Publication Ethics

 

STATEMENT OF CONDUCT SCIENTIFIC PERIODICALS

 

PEER REVIEWERS

Peer reviewers are required to provide recommendations to help authors to improve the quality of published manuscripts and editors in determining the editorial policy, in accordance with their respective expertise.

1. Willingness

Peer reviewers should inform the editor about their willingness to do a review of the manuscript to be published. If unwilling, peer reviewers must notify the editor. 

2. Confidentiality

The reviewed manuscript is a confidential document. Communication with other parties without the author's permission is prohibited. 

3. Standard Objectivity  

Peer reviewers must take hold of the principles of objectivity and avoid personal criticism against the author of the manuscript during the review process. All comments must be accompanied by clear and supportive suggestions. 

4. Reference Clarity 

Peer Reviewers are recommended to provide information to the authors of the research with the literature, or relevant case studies which have not been cited, having a substantial similarity or overlap with the manuscripts reviewed. 

5. Conflicts of Interest

  • Peer reviewers are not allowed to use unpublished manuscript material for personal use without the prior written consent of the author, under any circumstances.
  • The information and ideas contained in the reviewed manuscript is confidential and should not be distributed or used for personal gain.
  • If having a conflict of interest for reasons of competition, collaboration, or other relationship with the author, institution or company involved in publishing, peer reviewers are not permitted to evaluate the related manuscript.

  

EDITOR

1. Publication Decision  

The decision-making of the published manuscript is the liability of the editor based on the policies and guidelines of the editorial board as well as based on compliance with legal requirements, such as not containing any information that harms others or containing slander, copyright disputes, and plagiarism. Communication with other editors or peer reviewers is acceptable to support the decision-making of the publication of the manuscript. Issuance decisions cannot be made by an editor based on personal considerations. 

2. Fairness  

Editors must be able to evaluate a manuscript based on its scientific content regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion and belief, ethnicity, nationality, or political philosophy of the authors. 

3. Confidentiality 

All information contained in the manuscript is confidential and should not be distributed except to the author, peer reviewers, prospective peer reviewers, editors, and publishers concerned. 

4. Conflicts of Interest 

  • The editor is not allowed to use the unpublished manuscript material for personal use without the prior written consent of the author, under any circumstances.
  • The information and ideas contained in the text which are in the peer-review process is confidential and will not be distributed or used for personal benefit.
  • In case of having a conflict of interest for reasons of competition, collaboration, or other relationship with the author, institution or company involved in publishing, the editor is not permitted to evaluate the related texts. Thus, another editor board member should be involved in determining the issuance of the manuscript.
  • Editors must ensure that all parties involved in the review process and the publication of the manuscript declare a conflict of interest in the publication of a manuscript, as well as make corrections if a conflict of interest is revealed after the manuscript is published. If necessary, the editor can take appropriate action, such as publishing editorial statements or retraction of the manuscript.
  • The share of non-peer-reviewed written by the editor should be differentiated and easily identifiable in the scientific periodicals.

5. Involvement and Collaboration in the Investigation

Reports related to actions that do not comply with the ethics of publishing are justified, even many years after the manuscript was published. The report must be addressed by the editor. Editors should contact the author and establish communication with the institution or entity related to the report. Correction, retraction, or other editorial notes should be published as a form of official response to the report complaints.

6. Fatal Error on Published Manuscript

If the editor or others encountered a fatal error or inaccuracies in the published manuscript, the editor should immediately notify the author and request his/her correction or retraction.

 

AUTHOR

1. Writing standard 

2. The author should comply with the following standards for preparing the manuscript to be published in scientific periodicals:  

  • Presenting accurate (using controlled and specific protocols/ procedures), reliable, repeatable, prĂ©cised, and validated data.
  • Presenting sufficient details and references so as to ease other parties to repeat the research steps in the text.
  • Differentiating personal opinion from accurate and objective scientific statements on the basis of references. 

3. Data Access and Retention 

Access to raw data should be granted for the purpose of editorial review. 

4. Originality and Plagiarism 

The manuscript should contain research of the original. Any citation or adaptation of the previously published author, research should be clearly stated. All forms of plagiarism should be subjected to rejection.  

5. Multiple, Repetitive, or Simultaneous Publication 

Multiple, repetitive, or simultaneous publications in other publications are things that are objectionable. The manuscript containing the same information cannot be submitted or published in other scientific periodicals. 

6. Sources of Information and References 

Information from personal communication such as conversations, interviews, correspondence, and discussions or activities that are confidential as a manuscript jury or grant application, or research funding schemes, should not be used without written permission from the original source or author. 

7. Writing Agreement 

The main author and all co-authors must approve the final version of the script and sign available submission form for the scientific periodicals. 

8. Conflict of Interest 

Any indication of a conflict of interest should be disclosed as clearly as possible. All financial supports, working relations, consultation, resources ownership, honoraria, paid expert revelation, patent application/registration, grant, or other funding schemes should be clearly stated. 

9. Fatal Errors in the Published Manuscript 

The following actions should be taken if the writer encountered a fatal error in the published manuscript immediately contact the editor of the publisher.