Policies

The Journal of Young Innovators (JYI) is a fully open-access journal. All articles published in JYI are freely available to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, and reuse, immediately upon publication and without any subscription, registration, or payment barrier.

JYI follows the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access. There are no embargo periods.

All articles published in JYI are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Under this license, anyone is free to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) for any purpose, including commercially, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s), a link to the license is provided, and any changes made are indicated.

Each article displays its license terms on the article page and, where applicable, in machine-readable metadata.

Authors retain copyright of their work. By submitting to JYI, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive license to publish the article and identify it as having been first published in The Journal of Young Innovators, while retaining all other rights to their work.

Authors are free to deposit their published work in institutional repositories, share it on personal or scholarly websites, and reuse it in subsequent works, provided proper citation is given.

All research articles submitted to JYI undergo double-blind peer review. Author identities and affiliations are concealed from reviewers, and reviewer identities are concealed from authors.

Each manuscript is evaluated by at least two members of our editorial board or external reviewers selected for their expertise in the relevant subject area. Reviewers assess originality, scholarly rigor, methodological soundness, clarity, and contribution to the field.

Editorial decisions (accept, accept with revisions, revise and resubmit, or reject) are communicated to authors typically within 4–8 weeks of submission. Detailed reviewer feedback is provided to authors regardless of the final decision.

JYI takes plagiarism seriously. All submissions are screened for originality through editorial review and cross-referencing against published literature and online sources prior to peer review.

Plagiarism — including verbatim copying, substantial paraphrasing without attribution, self-plagiarism, and improperly attributed quotations — is grounds for immediate rejection. If plagiarism is detected after publication, the journal will issue a correction or retract the article in accordance with COPE guidelines and notify the author's affiliated institution where appropriate.

JYI is committed to the highest standards of publication ethics and follows the principles articulated by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Core Practices.

Author responsibilities. Authors must submit original work, properly cite all sources, disclose any conflicts of interest or sources of funding, and obtain permission for any third-party material they reproduce. Submissions must not be under consideration at another journal.

Reviewer responsibilities. Reviewers must keep manuscripts confidential, declare conflicts of interest, provide fair and constructive feedback, and complete reviews in a timely manner.

Editor responsibilities. Editors are responsible for the integrity of the published record. They make publication decisions free from commercial influence, handle complaints and corrections promptly, ensure the confidentiality of submissions, and act to prevent the publication of work in which a conflict of interest has not been declared.

Concerns about misconduct, including data fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, or undisclosed conflicts of interest, may be sent to editor@young-innovator.org.

JYI maintains a permanent, freely-accessible online archive of all published articles at young-innovator.org/issues. Each article is hosted as a downloadable PDF with a stable URL based on its title slug.

Authors are encouraged to deposit their published version in their institutional repository for additional preservation redundancy. JYI is exploring participation in long-term preservation networks (such as CLOCKSS or the Internet Archive) and will update this policy as those arrangements are established.

JYI collects only the personal information necessary to operate the journal: author and reviewer names, affiliations, and contact details for the purpose of editorial correspondence and attribution.

We do not sell or share personal information with third parties. Information collected during submission is used solely for editorial workflow, peer review, and publication. Aggregated, anonymized site analytics may be collected to improve the service.

Questions about personal data may be sent to editor@young-innovator.org.