Publication Ethic

 

Science and Education Journal is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and takes all possible measures against any publication malpractices. The Editorial Board is responsible for, among others, preventing publication malpractice. Unethical behavior is unacceptable, and this journal does not tolerate plagiarism in any form. Authors who submitted articles agree that the manuscript contents are original,  the manuscript has not been published previously in any language, either wholly or partly, and is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere.

Editors, authors, and reviewers, within the Science and Education Journal , are to be fully committed to good publication practice and accept the responsibility for fulfilling the following duties and responsibilities, as set by the  Conduct for Journal Editors.

Section A: Publication and authorship 
  1. All submitted papers are subject to a strict peer-review process by at least two international reviewers that are experts in the area of the particular paper.

  2. The review process is a blind peer review.

  3. The factors that are taken into account in the review are relevance, soundness, significance, originality, readability, and language.

  4. The possible decisions include acceptance, acceptance with revisions, or rejection.

  5. If authors are encouraged to revise and resubmit a submission, there is no guarantee that the revised submission will be accepted.

  6. Rejected articles will not be re-reviewed.

  7. The paper acceptance is constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism.

  8. No research can be included in more than one publication. 

Section B: Authors’ responsibilities

  1. Authors must certify that their manuscripts are their original work.

  2. Authors must certify that the manuscript has not previously been published elsewhere.

  3. Authors must certify that the manuscript is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere. 

  4. The authors must participate in the peer-review process. 

  5. Authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.
  6. All Authors mentioned in the paper must have significantly contributed to the research.

  7. The authors must state that all data in the paper are real and authentic.

  8. The authors must notify the Editors of any conflicts of interest.

  9. The authors must identify all sources used in the creation of their manuscripts.

  10. Authors must report any errors they discover in their published papers to the Editors. 

Section C: Reviewers’ responsibilities

  1. Reviewers should keep all information regarding papers confidential and treat them as privileged information. 

  2. Reviews should be conducted objectively, with no personal criticism of the author

  3. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments

  4. Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.

  5. Reviewers should also call to the Editor in Chief’s attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

  6. Reviewers should not review 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. 

Section D: Editors’ responsibilities

  1. Editors have complete responsibility and authority to reject/accept an article.

  2. Editors are responsible for the contents and overall quality of the publication.

  3. Editors should always consider the needs of the authors and the readers when attempting to improve the publication.

  4. Editors should guarantee the quality of the papers and the integrity of the academic record.

  5. Editors should publish errata pages or make corrections when needed.

  6. Editors should have a clear picture of research funding sources.

  7. Editors should base their decisions solely on the papers’ importance, originality, clarity, and relevance to the publication’s scope.

  8. Editors should not reverse their decisions nor overturn those of previous editors without serious reason. 

  9. Editors should preserve the anonymity of reviewers. 

  10. Editors should ensure that all research material they publish conforms to internationally accepted ethical guidelines.

  11. Editors should only accept a paper when reasonably certain.

  12. Editors should act if they suspect misconduct, whether a paper is published or unpublished, and make all reasonable attempts to persist in obtaining a resolution to the problem.

  13. Editors should not reject papers based on suspicions, they should have proof of misconduct.

  14. Editors should not allow any conflicts of interest between staff, authors, reviewers, and board members.

We understand that the authors have worked carefully in preparing manuscripts, and we carry out the peer-review processes. However, sometimes there is the potential for published articles to be withdrawn or even deleted for scientific reasons. It should not be done lightly and can only occur under extraordinary circumstances. Therefore, corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed will be carried out with strict standards to maintain confidence in the authority of its electronic archives. It is our commitment and policy to maintain the integrity and completeness of important scientific records for researchers' and librarians' archives.

Publication decisions

The editor of the Jurnal Inovasi Pendidikan IPA is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors 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 editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Fair play

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

 

Plagiarism Policy

 

Science and Education Journal applies Zero tolerance towards plagiarism and therefore establishes the following policy stating specific actions (penalties) when plagiarism is identified in an article that is submitted for publication in Science and Education Journal

Definition: Plagiarism involves the "use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work".

Policy: Papers must be original, unpublished, and not pending publication elsewhere. Any material taken verbatim from another source needs to be clearly identified as different from the present original text by (1) indentation, (2) use of quotation marks, and (3) identification of the source.

Any text of an amount exceeding fair use standards (herein defined as more than two or three sentences or the equivalent thereof) or any graphic material reproduced from another source requires permission from the copyright holder and, if feasible, the original author(s) and also requires identification of the source; e.g., previous publication.

All submitted papers will be checked for their similarity level before proceeding to the review process.

It is understood that the authors are responsible for the contents of the papers they send because they confirm the paper's originality statement before submission and have read this plagiarism policy. If the second case of severe plagiarism by the same author(s) is identified, a decision on the measures to be enforced will be made by the Editorial board. The author(s) might be forbidden to submit further articles forever.

This policy applies also to material reproduced from another publication by the same author(s). If an author uses text or figures that have previously been published, the corresponding paragraphs or figures should be identified and the previous publication referenced. It is understood that in the case of a review paper or a paper of a tutorial nature much of the material was previously published.

The author should identify the source of the previously published material and obtain permission from the original author and the publisher. If an author submits a manuscript to Science and Education Journal  with significant overlap with a manuscript submitted to another journal simultaneously, and this overlap is discovered during the review process or after the publications of both papers, the editor of the other journal is notified and the case is treated as a severe plagiarism case. Significant overlap means the use of identical or almost identical figures and identical or slightly modified text for one-half or more of the paper. For self-plagiarism of less than one-half of the paper but more than one-tenth of the paper, the case shall be treated as intermediate plagiarism. If self-plagiarism is confined to the methods section, the case shall be considered minor plagiarism.

If an author uses some of his previously published material to clarify the presentation of new results, the previously published material shall be identified and the difference to the present publication shall be mentioned. Permission to republish must be obtained from the copyright holder. In the case of a manuscript that was originally published in conference proceedings and then is submitted for publication in Science and Education Journal  either in identical or in expanded form, the authors must identify the name of the conference proceedings and the date of the publication and obtain permission to republish from the copyright holder. The editor may decide not to accept this paper for publication. However, an author shall be permitted to use material from an unpublished presentation, including visual displays, in a subsequent journal publication. In the case of a publication being submitted, that was originally published in another language, the title, date, and journal of the original publication must be identified by the authors, and the copyright must be obtained.

Withdrawal of Manuscripts

 

The author is not allowed to withdraw the submitted manuscripts because the withdrawal is a waste of valuable resources that editors and referees spent a great deal of time processing the submitted manuscripts, and works invested by the Publisher. For attention, before the author submits the manuscript through our OJS, the author is obliged to approve the checklist that we provide. 

  • If the author requests the withdrawal of his/her manuscript when the manuscript is still in the peer-reviewing process, the author will be punished by paying 0 IDR per manuscript.
  • If the withdrawal of the manuscript after the manuscript is accepted for publication; the author will be punished by paying 0 IDR per manuscript.

  • If an article has been published as "Article in Press" (articles that have been accepted for publication but which have not been formally published and will not have the complete volume/issue/page information) that include errors, or are discovered to be accidental duplicates of other published article (s), or are determined to violate our journal publishing ethics guidelines in the view of the editors (such as multiple submissions, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or the like), maybe "Withdrawn" from the Science and Education Journal website. Withdrawing means that the article content (HTML and PDF) is deleted and replaced with an HTML page and PDF simply states that the article has been withdrawn. In this case, the author will be punished by paying 200000 IDR per manuscript.

  • If the author doesn't agree to pay the penalty, the author and his/her affiliation will be blacklisted for publication in this journal (3 years).

  • If the author request to withdraw a manuscript, an official letter signed by the corresponding author and agency leader must be sent to the Editor in Chief.