ETHICS AND MALPRACTICE STATEMENT

 

(Based on Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (see https://publicationethics.org/) and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) (see https://wame.org/) in the Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Publication Process).

 

INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVE OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY is a peer-reviewed international journal. This statement clarifies the ethical behaviour of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal as well as allegations of research misconduct, including the author, the chief editor, the Editorial Board, the peer-reviewer­­­­­ and the publisher (Society of Education). This statement is based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and WAME.

 

AUTHOR(S)’S DUTIES

 

Authors have several duties based on Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (see https://publicationethics.org/) and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) (see https://wame.org/):

 

  1. Important. Author(s) submitted only article that must be original (has never been published elsewhere in any language, as well as is not under review for publication anywhere). The article must be in scope explained in the focus and scope section.
  2. Scientific report submitted by authors. The authors must report on original research, which ought to give a truthful summary of the work that has been done with an unbiased analysis and relevance. The report should appropriately depict the underlying data, having enough information and citations to let someone else duplicate the work. False or deliberately inaccurate statements are inappropriate, and they can represent unethical behavior. Data must be truthful, unbiased, accurate, and objective.
  3. Data protection and availability. The raw data related to the article submitted by author may be requested for editorial review. If possible, authors should be ready to make these data accessible to the public. In any case, they should be ready to keep these data for a fair amount of time after publication. Authors can ask data submitted to be accessible or not to the public, and this can be discussed with editors; and this must be confirmed during reviewing process.
  4. Submission of article against plagiarism and originality. The authors should make sure that their writing is unique and original. In the case that authors need to borrow any ideas or words from other papers, they should make sure that they have properly cited or quoted them. Plagiarism is unacceptable in all forms since it is unethical behavior in scientific publication. There are many types of plagiarism, such as 'passing off' another person's paper as the author's own paper, copying or paraphrasing significant portions of another paper without giving credit/citation, or claiming the findings of research that was undertaken by someone else.
  5. Authorship (who must be included in the article). The authors are only individuals who significantly contributed to the conception, design, implementation, or interpretation of the reported study. There are first author (that is positioned in the first position in the authors’ list), co-authors (other authors put after the first author), and corresponding author (author(s) with asterix and email information). All authors must agree to the paper's submission for publication.
  6. Recognition and Acknowledgements. All recognitions and acknowledgments must be added in the acknowledgment section in the article. The authors must give credit/thank to other people's contributions, giving private information, conversations, letters, or discussions, citations for works that had a significant impact on understanding the reported work, grant applications, and institutions that support the research and article.
  7. Conflicts of interest. Any financial or other significant conflict of interest (including author-author conflict of interest) that could be taken to have an impact on the findings or interpretation of a manuscript should be disclosed by all authors in the publication. At the earliest submission, such conflicts of interest must be clarified and the information must be put in the article.
  8. Basic mistakes and fundamental errors in the published works. It is the responsibility of the authors to contact the editor as soon as when a serious error or inaccuracy in the author's own published work is found. The authors must work with the editor to retract or fix the manuscript.
  9. Publication with contemporaneous, multiple types, duplication, redundancy. It is unacceptable to simultaneously submit the same article to multiple journals, which is considered unethical publishing behavior. Indeed, the authors should not submit an article that has already been published for consideration in another publication journal(s). If authors add other results from their previous work or another paper, they have to inform as citation in the submitted article.

 

 EDITOR(S)’S DUTIES

 

Editors have several duties based on Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (see https://publicationethics.org/) and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) (see https://wame.org/):

 

1.     Publication decisions: The editor(s) possess the authority to determine the acceptance or publication of an article. The initial outcome is contingent upon the editor's judgment. Should the article successfully navigate this first evaluation, it proceeds to a second stage influenced by the reviewers' assessments. Editors are responsible for gathering, synthesizing, and making decisions based on the feedback provided by reviewers. Various criteria inform the editor's decision-making process, including the journal's editorial board policies, such as its focus and scope, the novelty of the work, legal considerations, issues of libel, copyright violations, and instances of plagiarism.

 

2.     Fair play and confidentiality in taking care article : The principles of fairness and confidentiality must be upheld in the management of submitted articles. Editors are obligated to handle all submissions without bias related to the author(s)' race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, citizenship, or political beliefs. All information gathered during the review and editing phases must be treated as confidential. Editors and journal staff are prohibited from disclosing any details about submitted articles to individuals outside of the authors, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisors, and the publisher.

 

3.    Conflicts of interest. Editors are not permitted to utilize unpublished materials disclosed during the review process, including sensitive information and ideas, for their own research without the explicit written consent of the author. Furthermore, editors should refrain from assessing manuscripts in situations where they have conflicts of interest arising from collaborative or other relationships with any authors, organizations, or institutions involved; in such cases, the editor should delegate the review to a co-editor, associate editor, or another editor. Authors are responsible for disclosing any relevant competing interests, including any that may arise after publication, and must take appropriate actions, such as issuing a correction if necessary.

 

4.    Complaints and investigations. In instances where ethical concerns are raised about a submitted or published article, it is imperative for the editor to collaborate with the publisher to implement appropriate measures. These measures may include revisions, corrections, retractions, expressions of concern, and other pertinent notifications. Nonetheless, it is essential that all actions are undertaken following thorough confirmations and communications with the authors to ensure that the process is conducted equitably.

 

REVIEWER(S)’S DUTIES

 

After passing the first screening by editor, to get fair reviewing process, our journal usually proceeds each article with at least 2 reviewers: 1 internal reviewer (from Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia) and the others are external reviewers.  Reviewers have several duties based on Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (see https://publicationethics.org/) and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) (see https://wame.org/):

 

  1. Roles, Promptness, Confidentiality, and Fair Play Process in Reviewing. The reviewers help editors in giving judgments fairly without personal critism, suggestions/ideas to improve article qualities via peer reviewing process. Communication is only done between the reviewers and the editors, and there is no communication between the reviewer and the authors. All communications must be done via a formal scholarly communication in a time manner. If reviewer feels to be unqualified for reviewing the article, reviewer must inform and notify editor as soon as possible. Reviewers just give suggestion, while the final decision for the publication is on Editor. Article and all peer reviewing processing documents are confidential. The reviewer cannot discuss with authors or anybody without editor's permission.
  2. Acknowledgment. The reviewer should point out pertinent published works that the authors have not cited, giving ideas and claims based on a certain observation, deduction, or argument. The reviewer also informs and notice for any significant overlap or resemblance between article under consideration and any other published material based on reviewer’s knowledge.
  3. Conflict of interest. Without the author's express written authorization and editor’s permission, the reviewer may not use any unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript for their work. All peer review process is privileged knowledge. Thus, ideas must be kept secret and confidential, as well as not used for the reviewer’s benefit. Reviewers should not take into account in the reviewing process when they have relationships or links with any of the authors, organizations, or businesses associated with the articles.