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Organizational Cybersecurity Journal: Practice, Process, and People is an international, open access, peer-reviewed academic journal focusing on all topics related to cybersecurity management. The journal welcomes papers from human, technical, and process perspectives on the topic.

ISSN: 2635-0270
eISSN: 2635-0289

You can publish an open access article in this platinum partnership journal. Authors in this journal are not required to pay an article processing charge (APC)

Aims and scope

Cybersecurity touches all aspects of organizational management. Organizational Cybersecurity Journal: Practice, Process, and People (OCJ) seeks to publish advances in scientific knowledge directly related to cybersecurity management. Cybersecurity impacts not only the technical side of an organization, but brand image, ethical and legal obligations, uninterrupted operations, customer relations, internal processes, risk management, system audits, strategic initiatives, and almost every dimension of sustaining and growing a successful organization. We target research relating to the behaviours and practices that influence successful management of cybersecurity.

OCJ is published under a platinum Open Access arrangement, in that all charges for publishing an article in the Journal are funded by the University of Colorado Colorado Springs College of Business and Cybersecurity Management Council. Therefore, there is no charge to the author. All articles are published Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license, so are made freely available at no charge to the public. You can view the journal's transparency statement below.

OCJ encourages rigorous research focused on, but not limited to:

  • Cybersecurity governance, strategy and policy
  • Managing information security
  • Behavioral and cognitive cybersecurity
  • Cybersecurity regulations, standards and compliance
  • Business process assurance
  • Risk management
  • Data protection and security assurance
  • User-interfaces with security technologies
  • Digital privacy and ethics
  • Secure use of emergent technologies

To submit to the journal, please go to: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ocj. Please follow the author guidelines before submitting.

All articles are published Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, so are made freely available at no charge to the author.

OCJ is published by Emerald Group Publishing on behalf of Cybersecurity Management Council, who owns the title. OCJ is published under a platinum OA arrangement, in that all charges for publishing an OA article in the Journal are funded by the University of Colorado Colorado Springs College of Business and Cybersecurity Management Council. Therefore, there is no charge to the author.

You can view the journal's transparency statement below. 

Transparency statement for Organizational Cybersecurity Journal: Practice, Process and People

  1. Journal Ownership: Organizational Cybersecurity Journal: Practice, Process and People is published by Emerald Publishing on behalf of the Cybersecurity Management Council.
  2. Governing Body: The editorial team is appointed and managed by the Cybersecurity Management Council. The journal is governed by the editorial team in collaboration with Emerald Publishing.
  3. Peer Review Process: The journal operates a double blind peer review model. All articles undergo an initial assessment by the journal editor. If they are considered suitable for consideration, articles will then be a reviewed by a minimum of two external reviewers to assess suitability for publication. Final responsibility for editorial decisions rests with the Editor-in-Chief of the journal.  
  4. Editorial team/contact information: Contact details for the editorial team can be found on the journal homepage. Queries may also be directed to Emerald’s Publishing team as follows: Chris Tutill – [email protected]  
  5. Copyright: All articles in the journal are published Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY-4.0). This allows authors to retain copyright of their work whilst others can share, use and build upon this work created as long as appropriate attribution is given.  
  6. Author Fees: The journal is published under a Platinum Open Access arrangement, in that all costs associated with publishing an Open Access article in the journal are funded by the Cybersecurity Management Council. There are currently no Article Processing Charges to the author(s).
  7. Allegations of Misconduct: All journals published by Emerald are members of and subscribe to the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics. In the event of any allegation of research or publication misconduct the publisher and editor will adhere to COPE guidelines in dealing with such allegations.  
  8. Conflicts of interest: Authors are asked to declare any financial or ethical conflicts of interest upon submitting their work to the journal. Difficult cases will be referred to the Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE) for advice.
  9. Frequency: The journal currently publishes 2-4 issues per annum
  10. Access: All journal articles are published Open Access on EmeraldInsight.com - http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/ocj under a CCBY 4.0 licence (please see section 5).  
  11. Revenue sources: The journal is published under a platinum Open Access arrangement, in that all costs associated with publishing an Open Access article in the journal are funded by the Cybersecurity Management Council.
  12. Advertising: The journal does not accept direct advertising 
  13. Archiving: Emerald provides perpetual access for all e-journal content by working with digital preservation schemes Portico, LOCKSS and CLOCKSS. 
  14. Direct marketing: On occasion the journal will use direct marketing activities (primarily email campaigns) to raise awareness of the journal and to invite authors to submit articles.   Marketing activities are conducted by the Cybersecurity Management Council unless otherwise agreed with Emerald.  

This statement was updated by Chris Tutill (Emerald Publishing) on 16th Feb 2020.