This statement specifies the standards and duties considered to ensure the integrity of the published works in the Actas del Congreso Internacional de Ingeniería de Sistemas (CIIS). The CIIS complies with the criteria established in the Guidelines on Good Publication Practice of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) which defines the scope, duties, responsibilities, and procedures for action in research misconduct.

Members of the organizing committee roles and responsibilities

They are committed to undertaking the following practices:

• Promote the continuous improvement of the journal by ensuring the quality of the published material.
• Maintain the confidentiality of all data about a submitted manuscript, sharing it exclusively with those involved in the review and publication processes.
• Guarantee fairness, courtesy, objectivity, honesty, and transparency for all authors despite their gender or religion.
• Avoid discrimination against authors, editors, or peer reviewers based on personal characteristics or identity.
• Assign papers for review according to the reviewers' area of interest and experience. 
• Provide an appropriate system, explicit instructions, and support to facilitate a rigorous, fair, and effective peer review process for all submissions.
• Supervise response time for each stage of publication, from receipt of the manuscript to publication or rejection.
• Make editorial decisions reasonably quickly and communicate clearly and constructively with authors. 
• Grant reviewers appropriate time to complete their reviews. If the reviewer needs more time to maintain the quality of the decision will be given a prudent time.
• Reevaluate rejected manuscripts if the author presents solid reasons why the decision may have been wrong and is willing to review the manuscript in reply to the valid comments of the reviewers and editors.

Authorship and Responsibilities

• Determine which individuals have contributed sufficiently to warrant authorship. Also, based on the level of contribution, identifies authors and authors' order in the byline.
• Hold all communication between themselves and the journal in confidence.
• Present a statement accrediting to the originality of the study they have submitted.
• Avoid duplicate publication, which is repeating verbatim content from their other publications.
• Follow guidelines to reuse any copyrighted material and give precise attribution.
• It is not acceptable for authors to submit a study report to several journals or conferences at the same time.

Reviewer Roles and Responsibilities

• Provide constructive, unbiased, written comments on the manuscript's academic merits and scientific value. Also, indicate if the content of the manuscript is clear, concise, original, and of interest to the readers of the journal.
• Acknowledge the positive aspects of the manuscript under review, highlight the negative aspects in a constructive way, and indicate recommendations for improvement. Finally, recommend acceptance or rejection of the manuscript.
• Explain your observations in sufficient detail so that editors and authors can understand the rationale for your comments.
• Maintain the confidentiality of the review process: not sharing, discussing with third parties, or disclosing information from the reviewed paper unless necessary and approved by the editor.
• Communicate to the editor your level of competence or experience in the manuscript's subject. Therefore, they should accept an assignment only if they have adequate expertise to provide an authoritative assessment. However, reviewers need not be experts in every aspect of the manuscript content.
• The comments and conclusions of the reviewers should be objective and avoid personal comments or criticism.
• Notify the editor immediately of their inability to submit a review promptly and, if possible, provide alternative reviewers' names.
• Reviewers must follow the instructions for completing a review and submitting the review results on time.

Conflicts of interest

• The publications of Actas del Congreso Internacional de Ingeniería de Sistemas (CIIS) avoid any conflict of interest and offers readers editorial independence in ways that ensure the highest standards of reliability, transparency, integrity, and ethical principles.
• Manuscripts submitted for review will not be used for personal or institutional research unless consented to by your authors.
• All authors, editors, and reviewers must declare any conflict of interest concerning the manuscripts submitted to this journal not to influence objectivity and impartiality in the review process.
• If a conflict of interest is not disclosed in the review and publication processes and found out, the involved person will be vetoed from participating with the CIIS. Any review and publication process made will be canceled immediately. Besides, the emitted notification of review will be nullified.
• Anyone who suspects an undisclosed conflict of interest regarding a work published should inform the email ciis@ulima.edu.pe.

Image Manipulation, Falsification, and Fabrication

• The publications of Actas del Congreso Internacional de Ingeniería de Sistemas (CIIS) demand that all authors of a manuscript review images dedicated to strengthening their manuscript upon the original image data before submitting their manuscript for peer review.
• CIIS expects authors to avoid modifying images to falsify, fabricate, or misrepresent their results.
• If a specific case of inapt use is detected, the author should be demanded to submit the figure in problem with an authentic representation of the original image data.

Citation Manipulation

The publications of Actas del Congreso Internacional de Ingeniería de Sistemas (CIIS) do not allow the following forms of citation manipulation to increase citation rates:

• Coercion. During the peer-review process, anyone else involved in the process requests that authors add citations from their own publications. 
• Reviewers may recommend that authors cite their articles. 
• Self-citation. Authors cite disproportionately large numbers of their publications. 
• Citation swapping. A group of colleagues agrees to preferentially and frequently cite each other’s articles in all or most of their publications.

Corrections and Retractions

• The Editorial team monitors the number and types of errors that possibly appear in the publications.
• The Editorial team takes corrective actions when there is evidence of an increase in preventable errors.
• Authors must collaborate with the journal editors in the correction of errors in the published article.
• The editors will begin strong measures on any unusual activity or confirmed misconduct; this applies to published and unpublished articles.
• CIIS will issue retractions in the event of evident suspicious findings, redundant publication, or plagiarism, among other cases of unethical research practices.
• The Editorial team reserves retractions to cases where findings are severely flawed. CIIS may make corrections to the articles published following COPE’s Retraction Guidelines.

Copyright and Access

• Actas del Congreso Internacional de Ingeniería de Sistemas (CIIS) publications are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This license is recommended for the maximum dissemination and use of the indexed materials. In other words, it allows greater freedom of use and distribution since it admits commercial use as long as the credit to the original creation is recognized.

Aspects not contemplated in the present statement are resolved based on the Guidelines on Good Publication Practice of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in consensus with the decision of the editorial body.