Publication Ethics
IJESSS is a set of publication ethics as a guideline for people involved in science research publications to adhere to COPE practices that set high ethical standards for journal publications.
- Authorship
Authors are expected to adhere to the following ethical guidelines. Any violation may lead to retraction of the article, or even ban the author from journal publication.
- The primary obligation of the author is to provide accurate and complete details about the research conducted. The research data should contain sufficient information about the subject.
- Authors must ensure the authenticity of their work and that no fraud or fabrication is involved in their manuscript.
- Authors must guarantee that the article has not been previously published or is not being evaluated for publication elsewhere.
- Authors must ensure that their work does not contain any unlawful statements and any comments that may be unlawful.
- Authors are aware of and comply with the infringement policy described.
- Editorship
Editors should provide a fair judgment and consideration to all manuscripts based on its quality with no regard to race, religion, nationality, sex, seniority, or institutional affiliation of the author(s).
- Editors are responsible to consider all the submitted manuscripts in reasonable time frame.
- Editors, with their expertise and fair judgment are responsible to accept or reject the manuscripts. They are to build a good communication with authors in regards to the manuscripts publication. The final decision will be accompanied by the reviewer’s comment.
- Editors are to make sure no private information of authors are included in the manuscript sent to reviewers.
- Editors should ensure the confidentiality of the submitted manuscript and not to disclose any information about the manuscript under consideration to other parties.
- Editors are to respect author’s request to not use certain reviewers – with a well reasoned objection - to consider their manuscript. However, editors can decide to use one or more of these reviewers if their professional input is considered to be important for the manuscript publication.
- Editors are to comply with COPE practices when considering a manuscript for publication
- Reviewer Process
All papers will be critically read by at least two anonymous reviewers, selected for their competences in the subject area of the paper. Acceptance of the paper will depend upon its scientific merit and suitability for the LanggamJournal. A paper may be accepted in its original form, subject to revision, or rejection.
The reviewers' (and editor's) suggestions will be conveyed to the author, who will then have an opportunity to revise the paper. A manuscript returned to an author for revision can be held for a maximum of eight weeks.
Reviewers are to comply with following ethical guidelines:
- The main obligation of a reviewer (referee) is to objectively judge the complete manuscript both scientifically and literally in high standards.
- Referees should treat the submitted manuscript as confidential documents.
- Referee’s identity should be remain anonymous – unless if the editors decided otherwise.
- Referees should complete the evaluation of a manuscript in a reasonable time frame and directly inform the editors should the work can not be completed within schedule.
- Reviewers should explain and provide adequate professional judgment for their evaluation on a manuscript.
- Reviewers are to promptly notify the editors should they find the manuscript is expected to be misapplied by others to pose a threat to public health and safety.
Conflict of Interest Policy
Authors, Editors and Reviewers are expected to adhere to the following guidelines in compliance with COPE practices.
- Authors should clearly inform their source of financial support -institution, private, and/or corporate- for their research
- Should the author and editor of EBIBM have a relationship which may lead to an unfair evaluation another editor will be appointed instead.
- Reviewers should be aware for any appearance of conflict of interest when receive a manuscript for evaluation and are required to promptly return the manuscript to editor, informing the conflict of interest issue.
- Data and Responsibility
Data availability and reporting guidelines are available in section 'Author Guidelines'
Research Misconduct Policy
The purpose of this policy is to prevent any misconduct related to research conducted for the journals and to suggest the fundamental principles and structural procedures in relation to research integrity deliberation required to ensure research ethics.
The range of misconduct policy
Research misconduct suggested in this policy pertains to fraud and refers to data fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, and improper authorship.
- "Fabrication" refers to any act involving the creation of false information about non-existing data or findings.
- "Falsification" refers to artificial manipulation of the research materials/equipment/process or randomly modification/deletion of data resulting in distorted research contents or research results.
- "Plagiarism" refers to acts of pirating others’ ideas, research contents, and research results without justifiable approvals or quotations.
- "Improper authorship" refers to cases where the person who has contributed to research contents or research results is scientifically and technically unqualified as an author or where someone who has not contributed to the research contents or research results scientifically and technically but has been listed as an author merely to express gratitude or courtesy.
- Intentional acts to disturb a fraud investigation about themselves or others or the acts which can be harmful to informants.
