Peer Review

Declaration of Ethics

Copyright and Licencing

Open Access Policy

Archiving Policy

Research Data Policy, Text and Data Mining

Advertising Policy

Business model

Privacy Statement

The journal applies a single blind peer review process with one or more reviewers.

Submitted manuscripts will be reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief to determine if they reflect the aims and scope of the journal, and to check the appropriateness of the format. Manuscripts that do not meet these criteria will not be considered for publication, and authors will be informed of this decision. Submissions considered suitable for peer review are assigned to one or more independent experts, who assess the article for originality, clarity and validity, and creates an expert analysis of the material, an objective and well-supported evaluation and constructive recommendations. The reviewers remain anonymous. The review process should be done in 6 weeks. In light of the reviewer’s opinion, the Editor-in-Chief – supported by the Editorial Board – makes a decision about the submission: accept, minor or major revision, reject. The authors will be informed about the decision and its reasons by email.

Authors are required to revise their articles in accordance with the remarks made by the reviewers and editors within the deadline set by the Editorial Board. The Editorial Board may reject the submission if the author does not comply with the requested amendments within the deadline set. Authors have to explain if they do not follow any of the proposed changes.

In case of accepted papers, the galley-proof is prepared by the Technical Editor and is shared with the authors for a final check. At this point, changes in content and style may not be made; only typographical errors may be corrected, before the work is published.

Accepted papers are immediatelly published in the Latest Articles section of the journals website. However, mind that these versions have page numbering starting from 1. The articles receive their final page numbers (and therefore their final referencial form) after the complete volume is compiled and published.

In conducting the peer review process, the Editorial Board is committed to avoid any conflict of interests. Reviews will be kept for a period of 5 years.

The journal is dedicated to conduct its work in accordance with the Guidance of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The journal requires all participants of the publication process to act according to the best practices of ethical publishing, and to avoid any publication misconduct.

Author's Responsibilities

• Authors should only submit articles based on their own research, refraining from any form of plagiarism; in case of plagiarism, manuscripts must be automatically rejected.
• Other contributors involved in the research should be referred properly.
• Authors should submit original articles, unpublished in any other journal, digital platform or on paper.
• The same manuscript should not be submitted to any other medium while it is under review at the journal.
• Manuscripts must not rephrase or resume in detail results previously published by the same author, and if there is a partial overlap, must refer properly to earlier publications (avoid autoplagiarism).
• The work of fellow scholars should be handled in a fair and professional manner avoiding any kind of personal comments or offensive language.
• Authors are responsible for the authenticity and accuracy of data used in their research.
• Financial (or any other kind of) support behind the results (scholarships, research group memberships etc.) must be clearly communicated.
• Authors should cooperate with editors and accept that their manuscript undergoes peer review and other editing procedures of the journal.
• Authors must inform the editors about any conflict of interest that might affect the fair and anonymous reviewing process in any way.
• Any mistake or shortcoming should be reported if discovered in the article during the preparations or after publication, enabling editors to publish corrections or retract the article.

Editor's Responsibilities

Editors

• are responsible for adherence to ethical norms, guaranteeing the exclusion of personal, financial, and other non-professional interests from the procedures applied;
• ensure that manuscripts are evaluated on a fair, professional and equal basis regardless of the race, religion, nationality, gender, seniority, or institutional affiliation of the authors;
• clearly define and publish the criteria of evaluation and the procedures applied by the journal;
• are responsible for the quality of the review process, ensuring that submitted manuscripts are judged by qualified reviewers in a peer review process;
• are solely responsible for the acceptance or rejection of a manuscript;
• are responsible for ensuring that no conflict of interest affects any procedure of the journal, especially the reviewing process;
• guarantee the anonymity of reviewers at all times;
• publish corrections or, if necessary, consider retracting an article (especially in cases where authorship is dubious, or plagiarism is revealed);
• document, investigate and clarify any complaint or controversial situation and ensure that all parties’ views are fairly represented.

