Terms and Conditions

~~Official MDSG-RG Terms and Conditions~~
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Upon payment has been made (Payment Complete). Automatically the author(s) of corresponding paper will accepted and agreed to the Registration Terms and Conditions. Please be informed that all authors must follow Registration Terms and Conditions defined below. The services and these Terms and Conditions are governed by and must be construed in accordance with MDSG Research Group (MDSG-RG) rules. This Terms and Conditions are made and places into several sites and letters. In case of any discrepancies between the all those versions, the MDSG-RG Official Conference Terms and Conditions version via official MDSG-RG website shall prevail.
MDSG-RG have fully right to modify and adjust the MDSG-RG Official Conference Terms and Conditions from time to time WITHOUT notifying the author.
  1. MDSG-RG has fully right to transfer or to change any paper/article to any other active Scopus Journal/active ISI Web of Science Core Collection Journal/ ERA Journal/ or vice versa that seems fit for all conferences WITHOUT author consent. MDSG-RG only recognize organization such as Elsevier (SCOPUS) or Web of Science Group or ERA Analytics for indexing purposes.
  2. Issue of dropped or discontinued from the Scopus or Web of Science Group or ERA Indexed, please bear in mind once MDSG-RG has paid to publisher and at that time the journal is still indexed in the Scopus or Web of Science Group data based and been on line for quite sometimes, then effective from any specific month the journal is no longer Scopus or Web of Science Group or ERA, MDSG-RG cannot be blamed on this issue. Besides that, if during the online publication/editing process by the publisher (publication fee has already made to the publisher), Scopus or Web of Science Group or ERA suddenly drop the journal from the Scopus title list / ISI Masterlist journal or ERA list, MDSG-RG cannot be blamed or no refund will be given since Scopus or Web of Science Group or ERA never mentioned in advance that there are journals under observation.
  3. Indexing matter is solely under Publisher not the Organiser. Organiser part is only to publish paper in the indexed journal based on the Scopus title list/ Master journal list/ ERA list before submission done. Any changed happen during the online by the Scopus or Web of Science Group or ERA, Organiser cannot be blame.
  4. Please be informed that no acceptance letter will be given to the author by the publisher as your paper is submitted via conference, not directly submitted via online to publisher. This assurance has been stated in our website where ALL ACCEPTED PAPERS will be published based on the author’s choice. Therefore, any request to obtain the accepted letter from the publisher will note be entertained.
  5. Author must make sure that their article is written based on conference tracks. MDSG-RG has right to cancel any article for the journal that has not meet the submission guideline with/without Author and co-author(s) consent. If the paper required a copyright, the copyright form must be signed and submitted/uploaded together with the paper. Otherwise, we won’t entertain and accept the article even though the author has paid for the article and NO REFUND will be entertained.
  6. Author and co-author(s) understand perfectly that the publication of the journals will takes AT LEAST 6 – 15 months from the conference date. It can be higher than the mentioned dates (more than 15 months) if the queue for publication is long at the Publisher side.
  7. Each paper will only cater for One Author Registration. Other authors must pay as Participant Without Papers if the other author or other person want to come and access the conference session.
  8. No-Show (Did not come to the conference) Participant/Presenter cannot ask for any materials to be sent to the Author UNLESS with a certain fee (Email MDSG Conference). Minimum is RM100 (Malaysia)/ USD 50. MDSG has right not to publish the paper if no turn up without acceptable reason. However, the author may represented other person to get the conference material. Certificate cannot be given as the presenter did not present any work unless with an permission from MDSG-RG.
  9. Each paper will only get One Certificate. Extra certificate can be obtained through a certain fee based on the committee decision.
  10. Access to the Publisher database is not provided by MDSG-RG. Author must use their institution subscription for the access. Author and co-author(s) has no right to ask MDSG for the copy. Hardcopy or softcopy version will never be provided by either MDSG-RG UNLESS the Publisher provided it for FREE ACCESS.
  11. Final manuscript that has been submitted to MDSG-RG, cannot be corrected/edited. If any participant or author who would like to do so, DO CONTACT DIRECTLY TO THE PUBLISHER.
  12. Author has to make sure to check plagiarism their paper using plagiarism software/tool such as Turnitin or etc and the percentage of plagiarism must less than 20%. Author MUST attach the plagiarism report to Conference Organiser together with final Full Paper.


All terms and conditions will be applied automatically once payment has been made.
~~All Terms and Conditions will be changed from times to times based on MDSG-RG decision and all authors are bound to any changes WITHOUT notify the author.~~