IEEE Publishing Ethics

Guidelines and policies of IEEE Publishing Ethics for authors, readers, researchers, and volunteers.

Plagiarism guidelines

Multiple submission and prior publication guidelines

The IEEE statement on Appropriate Use of Bibliometric Indicators

Read IEEE's Statement on Appropriate Use of Bibliometric Indicators.

Policy approved for expanded use of the Prohibited Participants List

Policy language has been added to the PSPB Operations Manual to codify the expanded use of the PPL (previously Prohibited Authors List or PAL), and to encourage volunteers from other organizational units to use the PPL when reviewing nominations or appointments of individuals to positions of leadership or decision-making roles within IEEE. These include EiCs, associate editors, conference organizers, Society Conference VPs, and Society Pubs VPs. 

Volunteers who are interested in using the PPL are encouraged to send an email request to with:

  1. A brief description of his/her role within IEEE
  2. How the PPL will be used

Requests will be presented to the IEEE Vice President, IEEE Publication Services and Products for approval.

Mandatory plagiarism detection policy approved

Following the IEEE Board of Directors decision in November 2012, the Publication Services and Products Board approved a policy requiring all manuscripts to be submitted to plagiarism detection software. The goal of the policy is to bolster the quality of IEEE Xplore® content by identifying papers with potentially plagiarized material before they are posted.