Policies and ethics for publication are listed below. The topics for the policies and publication ethics include authorship, peer-review process, submitting original papers and plagiarism, archiving, fees, open access, duplicate publication, competing interests, publication malpractice, and conflicts of interest. All authors should be aware of and comply with the policies and ethics in publishing articles in the Journal of IEIE.

1) Publication Ethics

Authorship

Authors are expected to be aware of and comply with the best practice in authorship. To avoid authorship issues such as ghost or guest authorship and make the author contributions transparent, biographies of all authors must be included after the references. It is expected that all authors have made significant contributions and are aware of and obliged to follow the listed policies on this page. At least one lead contact with the corresponding author should be stated in the submitting article. The corresponding author should be responsible for the supervision of the work, approval of all contents and the submission of the paper, appropriate authorship designation of all authors, and cooperation with the journal throughout the submission, review process, and after publication. For equal contributors, the authors must note this on the first page of the article. All authors should be responsible for revision and/or withdrawal of their manuscript as well as preparation of the original manuscript.

Submitting Original Papers and Plagiarism

The contents of the Journal of IEIE are peer-reviewed and archived. The authors must convince both peer reviewers and the editors of the scientific and technical merit of their paper. All authors should submit the manuscript containing the original content. We strictly prohibit plagiarism (reproduction of text from other articles without crediting the source) and self-plagiarism (production of a paper with the same content by the same authors). It is unethical to submit the same results to more than one journals simultaneously. However, the review article is an exception. If plagiarism is found in a paper in the review or in the publication process, the Steering Committee of the Journal of the IEIE will immediately investigate the case. The severe penalty will be imposed on the author(s) related to the plagiarism case based on the investigation.

Duplicate Publication

An author should not publish the same research results in any other journal or primary publication. The manuscript which has not been simultaneously submitted to, nor published in any other publication channels, solely can be accepted. If the same paper is found appearing or published in any other publications, the paper will be rejected without any consideration. The paper previously published in other minor publications of an abstract form, academic thesis, and preprints (i.e., conference, workshop, seminar, or proceedings) can be eligible for being reviewed and published in this journal. However, we require that the paper be substantially revised with at least 30% new content, which has never been published in the previous publications. Although new results are not required, the revised manuscript version should include distinct key ideas, examples, explanations, figures, tables, elaborations, etc. The manuscript should indicate its previously published conference name and date as a footnote in the bottom of the first page. The authors should briefly mention how the new submission offers substantial novel contributions beyond those of the previously published paper(s) or proceedings. In such cases, authors must include the details, explanation, and accessible information of such publications in the cover letter. Otherwise, the editorial members may reject the submission immediately or withdraw their decision to the article due to potential issues and conflict. The decision may also apply to cases of direct/indirect duplicate/multiple publication or concurrent submission.

Competing Interests

As an integral part of the submission process, authors should declare any potential competing interests before any publication of the article. Competing interests include any financial affairs, personal relationships with other people or organizations, employment, grants for funding, and patent that could influence the scope of their work. If you are requested to identify the funding source(s) or sponsor(s) for the research, these should be given a separate section, such as ‘Acknowledgements.’ For full official funding agencies, an abstract of the project name or grant numbers should be included. However, the funding agencies must approve these acknowledgment phrases before submission.

Publication Malpractice

Cases that require editorial expressions of concern or retraction shall follow the COPE flowcharts available at http://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts. An author is obliged to promptly inform the journal editorial members or publisher of any fundamental errors or inaccuracy in his/her published paper. For such errors, an author must retract or correct the mistakes and notify at least one editorial member. The Journal of IEIE will publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed. In cases where the referees or readers may question the research (i.e., manipulation of data or results), or any violation of the journal policies is found, the editorial members will inform the corresponding author, and likely inform the institution at which the research origins, and may withdraw the article. It is required that the author should provide the editorial members with reasonable explanations that are thoroughly investigated and confirmed.

Citation Manipulation

Submitted manuscripts should not include citations to increase the number of citations to the authors’ work, or articles published in a specific journal.

2) Submission and Peer-review Process

Submission

All manuscripts should be submitted via an online submission system available at http://www.theieie.org/submission/login.jsp?ViewFlag=author. If any authors have difficulty in submitting via the online submission system, please contact the managing editor via e-mail: conf@theieie.org.

