Scholarly focus
IJACIA focuses on the design, evaluation, governance, implementation, and human dimensions of trustworthy digital systems. Submissions should articulate a clear research contribution, provide sufficient evidence for their claims, and explain implications for theory, practice, or both.
Cyber defense & operational security
- Security operations, detection engineering, threat hunting, and incident response
- Digital forensics, malware analysis, and cyber threat intelligence
- Network, endpoint, cloud, application, and identity security
- Attack surface reduction, vulnerability management, and security automation
Information assurance, risk & governance
- Security governance, assurance models, control validation, and audit methods
- Enterprise cyber risk, resilience, continuity, and third-party assurance
- Privacy engineering, data stewardship, and regulatory compliance
- Security metrics, standards adoption, decision support, and cyber leadership
Emerging systems & secure technology
- AI/ML security, model assurance, adversarial AI, and AI governance
- Zero trust architectures, secure software development, and software supply chains
- Operational technology, industrial control systems, and critical infrastructure
- Cryptographic applications, secure architectures, and emerging computing paradigms
People, society & education
- Cybersecurity education, learning outcomes, and workforce capability
- Human factors, usability, security culture, and organizational behavior
- Cyber law, ethics, public policy, and security economics
- Interdisciplinary research connecting technology, leadership, and societal trust
Types of scholarship
Subject to final editorial policy approval, the journal plans to consider original research articles, empirical studies, design and evaluation research, systematic or structured reviews, methodological papers, and practice-informed scholarly case studies. Editorial essays and invited perspectives, if introduced, will be identified distinctly from externally peer-reviewed research.
Fit and suitability
Technical tutorials, product marketing, unsupported opinion, and material lacking a clear scholarly contribution are generally outside scope. Research presenting offensive security methods must justify their necessity and appropriately address safety, authorization, disclosure, and misuse risks.