About the Journal
National Journal of Cyber Security Law (NJCSL)
ISSN: 2582-9750
Scientific Journal Impact Factor (SJIF): 5.275
Index Copernicus (ICV) 2024 = 63.07
DOI- 10.37591/NJCSL
Editor-in-Chief
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Journal’s Summary
National Journal of Cyber Security Law publishes original research and review articles in this interdisciplinary cyber domain. It is a research Journal on various Cyber Security challenges. Scholarly contributions in this discipline are welcome to cover the various aspects of cybersecurity. National Journal of Cyber Security Law provides a hub around which the interdisciplinary Cyber Security community can form a robust knowledge base. This journal is committed to provide quality research & review literature that is very significant for students, academicians and experts in real-world implications and solutions. It's a biannual journal (frequency January-June and July-December), started in 2018.
Focus & Scope
- Cybersecurity Law and Regulation: Research on legal and regulatory frameworks governing cybersecurity, information security, cyber risk management, compliance obligations, security standards, and institutional responsibility for protecting digital systems and networks.
- Cybercrime and Digital Offences: Studies on hacking, malware, ransomware, phishing, identity theft, online fraud, cyberstalking, unauthorized access, data theft, cyber extortion, and other technology-enabled crimes, including investigation and prosecution.
- Data Protection and Privacy Law: Research on personal data protection, privacy rights, consent, data processing, cross-border data transfers, digital identity, surveillance, data breaches, privacy-by-design, and comparative privacy regulations.
- Digital Evidence and Cyber Forensics: Studies on admissibility, collection, preservation, authentication, and examination of electronic evidence, including digital forensics, chain of custody, forensic investigation models, expert evidence, and evidentiary challenges in cybercrime cases.
- Cybersecurity Governance and Compliance: Research on organizational cybersecurity governance, information security management, regulatory compliance, cyber audits, security policies, board-level responsibility, incident reporting, risk assessment, and institutional accountability.
- Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Law: Studies on the legal implications of artificial intelligence in cybersecurity, automated threat detection, algorithmic decision-making, AI-enabled cyberattacks, liability, accountability, explainability, and governance of AI-based security systems.
- Internet Governance and Platform Regulation: Research on internet governance, online intermediaries, social media platforms, content regulation, intermediary liability, platform accountability, domain-name governance, net neutrality, web accessibility, and the role of institutions such as ICANN.
- Cyber Warfare and National Security: Studies on cyber warfare, cyber espionage, critical infrastructure protection, state-sponsored cyber operations, national cybersecurity strategies, attribution, sovereignty, international security, and the application of international law to cyber conflict.
- Transnational Cybercrime and Jurisdiction: Research on cross-border cyber offences, jurisdictional conflicts, extradition, mutual legal assistance, international cooperation, evidence sharing, cybercrime conventions, and enforcement challenges involving multiple jurisdictions.
- Blockchain, Smart Contracts, and Distributed Technologies: Legal and policy research on blockchain, distributed ledgers, smart contracts, digital assets, decentralized systems, security vulnerabilities, regulatory compliance, evidentiary issues, and liability arising from blockchain-based activities.
- Cloud, IoT, and Cyber-Physical Systems Security: Studies on legal risks associated with cloud computing, Internet of Things devices, smart cities, connected infrastructure, industrial control systems, mobile technologies, and cyber-physical environments.
- Cryptography and Legal Security Frameworks: Research on encryption, cryptographic technologies, lawful access, key management, digital signatures, authentication, secure communications, privacy-enhancing technologies, and the legal implications of cryptographic protections.
- E-Commerce, Digital Payments, and Consumer Protection: Studies on electronic contracts, online transactions, digital payment systems, e-commerce regulation, consumer rights, online fraud, digital marketplaces, platform obligations, taxation in cyberspace, and dispute resolution.
- Cybersecurity and Human Rights: Research on the intersection of cybersecurity with freedom of expression, privacy, equality, digital inclusion, online surveillance, access to information, digital empowerment, and protection of human rights in online environments.
- Critical Infrastructure and Sectoral Cybersecurity: Studies on cybersecurity regulation affecting banking, healthcare, energy, telecommunications, transportation, government systems, and other critical sectors, including resilience, incident response, compliance, and protection of essential services.
- Cyber Risk, Liability, and Incident Response: Research on civil, criminal, regulatory, and contractual liability arising from cybersecurity incidents, including breach notification, negligence, cyber insurance, organizational responsibility, remediation, and compensation.
- Indian Cybersecurity Law and Comparative Perspectives: Research on Indian cyber law, cybersecurity regulation, data protection, digital evidence, cybercrime enforcement, judicial developments, and national cybersecurity policy, together with comparative and international studies that contribute to the development of cyber law and governance. The journal welcomes doctrinal, empirical, interdisciplinary, and policy-oriented research with a clear legal or regulatory dimension.
Readership: Graduate/ Postgraduate students, Research Scholars, Faculties, Industrialists, Independent Professionals, Government institutions
Indexing: The Journal is indexed in Google Scholar
Submission of Paper:
All contributions to the journal are rigorously refereed and are selected on the basis of quality and originality of the work. The journal publishes the most significant new research papers or any other original contribution in the form of reviews and reports on new concepts in all areas pertaining to its focus and scope, thus ensuring its scientific priority and significance.
Manuscripts are invited from academicians, students, research scholars, industrialists, independent professionals and faculties for publication consideration.
Papers are accepted for editorial consideration through email lawjournals@celnet.in/ cle@celnet.in
Subject: Cyber Law, internet, security
Plagiarism: All the articles will be checked through Plagiarism Software before publication.
Abbreviation: NJCSL
Frequency: Two issues per year
Peer Reviewed Policy:
Peer review is the most important part of the scientific publication process. Peer review is basically the process of engaging experts to review the articles submitted for publication in journals, this is done in order to validate the research and to enhance the quality of the articles that are published in the journal.
The peer review process is actually a demarcating line that decides what a research is and what is merely a hypothesis. This process screens the articles for their originality or work, their relevance to the previously published work and does the work meet the required standard so as to be published as a research article. The bottom line to conduct a peer review is to eliminate the possibility that science is just another opinion.
Basic design of a peer review process:
1) The process begins with the submission of article to the journal
2) The first step begins as the editor of the journal checks if the article falls under the focus and scope of the journal. If the article does not fall under the focus and scope of the journal it is rejected with feedback and necessary changes to the author, if the article do fall under the focus and scope of the journal it is forwarded to the next step of review.
3) Here the reviewer checks for the originality, validity, significance, theory , evidence and other parameters based on the guidelines of the editors and yardsticks to measure the quality of the article.
4) Reviewer then make necessary comments and send the paper back to the editorial board, a reviewer may accept the paper as it is, reject or suggest changes in the manuscript, this information is conveyed to the authors
5) Editor of the journal then make final decision to publish the article based on the reviewers comments. And finalize the time frame for publishing the article.
6) Finally the accepted articles appear in the publication.
For further details on the publishing process and guidelines that an author and editor should follow, and to know more about the yardstick of the reviewers we would suggest you to go through the Author and Editors Guidelines.
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