A peer-reviewed Open Access publisher connecting Moroccan academic excellence with the global scientific community—serving researchers across Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Emerging Technologies.
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A rigorous forum for original research in machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, autonomous systems, and the ethical dimensions of AI deployment at scale.
The flagship interdisciplinary journal covering algorithms, distributed computing, software engineering, theoretical CS, bioinformatics, and high-performance computing for researchers across all career stages.
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Atlas Scientific Publishing operates at the intersection of global academic standards and the dynamic intellectual tradition of North Africa. We deliver the rigor expected of publishers in London or Amsterdam, while championing scientific equity for the Global South.
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Atlas Scientific Publishing was founded with a singular vision: to establish Morocco and the African continent as a recognized node in the global knowledge production network. Named after the Atlas Mountains—a bridge between civilizations for millennia—our publisher embodies that connective role in the digital knowledge era.
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Based on COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) Guidelines · Version 1.2 · Revised January 2025
Atlas Scientific Publishing (ASP) is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and to taking all reasonable steps to prevent publication malpractice. This statement—based on the guidelines established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and COPE's Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors—outlines the ethical obligations of all parties involved: editors, authors, and peer reviewers.
The Editor-in-Chief of each ASP journal is solely responsible for deciding which submitted articles shall be published. This decision is guided by the journal's editorial policies and is constrained by applicable legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The Editor-in-Chief may confer with Associate Editors, members of the Editorial Board, or the publisher in making this decision, but the final decision is editorial and independent of commercial considerations.
Manuscripts shall be evaluated exclusively on their intellectual and scientific merit. No discriminatory consideration shall be given to the race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, national affiliation, or political philosophy of the authors. All editorial decisions shall be made in accordance with the principle of objective, merit-based assessment.
Editors and all editorial staff shall not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, assigned reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisors, and the publisher, as appropriate and necessary. All submitted manuscripts are treated as strictly confidential documents from the moment of receipt until a final publication decision is communicated.
Editors shall recuse themselves from handling manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest arising from competitive, collaborative, financial, or personal relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions involved. In such cases, a co-editor, Associate Editor, or other member of the Editorial Board shall be appointed to manage the submission.
Authors of original research must present an accurate account of the work performed and an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data must be represented accurately. Papers must contain sufficient detail, methods description, and references to permit independent replication by qualified researchers. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical publishing behavior and are grounds for immediate rejection or retraction.
Authors shall submit only entirely original works, appropriately citing or quoting the work of others. Publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work must also be cited. Plagiarism in all its forms—including verbatim copying, close paraphrasing without attribution, and self-plagiarism (reuse of one's own previously published material without disclosure)—constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. All submissions are screened via iThenticate. A similarity index exceeding 15% (excluding references and common technical phrases) will result in the manuscript being returned to the author prior to review.
An author shall not submit manuscripts describing essentially the same research to more than one journal concurrently. Submitting the same manuscript to multiple journals simultaneously constitutes unethical behavior. An author shall not submit a previously published paper for consideration in another journal without full disclosure and the express consent of both publishers.
Authorship shall be limited to those who have made a significant intellectual contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All individuals who have made significant contributions must be listed as co-authors. The corresponding author shall ensure that all appropriate co-authors are included, that no inappropriate co-authors are present, and that all co-authors have reviewed, approved, and agreed to the final version of the paper and its submission for publication.
Authors are required to include a Data Availability Statement in every submitted manuscript. Authors are strongly encouraged to make datasets, code, and materials supporting their findings publicly available in recognized repositories (Zenodo, Figshare, GitHub with DOI, institutional repositories). If data cannot be shared due to legal, commercial, or privacy constraints, the reason must be clearly stated and justified.
All authors must disclose any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support, including grant numbers and funding agency names, must be disclosed. Examples of conflicts requiring disclosure include: employment or consultancy relationships, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications or registrations, and institutional grants or other funding.
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in their own published work, it is their obligation to promptly notify the Editor-in-Chief or publisher and to cooperate with the editorial office to retract or correct the paper. If the editor or publisher learns from a third party that a published work contains a material error, the author is obligated to provide evidence of the paper's correctness or to cooperate with a correction or retraction as appropriate.
Peer review assists editors in making editorial decisions and, through editorial communication, assists authors in improving their manuscripts. Peer review is an essential component of formal scholarly communication. All nominated reviewers are expected to participate actively, contribute substantively, and complete their reviews within the agreed timeframe.
Any selected reviewer who feels unqualified to review the reported research or knows that their prompt review will be impossible must notify the editorial office without delay and recuse themselves. Late reviews cause significant disruption; reviewers are expected to accept only invitations they can fulfill within the specified period (typically 3–4 weeks).
