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The International Journal of Conformity Assessment
The International Journal of Conformity
Assessment (IJCA) is an international, peerreviewed journal for conformity assessment
academics and practitioners. IJCA aims to
contribute substantially to the fields of testing,
inspection, certification, and accreditation
by providing a high-quality medium for the
dissemination of new knowledge and methods.
Among IJCA’s targeted audience are conformity
assessment scholars, practitioners, and
other interested groups and individuals. Main
conformity assessment fields covered are
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 in various aspects
of conformity assesment. The editors, while
accepting a wide array of scholarly contributions
from different disciplinary approaches,
especially encourage research that is novel,
visionary, or pathbreaking. All submissions
must be interesting, relevant to the conformity
assessment field, sufficiently rigorous both
conceptually and methodologically, and written
in a clear, concise, and logical manner.
IJCA is published by the International
Accreditation Service (IAS), a nonprofit
organization based in Brea, California, USA.
IAS is an Accreditation Body, a signatory of the
MLAs/MRAs of the International Laboratory
Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC), the Asia
Pacific Accreditation Cooperation (APAC), and
the International Accreditation Forum (IAF),
and is a full member of the Inter-American
Accreditation Cooperation (IAAC). IAS remains
neutral regarding any published articles and any
related jurisdictional claims.
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journal published by IAS.
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submitted work.
Each author understands that IJCA is published
under a Creative Commons Attribution
Noncommercial License (CC BY-NC).
Each author understands that the authors retain
the copyright to their work.
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the IJCA, but also to the IJCA Editorial Team,
the IJCA Policy Board, the IJCA Editorial
Review Board, the International Accreditation
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journal.
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journal.
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information in all its articles, but makes no
claims, promises, or guarantees about the
accuracy of information.
• The personal opinions of the authors in any
IJCA article does not represent the IJCA’s
official position on that subject.
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