Publication Ethics

As a peer-reviewed journal, one of the priorities of the IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar is to ensure high publishing standards. Publication ethics and publication malpractice statements are an essential concern. Therefore, editors, peer-reviewers, and authors should pay great attention to meeting ethical standards. The IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar is committed to keeping the integrity of the research papers we publish. The value of academic publishing depends on how every person involved behaves ethically. Ethical duties and responsibilities are written in light of the  Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guides. Retrieved from http://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors_Mar11.pdf

 

| IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar Editor's responsibilities for Publication Decisions|

IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar editor is responsible for determining manuscripts submitted to the journal that will be published without looking at authors' backgrounds such as race, gender, country, or religion. The Editor of the IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar will decide based on the manuscript's significance, uniqueness, and relevance to the scope of the IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar. The IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar, with the help of its editors, takes plagiarism extremely seriously. Our authors are cautioned against this. The IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar, with the help of its editors, will not accept research articles or manuscripts submitted for publication elsewhere.

Confidentiality

IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar editor and any editorial members must keep any information related to authors and submitted manuscripts confidential and not share such information with anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, and publisher.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Rejected manuscripts, papers, or articles and their materials submitted to IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar are extremely seriously not allowed to be used by IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar editor and any editorial members for their interests and purposes. All will be archived confidentially in the system.

 

| Reviewers' responsibilities for helping IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar editorial decisions|

The editors initially review research articles or Manuscripts submitted to the IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar for general fit with the IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar focus and scope and for the writing quality. Only those research articles meeting the IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar focus and scope will be sent to reviewers for a double-masked review. Review time is typically 4-6 months.

Confidentiality

The function of the peer-reviewing process is to help the IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar editor and its members to make decisions through the reviewer's professional, scientific, and objective arguments on the reviewed manuscript. All reviewers must treat all manuscripts confidentially and not discuss them with others without authorization from the Editor of the IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar. Reviewers must do their review processes objectively. Personal reviews and blame of the manuscript author are extremely seriously not allowed. Professional, scientific, and objective arguments must support all reviews.

Detecting plagiarism

Another function of the peer-reviewing process is to help the IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar editor and its members to identify others' work that has not been cited in-text reference and in the reference section. IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar reviewers must ensure that the authors provide appropriate sources. When IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar reviewers find the manuscript being reviewed similar to other published manuscripts, they must inform IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar editor as soon as possible as IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar takes plagiarism extremely seriously. Our authors are cautioned against this. They are screening plagiarism using Turnitin with a maximum similarity score of 25%.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar reviewers must not use confidential information obtained from reviewing any manuscripts for personal purposes. They must keep all information confidential. IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar reviewers must NOT review any manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest due to their relationships with the authors of the reviewed manuscripts. They must inform the Editor if they find the case as soon as possible.

 

| Authors' Responsibilities|

Authors who want to submit their manuscripts to the IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar must ensure that they pay attention to a variety of responsibilities, including reporting standards, data access and retention, originality and plagiarism, multiple, redundant or concurrent publications, acknowledgement of sources, authorship of the paper, hazards and human or animal subjects, disclosure and conflicts of interest, fundamental errors in published works.

Authors who want to submit their manuscripts to the IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar must confirm that their manuscripts have not been formally submitted or published in other journals. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal simultaneously is unethical behaviour, and it is unacceptable.

Authors who want to submit their manuscripts to the IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar must ensure the originality of the manuscripts, and all others' works have to be correctly cited according to the IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar references format. All authors must ensure that they have cited published works used to determine the nature of the submitted work.

Authors who want to submit their manuscripts to the IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar must ensure that all people who have contributed significantly to the submitted manuscript are inclusive and acknowledged. The corresponding author should ensure that all co-authors have approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Authors who want to submit their manuscripts to the IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar must ensure that if the work involves chemicals, human subject approvals, or animals, it must be identified and clarified in the submitted manuscript.

Authors who want to submit their manuscripts to the IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar must ensure that they have disclosed any financial or other substantive conflict of interest in their submitted manuscript that might be construed to affect the results of their manuscript.

 

|Reviewer Process|

All papers will be critically examined by at least two anonymous reviewers, selected for their competencies in the paper's subject area. Acceptance of the paper will depend upon its scientific merit and suitability for the  IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar. A paper may be accepted in its original form, subject to revision or rejection.

The reviewers' (and editors') 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 eight weeks.

Native English speakers will edit the accepted paper. The cost of language editing service is included in the Article Processing Charge (APC). 

Turnitin will check all submitted papers for originality.

