The Journal of Applied Informatics and Technology (JIT) upholds the highest ethical standards and maintains a zero-tolerance policy toward publication malpractice or research misconduct, in strict accordance with the guidelines established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the Thai-Journal Citation Index (TCI) Centre. Allegations of ethical violations are taken with utmost seriousness, and the journal is committed to ensuring integrity at every stage of the publication process. Submitted manuscripts are rejected or published articles are retracted if they are found to violate the following ethical standards:

1. Plagiarism

Any form of plagiarism is strictly prohibited and considered a serious offense. Authors must properly acknowledge and cite all sources of data, ideas, and text. All submitted manuscripts undergo similarity detection using Turnitin. If the similarity index exceeds 20% (excluding direct quotations and bibliographic references), the manuscript will be rejected immediately, and appropriate ethical actions will be taken. If a published article is later found to exceed the permissible similarity threshold or contain plagiarized content, it will be formally retracted.

2. Fabrication and Falsification

Authors are responsible for presenting honest, accurate, and verifiable research findings. Any attempt to manipulate, distort, or misrepresent research data constitutes a grave breach of publication ethics. This includes the intentional creation or inclusion of non-existent, fabricated, or hallucinated academic citations (Hallucinated or Fabricated citations), whether generated manually or through Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools without proper verification. Violation of this standard will result in immediate rejection of the manuscript or full post-publication retraction.

3. Duplicate Publication and Simultaneous Submission

Submitted manuscripts must be original work that has not been previously published elsewhere. Submitting the same manuscript to multiple journals or conferences simultaneously (Simultaneous submission) or re-publishing previously published findings without proper attribution (Duplicate publication) is strictly unethical. Identified manuscripts will be rejected without peer review, and published articles found in violation will be retracted.

4. Redundant Publication and Salami Slicing

Copying significant portions of text or findings from an author's own previously published work without explicit citation (Redundant publication) or intentionally segmenting a single comprehensive research project into small, redundant papers (Salami Slicing) to artificially inflate publication count is considered unethical research practice. Such practices pollute scholarly databases and will lead to desk rejection or formal retraction.

5. Misrepresentation of Authorship Roles

Authorship must accurately reflect genuine academic contributions to the research. Misrepresenting authorship roles, including adding individuals who did not contribute significantly (Gift or Guest authorship) or omitting key contributors who authored or designed the study (Ghost authorship), is strictly prohibited. Any dispute or misattribution regarding authorship will result in the suspension of the evaluation process until the matter is officially resolved with written consent from all involved parties.

6. Peer Review Manipulation

JIT does not tolerate any attempt to interfere with or manipulate the peer-review process. This includes suggesting fake reviewers, submitting reviews under false identities, or exerting undue influence over evaluation outcomes. Any breach of peer-review integrity will result in immediate manuscript rejection without entering or continuing peer review.

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Acknowledgement: This policy statement was developed based on the publishing ethics guidelines and policy frameworks provided by the Thai-Journal Citation Index (TCI) Centre and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Updated: November 2026