Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statements

As a peer-reviewed journal, one of the Edukasi: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengajaran priorities is to ensure high standards of publishing. Publication ethics and publication malpractice statement are an important concern. Therefore, editors, peer-reviewers, and authors should pay great attention to meet the ethical standards. Edukasi: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengajaran is committed to keeping the integrity of the research papers we publish. The value of academic publishing depends on every person involved behaving ethically. Ethical duties and responsibilities are written in the light of the guides made by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Retrieved from http://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors_Mar11.pdf

| Edukasi: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengajaran’s Editor’s responsibilities for Publication decisions|

Edukasi: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengajaran’s editor is in charge of determining manuscripts submitted to the journal that will be published without looking at authors’ backgrounds such as race, gender, country, religion. Edukasi: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengajaran’s editor will make a decision based on the manuscript’s significance, uniqueness, and relevance to the scope of the Edukasi: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengajaran. The Edukasi: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengajaran with the help of its editors takes plagiarism extremely seriously. Our authors are cautioned against this. Edukasi: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengajaran with the help of its editors will not accept research articles or manuscripts submitted for publication elsewhere.

|Confidentiality| Edukasi: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengajaran’s editor and any editorial members have to keep any information related to authors and submitted manuscripts confidential and must not share such information with anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, and publisher.

|Disclosure and conflicts of interest| Rejected manuscripts, papers, or articles and their materials submitted to Edukasi: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengajaran are extremely seriously not allowed to be used by Edukasi: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengajaran’s editor and any editorial members for their own interests and purposes. All will be archived in the system confidentially.

|Reviewers' responsibilities for helping Edukasi’s editorial decisions|

Research articles or Manuscripts submitted to Edukasi: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengajaran are initially reviewed by the editors for general fit with Edukasi: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengajaran focus and scope and for the writing quality. Only those research articles meeting the Edukasi: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengajaran focus and scope will be sent to reviewers for a double blind review. Review time is typically 4-6 months.

|Confidentiality| The function of the peer-reviewing process is to help Edukasi’s editor and its members to make decisions through reviewer’s professional, scientific, and objective arguments on the reviewed manuscript. All reviewers must treat all manuscripts confidentially and must not discuss about with others without an authorization from the Edukasi’s editor. Reviewers must do their review processes objectively. Personal reviews and blame to the author of manuscript are extremely seriously not allowed. All reviews must be supported by professional, scientific, and objective arguments.

|Detecting plagiarism| Another function of the peer-reviewing process is to help Edukasi’s editor and its members to identify others’ work that has not been cited in-text reference and in the reference section. Edukasi’s reviewers have to make sure that the authors of manuscript being reviewed provide appropriate sources. When Edukasi’s reviewers find the manuscript being reviewed similar to other published manuscript, they must inform Edukasi’s editor as soon as possible as Edukasi takes plagiarism extremely seriously. Our authors are cautioned against this.

|Disclosure and conflicts of interest| Edukasi: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengajaran’s reviewers must not use confidential information obtained from reviewing any manuscripts for personal purposes. They must keep all information confidential. Edukasi’s reviewers must NOT review any manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest due to their relationships with the authors of the reviewed manuscripts. They must inform the editor as soon as possible if they find the case.

|Authors’ Responsibilities|

Authors who want to submit their manuscripts to Edukasi: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengajaran must ensure that they pay attention to a variety of responsibilities including: reporting standards, data access and retention, originality and plagiarism, multiple, redundant or concurrent publication, acknowledgement of sources, authorship of the paper, hazards and human or animal subjects, disclosure and conflicts of interest, fundamental errors in published works.

Authors who want to submit their manuscripts to Edukasi: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengajaran must confirm that their manuscripts have not been formerly submitted or published in other journals. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal simultaneously is an unethical behavior and it is unacceptable.

Authors who want to submit their manuscripts to Edukasi: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengajaran must ensure the originality of the manuscripts and all others’ works have to be properly cited according to Edukasi: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengajaran’s references format. All authors must ensure that they have cited published works that have been used in determining the nature of the submitted work.

Authors who want to submit their manuscripts to Edukasi: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengajaran must ensure that all people who have made a significant contribution to the submitted manuscript are inclusive and acknowledged. The corresponding author should ensure that all co-authors have approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Authors who want to submit their manuscripts to Edukasi: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengajaran must ensure that if the work involves chemicals, human subject approvals, or animals, it must be clearly identified and clarified in the submitted manuscript.

Authors who want to submit their manuscripts to Edukasi: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengajaran must ensure that they have disclosed any financial or other substantive conflict of interest in their submitted manuscript that might be construed to affect the results of their manuscript.

|Post-Publication: Procedures for Dealing with Unethical Behaviours|

The Editors and/or the Editorial Board of Edukasi are welcome to be informed at any time of suspected unethical behaviours or any type of misconducts by giving sufficient information and evidence to begin an investigation on published articles. All allegations will be taken seriously and treated in the same way.

Investigation

• Edukasi Editor will start an initial decision or consult with or seek advice from the Editorial Board, if appropriate.
• Evidence or indication gathered during an investigation should be treated as strictly confidential, while avoiding spreading any allegations beyond those who need to know.
• The accused authors will always be given the chance to respond to any charges made against them.

 Minor misconduct

• Minor misconducts might be dealt with directly with those involved, without the need to consult more widely.
• The authors should be given the opportunity to respond to any allegations.

Major misconduct

The  Edukasi Editor, working with the Editorial Board as appropriate, should make a decision as to the course of action to be taken on the basis of the presented evidence. The possible outcomes are as follows:

• The author or reviewer will be informed in writing that there appears to be a misunderstanding or misapplication of acceptable standards or a serious misconduct with regard to the submitted manuscript. A warning about future behaviours will be provided.
• Publication of a formal notice in the journal detailing the misconduct.
• Publication of an editorial detailing the misconduct.
• A formal letter to the head of the author's or reviewer's department or funding agency.
• Formal retraction or withdrawal of a publication from the journal, in conjunction with informing the head of the author’s or reviewer's department, Abstracting & Indexing services and the readership of the publication.
• Imposition of a formal embargo on contributions from an individual for a defined period.
• Reporting the case and outcome to a professional organization or higher authority for further investigation and action.