The peer review process is intended to ensure that only good science is published. The full paper peer-reviewing process is critical for assuring the highest scientific quality of the papers accepted for publication. At least two independent reviewers will review all submissions according to a specific field of research. The reviewers' comments will be provided to assist the authors in improving the paper's technical content, structure, and language. The reviewers and track chairs are responsible for ensuring scientific equality and high standards of the accepted papers. Authors understand that  the research article must be original, never published, or submitted before for publication.

AHFE International takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. AHFE Proceedings takes publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our proceedings, we use similarity detection to check submissions against previous publications. AHFE is committed to maintaining the highest level of integrity in the content published. This proceedings has a Conflict of Interest policy in place following the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and subscribes to its principles on how to deal with acts of misconduct thereby committing to investigate allegations of misconduct in order to ensure the integrity of research. The journal use plagiarism detection software to screen the submissions. If plagiarism is identified, the guidelines on plagiarism will be followed.

As a pioneer of academic open access publishing in Human Factors Engineering and Human-centered computing, we serve the scientific community since 2008. Our aim is to foster scientific exchange in all forms, across all disciplines.

As an emerging pioneer in open access peer-review research, our mission is to make new research findings accessible to everyone. We are serving scholars from across the globe and from a variety of backgrounds. We aim to build proceedings and research focus that is diverse and inclusive, by openness that is key to our mission. We aim at creating equal opportunities for people without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, country of origin, physical ability, or socio-economic status. There is no place for discrimination. We adopt principles of the Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) to support building equity, inclusion, diversity, and accessibility in scholarly communications.

The authors of papers published in the AHFE Open Access Proceedings will retain full copyrights as specified by the provisions of the Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/