Publication Ethics

IJOBEM Publication Ethics Standards 2024 

Indonesian Journal of Business, Economic, and Management (IJOBEM) operates as a peer-reviewed journal. This statement clarifies the ethical statements expected of all parties involved in the process of publishing articles in this journal, including authors, editor-in-chief, editorial board, and publisher (CV Detak Publisher).

Publication Ethics Guidelines

Publication of articles in IJOBEM is an important cornerstone in developing a coherent and respected knowledge network. It directly reflects the quality of the author's work and the organization that supports it. Peer-reviewed articles support and demonstrate the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree on standards of ethical behavior that are shared by all parties involved in the publishing process: authors, journal editors, publishers and the community.

As the publisher of the Indonesian Journal of Business, Economics, and Management (IJOBEM), we take our stewardship responsibilities at every stage of publication very seriously, recognizing our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprinting, or other commercial revenue does not influence or affect editorial decisions. In addition, the publisher and Editorial Board will facilitate communication with other journals and/or publishers when deemed useful and necessary.

Fighting Research Misconduct

In dealing with research misconduct, which includes fabrication, falsification, manipulation of citations, or plagiarism in the conduct, reporting, or review of research and the writing of articles by authors, or in the reporting of research results, Indonesian Journal of Business, Economic, and Management (IJOBEM) is responsible for ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the scientific record. Suppose an author is found to be involved in research misconduct or other serious irregularities regarding an article published in a scientific journal. In that case, the Editor is responsible for ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the scientific record.

In the event of an allegation, the Editors and Editorial Board will apply our best practices to help resolve the complaint and deal fairly with the offense. This will involve investigating the allegations made by the Editors. Manuscripts submitted and found to contain such violations will be rejected. In cases where a published manuscript is found to contain such violations, a retraction may be published and attributed to the original article.

The first step is to determine the validity of the allegations and assess whether they are consistent with the definition of research misconduct. This initial step also involves determining whether the individual reporting the misconduct has a relevant conflict of interest.

If there is a possibility of scientific misconduct or other substantial research misconduct, the allegation is communicated to the relevant author, who, on behalf of all co-authors, is asked to provide a detailed response. Once the response has been received and evaluated, further review and involvement of experts (such as statistical reviewers) may be obtained. For cases where errors are unlikely, clarification, additional analysis, or both, will be published in the form of a letter to the editor, which often includes a correction notice and corrections to the published article.

Institutions are expected to conduct appropriate and thorough investigations into allegations of scientific misconduct. Ultimately, authors, journals, and institutions have a significant obligation to ensure the accuracy of the scientific record. By appropriately addressing concerns about scientific misconduct and taking necessary actions based on an evaluation of those concerns, such as correction, retraction with replacement, and retraction, JEBI will continue to fulfill its responsibility to ensure the validity and integrity of the scientific record.

Publication Decision

Publishing decisions rest with the IJOBEM Editors, who are responsible for determining which articles are submitted for publication in the journal. The validity of the contested work and its significance to researchers and readers should always drive this decision. The Editor may be guided by the journal's editorial policy and constrained by applicable legal requirements regarding defamation, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. Editors may consult with other editors or reviewers in making these decisions.

Complaints and Appeals

IJOBEM will have a clear procedure for handling complaints against the journal, Editorial Staff, Editorial Board, or Publisher. Complaints will be clarified to the authorized person related to the complaint case. The scope of the complaint includes anything related to the business process of the journal, e.g. editorial process, discovery of citation manipulation, unfair editors/reviewers, peer-review manipulation, etc. Complaint cases can be sent via email to: cs@detakpublisher.com

Fair Play

Editors will always evaluate a manuscript based on its intellectual content, without regard to the author's race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnic origin, nationality, or political philosophy.

Confidentiality

Editors and editorial staff should not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisors, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosures and Conflicts of Interest

Unpublished material disclosed in the submitted manuscript may not be used in the editor's research without the written permission of the author.

Tasks of the Reviewer

1. Contribution to Editorial Decisions: Peer review helps editors in making editorial decisions, and through editorial communication with authors, they can also help authors improve their manuscripts.
2. Conformity: Any selected reviewer who feels unqualified to review the research reported in the manuscript or knows that prompt review is not possible should notify the editor and request permission to be excused from the review process.
3. Confidentiality: Any manuscript received for review should be treated as a confidential document. The manuscript should not be shown or discussed with others unless authorized by the editor.
4. Objectivity Standard: Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of authors is inappropriate. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
5. Acknowledgment of Sources: Reviewers should identify relevant published works that have not been cited by the authors. Any previously reported observations, derivations or arguments should be accompanied by relevant citations. Reviewers should also inform the editor if there are substantial similarities or overlaps between the manuscript under consideration and other papers of which they are personally aware.
6. Disclosure and Conflict of Interest: Information or ideas obtained through peer review should be kept confidential and not used for personal gain. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts with conflicts of interest caused by competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with authors, companies, or institutions associated with the paper.

Duties of the Author

1. Reporting Standards: the author of the original research report must present an accurate report on the work done and provide an objective discussion of its significance. The underlying Data must be accurately presented in the paper. The paper should contain enough details and references to allow others to replicate the work. False or intentionally inaccurate statements constitute unethical and unacceptable behavior.
2. Access, storage, and reproduction of Data: authors are required to provide raw data in connection with the paper for editorial review and should be prepared to provide public access to such data, where possible, and should be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable period after publication. The author is responsible for the reproducibility of the data.
3. Originality and plagiarism: authors must ensure that they have written a completely original work, and if the author has used the work and/or words of others, then this has been appropriately cited or cited.
4. Duplicate, overlapping, or concurrent publications: in general, an author should not publish a manuscript that essentially describes the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time is unethical and unacceptable publishing behavior.
5. Source recognition: proper recognition of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that are influential in determining the nature of the reported work.
6. Authorship and contribution of articles: authorship should be restricted to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, conduct, or interpretation of the reported research. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. If other parties have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be recognized or listed as contributors. The authors concerned should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the manuscript and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript and agreed to its submission for publication.
7. Disclosures and conflicts of interest: all authors must disclose in their manuscript any financial or substantive conflicts of interest that may be construed to affect the outcome or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for this project must be disclosed.
8. Fundamental errors in published works: when an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in a published work, the author is obliged to immediately notify the editor of the journal or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the manuscript.

Ethical Oversight

If the research work involves chemicals, humans, animals, procedures, or equipment that have unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must identify them in the manuscript to comply with ethical research behavior that uses both human and animal subjects. If required, the author must give legal ethics permission from a legal association or organization.

If the research involves proprietary data and business/marketing practices, the author must clearly explain whether the data or information will be kept confidential or not.