Reviewers must treat all manuscripts received for review as confidential documents. They must not be disclosed to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor. Under no circumstances shall a reviewer contact an author directly during the review process. Reviewers shall not use unpublished information from reviewed manuscripts for their own research without the explicit written consent of the authors.
Reviews shall be conducted objectively and professionally. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate and unacceptable. Reviewers shall express their views clearly and constructively, with supporting arguments and, where possible, specific references to the literature. The purpose of review is to improve scientific quality and support an informed editorial decision, not to prevent publication.
Reviewers shall decline to review manuscripts where they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, financial, or personal relationships with any of the authors or institutions. This includes prior knowledge of the manuscript's identity. Reviewers who identify themselves as having such a conflict after accepting a review invitation must immediately inform the editorial office.
Reviewers shall identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any observation, derivation, or argument previously reported elsewhere must be accompanied by the relevant citation. Reviewers shall also promptly call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published work of which they are aware.
Allegations of research or publication misconduct are treated with the utmost seriousness. ASP follows COPE flowcharts and guidelines for handling all allegations of misconduct. Upon receipt of a complaint or concern, the editorial office will conduct a preliminary assessment within 10 business days. If the concern appears credible, the Editor-in-Chief will initiate a formal investigation, which may involve contacting the authors' institutions, the authors themselves, or relevant regulatory authorities.
ASP publishes corrections, clarifications, expressions of concern, and retractions as necessary, in full accordance with COPE Retraction Guidelines. All such notices will be clearly and permanently linked to the affected article in both the HTML and PDF versions. Retraction notices will include the full reason for retraction. Retracted articles are retained on the ASP platform with their retraction status prominently labeled—they are not removed from the scholarly record, as the historical record must be preserved.
ASP supports the principle of open post-publication peer review. Letters to the editors addressing concerns about or responses to published articles are welcome and will be considered for publication following editorial review, providing a legitimate and transparent forum for scholarly engagement with the published record.
All articles published in ASP journals are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Under this license, authors retain copyright of their work and grant any user the right to freely access, read, download, copy, distribute, transmit, adapt, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited with authorship, source, and DOI. Authors grant ASP the non-exclusive right of first publication and the perpetual right to archive and disseminate the article in all current and future digital formats.
All matters related to publication ethics, including allegations of misconduct, plagiarism, authorship disputes, or data fabrication, should be directed to the ASP Ethics Office: ethics@atlasci.org. Anonymous reports will be considered, though they may limit our ability to conduct a full investigation. This statement is reviewed annually by the ASP Ethics Committee and updated as necessary to reflect evolving best practices in scholarly publishing.
Please read all guidelines carefully before preparing your manuscript · Version 2.1 — January 2025
Atlas Scientific Publishing (ASP) welcomes original research articles, review papers, short communications, and special issue contributions from researchers worldwide. The following guidelines apply to all journals published under the ASP imprint unless a journal-specific guideline explicitly overrides them. Authors are strongly encouraged to review the specific scope of their target journal prior to submission to confirm suitability.
All manuscripts must be written in clear, precise, and grammatically correct English (American or British convention, applied consistently throughout). Authors whose native language is not English are strongly encouraged to have their manuscript professionally proofread prior to submission. ASP offers an optional language editing service; contact authors@atlasci.org for details and partner providers. All acronyms must be defined upon first occurrence, technical terminology must be used precisely and consistently, and statistical results must be reported with full detail including effect sizes and confidence intervals.
All research articles must adhere to the following structure. Deviations must be justified in the cover letter and approved by the handling editor.
ASP employs strict double-blind peer review. The version submitted for review must contain no information that would directly or indirectly identify the authors or their institutions. Requirements include: removing all author names and affiliations from the manuscript text; removing or anonymizing acknowledgements; anonymizing self-citations in the text (e.g., "our previous work [ANON]" with the full reference retained in the reference list as "[ANON], details available post-review"); and stripping metadata from Word and PDF files. A non-anonymized title page containing full author details, ORCID iDs, affiliations, and contact information must be uploaded separately as a supplementary file designated "Title Page (Not for Review)."
All ASP journals use the IEEE reference style. References are numbered consecutively in order of appearance in the text and listed in numerical order at the end of the manuscript. Each reference must include all mandatory elements: all author names (initials and surname), article title in quotation marks, journal name in italics (abbreviated per ISO 4), volume, issue number, page range, year, and DOI where available. References to preprints (arXiv, SSRN, bioRxiv) are permitted if clearly identified as such; however, the corresponding author is strongly encouraged to update these references to published versions before the final accepted version is submitted. Authors bear full responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of all references.
