Publication Ethic

Yurispruden is a peer reviewed journal published biannually (January and June) by Faculty of Law University of Islam Malang. Yurispruden follows the guidelines set out by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in all aspects of publication ethics. This statement clarifies ethical behaviour of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal, including the author, the editor-in-chief, the Editorial Board, the peer-reviewer, and the publisher.
Duties of Authors Duties of Editors Duties of Reviewers Duties of Publisher

Duties of Authors

Authors who submit manuscripts to Yurispruden warrant the following aspects: The manuscript reflects original work and should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. The manuscript does not include derogatory, defamatory or unlawful statements; Authors should appropriately cite and quote any influential publication or work of other authors.

Reporting Standards

A submitted manuscript should be original and the authors ensure that the manuscript has never been published previously in any journal. Data of the research ought to be represented literally in the article. A manuscript ought to include adequate detail and references to allow others to replicate the study.

Originality

The authors who want to submit their study to the journal must ensure that their study is entirely original and the words and sentences taken from literature should be appropriately cited.

Multiple Publications

Authors should not submit the same study for publishing to any other journals. Simultaneous submission of the same study to more than one journal is unacceptable and constitutes unethical behavior. Nonetheless, it is acceptable for research to be repeated if it leads to different and new analyses, perspectives or comparisons with existing data.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

Conflict of Interest (CoI) is a condition when objective professional considerations such as research validity, data integrity, neutrality, objectivity of scientific analysis and research conclusions are potentially influenced by secondary interests (financial, personal, academic, political and/or social), because they have received grants, honorariums, salaries from agencies, organizations and/or companies that benefit from research results, shareholding, patents, royalties or other options, Certain roles are paid, family relationships, friendly marriages, hostility, rivalry, political, religious beliefs and/or very strong ideological views (including between authors, editors and peer reviewers). Authors are required to declare that there is/are no Conflict of Interest, while editors are required to withdraw from decision-making and peer reviewers are required to reject review assignments. Conflicts of interest that are not declared and revealed in the future will have the worst impact on retraction or just an investigation and/or corrigendum/erratum.

Authorship and Contribution

Authorship is related to who can be referred to as an author, which is limited to individuals or groups who have substantial intellectual contributions, referring to CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) plays an important role in Conceptualization (ideas), Methodology (design), Software (programming), Validation (reproducibility), Formal Analysis (data analysis), Investigation (conducting research), Resources (study materials/samples), Data Curation (managing data), Writing – Original Draft (initial drafting), Writing – Review & Editing (critical review), Visualization (data presentation), Supervision (leadership/mentorship), Project administration (coordination), and Funding acquisition (obtaining financial support), as well as being willing to take responsibility for all manuscripts, including being willing to respond to investigations if there are allegations of ethical irregularities and data errors. Operationally, authors must make significant contributions to ideas, design, data acquisition, and/or analysis, draft manuscripts and/or make critical revisions that are substantially intellectual, agree to full responsibility for the overall integrity of the manuscript content, and all authors give final approval to the version of the manuscript to be published. Prohibited authorship practices (Authorship Malpractices), namely Ghost Authorship/Ghostwriter (hiding the names of individuals who have significant contributions), Gifts/Guest Authors (adding the names of senior or influential figures because they did not make intellectual contributions to the manuscript), and Honorary Authorship (including the names of others solely because of family, work and/or social relationships). AI is not recognized as an author because it lacks the legal capacity to be responsible.

Acknowledgment

Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors may give awards transparently to individuals, groups, institutions and/or other parties who support research but are not qualified as authors. The support in question can be in the form of financial and/or facility support, technical and operational assistance from both government and/or private institutions, data collection site owners and/or providers of special materials or other support. The author is advised to seek the written consent of each person whose name is included in the Acknowledgments, and which can be kept private to be shown at any time to the interested party to avoid objection because he is perceived to have agreed to the entire content and results of the research, even though he may only provide information and/or explain the theory in general. It should not be a place to lower the degree of contributors who deserve recognition as a writer.

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. See more at the POST-PUBLICATION CRITIQUES and the CORRECTION AND RETRACTION.

Related COPE Author Guidance:

  • What to do if we suspect plagiarism in a submitted manuscript
  • What to do if we suspect plagiarism in a published manuscript
  • What to do if we suspect redundant publication in a submitted manuscript
  • What to do if we suspect redundant publication in a published manuscript
  • How to handle authorship disputes: a guide for new researchers on the COPE website

Duties of Editors

In general, the editors will provide assistance to authors and readers in order to improve the journal’s content and should be responsible for everything published in Yurispruden. Therefore, the editors will pay particular attention to handle potential breaches of intellectual property laws and conventions.

Publication Decisions

The editors are responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published based on the content of the article and its connection to the journal’s aim and scope. The Editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision. Moreover, once a paper is accepted and published, that particular publication cannot be retracted, unless it constitutes plagiarism or the findings are unreliable, redundant or false. See Retraction Guidelines Proposed by The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for detailed information.

Equality (Fairness)

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

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

The Editors should not consider and/or make decisions on manuscripts where they have a conflict of interest caused by a competitive, collaborative, or other relationship or connection with the author, company, or institution associated with the manuscript.

Confidentiality

The editors and any editorial staff will 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. The identity of the authors and of the reviewers will be confidential.

Related COPE Editor Guidance:

  • COPE’s Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors
  • COPE Guidelines: Sharing of Information Among Editors-in-Chief Regarding Possible Misconduct
  • COPE Guidelines: Text Recycling
  • COPE Guide to Ethical Editing for New Editors

Duties of Reviewers

Peer reviewers play a crucial role in ensuring the integrity and quality of published research. Reviewers must adhere to strict ethical standards during the evaluation process.

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Promptness

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

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.

Standards of Objectivity

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

Acknowledgement 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.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

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.

Related COPE Reviewer Guidance:

  • COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers
  • What to do if editors suspect a reviewer has appropriated an author’s idea or data

Duties of Publisher

In general, the main duties of the publisher is to preserve the copyright of the Authors and the intellectual property published in the associated journals, and respect the privacy and independence of the editorial process.

Publishing Ethics & Integrity

The publisher shall work closely with editors and authors to foster publication ethics, maintain academic integrity, and protect the rights to all published intellectual material.

Related Policies and Links:

  • COPE Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers
  • COPE Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing