Publication Ethics

ETHICAL GUIDELINES FOR JOURNAL PUBLICATION

This ethical statement binds the behavior of the author, the editor, reviewers and the publisher. This statement is based on Elsevier recommendations and COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed journal IJCER is a significant contribution to all aspects of education, including chemistry education, physic education, biology education, and science education. The journal publishes original research papers, short communications, dissemination, and discussion of research, experience, and perspective across a wide range of education, teaching, development, instruction, educational projects and innovations, learning methodologies and new technologies in education and learning. The articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for the author, the editor, the peer reviewer, and the publisher.

Universitas Islam Indonesia as publishers take their duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing extremely seriously and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities.

IJCER is committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions.

 

DUTIES OF AUTHORS 

  1. Reporting Standards

Authors should present a reliable and accurate the working paper as well as discussion of its significance. The data should be reported accurately in the article. A paper has to be equipped with sufficient detail and relevant references. The fraudulent or any inaccuracy statements lead to unethical behavior are unacceptable.

  1. Data Access And Retention

The IJCER may ask the Authors to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, for public access or retention purposes.

  1. Originality And Plagiarism

The authors have to ensure cite and quote appropriately when using the working paper of others. Any form of plagiarism from 'passing off' another's paper as the author's own paper, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another's paper (without attribution), to claiming results from research conducted by others are unethical publishing behavior and unacceptable.

  1. Multiple, Redundant Or Concurrent Publication

Basically, an author is strictly not allowed to publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication concurrently. It constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

  1. Acknowledgment Of Sources

The author should acknowledge the work of others properly. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work. Information obtained privately, as in conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, must not be used or reported without explicit, written permission from the source. Information obtained in the course of confidential services, such as refereeing manuscripts or grant applications, must not be used without the explicit written permission of the author of the work involved in these services.

  1. Authorship Of The Paper

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution only to the paper. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. The others should be acknowledged properly. The corresponding author should ensure that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication. 

  1. Human Or Animal Subjects

If the work involves the use of animal or human subjects, the author should ensure that the manuscript contains a statement that all procedures were performed in compliance with relevant laws and institutional guidelines and that the appropriate institutional committee(s) has approved them. Authors should include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human subjects. The privacy rights of human subjects must always be observed. 

  1. Disclosure And Conflicts Of Interest

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed. Examples of potential conflicts of interest that should be disclosed include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed at the earliest stage possible. 

  1. Fundamental Errors In Published Works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author's obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper. If the editor or the publisher learns from a third party that a published work contains a significant error, it is the obligation of the author to promptly retract or correct the paper or provide evidence to the editor of the correctness of the original paper.

  1. Involving Children in Research

Research that involves children must enjoy equal status in research activities. Children involved in research have the right to fairness. This requires that all children be treated equally, the benefits and burdens of participation be distributed fairly, children are not unfairly excluded and barriers to involvement based on discrimination are challenged.

  1. The Protection of Vulnerable Groups and Individuals

Research that involving vulnerable children should have a special status throughout the research process. In exploring the ethical basis for how such research is and should be conducted, it is important to emphasize that researchers must always consider the rights of the child, which should apply equally to all children. More specifically, the ethical challenge that researchers must face is balancing the need for children to participate and be included in research activities with the need to protect these particularly vulnerable children. If the research reports research involving vulnerable groups, additional scrutiny may be required.
In addition, when research describes groups based on race, ethnicity, gender, disability, disease, etc., an explanation of why such categorization is necessary must be clearly stated in the article. For information related to this, please visit the COPE page and please click here.

 

DUTIES OF EDITORS

  1. Publication Decisions

The editor of a peer-reviewed journal is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published, often working in conjunction with the relevant society (for society-owned or sponsored journals). The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editor may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers (or society officers) in making this decision.

  1. Fair Play

An editor should evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

  1. Confidentiality

The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

  1. Disclosure And Conflicts Of Interest

The journal’s policy for conflicts of interest or competing interests is based on the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

A conflict of interest can also be known as a ‘competing interest’. A conflict of interest can occur when the authors, their employer, or sponsor have a financial, commercial, legal, or professional relationship with other organizations, or with the people working with them, that could influence the research.

When the authors submit the paper to the journal, full disclosure is required. The Editor in Chief will first use this information to inform the initial editorial decision. Then, after the acceptance, there will be a published disclosure to assist readers in evaluating the article. The Editor in Chief may decide not to publish the paper on the basis of any declared conflict of interest.

The author can declare the conflict of interest in the cover letter or on the manuscript submission form in the journal’s Open Journal System.

Conflict of interest can be financial or non-financial in nature. To maintain transparency, any associations that can be perceived by others as a conflict of interest must also be declared.

Some examples of financial conflicts of interest include:

  • Employment or voluntary involvement
  • Collaborations with advocacy groups relating to the content of the article
  • Grants from an entity paid to the author or organization
  • Personal fees received by the authors as honoraria, royalties, consulting fees, lecture fees, or testimonies
  • Patents held or pending by the authors, their institutions, funding organizations, or licensed to an entity, whether earning royalties or not
  • Royalties being received by the authors or their institutions
  • Stock or share ownership
  • Benefits related to the development of products as an outcome of the work

Examples of non-financial conflicts of interest:

  • Receipt of drugs, specialist equipment, tools, computer programs, or digital applications
  • Access to data repositories, archival resources, museum collections, by an entity that might benefit, or be at a disadvantage financially or reputationally from the published findings
  • Holding a position on the boards of industry bodies or private companies that might benefit, or be at a disadvantage financially or reputationally from the published findings
  • Writing assistance or administrative support from a person or organization that might benefit, or be at a disadvantage from the published findings
  • Personal, political, religious, ideological, academic and intellectual competing interests which are perceived to be relevant to the published content
  • Involvement in legal action related to the work

If there are no competing interests to declare, authors should include a statement to the article to confirm that there are no relevant financial or non-financial competing interests to report.

  1. Involvement And Cooperation In Investigations

An editor should take reasonably responsive measures when ethical complaints have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or published paper, in conjunction with the publisher (or society). Such measures will generally include contacting the author of the manuscript or paper and giving due consideration of the respective complaint or claims made, but may also include further communications to the relevant institutions and research bodies, and if the complaint is upheld, the publication of a correction, retraction, expression of concern, or other note, as may be relevant. Every reported act of unethical publishing behavior must be looked into, even if it is discovered years after publication.

 

DUTIES OF REVIEWERS

  1. Contribution To Editorial Decisions

Editors are assisted by peer reviewers to decide the editorial aspects as well as for improving the quality of the papers.

  1. Promptness

Whenever the appointed reviewer is not able to review because of unqualified reason or unable to respond promptly so he or she should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

  1. Confidentiality

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

  1. Standards Of Objectivity

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

  1. Acknowledgment Of Sources

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

  1. Disclosure And Conflict Of Interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer's own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.