Publishing Policies

Open Access Policy

Bayanika Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science applies an open access publishing model. All published articles are made freely available to readers immediately after publication. Readers may access, read, download, print, distribute, and share published articles for lawful academic, educational, and research purposes, provided that proper attribution is given to the authors and the journal.

The journal supports the dissemination of scientific knowledge without unnecessary access barriers, especially in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, intelligent systems, and computational research.

Licensing Policy

Articles published in this journal are distributed under the terms of an open access license. The journal recommends the use of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), unless otherwise stated on the article page.

Under this license, users may share, copy, redistribute, adapt, transform, and build upon the published work in any medium or format, provided that appropriate credit is given, the original source is cited, a link to the license is provided, and any changes made to the work are clearly indicated.

Copyright Policy

Authors retain the copyright of their published articles and grant the journal the right of first publication. By submitting a manuscript, authors agree that, if accepted, the article may be published by Bayanika Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science under the applicable open access license.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscript does not violate the copyright of any third party. Any copyrighted material used in the manuscript, including figures, tables, datasets, algorithms, or software components, must be properly cited and used with permission when required.

Archiving Policy

The journal is committed to preserving published scholarly content for long-term accessibility. Published articles and their metadata may be archived through the journal website, OJS-based preservation mechanisms, institutional repositories, indexing services, digital libraries, and other trusted archiving platforms.

The journal will continuously improve its digital preservation strategy to ensure that published articles remain accessible, discoverable, and citable over time.

Quality Control Policy

The journal maintains quality control through editorial screening, scope evaluation, peer review, plagiarism checking, language assessment, formatting review, and final editorial validation. Manuscripts are evaluated based on originality, relevance, methodological soundness, clarity, ethical compliance, and contribution to the field.

Editorial board members, section editors, reviewers, and editorial assistants are selected based on academic expertise, publication record, professional integrity, and commitment to responsible scholarly publishing.

Review Process

Submitted manuscripts first undergo an initial screening by the editorial office to assess administrative completeness, journal scope, manuscript structure, similarity level, and minimum scholarly quality. Manuscripts that do not meet the journal requirements may be returned to the authors or rejected before external review.

Manuscripts that pass the initial screening are assigned to an editor or section editor with relevant expertise. The editor may invite qualified reviewers to evaluate the manuscript. Reviewers assess the manuscript's originality, theoretical contribution, methodological rigor, technical correctness, clarity of presentation, ethical compliance, and relevance to the journal.

Based on reviewers' comments and editorial assessment, the decision may be: accept, minor revision, major revision, resubmit for review, or reject. The final decision is made by the editor-in-chief or the assigned editor in accordance with the journal's editorial policy.

Revision and Publishing Process

Authors receiving a revision decision must submit a revised manuscript together with a response letter explaining how each reviewer and editor comment has been addressed. Revised manuscripts may be re-evaluated by the editor, reviewers, or both, depending on the extent of the required revision.

Once a manuscript is accepted, it proceeds to copyediting, layout editing, proofreading, metadata checking, and final production. Authors may be contacted during the production stage to clarify technical details, formatting issues, authorship information, references, or other publication requirements.

After final validation, the article is published online and assigned to the appropriate issue according to the journal's publication schedule.

Plagiarism Screening Policy

The journal is committed to maintaining academic integrity. Submitted manuscripts may be checked using similarity-detection software such as iThenticate, Turnitin, or other tools available to the editorial office.

Similarity screening may be conducted at several stages, including after submission, during revision, and before final publication. Manuscripts may be rejected if they contain plagiarism, self-plagiarism, excessive text recycling, unattributed material, fabricated data, falsified results, or other forms of academic misconduct.

If a published article is suspected of plagiarism, the editorial office will investigate the case by examining the evidence, contacting relevant parties when necessary, and applying appropriate corrective action, including correction, expression of concern, or retraction.

Repository Policy

Authors are permitted to deposit their submitted version, accepted version, or published version of the article in institutional repositories, subject repositories, personal academic websites, or other publicly accessible scholarly platforms, provided that proper citation to the official published version is included.

Authors are encouraged to share their work responsibly to improve visibility, accessibility, citation impact, and scholarly communication.

Authorship Policy

All listed authors must have made substantial intellectual contributions to the manuscript. Contributions may include conceptualization, methodology, software development, data curation, formal analysis, investigation, validation, visualization, writing, review, editing, supervision, or project administration.

All authors must approve the final version of the manuscript and agree to its submission to the journal. Guest authorship, gift authorship, honorary authorship, ghost authorship, and inappropriate authorship assignment are not permitted.

If there is uncertainty regarding authorship contribution, the editorial office may request a contribution statement from all authors.

Corresponding Author

The corresponding author is responsible for communication with the journal during submission, peer review, revision, production, and post-publication correspondence. The corresponding author must ensure that all co-authors have reviewed and approved the manuscript, authorship order, submission files, publication terms, and any revisions submitted to the journal.

The corresponding author is also responsible for responding to editorial queries, providing required documents, and ensuring that all publication requirements are fulfilled.

Protection Against Editorial and Peer Review Manipulation

The journal does not tolerate any attempt to manipulate the editorial or peer review process. Such manipulation may include fabricated reviewer identities, falsified data, plagiarism, inappropriate citation practices, interference with reviewer independence, or attempts to influence editorial decisions through unethical means.

If manipulation is suspected, the editorial office may investigate the case and take appropriate action, including manuscript rejection, notification to authors' institutions, correction, retraction, or other measures consistent with publication ethics standards.

Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest

Authors, editors, and reviewers must disclose any financial or non-financial conflicts of interest that may influence the manuscript, review process, or editorial decision. Conflicts of interest may involve funding, employment, consultancy, institutional relationships, personal relationships, academic competition, intellectual bias, or other relevant circumstances.

Authors should disclose funding sources, research assistance, institutional support, commercial interests, or any individual or organization that may benefit from or be affected by the publication of the manuscript.

Handling Complaints

The journal provides a mechanism for handling complaints related to editorial decisions, review procedures, publication ethics, authorship disputes, plagiarism allegations, conflicts of interest, or post-publication concerns.

Complaints must be submitted in writing to the editorial office with clear evidence and relevant information. The editorial team will assess the validity of the complaint objectively and take appropriate action when the complaint is justified.

Withdrawal and Rejection Regulations

Authors who wish to withdraw a submitted or accepted manuscript must send a formal request to the editorial office stating the manuscript title, manuscript ID or reference number, corresponding author information, and clear reason for withdrawal.

Withdrawal after acceptance is strongly discouraged because the manuscript may have undergone editorial handling, peer review, copyediting, and production processes. The editorial office will review withdrawal requests case by case.

The journal may reject or retract a manuscript or published article if it violates research ethics, publication ethics, copyright rules, licensing terms, privacy rights, conflict of interest disclosure, or if the article contains serious errors, plagiarism, fabricated data, falsified results, or legally problematic content.

Correction, Retraction, and Post-Publication Updates

The journal may publish corrections, errata, expressions of concern, retraction notices, or other post-publication updates when necessary to preserve the accuracy and integrity of the scholarly record.

Retraction may be considered when a published article contains serious ethical violations, unreliable findings, plagiarism, duplicate publication, data fabrication, data falsification, copyright infringement, or other forms of misconduct.

Privacy Statement

Names, email addresses, affiliations, and other personal information entered into the journal website will be used only for the purposes of manuscript submission, editorial management, peer review, publication, indexing, communication, and journal administration.

Personal information will not be used for unrelated commercial purposes or disclosed to third parties except when required for legitimate journal operations, indexing, publication ethics investigation, or legal obligations.