Peer-review process

This journal uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. All articles are subject to peer-review by at least two reviewers so that the authors obtain the advice of their manuscript from expert reviewers. The judgments made by these reviewers are to be objective, with no conflict of interest between the reviewer pool. In cases where the author has not cited the required references of published work, reviewers may notify the author of such an issue. All articles will be treated confidentially before publication.

Editors and Reviewers

Editors and reviewers should be excluded with a submission when they have a close personal connection to any author, share an affiliation with any author, recently have published/submitted a work with any author, have collaboration with any author, have a financial interest in the subject of the work, or are not able to be objective. The Journal of IEIE does not assign submissions to editors and reviewers having a conflict addressed above. Also, editors and reviewers must declare whether to have discussed a manuscript with its authors.

3) Copyright and Licensing

Copyright

When the manuscripts are accepted to the Journal of IEIE, authors will be invited to complete a copyright license. The copyright of the accepted paper is assigned and transferred to the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers (IEIE) for the full term; thereof, throughout the world, subject to the term of the agreement and acceptance. The IEIE shall have the right to publish the paper in any medium or form, or by any means, now known or later developed. However, the original authors retain the right to copy, translate, or modify their manuscripts. In cases when a manuscript is translated into another language or when any portion of the manuscript is to be submitted to another publication, the original manuscript should be clearly cited in the publications.

Open Access

This publication is an open-access journal. The published papers are freely available online to everyone at no charge (http://www.theieie.org/pages_publication/ko_journal.vm for Korean and http://journal.auric.kr/ieie for English). Under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), IEIE agrees that anyone may reuse, copy, distribute published articles in whole or part for any purpose, for free, for non-commercial purposes as long as the authors and source are properly cited. The Journal of IEIE encourages authors that materials including data, code, and protocols associated with the research of the submitted article are made accessible to the public; however, this is not mandatory.

4) Manuscript Preparation

Manuscript Format

► The followings are manuscript format guidelines:

The manuscript can be written either in Korean or English. The titles and captions of figures and tables can also be written either in Korean or English. However, their contents should be written only in English.

► Manuscript types: Four types of manuscripts are accepted.

5) Article Processing Charge

Processing and Publication Fees

IEIE charges the processing fee 40,000 KRW and 100,000 KRW for regular and express papers, respectively. “The express paper" means requesting a quick review process.

The manuscripts will also be charged after acceptance for publication as follows.

If the authors of a paper include any single non-member author on the publication date, their contribution shall be subject to an additional 50% charge of the total publication fee written above.

6) Archiving and Publication Schedule

Archiving

All articles of the Journal of IEIE are archived in RISS (Research Information Sharing Service, http://www.riss.kr), where they are also indexed in Korea Citation Index (KCI).

Publishing History and Schedule

This Journal was founded as "Proceedings of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea" on October 25, 1963, and technical commentary and papers were published at that time. Since 1974, "Proceedings" for a research paper and "Magazines" for technical review had been published in separation. In 1986, the name "Proceedings" was changed to "Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers," and published in forms of six separate publications by the area of the topic. Since 2012, the separated publications was integrated as one Journal.The Journal of IEIE is published on the 25th day of each month.

7) Fund Support

The Journal of IEIE has been supported by the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies Grant funded by the Korean Government.

8) Bank Information

Bank Information for processing the fee:

• Bank name: Citibank Korea Inc.
• Bank address: Teheranro 7-gil 22 (635-4 Yeoksam-Dong), Gangnam-Gu, Seoul, Korea
• Account holder: The Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
• Account number: 102-53125-258
• Swift Code: CITIKRSX

9) Editorial Team

• Manuscript Editor:

Ji Young Bae

Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
Rm #907, New B/D, Science & Technology Building
Teheranro 7-gil 22(635-4, Yucksam-dong), Kangnam-ku, Seoul, 06130, Korea.
Phone: +82-2-553-0255, Fax: +82-2-552-6093
E-mail: conf@theieie.org

• Publisher:

Dong Kuk Mun Hwa co. Ltd.
Mapo-daero 14da-gil 20, Mapo-gu Seoul, Korea
www.dkcomputer.co.kr
Phone: +82-2-718-5011