Peer review process: 

JCES is a double-blind peer-reviewed electronic annualy publication concerned with all aspects of Civil Engineering. This process, as well as any policies related to the journal’s peer review procedures, is clearly described on the journal’s Web site.

(https://www.journalces.com/index.php/JCES/PeerReviewPolicy)

Governing Body: 

JCES has a editorial board, whose members are recognized experts in the subject areas included within the journal’s scope. The full names and affiliations of the journal’s editors are provided on the journal’s Web site.

(https://www.journalces.com/index.php/JCES/about/editorialTeam)

Identification of and dealing with allegations of research misconduct: 

Editor-in-Chief takes reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, among others.

Website: 

A journal’s Website (www.journalces.com) contains that care has been taken to ensure high ethical and professional standards.

Contact information:

Journal is provided the contact information for the editorial office of JCES.

(https://www.journalces.com/index.php/JCES/about/contact)

Name of journal: 

The Journal name of JCES has unique and not be one that is easily confused with another journal.

Conflicts of interest:

Authors are requested to evident whether impending conflicts do or do not exist while submitting their articles to JCES through Conflict of Interest Disclosure form.

Declaration of Competing Interests:

The editor must not be involved in decisions about manuscripts which authors has written him/herself or have been written by family members, colleagues or which relate to products or services in which the editor has an interest. Further, any such submission must be subject to all of the journal’s usual procedures, peer review must be handled independently of the relevant author/editor and their research groups, and there must be a clear statement to this effect on any paper that is published.

Acknowledgments:

All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an "Acknowledgements" section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help or writing assistance or a department chair who provided only general support.

Disclosure of Funding Sources:

JCES authors are required to declare what support they received to carry out their research. Declaring funding sources acknowledges funders’ contributions, fulfills funding requirements and promotes greater transparency in the research process.

Duties and Responsibilities of Editors

• The Editors of the journal should have the full authority to reject/accept a manuscript.
• The Editors of the journal should maintain the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts under review or until they are published.
• The Editor-in-Chief should take a decision on submitted manuscripts, whether to be published or not with other editors and reviewers.
• The Editors of the journal should preserve the anonymity of reviewers.
• The Editors of the journal should disclose and try to avoid any conflict of interest.
• The Editors of the journal should maintain academic integrity and strive to meet the needs of readers and authors.
• The Editors of the journal should be willing to investigate plagiarism and fraudulent data issues and willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed.
• The Editors of the journal should have the limit themselves only to the intellectual content.
• The Editors of the journal must not disclose any information about submitted manuscripts to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
• Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted paper will not be used by the editor or the members of the editorial board for their own research purposes without the author's explicit written consent.
• Guest editors play a vital role in acquiring content and leading the review process for special issue publications.
• Associate editors play a key role in peer-reviewed publishing, supporting the journal editor as subject experts on various topics. Associate editors oversee assigned manuscripts, moving these papers through review and revision. AEs are responsible for assessing manuscript quality, obtaining peer reviews, requesting revisions where appropriate, and making recommendations to the journal editor about the acceptance or rejection of a manuscript.

Duties and Responsibilities of Reviewers

• The Reviewers of the journal should assist the Editors in taking the decision for publishing the submitted manuscripts.
• The Reviewers should maintain the confidentiality of manuscripts, which they are invited to review.
• The Reviewers should provide comments in time that will help editors to make a decision on the submitted manuscript to be published or not.
• The Reviewers are bound to treat the manuscript received for peer reviewing as confidential, and must not use the information obtained through peer review for personal advantage.
• The Reviewers comments against each invited manuscript should be technical, professional and objective.
• The Reviewers should not review the manuscripts in which they have found conflicts of interest with any of the authors, companies, or institutions.
• The Reviewers should disclose and try to avoid any conflict of interest.

Authors of Journal of Civil Engineering and Structures must confirm the following:

• Submitted manuscripts must be the original work of the author(s);
• The submitting corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the manuscript article's publication has been approved by all the other coauthors;
• Only unpublished manuscripts should be submitted;
• All authors have agreed to allow the corresponding author to serve as the correspondent with the editorial office, to review the edited manuscript and proof;
• Acknowledge the sources of data used in the development of the manuscript;
• All listed authors must have made a significant scientific contribution to the research in the manuscript and approved all its claims;
• All errors discovered in the manuscript after submission must be swiftly communicated to the Editor;
• All authors must know that the submitted manuscripts under review or published with JCES are subject to screening using Plagiarism Prevention Software. Plagiarism is a serious violation of publication ethics.

Plagiarism scan using iThenticate system:

Since june 2018, Journal of Civil Engineering and Structures (JCES) has started to use plagiarism checker for the quality of all submitted articles in review process; once a paper is reviewed before any decision and editorial board meet, we shall provide full report from iThenticate to assist us to judge and make correct decision. Based on recommendation the results would be shared with authors for revision and improving the quality of publication in JCES. For any submitted manuscript with plagiarism level greater than 20% is automatically rejected. Manuscripts submitted to JCES should be original and must not be plagiarized. Even reviewed article before any final decision is checked for plagiarism through iThenticate data base. In fact JCES board members welcome international publishers to provide special services for improving internationalization and help us to get perfect global impact and publicity.

Complaint Process:

 

The authors have the right to complain and ask explanation if they perceive any misconduct in any applicable policies and ethical guidelines. The authors can raise their complaints by submitting a letter to: (journalces.managing@gmail.com) We follow the COPE guidelines on responding to whistleblowers, which includes protecting anonymity. All the complaints regarding delinquencies in the work processes are investigated according to the prevailing publication ethics practices. An author or any other scholar may submit their complaints about any issues related to:

- Authorship issues;

- Bias in the review process;

- Copyright violation;

- Deceiving in research results or wrong research results;

- Manuscript processing time is unusually late;

- Plagiarism;

- The peer-review comments are unsatisfactory;

- Unrevealed conflicts of interest; and  

- Violations of research ethics and integrity.

COPE:

The Journal of Civil Engineering and Structures (JCES) follows the policies and guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and abides by its Code of Conduct in dealing with potential cases of misconduct.