Journal of Physics Process

Publication Ethics & Open Access

The standards and policies that govern publication in Journal of Physics Process.

Publication ethics

Journal of Physics Process is committed to the highest standards of publication ethics and follows the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). All parties — authors, editors, and reviewers — are expected to uphold these standards.

Authors

  • Submitted work must be original and must not be under consideration elsewhere.
  • Plagiarism, data fabrication, and image manipulation are unacceptable and are grounds for rejection or retraction.
  • All authors must have contributed meaningfully and approved the submission. Sources must be properly cited.
  • Conflicts of interest and funding sources must be disclosed.

Editors

  • Decisions are based on the manuscript's merit, without regard to the authors' race, gender, nationality, or institution.
  • Editors handle submissions confidentially and recuse themselves in cases of conflict of interest.

Reviewers

Assessment is provided by a panel of AI reviewers whose reports are advisory; see the peer review process. The Editor-in-Chief remains responsible for the confidentiality and fairness of the process.

Corrections & retractions

When significant errors are identified after publication, the journal will issue a correction or, where warranted, a retraction, following COPE guidance. The original record is preserved and clearly marked.

Open access

Journal of Physics Process is a fully open-access journal. All articles are freely available immediately upon publication — there are no subscription charges to readers. Publication carries an Article Processing Charge to authors, currently waived under a launch offer; see Publication Fees for details.

Unless stated otherwise, articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. Readers are free to share and adapt the material, provided appropriate credit is given. Copyright remains with the authors.

Archiving & identifiers

Each published article receives a persistent identifier (DOI) and a permanent public page with machine-readable citation metadata for indexing by scholarly search engines.