Editorial Policies
Every policy statement in one place — for authors, reviewers, and indexing bodies checking the journal's standards.
Peer Review
How manuscripts are reviewed, by whom, and against what criteria.
Negative, Null and Non-Optimised Results
What we accept, what we require, and why.
Publication Ethics
Misconduct, plagiarism, competing interests and how allegations are handled.
Open Access, Copyright and Licensing
Who owns the work and what readers may do with it.
Data Availability and Reproducibility
What authors should deposit and what must be described.
Authorship, Contributions and AI
Who counts as an author and how generative tools must be declared.
Corrections and Retractions
How the published record is corrected.
Archiving and Preservation
How articles stay available permanently.
Standards followed
Solar Cell Insights follows the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the standards expected of open-access journals by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Where a situation is not covered by the policies above, we act in accordance with COPE guidance.
Concerns about a published article, a submission under review, or the conduct of the journal may be sent in confidence to ethics@[DOMAIN].