Publication Ethics Policy
JOBS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
A. Journal Managers
- Determine the name of the journal, the scope of science, scale, and accreditation if necessary;
- Determine editorial board membership;
- Defining relationships between publishers, editors, reviewers, and other parties in a contract;
- Respect things that are confidential for researchers contributors, writers, editors, and reviewers;
- Implement norms and conditions regarding rights to wealth intellectual property, especially copyright;
- Review the journal policy and inform it to writers, editorial boards, reviewers, and readers;
- Make a guidance for editors and reviewers;
- Publish journals regularly;
- Ensure the availability of funding sources for sustainability journal publishing;
- Building a network of cooperation and marketing; and
- Prepare permits and other legal aspects.
B. Journal Editor
- Meeting the needs of readers and writers;
- Strive to improve the quality of publications sustainably;
- Implement the process to ensure the quality of publication;
- Prioritizing freedom of opinion objectively;
- Maintain the integrity of the author's academic track record;
- Delivering corrections, clarifications, withdrawals and requests sorry if needed;
- Responsible for the style and format of the writing, while the contents and all statements in the paper are the responsibility of the author;
- Actively ask the opinion of writers, readers, reviewers, and editorial board members to improve the quality of publications;
- Encourage the evaluation of journals if findings are available;
- Support initiatives to educate researchers about ethics publication.
C. Peer Reviewer
- Get tasks from editor to review papers and conveys the review to editor to determine the feasibility of publication;
- Do not review papers that involve themselves, either direct or indirect;
- Maintaining the confidentiality of the author by not disseminating the results of corrections, suggestions, and recommendations for the manuscript reviewed;
- Encourage the writer to revise the paper;
- Reviewing the revised paper accordingly with predetermined standards; and
- Reviewing the manuscript in a timely manner according to journal style and based on scientific rules (data collection methods, author legality, conclusions, etc).
D. Author
- Ensure that who are included in the author's list meets criteria as author;
- Collectively responsible for work and manuscript content/article covering method, analysis, calculation, and details;
- State the origin of resources (including funding), both directly or indirectly;
- Describe limitations in research;
- Respond to comments made by reviewers professionally and in timely manner;
- Inform the editor if you will withdraw the manuscript; and
- Make a statement that the paper submitted for published is original, has never been published anywhere in any language, and is not in the process of being submitted to other publishers.