All corresponding authors are required to register an ORCID iD and provide it at submission. An ORCID iD (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a free, persistent digital identifier that uniquely distinguishes individual researchers and reliably links their research outputs across databases, institutions, and publishers. ORCID registration is free at orcid.org. All co-authors are strongly encouraged (and for special issues, required) to provide their ORCID iDs as well. Manuscripts submitted without a corresponding author ORCID iD will be returned at the desk review stage and will not enter peer review until the ORCID is provided.
ASP maintains a strict zero-tolerance policy toward all forms of plagiarism, including verbatim copying, close paraphrasing without attribution, self-plagiarism (reuse of previously published material without disclosure), and data fabrication or falsification. Plagiarism discovered at any stage—from submission through post-publication—will result in immediate rejection or retraction, and the authors' institutions and funding agencies may be formally notified.
Every manuscript submitted to an ASP journal is processed through iThenticate (powered by Turnitin's CrossCheck database), which compares submissions against billions of published articles, conference papers, books, theses, and web content. The following thresholds apply:
The similarity index excludes the reference list, properly formatted direct quotations within quotation marks, and common mathematical or technical phrases. Authors are encouraged to use institutional iThenticate access to self-check their manuscripts prior to submission to avoid unnecessary rejections.
A Data Availability Statement (DAS) is required in every submitted manuscript, irrespective of whether the underlying data are publicly available. The DAS must describe: (a) the nature of the data supporting the findings; (b) where the data are deposited and how they can be accessed, including repository name, persistent identifier (preferably a DOI), and any access conditions; or (c) the reason why data cannot be shared (e.g., participant confidentiality, commercial sensitivity, national security, legal restriction), with a clear justification. Recommended repositories include Zenodo, Figshare, Harvard Dataverse, Open Science Framework (OSF), and institutional repositories. Code repositories such as GitHub should be archived to Zenodo or equivalent to ensure a citable, persistent DOI is assigned to the codebase.
All authors must declare a Conflict of Interest (COI) statement in the manuscript. If no conflict exists, the statement "The authors declare no conflict of interest" must still be explicitly included. Disclosures must be comprehensive and include: employment or management positions at commercial entities with an interest in the research; paid consultancy or advisory roles; stock, equity, or option ownership; honoraria or speaker fees; paid expert testimony; patent applications, registrations, or pending patents; and research grants or institutional funding from entities with interests in the research outcomes. All funding sources, including grant reference numbers and funding agency names, must be disclosed in the Acknowledgements section. Funding disclosures are published alongside the article and are permanent parts of the scholarly record.
Research involving human participants must have received prior approval from an appropriate Institutional Review Board (IRB) or Research Ethics Committee (REC). The approval number and the name of the approving institution must be clearly stated in the Methods section. For studies involving animals, the manuscript must confirm compliance with the relevant institutional and national guidelines for the humane care and use of laboratory animals, including the approval number and approving institution. Research involving personal data must comply with applicable privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR in the European Economic Area). The editorial office reserves the right to request copies of ethics approval documentation and to reject manuscripts that do not satisfactorily demonstrate compliance with ethical research standards.
A cover letter (maximum 500 words) must accompany every initial submission. The cover letter must: address the Editor-in-Chief by name; confirm that the manuscript is original and not under consideration elsewhere; briefly articulate the manuscript's specific contribution and its relevance to the journal's scope; declare all competing interests (or confirm their absence); confirm that all authors have reviewed and approved the final version and consent to submission; and list any suggested or excluded reviewers with justifications. The cover letter is not shared with reviewers.
Authors may suggest up to four potential reviewers with relevant expertise and no conflicts of interest. Authors may also request the exclusion of specific individuals with a brief, factual justification (e.g., prior professional conflict, competitive interest). The editorial board reserves the right to accept or reject these suggestions at its sole discretion and is under no obligation to engage suggested reviewers. Suggesting reviewers from the same institution or with known close professional relationships with the authors will not be accepted.
Following submission, the corresponding author receives an acknowledgment within 3 business days. Desk review (scope check, iThenticate screening, ORCID verification, structural compliance) is completed within 5–7 business days. Manuscripts passing desk review are assigned to an Associate Editor and enter the double-blind peer review process. The target time from submission to first decision is 45 calendar days. Authors receive one of four decisions: Accept (with or without minor revisions), Major Revision, Minor Revision, or Reject. Revised manuscripts must be resubmitted within 30 days (major) or 14 days (minor) of the decision notification, accompanied by a point-by-point response to all reviewer and editor comments.
To sustain the costs of expert peer review coordination, professional copyediting and typesetting, XML production, Crossref DOI registration, long-term digital archiving (CLOCKSS, Portico), and the online publishing platform, ASP charges an Article Processing Charge (APC) upon acceptance of a manuscript. The current APC schedule is published on each journal's homepage and is updated annually. APC payment does not influence editorial decisions, which are made entirely independently of financial considerations by the editorial board.