Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

 Jurnal Rekayasa Industri (JRI), called JRI, 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 the JRI does not tolerate plagiarism in any form. Authors who submitted articles: affirm that manuscript contents are original. Furthermore, the authors’ submission also implies that 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 Jurnal Rekayasa Industri (JRI), are to be fully committed to good publication practice and accept the responsibility for fulfilling the following duties and responsibilities, as set by the COPE Code of Conduct for Journal Editors. As part of the Core Practices, COPE has written guidelines on the http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines.

Section A: Publication and authorship 

  1. All submitted papers are subject to a strict peer-review process by reviewers that are experts in the area of the particular manuscript.
  2. The review process is double-blind peer-review.
  3. The factors that are taken into account in 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 manuscript.
  10. Authors must report any errors they discover in their published paper 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 one the papers’ importance, originality, clarity, and relevance to publication’s scope.
  8. Editors should not reverse their decisions nor overturn the ones 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.

FOR PUBLISHER

  • As a publisher, the Universitas Widya Mataram ensures no business, commercial, or other external interests can impact or influence editorial decisions.
  • The Universitas Widya Mataram will help communicate with other journals or publishers, both internal and external, which can be useful for authors, editors, and reviewers.
  • The Universitas Widya Mataram cooperates with all relevant parties to establish best practice standards on ethical issues, misconduct, revocation, and provide review and specific legal advice in the event of a conflict regarding the management of the Jurnal Rekayasa Industri (JRI).
  • The Universitas Widya Mataram ensures that article information, including metadata and full text, is always accessible to readers and gets permalinks (DOI) that are always active. Metadata information and its full text are also available and archived at the service of the National Library of the Republic of Indonesia (see Archiving Policy). Hence, the publisher plays a significant role in ensuring the publication media used (OJS 3) can always be accessed, except during maintenance.

 

MALPRACTICE STATEMENT

Malpractice will lead to serious ethical violations of scientific publications in any form of established ethical publication, and decisive actions are needed to ensure that all articles published by the Jurnal Rekayasa Industri (JRI) are free from various alleged misconduct and malpractice. In general, the Editor-in-Chief and editorial boards are guided by the core practices for allegations of misconduct from COPE to resolve the complaint and deal fairly with the misconduct. Complete policies related to malpractice management can be seen in the Retraction, Withdrawal, and Correction (R-W-C) Policy.

 

COMPLAINTS AND APPEALS

There will be a defined process in place at Jurnal Rekayasa Industri (JRI)  for managing concerns against the publication, editorial board, peer reviewers, or publisher. Regarding a complaint, the complaints will be explained to the respected individual. Any issue about the journal business process, such as the editorial process, citation manipulation, unfair editors/reviewers, peer-review manipulation, etc., falls under the purview of complaints. The COPE complaints and appeals focus guidelines shall be followed in processing the complaint situations. Complaints and appeals can be submitted via email at jriuwm@gmail.com.

 

DATA SHARING

Jurnal Rekayasa Industri (JRI) encourages authors to share the data and other materials supporting the results in the paper by archiving it in an appropriate public repository. Authors may provide a data availability statement, including a link to the repository they have used so that this statement can be published in their paper. All accepted manuscripts may elect to publish a data availability statement to confirm the presence or absence of shared data under the Data Availability section.