Publication Ethics

To maintain manuscript quality and avoid publishing violations/plagiarism during the publication process, the editorial board has established the scientific publication ethics for Edu Cendikia: Jurnal Ilmiah Kependidikan. These publication ethics rules apply to authors, editors, peer reviewers, and the journal's editor-in-chief. These publication ethics refer to the scientific publication ethics provisions established by COPE (Committe on Publications Ethic)  

 

Author Ethics

Reporting: Authors must provide honest, clear, and comprehensive information about their research process and results to the editors, and maintain proper and secure storage of their research data.

  1. Originality and Plagiarism: Authors must ensure that the manuscript submitted to the editors is original, written by themselves, based on their own ideas and concepts, and does not plagiarize the written work or ideas of others. Authors are strictly prohibited from renaming cited sources.
  2. Repeated Submissions: Authors must inform the editor that the manuscript sent/submitted to the editor has never been submitted to another journal/publication publisher. If redundant submissions to other publishers are found, the editor will reject the submitted manuscript.
  3. Author Status: Authors must inform the editor that they possess competency or qualifications in a specific field of expertise relevant to the published field, namely, librarianship. The author submitting the manuscript to the editor is the first author (co-author), so that any issues encountered during the publication process can be resolved promptly.
  4. Manuscript Writing Errors: Authors must immediately inform the editor if any errors are found in the manuscript, whether from review or editing. These errors include spelling errors of names, affiliations/institutions, citations, and other errors that may detract from the meaning and substance of the manuscript. If this occurs, the author must immediately propose corrections to the manuscript.
  5. Conflict of Interest Disclosure: Authors must understand the ethics of scientific publications to avoid conflicts of interest with other parties, ensuring a smooth and secure manuscript processing.
  6. Manuscript Withdrawal: Authors are not permitted to withdraw manuscripts submitted to Edu Cendikia. This is because withdrawing a manuscript wastes a lot of time, energy, and effort, as well as the process of sending it to the publisher.
  7. Manuscript Revocation. Manuscripts published in Edu Cendikia will be considered based on the Editorial Board's decision if they meet the provisions for violations of scientific publication, including: (a) There is clear evidence of data falsification, (b) There is clear evidence that the manuscript has been previously published by another publisher, (c) There is clear evidence of plagiarism, taking someone else's work, and so on from another person who makes it appear as if the work is their own. (d) Research that violates norms and ethics. Manuscript withdrawal will issue a Corrigendum.

    Editorial Ethics

    Publication Decisions: Editors must ensure a thorough, transparent, objective, fair, and judicious manuscript review process. This information serves as the basis for editors' decisions regarding whether to reject or accept a manuscript. In this regard, the editorial board acts as a manuscript selection team.

    1. Publication Information: Editors must ensure that manuscript writing guidelines for authors and other stakeholders are clearly accessible and legible, both in print and electronic formats.
    2. Peer-reviewed Manuscript Distribution: Editors must ensure reviewers and manuscript materials are available for review, and clearly inform reviewers of the review process and regulations.
    3. Objectivity and Neutrality: Editors must be objective, neutral, and honest in editing manuscripts, without discriminating based on gender, business background, ethnicity, religion, race, social group, or nationality of authors.
    4. Confidentiality: Editors must safeguard all information, especially regarding author privacy and the distribution of manuscripts.
    5. Conflict of Interest Disclosure: Editors must understand the ethics of scientific publications to avoid conflicts of interest with other parties, ensuring a smooth and secure manuscript publication process.

    Reviewer Ethics

    1. Objectivity and Neutrality: Reviewers must be honest, objective, unbiased, independent, and solely committed to the pursuit of scientific truth. The manuscript review process is conducted professionally without discrimination based on gender, business background, ethnicity, religion, race, social group, or nationality of the authors.
    2. Clarity of Reference Sources: Reviewers must ensure that the sources cited in the manuscript/citations are appropriate and credible (accountable). If errors or irregularities are found in the writing of references/citations, the reviewer must immediately inform the editor so that the author can make corrections according to the reviewer's notes.
    3. Effectiveness of Peer Review: Reviewers must respond to manuscripts submitted by the editor within the established peer review time frame (maximum 2 weeks). If additional time is needed to review the manuscript, this must be immediately reported (confirmed) to the editorial secretariat.
    4. Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest: Reviewers must be familiar with the ethics of scientific publications mentioned above to avoid conflicts of interest with other parties, ensuring a smooth and secure manuscript publication process.

    Journal Management Ethics

    1. Decision-making: Journal managers/editorial boards must outline the organization's mission and objectives, particularly those related to establishing journal policies and publishing decisions without any vested interests.
    2. Freedom: Journal managers must provide reviewers and editors with the freedom to create a comfortable working environment and respect the author's privacy.
    3. Guarantees and Promotion: Journal managers must guarantee and protect intellectual property rights (copyright) and be transparent in managing funds received from third parties. Furthermore, journal managers must publish and promote the results of published manuscripts to the public, ensuring the benefits of using them.
    4. Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest: Journal managers must understand the ethics of scientific publications mentioned above to avoid conflicts of interest with other parties, ensuring a smooth and secure manuscript publication process.