CyberSystem Journal is committed to preventing research misconduct and utilizes all available means to ensure that miscounted research is not published. While there is no standard definition of research misconduct, the Council of Editors (COPE) broadly defines it in three categories of actions and conducts. CSJ  uses this definition of misconduct in dealing with the issue of handling research misconduct, including:

• Mistreatment of research subjects
• Falsification and Fabrication of data
• Piracy and Plagiarism

Falsification and Fabrication of Data

Fabrication is making up data without actually collecting or synthesizing scientific data. Falsification is manipulating research material to reach a favorable result. Fabrication and falsification can occur at any stage of research, including during manuscript processing, where misuse of citation can occur. CSJ tries to identify any fabrication or falsification at all levels of manuscript processing, from initial screening to comprehensive evaluation of a revised manuscript and even after a manuscript has been published. Reporting any fabrication and falsification is an ethical duty of authors, co-authors, reviewers, editors, and readers. In any event of falsification or fabrication, CSJ reserves the right to retract or withdraw the fabricated or falsified article.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the appropriation of another person's ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit. Self-plagiarism occurs when an author publishes their idea, data, or text in different journals where no need for such duplication exists. CSJ uses all means to detect plagiarism. A similarity of more than 20% in the text of a manuscript will be returned to the author as a matter of quality assurance, asking them to remove the similarities and reduce the chance of plagiarism.