Terms of Service & Legal Notices

The International Journal of Computational Science and Digital Innovation (IJCSDI) is published and governed by IJCSDI Academic Press, an Indian scholarly publishing enterprise registered under the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Government of India (Registration Number: UDYAM-UP-64-0001538, National Industry Classification: 58132 - Publishing of journals, books, and periodicals).

Official ownership and editorial governance responsibility are vested in Parminder Singh (Dr. Parminder Singh), Owner & Responsible Person, with registered publisher office at 1/190/1 Patel Nagar, Near Urmila Nursing Home, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh - 247001, India, Editorial Office at Tuntonwala, Harbhajwala, Dehradun, Uttarakhand – 248001, India, and Printing Facility at Digiage Graphics and Computer Centre, Saharanpur, UP – 247001. These Terms govern all interactions with the journal website (ijcsdi.org), submission systems, digital monographs, and peer-review dashboards.

By submitting any manuscript, monograph chapter, or scholarly artifact to IJCSDI, the corresponding author and all contributing co-authors explicitly and legally warrant that:

• Originality: The manuscript represents 100% original academic research executed by the named authors. It has not been published previously in any form (except as an academic thesis or institutional preprint), nor is it concurrently under consideration elsewhere.
• Plagiarism & AI Non-Infringement: The manuscript does not exceed IJCSDI's maximum 15% similarity threshold (and <3% from any single source). Any generative AI tools utilized during data processing or drafting have been transparently declared in an Acknowledgement / AI Declaration Statement in strict compliance with COPE policies.
• Co-Author Consent: The submitting author possesses verified written authorization from all co-authors to submit the manuscript, manage revisions, and publish the final Version of Record.
• Legal Indemnification: Authors agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless IJCSDI, IJCSDI Academic Press, its Owner & Responsible Person, editors, reviewers, and officers against any and all claims, copyright infringement disputes, legal notices, or financial damages arising from an author's breach of academic honesty, plagiarism, or intellectual property misrepresentation.

In alignment with the standards recognized by the Supreme Court of India, University Grants Commission (UGC), and international publishing conventions:

• Unrestricted Editorial Discretion: The Editor-in-Chief, Section Editors, and Editorial Board maintain complete, unconstrained freedom to accept, request minor/major revisions for, or reject any submitted manuscript. Editorial decisions are grounded strictly in academic quality, methodological rigor, peer-review evaluations, and journal scope.
• Finality of Decisions: Editorial decisions are definitive and final. No legal action, civil suit, or tort claim may be initiated by any author against the journal, publisher, or editors on grounds of manuscript rejection, screening timeline, revision requirements, or peer-reviewer criticism.
• Desk Rejection for Integrity Deficiencies: IJCSDI reserves the absolute right to desk-reject or issue a mandatory revision directive without external review if a manuscript exhibits unacceptable plagiarism, undisclosed machine-generated content, or ethical violations.

IJCSDI operates as a pure Gold Open Access journal championing open science:

• Authors Retain Copyright: Authors retain 100% of their intellectual property rights. No copyright transfer agreement is ever required.
• Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 License: All published articles and open-access monographs are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. Readers may freely read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full texts, provided appropriate academic attribution is given to the original authors and journal.
• Publishing License: Authors grant IJCSDI Academic Press a worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive license to publish, display, translate, preserve, and archive the Version of Record across academic indexing platforms and digital repositories.

Author Responsibility for Findings: The theories, experimental data, algorithms, software implementations, and scientific claims expressed in articles and monographs published by IJCSDI represent exclusively the views and findings of the individual authors, and do not necessarily represent the views of IJCSDI Academic Press or the Editorial Board.

No Warranty: Content is provided on an “as is” and “as available” academic basis. Neither IJCSDI nor its editors make any express or implied representations regarding the accuracy, completeness, or commercial applicability of any published data.

Limitation of Damages: Under no circumstances shall IJCSDI Academic Press or its representatives be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, or consequential damages resulting from the use of, or inability to use, materials published on this portal.

IJCSDI strictly adheres to the COPE Retraction Guidelines. If conclusive evidence of scientific misconduct, severe plagiarism, unauthorized data fabrication, or duplicate publication comes to light post-publication:

• The journal will conduct an impartial editorial investigation in communication with the authors and their affiliated institutions.
• The Editor-in-Chief reserves the unilateral right to issue a formal Corrigendum, Expression of Concern, or Formal Retraction Notice.
• In cases of retraction, the original article PDF will be watermarked “RETRACTED” with a bidirectional link to the formal explanation, ensuring the scientific record remains uncompromised.