Publication Ethics

To maintain the quality of the manuscript and avoid publishing violations and plagiarism in the publishing process, the Editorial Team establishes scientific publication ethics (publication ethics). This publication ethics rule applies to authors, editors, reviewers, and journal managers. Publication Ethics refers to the ethical provisions of scientific publications by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Author's Ethics

  1. Reporting; The author must provide information about the process and results of his research to the editor honestly, clearly, and thoroughly, and keep his research data properly and securely.

  2. Originality and plagiarism; The author must ensure that the manuscript that has been sent/submitted to the editor is an original manuscript, written by himself, sourced from his own ideas and ideas, and not plagiarized written works or ideas / ideas of others.  The author is strictly forbidden to redirect the cited reference source to someone else's name.

  3. Repetition of delivery; The author must inform that the manuscript sent/submitted to the editor is a manuscript that has never been sent/submitted to other journal publishers/publications. If it is found that there is a redundancy in sending the manuscript to other publishers, the editor will reject the manuscript sent by the author.

  4. Author status; The author must inform the editor that the author has competence or qualifications in certain fields of expertise in accordance with the field of published science. The author who sends the manuscript to the editor (corresponding author) is the first author so that if problems are found in the manuscript publishing process it can be resolved immediately.

  5. Scriptwriting errors; The author must immediately inform the editor if errors are found in writing the manuscript, both the results of the review and the edits. These writing errors include writing names, affiliations / agencies, quotes, and other writings that can reduce the meaning and substance of the manuscript. If that happens, the author should immediately propose improvements to the manuscript.

  6. Disclosure of conflicts of interest; The author must understand the ethics of scientific publications above to avoid conflicts of interest with other parties, so that the manuscript can be processed smoothly and safely.

Editor's Ethics

  1. Publication decision; The editor must ensure that the manuscript review process is thorough, transparent, objective, fair, and prudent. This is the basis for editors in making decisions on a manuscript, rejected or accepted. In this case, the editorial board acts as the manuscript selection team.

  2. Publication information; Editors must ensure that manuscript writing guidelines for authors and other interested parties are clearly accessible and readable, both printed and electronic versions.

  3. Distribution of peer-reviewed manuscripts; The editor must ensure the reviewer and manuscript material for review, as well as inform the provisions and process of the manuscript review clearly to the reviewer.

  4. Objectivity and neutrality; Editors must be objective, neutral, and honest in editing manuscripts, regardless of gender, business side, ethnicity, religion, race, inter-group, and nationality of the author.

  5. Concealment; The editor must maintain every information well, especially related to the privacy of the author and the distribution of the manuscript.

  6. Disclosure of conflicts of interest; Editors must understand the ethics of scientific publications above to avoid conflicts of interest with other parties, so that the manuscript publishing process runs smoothly and safely.

Reviewers Ethics

  1. Objectivity and neutrality; Reviewers must be honest, objective, unbiased, independent, and only side with scientific truth. The manuscript review process is carried out professionally without distinguishing gender, business side, ethnicity, religion, race, inter-group, and nationality of the author.

  2. Clarity of reference sources; The reviewer must ensure that the reference source/quotation of the manuscript is appropriate and credible (can be accounted for). If errors or irregularities are found in writing reference sources/citations, the reviewer must immediately inform the editor for correction by the author according to the notes from the reviewer. 

  3. Effectiveness of peer-review; The reviewer must respond to the manuscript that has been sent by the editor and work in accordance with the predetermined peer-review time (maximum 2 weeks). If additional time is needed in the manuscript review, you must immediately report (confirm) to the editorial secretariat.

  4. Disclosure of conflicts of interest; Reviewers must understand the ethics of scientific publications above to avoid conflicts of interest with other parties, so that the manuscript publishing process runs smoothly and safely.

Journal Management Ethics

  1. Decision; Journal managers / editorial boards must describe the mission and objectives of the organization, especially those related to the determination of policies and decisions on journal publishing without any particular interest.

  2. Freedom; Journal managers must provide freedom to reviewers and editors to create a comfortable working atmosphere and respect the privacy of authors.

  3. Guarantees and promotions; Journal managers must guarantee and protect intellectual property rights (copyright), as well as be transparent in managing funds received by third parties. In addition, journal managers must publish and promote the results of publications to the public by providing guarantees of expediency in the use of manuscripts.

  4. Disclosure of conflicts of interest; Journal managers must understand the ethics of scientific publications above to avoid conflicts of interest with other parties, so that the manuscript publishing process runs smoothly and safely.