POLICIES

POLICIES

Publication Ethics and policies in IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) is based on Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We have personalized this COPE for our journal as follows:

For detail of this ethics and policies, you can find the explanation below.

 

Publication Ethics

Publication ethics, which is adapted by IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) is based on COPE's Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

1. Allegations of Misconduct

Should there be any allegation of misconduct relating to the IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) publication, IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) will pay attention to this case and listen to its editorial board members' advice. 

 2. Authorship and Contributorship

All submitted papers are based on a double-blind peer-review process. This process usually involves two reviewers who are experts in the area of the particular paper. The possible decisions of the review process are acceptance, acceptance with revisions, resubmit for review, or rejection. The acceptance of a paper is constrained by legal requirements such as it does not contain any libel, copyright infringement, or plagiarism. All contributor authors should be added as authors for the paper. IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) is not responsible for any complaints about authorship.  

 3. Complaints and Appeals

IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) is responsible for the contents and overall quality of the publication. IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) is also responsible for fair publications and does not have any conflicts of interest between editors and authors.  Therefore, IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) should consider establishing and publishing a mechanism for authors to appeal editorial decisions, to facilitate genuine appeals, and to discourage repeated or unfounded appeals.

  • Editors should allow appeals to override earlier decisions following appropriate reconsideration of the editorial process and decision-making (for example, additional factual input by the authors, revisions, extra material in the manuscript, or appeals about conflicts of interest and concerns about biased peer review). Author protest alone should not affect decisions.
  • Editors should mediate all exchanges between authors and peer reviewers during the peer-review process. Editors may seek comments from additional peer reviewers to help them make their final decision.
  • IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) should state in its guidelines that the editor’s decision following an appeal is final.

IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) should consider establishing a mechanism for authors and others to comment on aspects of the journal’s editorial management, perhaps via the publisher or a third party.

 4. Conflicts of Interest/ Competing Interests

As explained by COPE, "A conflict of interests or competing interests is a situation in which a person or organization is involved in multiple interests, financial interest, or otherwise, one of which could corrupt the motivation of the individual or organization. The presence of a COI is independent of the occurrence of impropriety." IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) will not be involved in or accept any COI or CI in all its publications. Should they occur, IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) will pay attention to this case and listen to its editorial board members' advice. IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) editors or board members should not be involved in editorial decisions about their scholarly work. IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) establishes and publishes mechanisms and clearly defined policies for handling submissions from editors, members of their editorial boards, and employees as follows:

  • IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) editors and editorial team members are excluded from publication decisions when they are authors or have contributed to a manuscript.

 5. Data and Reproducibility

IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) is encouraging authors to welcome readers to access the data shared in their papers. Authors should follow guidelines according to standard practice in their disciplines about data and reproducibility. However, IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) is promoting data confidentiality for certain cases.

 6. Ethical Oversight

In publishing papers, IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) welcomes all quality, scholarly papers from authors, which fulfil ethical conduct of research in the authors' discipline research. 

 7. Intellectual Property

Policy relating to copyright has been given on IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) Copyright. It is a legal requirement for an author to sign the copyright agreement before publication. Should there be any further research on any IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) paper, this extended version should be mentioned in the upcoming paper and the related IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) paper should be cited.

 8. Journal Management

Dedicated scholar in their disciplines supports IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development). IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) encourages its editors to attend workshops or seminars related to journal management. 

 9. Peer-Review Processes

IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) adopts a double-blind peer-review process for its prospective paper.  Regarding this issue, IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) has provided its policies in the Peer Review section.

 10. Post-publication Discussions and Corrections

IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) allows debate post-publication by using the IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) website, letters to IJID's (International Journal on Informatics for Development) editor, or an external moderated site. All of these debates should follow government rules.

 

Peer Review Process

Papers are double-blindly reviewed by experts and specialists in computer science, engineering, and technology relating to informatics on development. When a paper past an initial review, it will be reviewed by at least two reviewers for around two weeks of calendar reviewing. Otherwise, the paper will be sent back to the author for correction and re-uploaded.

The initial review was made by IJID's (International Journal on Informatics for Development) editorials journal. In this stage, editors will check for plagiarism using the proper tool. The following step is to assess comprehensively papers by editors whether they fit the template or not, such as the number of references and their categories, the ages of referenced sources, and the referenced tables/ figures/ formulas.

The paper will be distributed to two reviewers by first deleting author information from the paper. The reviewers use our review guidelines to judge your paper. We will let you know as soon as the reviews are done.

 

Anti Plagiarism Policy

The author basically must only submit a manuscript that is free from plagiarism and academic malpractices. The editor, however, double-checks each article before its publication. The first step is to check plagiarism against as many as possible online databases by using a specific tool such as Turnitin. A maximum of 25% of similarities is allowed for all submitted papers. After the authors upload the revised paper, the editor will check this paper's similarity again to ensure the maximum 25% is still maintained.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Thus, IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or author. It is because journal articles should be disseminated as widely as possible.

 

Authors' Responsibilities

Authors of IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) are responsible for obeying the Author Guidelines of IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development), IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) Copyright and those 10 policies adopted from COPE.

