Author Publishing Agreement & Copyright Policy
The International Journal of Quantum Computing and Innovations (IJQCI) is dedicated to open access and author rights. Authors publishing with IJQCI retain full copyright of their research under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
1. Author Retention of Copyright
Unlike traditional non-open-access journals, authors do NOT transfer copyright to IJQCI or Future Forbes Pvt. Ltd. Authors grant the publisher a non-exclusive license to publish, archive, index, and distribute the work in all formats.
2. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC BY 4.0)
Articles are published under CC BY 4.0, which allows any third party to:
- Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
- Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
- Attribution — users must give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and cite IJQCI as the initial venue of publication.
3. Author Warranties & Originality
By submitting a manuscript, the corresponding author warrants on behalf of all co-authors that:
- The manuscript is an original work and has not been published elsewhere previously.
- The paper is not currently submitted or under review at any other peer-reviewed venue.
- All named authors made substantial contributions conforming to CRediT authorship standards.
- The work contains no plagiarized material, falsified data, or unlicensed third-party content.
- All financial support, grant numbers, and potential conflicts of interest are disclosed.
4. Self-Archiving & Repository Rights (Green Open Access)
Authors are encouraged to deposit all versions of their work (Preprint, Author Accepted Manuscript / Post-print, and Final Published Version of Record) into:
- Preprint servers (arXiv, HAL, ChemRxiv, etc.)
- Institutional repositories of their universities
- Academic networks (ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Google Scholar profile)
No embargo period applies to any version under our Open Access mandate.
5. Publisher Commitments
- Coordinate rigorous double-blind peer review with independent expert referees.
- Provide professional XML/PDF typesetting and metadata tagging.
- Assign Crossref DOIs (upon activation) and deposit metadata with indexing databases.
- Ensure permanent digital preservation via PKP PN and web archiving partners.