International Journal of Computer Sciences and Engineering

About International Journal of Computer Sciences and Engineering

International Journal of Computer Sciences and Engineering (IJCSE) — the ISROSET journal, Indore

The International Journal of Computer Sciences and Engineering, universally shortened to IJCSE, is an Indian open-access online journal published by ISROSET in Indore, with the electronic ISSN 2347-2693. Its own site, ijcseonline.org, describes it as a scholarly, peer-reviewed, fully refereed scientific online journal for scientists, engineers, research scholars, students and academicians, publishing monthly. That plain description is the right starting point — and, for this particular title, an unusually careful reading is then required, because the name IJCSE is crowded. More than one publisher has used the same title and the same abbreviation, different websites present themselves under the IJCSE name with different fees and different promises, and claims made for one operation cannot safely be transferred to another. This profile is anchored strictly to the journal identified on this Journals World record: publisher ISROSET, ISSN 2347-2693, official site ijcseonline.org. Everything below either comes from that site, or is clearly labelled as a check made in independent listings about that ISSN.

Understood on those terms, IJCSE is a broad, inclusive, author-facing Indian journal: monthly, online only in the form identified by its electronic ISSN, open access for readers, double-blind reviewed according to its own pages, and deliberately wide in scope across computer science, information technology and several branches of engineering. Its volumes had reached volume 13 by 2025, consistent with secondary listings that give 2013 as its starting year. It is used mainly by Indian research scholars and early-career academics who need a peer-reviewed, citable, DOI-bearing outlet that will consider applied and survey work across a wide front. Authors considering it should also understand, clearly and early, what it is not: independent checks for this profile found no current listing for this ISSN in Scopus, Web of Science or DOAJ, and the journal's own headline claim of approval by the University Grants Commission is explicitly qualified on its site as lasting only until June 2019. Those facts do not make the journal unusable. They do decide which purposes it can and cannot serve.

Quick facts

Scope: deliberately broad

The journal's own account of its coverage is expansive. It names computer science and information technology first, then engineering in its software, mechanical, civil, electronics and electrical branches, electrical communication, and all interdisciplinary streams of computing. Its long topic list runs from networking, soft computing, information security, cloud computing and data mining through computer vision, the Internet of Things, biometrics and pattern recognition, software engineering, cryptography, mobile computing, e-governance and e-commerce, geographic information systems, high-performance computing and nanotechnology, and it closes by saying coverage is not limited to the topics named. Two types of issue are published, regular issues and theme-based special issues, the latter announced from time to time. Article types invited on the official pages include original research papers, review articles, survey papers, case studies, technical notes and short communications, based on theoretical or experimental work.

Authors should read that breadth realistically. A scope this wide is an invitation to applied, incremental and survey work from many departments, and it explains the journal's appeal to scholars whose institutions require a publication but whose work does not target a narrow specialist venue. The trade-off is equally plain: a journal that covers nearly all of computing and several other engineering branches cannot offer the concentrated specialist readership of a focused title, and a paper published here will be found mainly by readers who search for its specific topic, not by a community that reads the journal cover to cover. The journal's own stated ambition — to bridge a gap between research and practice by promoting original, industry-relevant work, and to give strong empirical papers a platform — is best honoured by manuscripts that are complete, clearly written and honest about their contribution, whatever their scale.

How the journal says it works

The call-for-papers page describes a recognisable editorial sequence. Submitted papers are first reviewed at editorial-board level for technical suitability, scope and plagiarism; papers selected there go to double-blind review by at least two referees, judged on originality, novelty, clarity, completeness, relevance, significance and research contribution. The same page says the review process may take two to four weeks depending on the cycles of review required. Elsewhere the site gives authors an acceptance window of 2 to 15 weeks based on revision cycles, states that accepted papers appear online first immediately after acceptance, and — in a different passage — promises a decision on a paper in 10 days from submission. Those numbers do not sit comfortably together, and this profile will not pretend otherwise: the journal's own pages advertise three different speeds in three different places. A prudent author will expect the slower, fuller sequence — editorial screening, two-referee review, revision — and treat any faster promise as marketing language rather than a service guarantee. Publishing in any venue that appears to promise decisions in days deserves extra, not less, scrutiny of the review actually received: keep the decision letter, the referee comments and the proofs, as evidence of peer review, for any later institutional audit.