 

Reviewers' Responsibilities

Reviewers of IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) should be responsible for complying with the above 10 policies from COPE. Factors that are considered in the review process are relevance, soundness, significance, originality, readability, and language.

 

Editors' Responsibilities

Editors of IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) should be responsible for adhering to 10 policies from COPE. Editors should set up their decisions completely on the paper’s importance, originality, clarity, and relevance to the publication’s focus, and scope.

 

Retraction

The papers published in IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) will be considered to retract in the publication if:

  • They have clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct (e.g., data fabrication) or honest error (e.g., miscalculation or experimental error)
  • The findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper crossreferencing, permission, or justification (i.e., cases of redundant publication)
  • It constitutes plagiarism
  • It reports unethical research

The mechanism of retraction follows the Retraction Guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), as follows:

  1. An article requiring potential retraction is brought to the attention of the journal editor.
  2. The journal editor should follow the step-by-step guidelines according to the COPE flowcharts (including evaluating a response from the author of the article in question).
  3. Before any action is taken, the editor's findings should be sent to the Editorial Board for review. The purpose of this step is to ensure a consistent approach following industry best practices.
  4. The final decision as to whether to retract is then communicated to the author and, if necessary, any other relevant bodies, such as the author's institution on occasion.
  5. The retraction statement is then posted online and published in the next available issue of the journal (see below for more details of this step).

Complaints procedure
To challenge a retraction or a related issue, the IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) procedure is as follows:

  1. The complaint may be submitted via the journal editor or directly to IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) at ijid@uin-suka.ac.id.
  2. An independent investigation is then carried out by at least two representatives from the IJID's (International Journal on Informatics for Development) Editorial Board.
  3. The investigation involves reviewing all correspondence relating to the case in question and, if necessary, obtaining further written responses to queries from the parties involved.
  4. The purpose of the investigation is to establish that correct procedures have been followed, that decisions have been reached based on academic criteria, that personal prejudice or bias of some kind has not influenced the outcome, and that appropriate sanctions have been applied where relevant.
  5. The investigatory panel will then submit its findings to the IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) Editorial Board for further review before any onward communications to the appropriate parties.
  6. Complainants may choose to take their complaint to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Process for issuing a retraction statement
Where the decision is taken to retract and the article to be retracted is the Version of Record (i.e. it has been published in Early View or within an issue of a journal), IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) recommends issuing a retraction statement which should be published separately but should be linked to the article being retracted. A "retracted" watermark should also be added to the article; however, the article as first published should be retained online to maintain the scientific record. Issuing a retraction statement will mean the following:

  1. The retraction will appear on a numbered page in a prominent section of the journal;
  2. The retraction will be listed on the contents page and the title of the original article will be included in its heading;
  3. The text of the retraction should explain why the article is being retracted; and
  4. The statement of retraction and the original article must be linked in the electronic database so that the retraction will always be apparent to anyone who comes across the original article.

Circumstances under which an article may be deleted
It is IJID's (International Journal on Informatics for Development) policy to strongly discourage withdrawal of the Version of the Record in line with the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers guidelines on retractions and preservation of the objective record of science. Therefore deletion of the Version of Record is rare and Wiley will only consider it in the following limited circumstances:

  • Where there has been a violation of the privacy of a research subject;
  • Where there are errors to which a member of the general public might be exposed and if followed or adopted, would pose a significant risk to health; or
  • Where a defamatory comment has been made about others in the relevant field or about their work.
  • Where an Accepted Article (which represents an early version of an article) is to be retracted, because for example it contains errors, has been accidentally submitted twice or infringes a professional ethical code of some type, it may be deleted. This is because, whilst an Accepted Article will have been allocated a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), it does not constitute the Version of Record as it will not yet have been formally published and has been assigned any issue.

Even in the above circumstances, bibliographic information about the deleted article should be retained for the scientific record, and an explanation given, however brief, about the circumstances of its removal.

 

Article Withdrawal

Circumstances under which an article may be withdrawn

Accepted Articles

An Accepted Article is the uncorrected, unedited, non-typeset version of an article published in IJID's (International Journal on Informatics for Development) Online First issue. While an Accepted Article has been allocated a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), it does not constitute the Version of Record as it will not yet have been formally published and has not been assigned any issue. Therefore, where an Accepted Article is to be retracted because, for example, it contains errors, has been accidentally submitted twice or infringes a professional ethical code of some type, it may be deleted and replaced with a withdrawal statement.

Even in the above circumstances, bibliographic information about the deleted article should be retained for the scientific record, and an explanation given, however brief, about the circumstances of its removal.

Version of Record

It is IJID's (International Journal on Informatics for Development) policy to strongly discourage withdrawal of the Version of the Record in line with the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers guidelines on retractions and preservation of the objective record of science. Therefore, deletion of the Version of Record is rare, and IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) will only consider it in limited circumstances, such as the following:

  • Where there has been a violation of the privacy of a research subject;
  • Where there are errors to which a member of the general public might be exposed and if followed or adopted, would pose a significant risk to health; or
  • Where a defamatory comment has been made about others in the relevant field or about their work.