Publication Ethics

"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do."

- Potter Stewart

(Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States)

WorldServe Publishers along with its board of editors strive hard in making the "Perspectives in Communication, Embedded-Systems and Signal-Processing" (PICES) one of the most successful journals in the Engineering World today. At the same time, this would not have been possible without our strict adherence to our publication ethics.

Once a paper has been submitted to our journal, the Editor-in-Chief holds the right to categorize the submitted work based on the requirements of the journal. The paper is then submitted to a review process by the Editorial board and the peer reviewers. During this process, the board of editors as well as the reviewers hold the rights to suggest to the authors regarding the changes to be made in the paper before it gets published in the journal. Keeping in mind Conflict of Interest, WorldServe Publishers/PICES, under any circumstance, will not disclose the identity of the reviewers to the authors of the paper. At the same time, the reviews obtained by our reviewers for the submitted paper will be disclosed only to the authors of that paper. The Editor-in-Chief would possess the right to reject a paper accepted by the Editorial board and the reviewers, in case the content of the paper is found to be unoriginal, published, plagiarized (either self, intentional or unintentional) and is considered for review elsewhere. Unethical behaviour of authors will not be entertained.