Publication Ethics
Dharma Nusantara: Jurnal Ilmiah Pemberdayaan dan Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat follows the COPE Core Practices. This page summarises the duties of each party and links to the detailed policies on the Policies page.
Duties of the publisher
- Ensure editorial decisions are independent of the publisher and funders (Ownership and Management).
- Maintain open access and long-term availability of articles (Open Access, Archiving).
- Provide an independent complaints channel (Complaints and Appeals).
Duties of editors
- Evaluate manuscripts solely on their content, fit with the scope and scholarly quality, regardless of the authors’ background (Peer Review Process).
- Keep manuscripts and reviewer identities confidential, and do not upload manuscripts to generative AI tools.
- Avoid conflicts of interest (Conflict of Interest).
- Handle allegations of misconduct, corrections and retractions following COPE guidance (Research Misconduct, Correction and Retraction).
Duties of reviewers
- Declare conflicts of interest before accepting an assignment, and decline if they recognise the authors.
- Keep manuscripts confidential, do not use their content for personal advantage, and do not use generative AI in reviewing.
- Provide objective, substantive and timely reviews (4 weeks), and report suspected integrity issues to the editor.
Duties of authors
- Submit original work that is unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere (Plagiarism Check).
- List authors according to actual contribution and provide a CRediT statement (Authorship Criteria).
- Respect participants’ rights and privacy, and obtain consent and partner permission (Ethical Oversight).
- Declare use of AI, conflicts of interest, data availability and funding (Use of AI, Data Availability).
- Notify the editor promptly of any error found in their article, and respond to post-publication discussion (Post-publication Discussion).