- Unfair evaluation regarding research of others or a disclosure or pirating of research ideas or research results acquired during the evaluation process.
- Severely aberrant acts that cannot be accepted in the community of the field of scientific and technology.
- How does the journal address misconduct
Editors and publishers have an ethical obligation to:
- Support the quality and ethics of the review process (pre-publication: weed out; prevent)
- Ensure the correctness of the published literature (post-publication: correct; communicate)
- Educate (prevent)
Editors/journals have an ethical obligation to respond to and address ethical allegations that may arise about published papers or papers in review. Systems and procedures are in place for investigating and addressing situations of misconduct, including cooperation with investigations from institutions or funding bodies.
Possible sanction
Should the evidence of misconduct is confirmed the following procedures are to be applied:
- Prior to publication (during review): The manuscript can be withdrawn from review
- Post-publication (literature correction) The journal may publish Retraction, Note of Editorial Concern, Errata/Correction with the author or authors’ (some or all) signature or editorial of an appropriate statement about the situation. The paper can be “marked” in the literature/PubMed.
- Editors determine whether retract or correct after considering whether the case is fraud or an honest mistake. They consider the intent And then extent to which the data is incorrect/misleading,
- Author may be banned from submitting to the journal.
- Editors may, in some cases, provide information for other editors/publishers.
- Editors may publish of an editorial in the journal to discuss the issue generally and raise awareness of the issue.
- Ethical Oversight
All submitted articles and exchanging information involving authors and editors in IJESSS will be considered as confidential. Communications related to publication process should not be disclosed in any website without prior consent from the editors.
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
Regarding research involving experiments on animals, the authors should ensure that the object is fully assessed in terms of any harm to the animals. This involves detailed examination of the particular procedures and experiments, and the numbers and types of animals used. The animals subjected to the experiment are to adhere to institutional and national guidelines. The manuscripts are required to declare that all efforts were performed to reduce animal suffering.
- Intellectual Properties
Disclaimer
The viewpoint of articles published in JESSS are solely the authors’ and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board of the publisher
Copyright
The author is responsible for acquiring the permission(s) to reproduce any copyrighted figures, tables, data, or text that are being used in the submitted paper. Authors should note that text quotations of more than 250 words from a published or copyrighted work will require grant of permission from the original publisher to reprint. The written permission letter(s) must be submitted together with the manuscript.
Publishing
This journal uses Open Journal Systems 2.3.2.0, which is open source journal management and publishing software developed, supported, and freely distributed by the Public Knowledge Project under the GNU General Public License.
Peer Review Process
The publication of articles in the International Journal of Education and Social Science Studies (IJESS) depends solely on the scientific validity and coherence assessed by our editors and/or peer reviewers, who will also assess whether the writing is comprehensible and whether the work is a useful contribution to the field. International Journal of Education and Social Science Studies (IJESS) appreciates the efforts and suggestions made by the reviewers.
Initial Evaluation of Manuscripts
The editor will evaluate all submitted manuscripts first. Although rare, exceptional manuscripts deserve to be accepted at this stage. Manuscripts that are rejected at this stage are those that are not sufficiently original, have serious scientific flaws, or are outside the purpose and scope of the International Journal of Education and Social Science Studies (IJESSS). Manuscripts that meet the minimum criteria will be forwarded to experts for review.
Types of Peer Review
Submitted manuscripts will generally be reviewed by two to three experts who will be asked to evaluate whether the manuscript is scientific and reasonable, whether it is a duplicate of published work, and whether it is clear enough for publication. The method used is double-blind peer review.
Initial Evaluation of Manuscripts
The editor will evaluate all submitted manuscripts first. Although rare, exceptional manuscripts deserve to be accepted at this stage. Manuscripts that are rejected at this stage are those that are not sufficiently original, have serious scientific flaws, or are outside the purpose and scope of the International Journal of Education and Social Science Studies (IJESSSS). Manuscripts that meet the minimum criteria will be forwarded to experts for review.
Types of Peer Review
Submitted manuscripts will generally be reviewed by two to three experts who will be asked to evaluate whether the manuscript is scientific and reasonable, whether it is a duplicate of published work, and whether it is clear enough for publication. The method used is double-blind peer review.