling the journal to distribute the work openly.

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.