On format, the journal requires its own template, references in the journal's standard style — the site asks for references serially numbered in increasing order of quotation, in IJCSE/IEEE format, and warns against website-only or incomplete references. Acceptance requirements listed by the journal include intelligible presentation in the template, original writing that adds to the existing body of knowledge, results not submitted or published elsewhere (expanded versions of conference papers are eligible), analyses performed to a high standard and described in sufficient detail, conclusions supported by the data, and clear figures, tables and properly typeset equations rather than scans. The stated reasons for rejection mirror those points and add weak research motive, outdated method, ethics failures, poor language and logic that is difficult to follow. None of that is unusual; it is the standard contract of a refereed journal, and manuscripts that visibly satisfy it are the ones that move.

Indexing and approval claims — the careful section

This is where author due diligence matters most, because the claims in circulation are easy to misread. The journal's site headline describes it as UGC Approved — and then, in the same headline, qualifies that approval as lasting until June 2019. India's journal-recognition system has changed since then, and the later UGC CARE framework is a separate, checkable list. A 2019 approval is a historical fact about the journal, not a current credential, and an author whose institution or promotion case requires a journal on a current approved list must check that list directly for ISSN 2347-2693 rather than relying on the journal's banner. The headline also names the services with which the journal says it is indexed or associated: ICI — the Index Copernicus International service — together with DOI registration, ResearchGate, Google Scholar and the DPI Digital Library, and older renderings of the site described Scopus and Thomson Reuters coverage as under review, which is a statement about an application, not about acceptance. Independent journal listings checked for this profile record the position plainly: not indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, DOAJ or PubMed, and not on the UGC CARE list. Google Scholar visibility, which the journal does have in practice for its published PDFs, is a search-engine inclusion, not a selective index, and should never be presented to an employer as equivalent to Scopus or Web of Science indexing.

Two further confusions must be kept out of an author's decision. First, a different publisher, IAEME, also presents a journal under the International Journal of Computer Sciences and Engineering name and IJCSE abbreviation, with its own pages and its own indexing lists. That is a separate operation from the ISROSET journal identified by ISSN 2347-2693, and nothing claimed on IAEME's pages verifies anything about the ISROSET journal. Second, other websites using the IJCSE name publish fee schedules, rapid-review promises and indexing claims of their own. A fee quoted on such a site is not a fee verified for the ISROSET journal. On the official ISROSET site used for this profile, no publication-charge schedule could be verified when the site was checked, so this profile states the honest position: the article charge, if any, for the ISROSET IJCSE could not be verified from its official site, and authors should obtain the current amount, in writing, from the journal's editorial office before submitting — and should pay nothing to any site whose identity as the ISSN 2347-2693 journal they have not first confirmed.

Published output and citation practice

The journal's article pages show a mature, uniform operation by the mid-2020s: volume-and-issue numbering, dated publication, author affiliations, abstracts, downloadable PDFs, and citation exports in IEEE, MLA, APA, BibTeX and RIS styles. A 2025 example in volume 13, issue 1 — a review of prompt engineering for natural language processing — carries a DOI in the journal's 10.26438 prefix, structured citation metadata naming the publisher as IJCSE, Indore, India, and page numbers within the issue. That machinery matters to authors for a practical reason: a DOI-bearing, stably linked PDF with clean citation metadata is what lets a paper be found, cited and evidenced later, whatever index a university happens to favour. Articles are free to read as full-text PDFs, in line with the journal's open-access statement, and the site says abstracts are indexed and made accessible through major academic databases — a claim authors should again translate carefully, since abstract visibility through search services is not the same as selective indexing.

Who should — and should not — submit

IJCSE (ISROSET) can serve an author well when the goal is a refereed, open-access, DOI-bearing publication for applied, experimental or survey work in computing or an allied engineering branch; when the author's institution accepts journals on the strength of peer review and ISSN registration rather than a named index; when speed and monthly frequency matter; and when the work is sound but incremental — a solid implementation, a comparative study, a useful survey — of a kind that narrower journals routinely decline for fit rather than quality. It should not be chosen, on current evidence, when the requirement names Scopus, Web of Science, DOAJ or a current UGC CARE listing; when a thesis, promotion or funding rule will be audited against such a list; or when the author needs the readership and citation network of a specialist community journal. In those cases the honest advice is to target a journal whose current indexing can be verified in the index itself, and to treat IJCSE as what it is: a long-running, broad Indian open-access outlet whose own approval headline expired in 2019, not as a shortcut around an indexing requirement.

