Peer-review Policy of IJECI
IJECI maintains the highest standards of peer review to strengthen the process flow. All manuscripts published in our journal undergo dual blind peer review, the main points of which are listed below:

• All research articles are subject to a review process by at least two relevant experts in a similar domain.

• The acceptance decision will be made by the Editors-in-Chief based on the reviewers’ reports

• Editorial Assistants provide administrative support that allows IJECI to maintain the integrity of peer review and increase the efficiency of the process flow.

• IJECI strictly follows the peer review process agreed upon by the editorial board.

IJECI is a specialized scholarly forum for researchers, practitioners, investigators, and academics working in the areas of cybercrime, digital forensics, cybersecurity, and electronic evidence analysis. The journal publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed research papers, technical reviews, and expert surveys that advance understanding of modern cyber threats, investigative techniques, forensic tools, and emerging technologies used in electronic crime investigation.
The scope of IJECI includes, but is not limited to, topics such as digital forensics, cybercrime detection and prevention, network and information security, cyber-attack analysis, malware investigation, incident response, secure communication, artificial intelligence applications in cyber forensics, blockchain-based security, IoT security, cloud forensics, mobile device forensics, data privacy, encryption techniques, and emerging domains relevant to cyber investigation. The journal aims to provide a rigorous academic platform that highlights innovative research trends and state-of-the-art technologies shaping the future of electronic crime investigation and cybersecurity.

Open Access Statement

IJECI is committed to real and immediate open access to academic work, allowing anyone to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the complete texts of its papers for any lawful reason. All articles published in this journal are available online immediately after publication. We do not charge any fees to readers who wish to download papers for scholarly purposes.

Publication Fee

Publishing an article in this open-access journal requires a processing and handling fee of Rs. 15,000. There are no additional charges such as submission fees, page charges, or color charges.

Archiving Policy

Authors may deposit the published version of their articles in any repository immediately after publication without requiring permission

Repository Policy

We encourage authors to post their pre-publication manuscript in institutional repositories or on their websites before and during the submission process and to post the Publisher’s final formatted WORD file version after publication without embargo. These practices benefit authors with productive exchanges as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

Copyright & Licensing Information

IJECI  aims to serve readers' and authors' interests by publishing high-quality original works, maintaining the integrity of these works, defending authors' rights in them against plagiarism, providing a stable means of linking to them, promoting the dissemination of these works to the widest possible readership in contemporary media, and preserving access to them indefinitely despite changes in technology.

Requirement for Copyright or License:

 IJECI requires authors to assign publication rights to the journal as a condition of publishing the work. IJECI relies on either an assignment of copyright with permanent rights reserved to the author, or an equivalent grant of a license.

IJECI publishing uses a process of selection, editorial refinement, production, distribution and access, promotion, indexing, interlinking, functional enhancement, user support, and preservation that requires the coordinated efforts of all participants in the knowledge chain, together with their support structures, and costs a significant amount of money.


Plagiarism

Plagiarism: Plagiarism is the most frequent type of publication malpractice when the work of other researchers is included in one’s own study without the researcher’s prior approval. Even if the contributor does not duly cite the researcher and does not acknowledge him or her in the work, a type of plagiarism exists. In the Oxford Dictionary, plagiarism is defined as copying and using the ideas and work of another person as one’s own scientific contribution. Plagiarism can be in the form of data, phrases and paragraphs and basic ideas and hypotheses. The levels of plagiarism depend on the contents and vary accordingly, such as

• How much quantitative work has been copied, either a few lines, or paragraphs, or a complete section.

• How much in quality is copied, either the main concept or results, or mathematical modeling of the published work.

Self-Plagiarism:  In self-plagiarism, an already published work of an author has been reused by himself as new research work. The degree of self-plagiarism varies by the quantity of reused work as taking a few paragraphs for writing or using the previous experimental setup and results. The reader is misled by the author by presenting his old work as new research, and readers should be informed that the existing work is an extension of the previous work, and it is not a reuse of the already published study.  

A few types of self-plagiarism that happen frequently include

• A previous dataset and experiments are used without informing the reader.

• In the newly submitted work, previous work is included, but it is not cited.