ACM Publications Policies and Procedures
Publications Policies
The following is a list of policies that govern ACM Publications. These are reviewed and updated as required.
- ACM Copyright Policy
- Policy on Authors, Peer Review, Readership, and Conference Publication
- Policy on Plagiarism, Misrepresentation, and Falsification
- Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects
- Digital Library Usage Policies
- Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions Policy
- Policy on Submission, Hosting, Access, and Ownership of Digital Artifacts
- Conflict of Interest Policy
- Policy on Coercion and Abuse in the ACM Publications Process
- Policy on the Withdrawal, Correction, Retraction, and Removal of Works from ACM Publications and the ACM Digital Library
- ACM Publications Policy on Author Name Changes
- ACM Chapters Publication Policy
- Penalties for Publication Violations
- Software Copyright Notice
Publications Guidelines and Procedures
The following is a list of the current ACM publications procedures. We review these and add to them as new procedures and guidelines are required.
- Process for Investigating Claims
- Editor-in-Chief Appointments (See also, Evaluation Criteria for Editors-in-Chief)
- Artifact Review and Badging
- Position Descriptions - Volunteer Editors of ACM Journals
- Viability Review Process for ACM Publications
- Appealing Editorial Decisions
- Turing Award and CACM
- Guidelines and Criteria for Evaluation of Submissions for ACM Publications
- The Publication of Conference Proceedings in ACM Journals
- Publication of SIG In-Cooperation Proceedings
- Guidelines for Establishing Best Paper Awards
Publish with ACM
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Report a Potential Violation
If you believe one or more of ACM’s Publications Policies have been violated and you have credible evidence of such violation(s), you may report a potential violation as a claimant. Before you report a potential violation, please read ACM’s Publications Policies carefully.
Appeal Editorial Decisions
If you would like to appeal the editorial decision of an article submitted to an ACM publication, please first contact the Editor(s)-in-Chief of the journal or magazine publication or the Program Committee Chair(s) of a conference publication. For more information, go here.
