Submissions

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Author Guidelines

Who may submit. Researchers worldwide may submit to JCM. Membership of any institution or society is not a condition of submission (JCM-102 Art. 3).

Authorship. Authors are those who made a substantial contribution to the conception, conduct, analysis or writing of the work. Funding, administrative support or general supervision alone does not constitute authorship (JCM-102 Art. 4). The corresponding author represents all authors in every stage of submission, revision and publication (Art. 5).

Article types. Original Article, Review Article, Technical Paper, Short Communication, and Invited Paper (Art. 6).

Originality and duplicate submission. Manuscripts must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under consideration by another journal. Simultaneous submission to more than one journal is not permitted (Art. 7, 8).

Documents to submit. Manuscript file, and the JCM Author Declaration & Publishing Agreement, which covers copyright, research ethics, conflict of interest, funding, and AI disclosure (Art. 11).

Manuscript format. Manuscripts must follow the JCM manuscript template (Art. 12).

Language. Manuscripts may be submitted in English or Korean. Title, abstract and keywords must be provided in both English and Korean regardless of the language of the manuscript.

Anonymity. JCM operates double-anonymous peer review. Remove author names, affiliations, acknowledgements and any self-identifying references from the manuscript file (JCM-103 Art. 7).

ORCID. The corresponding author is required to provide an ORCID iD; co-authors are encouraged to do so (Art. 18).

Generative AI. Any use of generative AI in preparing the manuscript must be disclosed, with the scope and purpose of use. AI cannot be listed as an author (Art. 19).

Review and revision. All submissions are reviewed under the JCM Peer Review Policy. Authors must submit a revised manuscript together with a point-by-point response to the reviewers (Art. 13, 14). Revised manuscripts are due within 30 days of the revision request (JCM-103 Art. 15).

Publication charges. There is no submission fee and no review fee. On acceptance, an article processing charge of KRW 50,000 per page of the final published version is payable before the publication date (JCM-302 Art. 4, 5). Waivers are available for invited papers and for authors for whom payment would be a hardship; a waiver request has no bearing on the review and is not disclosed to reviewers (JCM-302 Art. 3, 6). See Publication Charges for the full policy.

Submission Preparation Checklist

  • The submission is original, has not been published previously, and is not under consideration by another journal (JCM-102 Art. 7, 8).
  • All listed authors meet the JCM authorship requirements, and all have approved the submitted version (Art. 4).
  • The manuscript follows the JCM manuscript template (Art. 12).
  • The JCM Author Declaration & Publishing Agreement has been completed and is attached (Art. 11).
  • An ORCID iD has been provided for the corresponding author (Art. 18).
  • Any use of generative AI has been disclosed (Art. 19).
  • Author names, affiliations and self-identifying references have been removed from the manuscript file for double-anonymous review (JCM-103 Art. 7).
  • Title, abstract and keywords are provided in both English and Korean.
  • I understand that an article processing charge of KRW 50,000 per page applies on acceptance, and that a waiver may be requested (JCM-302 Art. 5, 6).

Original Article

Original research articles reporting new and significant findings. All submissions are peer reviewed by at least two independent reviewers under a double-anonymous process.

Review Article

Critical and comprehensive reviews that synthesise the state of the art in a defined area of convergence mobility. Peer reviewed under the same double-anonymous process as original articles.

Technical Paper

Papers presenting practical engineering developments, system implementations, test results or design methodologies of applied value. Peer reviewed.

Short Communication

Concise reports of preliminary but significant results that warrant rapid publication. Peer reviewed.

Invited Paper

Papers commissioned by the Editorial Board. Invited papers are not subject to the standard peer review process and are reviewed by the Editorial Board.

Copyright Notice

Authors retain the copyright to their work (JCM-301 Art. 3, 4).

By submitting to JCM, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive publishing licence to publish, reproduce, distribute, transmit online, preserve and archive the article, and to supply it to scholarly information services (Art. 6).

Authors retain the right to use their work for academic and educational purposes, to deposit it in institutional repositories and personal or laboratory websites, and to reuse it in conference presentations, teaching materials and research reports (Art. 5).

Unless stated otherwise, articles published in JCM are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) (Art. 9).

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for any third-party material (figures, tables, photographs, data) included in the article (Art. 10).

JCM may supply article metadata to the Korea Citation Index (KCI), Crossref, DOI registration agencies and other scholarly information services (Art. 7).

Privacy Statement

The Journal of Convergence Mobility (JCM) is published by the Institute of Convergence Mobility, Dankook University. This statement explains what personal data the journal collects through this site, why it is collected, who can see it, and how long it is kept. It is issued under Article 30 of the Personal Information Protection Act of the Republic of Korea.

What we collect

Account and submission records: name, affiliation, e-mail address, telephone number (optional), ORCID iD (optional for co-authors), username and password, country, and the biography, interests and correspondence a user chooses to supply.

JCM does not collect resident registration numbers, passport numbers, driver's licence numbers, alien registration numbers, or biometric data of any kind.

The server also records ordinary access logs — IP address, date and time, and the page requested — for security and for usage statistics.

Why we collect it

  • To operate submission, peer review, editing and publication.
  • To contact authors, reviewers and editors about a submission.
  • To credit authorship and affiliation in published articles, and to supply article metadata to indexing services (KCI, Crossref, DOI registration agencies and comparable services).
  • To compile aggregate readership statistics.

Data entered on this site is used only for the purposes stated here. It is not sold, and it is not made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

Consent

Personal data is collected with the consent of the person concerned, given at registration. Consent may be withdrawn at any time by contacting the journal; withdrawal may make it impossible to continue processing a submission already under review.

Who can see what

Editors and the managing editor can see the account and submission records needed to run the review. JCM operates double-anonymous peer review: authors and reviewers are not shown each other's identity. The name, affiliation, e-mail address and ORCID iD of the authors of a published article are public, as is normal scholarly practice.

Protection

  • All traffic is served over an encrypted connection (TLS/SSL).
  • Account passwords must be at least nine characters long, and users are asked to combine letters, numbers and symbols. The requirement is enforced by the system at registration and at every password change.
  • Passwords are stored one-way hashed and cannot be recovered in readable form by anyone, including the journal.
  • Access to personal data is limited to those whose role requires it, and administrative access is restricted.
  • Access logs are retained for at least one year.

How long it is kept

Account and submission records are kept for as long as the account exists and for the period required for the scholarly record. Data relating to published articles is retained permanently as part of that record. A user may ask for their account to be closed and their personal data deleted, except where the data forms part of a published article.

Your rights

You may ask to see, correct, or delete the personal data JCM holds about you, and to withdraw consent. Contact the journal at the address on the Contact page.

Changes

Any change to this statement will be published on this page before it takes effect.