Reviewer's Responsibilities

• Reviewers are responsible for accepting the request for review only if they possess the required skills and knowledge for properly and objectively judging the manuscript.
• Reviewers should communicate to the editor if they are aware of any violation of norms or conflict of interest that would affect the objective and anonymous review process.
• The evaluation should be prepared by agreed deadlines and in a clear and professional format adhering to the procedures of the journal, justifying each element of the evaluation.
• The evaluation should be prepared such that it contains only professional opinions, and no personal comments, or humiliating or offensive language.
• Reviewers should pay special attention to any lack of proper referencing in the manuscript.
• The manuscript received for review must be handled in strict confidentiality.

Publication Malpractice Statement

The Publisher and the members of the Editorial Board disapprove and knowingly do not allow any research misconduct. The Publisher and the members of the Editorial Board are committed to take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of articles where any research misconduct has taken place. If the Publisher or the Editorial Board becomes aware of any allegation of research misconduct, those allegations are examined and addressed appropriately. The Publisher or the Editorial Board can require the retraction or the correction of the article if any research misconduct has been identified. The Publisher and the Editorial Board are ready to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies if it is necessary to address an identified research misconduct. The Editorial Board handles all complaints and appeals against the decisions of the Editorial Board taking the ethical principles of the journal and the responsibilities of the parties involved into consideration.

Authors must ensure that the manuscript submitted by them is their own original intellectual product and it is prepared and submitted by respecting others’ intellectual property rights. This requirement applies to all parts of the submission, including tables, figures, data, text, etc. It is the author’s responsibility to obtain all necessary permission from intellectual property right holders before submission. In case of any claim by a third party, authors take full responsibility including any financial consequences.

The copyright of articles published in the journal remains with the author. The journal has the right of first publication.

The published work is licensed under the Creative Commons License “Attribution 4.0 International" (CC BY 4.0). This means that copying, redistribution, remixing, transformation and building upon the published work is allowed for any purpose as long as proper credit is given to the author, a link to the licence is provided, and any changes made to the original work are indicated.

The journal is committed to comply with the Plan S publishing initiative.

The journal operates as a Diamond Open Access journal.

All published articles (in full text) are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, and use for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical limitations as long as they adhere to the internationally acknowledged norms of scholarly ethics (citation, reference etc.). See also Copyright and Licencing. Published articles in the journal are immediatelly available on the journal homepage after their publication. Printed versions of the volumes are also available.

Furthermore no Article Processing Charges (APC) are posed towards authors. The complete process of submitting manuscripts, peer review, article processing and publishing is free of charge. See also the Business Model below.

The journal is proud to have chosen to follow the above publishing model in the early 2010s.

The journal acknowledges the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI).

Self-archiving. Authors are permitted and encouraged to distribute their article (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) in the same version as the one published in the journal by acknowledging this as initial publication. Authors are allowed to archive earlier versions of their work (submitted manuscript, accepted paper), but it is encouraged that readers of these are properly informed about the published version as well.

The journal is published both in printed and electronic form.

Printed copies of the journal are archived at the National Széchényi Library (OSZK) with ID AN 480393 and at the library of ELTE Faculty of Informatics.

Articles of the journal are also archived in electronic form in the Digital Institutional Repository (EDIT) of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE).

To promote transparency and foster reproducible research, authors are encouraged to make the research data, software, and source code underlying their results publicly available. Whenever possible, these materials should be deposited in a trusted online repository and cited appropriately in the article, preferably using persistent identifiers where available. Data and software sharing should comply with applicable ethical, legal, and licensing requirements. Authors should include a brief data availability statement in the manuscript indicating where these materials can be accessed.

The journal permits text and data mining (TDM) of all published content for research, educational, non-commertial and commertial purposes. Users may download, index, and analyze the journal’s articles using automated tools provided that proper attribution to the original publication (authors and journal) is maintained, the integrity of the content is preserved, and access to the journal’s servers is not abused by excessive automated requests.

No advertisements are placed in the printed or electronic issues or on the website of the journal.

The journal operates under a Diamond Open Access model. All operational and publication costs are covered by ELTE Faculty of Informatics. The journal does not charge article processing charges (APCs), submission fees, or publication fees. The journal does not accept advertising and has no commercial revenue streams.

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.