Access & Open Access Policy

AHFE International Open Access is an emerging pioneer in scholarly open access publishing for Human Factors, Engineering, and Human-centered Computing. We support academic and research communities worldwide.

The AHFE Open Access Articles and Proceedings publication becomes available upon successful peer review of full papers submitted by AHFE participants and the research community.

Benefits of Open Access

• - Increased citation and article usage.
• - Greater public engagement and reuse.
• - Increased interdisciplinary collaboration.
• - Faster impact and research network building.
• - Compliance with major open access funding policies.
• - Wider collaboration across a global research community.

Published Articles

• - Fully peer reviewed.
• - Immediately free to access and download from AHFE Open Access and other databases.
• - Permitted reuse under author-selected Creative Commons licenses.
• - Published with a unique DOI to maintain the publication record.

AHFE Open Access Proceedings and Publication

All content is open access and free for researchers and readers. Publication is funded through article processing charges, typically covered by authors' institutions, funding bodies, or conference participation.

Authors understand that a registered paper will be accepted for publication in AHFE Open Access Proceedings only after successful scientific peer review.

Peer Review Policy

The peer review process ensures only high-quality research is published. At least two independent reviewers evaluate submissions in their field, providing comments to improve technical content, structure, and language.

Reviewers and track chairs ensure scientific fairness and high standards. Authors must submit original work that has not been published or submitted elsewhere.

Ethics Statement & Disclosures

AHFE enforces rigorous peer review and ethical policies to ensure high-quality scientific publishing. We use similarity detection to check submissions against previous publications and maintain a conflict of interest policy aligned with COPE guidelines.

If plagiarism is identified, the proceedings follows established guidelines to address misconduct and protect research integrity.

Mission and Values

As a pioneer of academic open access publishing in Human Factors Engineering and human-centered computing, AHFE has served the scientific community since 2008. Our aim is to foster scientific exchange across disciplines.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

We are committed to making research findings accessible to everyone. We support scholars across the globe and embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion. We adopt principles of the Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC).

Copyrights

Authors retain full copyrights for papers published in AHFE Open Access Proceedings, under the terms of the Creative Commons license.