Policies and Ethics

Section 1: Ethics

1.    Plagiarism Test: All submitted manuscripts shall be tested by mainly using Wanfang plagiarism check software. CNKI plagiarism check system may also be used for reference. Generally, the repetition ratio is required to be 10% -15% or below, with a maximum of 25%. Should multiple submission or plagiarism be found, the manuscript will be rejected immediately.

2.   Authorship: Those who are named as authors should directly participate in the conception or design of the academic content of the article, the research work or the writing work. The order shall be determined before submission and shall not be changed thereafter. If truly necessary, the order could be changed if a consent letter signed by all authors is provided. Other contributors of the paper may be listed in acknowledgement. “Gift author” is strictly prohibited. The authors should specify their contribution in Authors Contribution Form and submit it along with the manuscript.

3.   Reviewer Responsibility: Reviewers shall treat all manuscripts with the most professional attitude to make the review process transparent, confidential and fair. Comments and decision should be made upon the article, instead of upon authors, without bias towards race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors. Once the reviewers find that there are mistakes, plagiarism, suspected forgery of data and other problems in the article, they are obliged to report it to the editorial office. Reviewers shall not use unpublished papers or materials in their research.

4.  Editor Responsibility: Editors should accept or evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without bias towards race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors, and try the best to ensure the quality of articles published on this journal. Editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, and the publisher. Editors would take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers involving academic misconduct. They would not encourage such academic misconduct, or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place. The editorial office would take appropriate action if there were any allegation of research misconduct. Publishers and editors should always be ready to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.

5.  Conflicts of Interest: All authors must disclose all potential conflicts of interest, i.e., when the financing/ personal status/ affiliation of the authors (or the authors' organization/ employer) may affect the authors' decision, work or manuscript. When a product is involved, the author should also disclose whether there is a conflict of interest against competitive products. Authors should also submit Statement of Competing Interests along with the manuscript. If reviewers or editors have competition, collaboration or other relations with the author, company or institution related to the article, they should report the conflict of interest and avoid reviewing the article.

6.   Intellectual Property and Open Science: The editorial office strives to respect the protection of intellectual property and requires editors, authors and reviewers to do so. Any potential infringement should be avoided. Third-party infringement to the intellectual property of the journal is prohibited. On the premise of intellectual property protection, the journal encourages the practice of open science. Authors are encouraged to publish or share their research data whenever appropriate. The data for sharing may include original data, observation records, experimental results, etc. The journal also encourages the sharing of software, code, models, algorithms, protocols, methods and other useful materials. Authors can upload the materials above to an accessible third-party repository and make a proper citation or add a link at the end of the article.

Section 2: Peer Review and Editing

1.   Review Policy: The journal adopts single-blind review system. The authors will not know who the reviewers are. After submission, the editorial office will conduct a preliminary review of the manuscript. The editorial office will reject the manuscripts which are insufficient in originality, having serious scientific or technical mistakes, lacking valuable information, or not in the scope of the journal. Manuscripts which have passed the preliminary review will be anonymously sent to two or more peer reviewers. Authors must respond to reviewers' every comment and submit the revised version in time. This process would be repeated until reviewers and editors are satisfied with the manuscript. The Editor-in-Chief will conduct the final round of review and the editorial office shall impartially select manuscripts on the basis of academic quality and the review comment.

2.   Editing Policy: All authors shall be responsible for their own writing. For accepted manuscripts, the journal may make some technical or wording amendments. Any amendment involving the change of meaning will be sent to authors for confirmation.

3.  Timing: Authors can take it as rejected if there is no reply for more than 3 months after submission, please contact us before you re-submit the manuscript to another journal. The time requirement for revision is generally 15 days, with a maximum of 3 months.

4.  Submission by Editors: The editorial staff / editors / editorial board members should not be involved in publishing decisions on papers which they have written themselves or have been written by their family members or colleagues. Any such submission should be strictly subject to the journal’s usual editorial process. Peer review should be handled independently from the relevant author/editor and their research groups.

5.  Appeals and Feedback: If the author has objections to the review comments or results, he/she may submit a written appeal by sending E-mail to the editorial office (eec@seari.com.cn). The author must provide a detailed explanation for each of the review comment. The editorial department will review the appeal promptly and provide feedback to the author. Please note that, in principle, only one appeal is permitted for each manuscript. If any readers and authors have any feedback, comments or allegations on the review process or the articles of the journal, they can send their comments or statements to the above email, and the editorial office will process the case as soon as possible after receiving and give feedback as appropriate.           

Section 3：Correction & Retraction

1.  General Situation: Articles published online or in print are considered the final and complete version. In principle, the journal does not make corrections or retractions on published articles. However, in case of the situations described below, corrections or retractions may be carried out if truly necessary.

2.  Correction: If there appears to be an unintended scientific mistake in the article which would not lead to significant impacts on the results and conclusion, the editorial office will publish corrections in the journal as soon as possible, detailing the changes made to the original article and indicating the source of the article. The journal will release the corrected new version of the article, and specify the changes to the original article and the date of update. In addition, the superseded version will also be archived. Readers can obtain it directly, but only the latest version of the article should be used for citation.

3.   Retraction: In the following cases, the editorial office would retract published articles and issue retraction statements:

1) If an article is found to have severe scientific errors making the results and conclusion of the article unreliable;

2) For article suspected of academic misconduct, such as plagiarism and data falsification, the editorial office will initiate an investigation and issue a statement to inform readers of the risks associated with the article. Once the investigation is completed, the result will be made public. If the academic misconduct is confirmed, the article will be immediately retracted and a retraction statement will be issued by the editorial office.

Section 4: Copyright & Archive

1.   OA Policy: Electric Machines & Control Application flipped to an open access journal in 2022. All articles published ever since are immediately and permanently available for readers to read and download free of charge through this website. All articles from the 5^th issue of 2017 are also open access through this website. Articles published before that time are not open access. Permitted third party reuse of the articles published by the journal is defined by the following user license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license allows reusers to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as the license terms below are followed: reusers must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. Reusers may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses the use. Reusers may not use the material for commercial purposes. If reusers remix, transform, or build upon the material, they may not distribute the modified material. The authors have right to spread or make use of the article under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. The full details of the license are available at  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 

2.  Copyright Transfer: Authors are required to sign the Copyright Transfer Agreement. Once the submitted article is accepted by the journal, the authors will transfer the copyright of the entire article and the affiliated figures, tables, abstracts, or other parts that can be extracted from the article, to the Editorial Office of Electric Machines & Control Application, including but not limited to the right of reproduction, distribution, information network dissemination, performance, translation, compilation, adaptation, etc.

3.  Archive: From the 5^th issue of 2017, all journal articles have been digitally archived and can be searched and downloaded from the journal website. Before that time, the hard and soft copy of each issue of the journal had been kept in the editorial office for archiving. In addition, other relevant materials are also kept by the editorial office, such as supplementary information and forms provided by the authors. The full text of articles published in this journal can also be downloaded from third-party platforms including CNKI, Wanfang Data, Weipu and Chaoxing. In case the journal and the website were closed, archiving data could be retrieved through those full-text databases.