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Policies

Philosophy of Journal of Electrochemistry

For more information, please see Journal of Electrochemistry Aims and Scope page.

Who Can Submit?

Anyone may submit an original article to be considered for publication in Journal of Electrochemistry provided he or she owns the copyright to the work being submitted or is authorized by the copyright owner or owners to submit the article. Authors are the initial owners of the copyrights to their works (an exception in the non-academic world to this might exist if the authors have, as a condition of employment, agreed to transfer copyright to their employer).

General Submission Rules

Submitted articles cannot have been previously published, nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic). Please note: "publication" in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication. In addition, by submitting material to Journal of Electrochemistry, the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that he or she will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at Journal of Electrochemistry. If you have concerns about the submission terms for Journal of Electrochemistry, please contact the editors.

User Rights

The journal is an Open Access journal. Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles under the following conditions: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ which allows users to copy, distribute and transmit an article, and adapt the article as long as the author is attributed. The CC BY license permits commercial and non-commercial reuse.

Author Rights

In consideration for publication of the article, the authors assign to Chinese Chemical Society and Xiamen University all copyright in the article. Publisher will be granted publishing and distribution rights. This journal uses an exclusive licensing agreement. The below language explains the rights that authors have when they publish with Journal of Electrochemistry. These apply to the corresponding author and all co-authors.

  • Retain patent and trademark rights.
  • Retain the rights to use their research data freely without any restriction.
  • Receive proper attribution and credit for their published work.
  • Re-use their own material in new works without permission or payment (with full acknowledgement of the original article):
    1. Extend an article to book length.
    2. Include an article in a subsequent compilation of their own work.
    3. Re-use portions, excerpts, and their own figures or tables in other works.
  • Use and share their works for scholarly purposes (with full acknowledgement of the original article):
    1. In their own classroom teaching. Electronic and physical distribution of copies is permitted.
    2. If an author is speaking at a conference, they can present the article and distribute copies to the attendees.
    3. Distribute the article, including by email, to their students and to research colleagues who they know for their personal use.
    4. Share and publicize the article via Share Links without signup or registration.
    5. Include in a thesis or dissertation.
    6. Share copies of their article on commercial sites with which the publisher has a hosting agreement.
  • Publicly share the preprint on any website or repository at any time.
  • Publicly share the accepted manuscript on any site.
  • Publicly share the final published article.

Plagiarism

The Journal of Electrochemistry maintains a strict policy against plagiarism and does not tolerate the use of others’ ideas, words, or work without proper acknowledgment. Submissions containing any form of plagiarism, including but not limited to the following, will be rejected:

- Direct Plagiarism: Copying another author's work word-for-word without proper citation.
- Self-Plagiarism: Reusing significant portions of one's own previously published work without citation, whether in the same or a different language.
- Duplicate and Redundant Publication: Submitting the same or substantially similar work to multiple journals or publications.
- Inappropriate Paraphrasing: Rephrasing another person's work without proper attribution.
- Unattributed Use of Ideas: Using another person's ideas, even if not directly quoted, without proper acknowledgment.

The Preprint archive will not be considered a duplicate publication. The corresponding author is responsible for the manuscript throughout the evaluation and publication process and has the authority to act on behalf of all co-authors.

All submitted manuscripts are rigorously checked for plagiarism using professional plagiarism-checking software. Manuscripts with an unacceptable similarity index resulting from any form of plagiarism are rejected immediately to maintain the integrity of the publication process.