Journal Title: Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIS)

Online ISSN: 1347-6157

Publisher: The Editorial Committee of the Interdisciplinary Information Sciences

Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIS) is published semiannually by the Graduate School of Information Sciences (GSIS), Tohoku University, and intended to span the ever-increasing range of information sciences from theoretical foundations to practical applications. It aims to provide a forum for worldwide scholarly discussion and a valuable knowledge resource for the academic community.

The journal is managed by an international Editorial Board. The board holds full and sole responsibility for all editorial decisions, maintaining complete editorial independence from the publisher.

Editor-in-Chief:

Kazunori Yamada, Tohoku University, Japan

Advisory Board:

Luigi Accardi, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Keith W. Hipel, University of Waterloo, Canada
Dorothea Wagner, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany

The journal upholds the highest standards in scholarly publishing. The responsibilities of the journal's authors, editors, reviewers and publisher regarding research and publication ethics are described in full below. The journal will respond to allegations of ethical breaches by following its own policies and, where possible, the guidelines of COPE.

Data Falsification, Data Fabrication and Image Integrity:

Authors must not falsify or fabricate data. Authors may digitally manipulate or process images, but only if the adjustments are kept to a minimum. Failure to provide requested images may result in a manuscript being rejected or retracted.

Conflicts of Interest:

Authors must disclose any financial or non-financial conflicts of interest that may influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript.

Data Sharing and Reproducibility:

Authors are encouraged to make data and materials supporting the results of their study publicly available where possible, and to ensure that their results are reproducible.

Ethical Oversight:

Authors must ensure that their research complies with relevant ethical standards and has received appropriate approval where required.

Complaints and Appeals:

The journal will consider complaints and appeals regarding editorial decisions, peer review, and publication ethics. Such matters should be addressed to the Editorial Office. The journal will handle all complaints and appeals in accordance with its policies and, where appropriate, the guidelines of COPE.

Corrections and Retractions:

The journal will issue corrections, retractions, or expressions of concern when necessary, in accordance with its policies and the guidelines of COPE.

Authors must disclose and fully describe any use of generative or non-generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools (also known as large language models, or LLMs) in the Acknowledgements section. This includes, but is not limited to, using AI tools to collect or analyze data, produce or amend images or graphics used in the manuscript, or write all or part of the manuscript. Authors must describe which tools they used and how the tools were used. In general, the use of generative AI tools is allowed only where that use is an integral part of the research design or methods. In all cases, authors remain responsible for all the content of their submitted manuscript.

Originality:

Submission to the journal implies that the manuscript has not previously been published (in part or in whole, in any language), is not in press, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Authorship Criteria:

Each author is expected to have: made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work, approved the submitted version and agreed both to be personally accountable for the author's own contributions.

The journal uses single anonymized peer review. When a manuscript is submitted to the journal, the Editor-in-Chief assigns it to an Associate Editor based on the subject area of the manuscript who undertakes an initial screening process. Manuscripts that do not fit the journal’s scope or are not deemed suitable for publication are rejected without review. The remaining manuscripts are assigned by the Associate Editor to two or more reviewers to assess each manuscript.

Copyright:

Authors are required to assign all copyrights in the work, via the Copyright Transfer Agreement form, to the GSIS.

Licensing:

The GSIS publishes the work under one of the Creative Commons licenses (CC BY 4.0, CC BY-NC 4.0, or CC BY-ND 4.0).

Publication Charges:

The journal is a platinum open access journal; that is, it is free to publish and free to read. There are no page charges, editing fees, color charges, submission fees, membership fees, or other associated fees. The journal is financially supported by the Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University. Editorial decisions are independent of financial considerations.

Open Access:

All published issues as well as papers accepted for publication are available online: J-STAGE (Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic).

Long-term Digital Archiving:

J-STAGE preserves its full digital library, including the journal, with Portico in a dark archive. In the event that the material becomes unavailable at J-STAGE, it will be released and made available by Portico.

The journal does not accept or publish advertising. No advertisements are associated with editorial content, and editorial decisions are independent of any commercial interests.

The journal does not engage in unsolicited or inappropriate direct marketing activities. Any communications regarding the journal are conducted in a professional manner and are accurate and not misleading.

Manuscript submission details are available in the Instructions to Authors (revised on March 29, 2016)

Graduate School of Information Sciences
Tohoku University
Sendai 980-8579, Japan
iis-gsis(at)grp.tohoku.ac.jp