Whatever the decision, three checks protect any author. Confirm the ISSN on the journal's own site and in the ISSN record match the journal being submitted to — here, 2347-2693 for the ISROSET title. Confirm any index that matters to you inside that index's own source list, on the day of submission, and keep a dated copy. And obtain the fee position from the official site or editorial office in writing before submission, because third-party IJCSE-branded sites quote charges that cannot be attributed to this journal. Authors who do those three things will get from IJCSE exactly what it offers, with no unpleasant surprises at audit time.

Frequently asked questions

What is the ISSN of IJCSE? 2347-2693, the electronic ISSN shown on the official ISROSET site. No print ISSN is shown there.

Who publishes it, and where? ISROSET, in Indore, India, per the official site. The citation metadata on published articles names the publisher as IJCSE, Indore, India.

Is IJCSE indexed in Scopus or Web of Science? No current indexing in Scopus, Web of Science or DOAJ could be verified for this ISSN, and independent listings record it as not indexed in those services. Do not rely on any third-party IJCSE site that claims otherwise for this journal.

Is it UGC approved? The journal's own site qualifies its UGC approval as running until June 2019. That is a historical approval, not evidence of a current listing; check the current list that applies to you, by ISSN, directly.

How often does it publish, and is it open access? Monthly, twelve issues a year, and open access with free reading, per the official site.

What does it charge? A charge schedule could not be verified on the official ISROSET site when it was checked for this profile. Fees quoted on other IJCSE-branded websites cannot be attributed to this journal. Ask the editorial office, in writing, before submitting.

How long does review take? The journal's pages give differing figures — two to four weeks for the review process on one page, an acceptance window of two to fifteen weeks in its summary table, and a ten-day decision promise elsewhere. Plan on the fuller sequence and keep all review correspondence.

Sources for this profile are the official ISROSET journal site at ijcseonline.org — its about, call-for-papers and article pages, including their citation metadata — together with independent journal listings checked for ISSN 2347-2693 and its indexing status. Claims by other publishers or websites using the same title or abbreviation were deliberately not used as evidence about this journal.

A note on evidence, DOIs and keeping your own record

Because IJCSE sits outside the selective indexes, the burden of evidencing a publication falls more heavily on the author than it would with a Scopus-listed title, and a few habits protect that evidence. Save the published PDF from the official site, not from an aggregator, together with the article page showing the volume, issue, pages and DOI. Resolve the DOI once, yourself, and keep the landing it reaches; a DOI in the journal's prefix that resolves to the article is the single strongest identifier the paper will carry. Record the ISSN, the publisher name ISROSET and the official domain alongside the citation, so that a future evaluator who meets one of the other IJCSE-branded operations can see at a glance which journal published the work. If your institution maintains an internal list, submit the article page and DOI for verification promptly, while the issue is current, rather than reconstructing the record years later for a promotion file. And if a requirement changes — if a department that once accepted any refereed ISSN journal later insists on a named index — a paper already published cannot be moved, which is why the indexing check belongs before submission, not after acceptance. None of these steps casts doubt on the work itself. They simply recognise that, for a journal of this profile, the author's own file is part of the scholarly record.

A final calibration may help Indian authors in particular, because this journal is most often encountered inside Indian academic life. A monthly, ISSN-registered, DOI-issuing open-access journal with named editorial leadership and a decade-plus run is not nothing: it evidences a real, continuing publication operation, and papers published there are real publications that can be read, cited and checked by anyone. What the journal cannot do is certify itself. Certification, where a career rule requires it, lives in the lists maintained by index providers and regulators — and on the evidence checked for this profile, this ISSN does not currently appear in the selective lists that rules most often name. Keeping those two sentences together, neither inflating nor dismissing the journal, is the whole art of using a title of this kind well.