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The International Journal of Conformity Assessment (IJCA) is an international, peer-reviewed journal
serving conformity assessment academics and practitioners. IJCA aims to make a meaningful
contribution to the fields of testing, inspection, certification, and accreditation by providing a highquality platform for the dissemination of new knowledge and methods. IJCA’s primary audience includes
conformity assessment scholars, practitioners, and other interested individuals and organizations.
The journal covers key areas of conformity assessment such as testing and calibration laboratories,
inspection agencies, product certification bodies, management system certification bodies,
organizations offering certification of persons, and training course developers and providers.
IJCA welcomes contributions on any aspect of conformity assessment. Scholarly contributions
from various disciplinary approaches are desirable, however, IJCA encourages novel, visionary, or
pathbreaking research articles. Scholarly submissions must be relevant to the conformity assessment
field, must be rigorous both conceptually and methodologically, well written in a clear, concise, and
logical manner. General interest and opinion articles addressing any aspect of conformity assessment
are also welcome for consideration.
IJCA is published by the International Accreditation Service (IAS), a nonprofit organization based in
Brea, California, USA. The International Accreditation Service (IAS) is a nonprofit accreditation body
and a signatory member of Asia Pacific Accreditation Cooperation (APAC), and the Global Accreditation
Cooperation Incorporated (Global ACI - formerly IAF/ILAC).. IAS is also an associate member of the InterAmerican Accreditation Cooperation (IAAC). IAS remains neutral with respect to all published articles
and any related jurisdictional claims.
Each author:
acknowledges the submission of a manuscript may be published
in the IJCA, a journal published by IAS.
acknowledges the voluntary submission of his or her article.
understands that peer-reviewed articles submitted under this category
will be blind reviewed by a panel who will recommend acceptance for
publications, with or without revisions, or nonacceptance.
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con昀椀rms that the publishing of this manuscript by the IJCA does
not con昀氀ict with any other copyrights or legal bindings.
understands that the IJCA maintains the right to reprint any
portions of the submitted work.
understands that IJCA is published under a Creative Commons
Attribution Noncommercial License (CC BY-NC).
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