Publishing Ethics

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

This statement describes the ethical behavior of all parties involved in the act of publishing articles in our journal, including authors, editors, peer-reviewers, and publishers, namely STKIP DDI Pinrang and the Indonesian Society of Education Sciences.

This scientific publication code of ethics statement is based on the Head of LIPI Regulation Number 5 of 2014 concerning the Code of Ethics for Scientific Publications, which can be downloaded (Link), and in essence, upholds three ethical values in publications, namely:

  1. Neutrality, which is free from conflicts of interest in the management of publications;
  2. Fairness, namely giving authorship rights to those entitled as authors; and
  3. Honesty, which is free from duplication, fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism (DF2P) in publications.

Duties and Responsibilities of Journal Managers

  1. Determine the name of the journal, scientific scope, periodicity, and accreditation if needed.
  2. Determine the membership of the editorial board.
  3. Define the relationship between publishers, editors, reviewers, and other parties in a contract.
  4. Respect confidential matters, both for contributing researchers, authors, editors, and Peer Reviewers.
  5. Apply norms and provisions regarding intellectual property rights, especially copyright.
  6. Conduct a review of journal policies and communicate them to authors, the editorial board, Peer Reviewers, and readers.
  7. Create code of conduct guidelines for editors and Peer Reviewers.
  8. Publish the journal regularly.
  9. Ensure the availability of funding sources for the sustainability of journal publishing.
  10. Building cooperation and marketing networks.
  11. Preparing licenses and other legal aspects.

Duties and Responsibilities of the Editor

  1. Meet the needs of readers and writers,
  2. Strive for continuous improvement of publication quality,
  3. Implement a process to ensure the quality of published papers,
  4. Promoting freedom of opinion objectively,
  5. Maintaining the integrity of the author's academic track record,
  6. Provide corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies where necessary,
  7. Responsible for the style and format of the paper, while the content and all statements in the paper are the responsibility of the author.
  8. Actively solicit the opinions of authors, readers, Peer Reviewers, and members of the editorial board to improve the quality of the publication.
  9. Encourage the assessment of the journal if there are findings.
  10. Support initiatives to reduce research and publication errors by asking authors to submit an Ethics Clearance form that the Ethics Clearance Committee has approved.
  11. Support initiatives to educate researchers on publication ethics,
  12. Assess the effect of publication policies on the attitudes of authors and reviewers and improve them to increase responsibility and minimize errors.
  13. Have an open mind to new opinions or views of others that may conflict with personal opinions,
  14. Not maintaining one's own, author's, or third party's opinion that may result in a non-objective decision,
  15. Encourage the author to improve the paper until it is fit for publication.

Duties and Responsibilities of Peer Reviewers

  1. Receive an assignment from the editor to review the paper and submit the results of the review to the editor, as material for determining the eligibility of a paper for publication.
  2. The reviewer may not conduct a review of the paper in which he/she is involved, either directly or indirectly.
  3. Maintain the author's privacy by not disseminating the results of corrections, suggestions, and recommendations by providing criticism, suggestions, input, and recommendations.
  4. Encourage the author to make improvements to the paper
  5. Review the corrected paper following the predetermined standards.
  6. The paper is reviewed promptly according to the publication's style based on scientific principles (data collection methods, author legality, conclusions, etc.).

Author Duties and Responsibilities

  1. Ensure that those included in the author list meet the criteria as authors.
  2. Collectively responsible for the work and content of the article, including methods, analysis, calculations, and details.
  3. Declare the origin of resources (including funding), either directly or indirectly.
  4. Explain the limitations of the research
  5. Respond to comments made by the Peer Reviewers in a professional and timely manner.
  6. Inform the editor if they will withdraw the paper.

Make a statement that the paper submitted for publication is original, has never been published anywhere in any language, and is not in the process of submission to another publisher.