Frontiers in Computer Science

Open Access Policy: Articles are published under a gold open-access model and are freely available to readers.

License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY), according to the publisher's open-access statement.

Peer Review Policy: Single-anonymized peer review, with manuscripts evaluated by editors and reviewers with relevant expertise.

Publication Ethics: The journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Originality and Plagiarism: Manuscripts must comply with the publisher's originality and publication ethics requirements.

Research Integrity: Authors must report methods, results, analyses, and limitations accurately and transparently.

Data and Code Availability: Authors should provide data availability statements and share supporting datasets, software, and code where appropriate, subject to ethical, legal, and licensing restrictions.

Human Participant Research: Research involving people or personal data must comply with applicable ethical standards, institutional requirements, and privacy regulations.

Conflicts of Interest: Authors must disclose relevant competing interests.

Corrections and Retractions: Post-publication corrections and other editorial actions follow the publisher's applicable policies.

Scope Policy: Manuscripts must align with the selected specialty section and make a meaningful contribution to computer science.

Editorial Independence: Editorial decisions follow the journal's peer-review process. Payment of publication charges does not guarantee acceptance.

Authors must submit manuscripts to the specialty section most appropriate to their research and demonstrate a clear contribution to computer science.

Manuscripts should present rigorous methods, transparent reporting, and appropriate theoretical, experimental, computational, or empirical validation.

Authors must:

• Follow the journal's current manuscript preparation and submission requirements.
• Select an article type accepted by the relevant specialty section.
• Include a title, abstract, keywords, references, figures, tables, and supplementary materials where applicable.
• Describe algorithms, computational models, software architecture, datasets, experimental settings, and analytical methods in sufficient detail.
• Provide appropriate benchmarks, comparative evaluations, formal proofs, experiments, or validation where relevant.
• Explain the scientific or practical significance of the results.
• Disclose funding sources, author contributions, and competing interests.
• Obtain required ethical approvals for studies involving human participants, personal data, or animals.
• Provide data availability statements and share supporting code, datasets, and research materials when appropriate and permitted.
• Respond to editorial and reviewer comments during peer review.

Authors must ensure that the manuscript falls within the scope of the selected specialty section. Theoretical computer science submissions should provide a strong theoretical contribution, while software and applied computing submissions should demonstrate novelty beyond simply applying an existing technology to a new context.

Authors should consult the official author guidelines and section-specific instructions before submission.