Reviewers are to comply with the following ethical guidelines:

  1. The primary obligation of a reviewer (referee) is to objectively judge the complete manuscript both scientifically and literally to high standards.
  2. Referees should treat the submitted manuscript as confidential documents.
  3. The referee's identity should remain anonymous – unless the editors decide otherwise.
  4. Referees should complete the evaluation of a manuscript in a reasonable time frame and directly inform the editors when the work cannot be completed within the schedule.
  5. Reviewers should explain and provide adequate professional judgment for evaluating a manuscript.
  6. Reviewers are to promptly notify the editors should they find the manuscript is expected to be misapplied by others to threaten 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.

  1. Authors should inform their source of financial support -institution, private, and corporate- for their research.
  2. If the author and Editor of IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar have a relationship that may lead to an unfair evaluation, another editor will be appointed instead.
  3. Reviewers should be aware of any appearance of conflict of interest when receiving a manuscript for evaluation. They must promptly return the manuscript to the Editor, informing them of the conflict of interest issue.

 

|Data and Responsibility|

Data availability and reporting guidelines are in the 'Author Guidelines' section.

 

|Research Misconduct Policy|

This policy aims to prevent any misconduct related to research conducted for the journals. It suggests the fundamental principles and structural procedures about 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. 

  1. "Fabrication" refers to any activity involving creating false information about non-existing data or findings.
  2. "Falsification" refers to the artificial manipulation of the research materials/equipment/process or random modification/deletion of data resulting in distorted research contents or results.
  3. "Plagiarism" refers to acts of pirating others' ideas, research contents, and research results without justifiable approvals or quotations.
  4. "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.
  5. Intentional acts to disturb a fraud investigation about themselves or others or acts which can be harmful to informants
  6. Unfair evaluation regarding research of others or disclosure or pirating of research ideas or results acquired during the evaluation process.
  7. Severely aberrant acts that cannot be accepted in the community of the field of science and technology.

How does the journal address misconduct

Editors and publishers have an ethical obligation to:

  1. Support the quality and ethics of the review process (pre-publication: weed out; prevent)
  2. Ensure the correctness of the published literature (post-publication: correct; communicate)
  3. Educate (prevent)

Editors/journals have an ethical obligation to respond and to 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

When the evidence of misconduct is confirmed, the following procedures are to be applied:

  1. Prior to publication (during review): The manuscript can be withdrawn from review.
  2. Post-publication (literature correction): The journal may publish a Retraction, Note of Editorial Concern, Errata/Correction with the author or all authors' signatures or editorial of an appropriate statement about the situation. The paper can be "marked" in the literature.
  3. Editors determine whether to retract or correct after considering whether the case is fraud or an honest mistake. They consider the intent and the extent to which the data is incorrect/misleading.
  4. The author may be banned from submitting to the journal.
  5. Editors may, in some cases, provide information for other editors/publishers.
  6. Editors may publish an editorial in the journal to discuss the issue and raise awareness.

 

|Ethical Oversight|

All submitted articles and exchanging information involving authors and editors in the IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar will be considered confidential. Communications related to the publication process should not be disclosed on 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. They 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 a detailed examination of the particular procedures and experiments and the numbers and types of animals used. The animals subjected to the experiment must adhere to institutional and national guidelines. The manuscripts must declare that all efforts were performed to reduce animal suffering.

 

|Ethical Oversight|

Disclaimer

The viewpoint of articles published in the IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar are solely the authors' and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the publisher's editorial board.

Copyright

The author is responsible for acquiring permission(s) to reproduce any copyrighted figures, tables, data, or text used in the submitted paper. Authors should note that text quotations of more than 250 words from a published or copyrighted work will require a grant of permission from the original publisher to reprint. The written permission letter(s) must be submitted with the manuscript.

Publishing

This journal uses Open Journal System, a journal management and publishing software developed, supported, and distributed by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP).

 

|Journal Management|

Online: This Journal is available online and can be accessed for free

Charges: Publication in this journal is through the Article Processing Charge scheme, and all published papers are available online through open access.

 

|Post Publication - Discussion and Correction|

IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar follows the guidance from COPE regarding ethical concerns for published articles. Complaints and Appeal Editor in Chief email at suhadi03@gmail.com is available for contact should the authors have an objection or disagreement about the publication process in IJMA-Integration Journal of Misykatul Anwar. Every complaint will be acknowledged and handled to resolve the issue accordingly. In addition, articles may be retracted for both scientific and ethical reasons, which can be requested by the author(s) or by the editorEditor. Articles found to be seriously flawed or violated ethical guidance from COPE will be retracted to correct the scientific record. The retracted article will be noticed on the journal's website alongside information regarding the reason for the retraction