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Publication Ethics Statement

1. Duties and Responsibilities of Editors

• Publication Decisions: The Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board of Jurnal Epidemiologi Kesehatan Indonesia are responsible for deciding which submitted manuscripts should be published based strictly on scientific merit and relevance, without regard to author race, gender, institutional affiliation, or political belief.
• Confidentiality & Fair Evaluation: Editors and editorial staff must not disclose any information regarding a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, designated peer reviewers, and the publisher.
• Disclosure & Conflicts of Interest: Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without explicit written consent. Editors must recuse themselves from managing manuscripts in which they have competing interests.

2. Duties and Responsibilities of Reviewers

• Contribution to Decisions: Independent peer review assists editors in making objective editorial decisions and helps authors improve their scientific writing.
• Promptness & Confidentiality: Reviewers who feel unqualified or unable to complete a review within the specified timeframe must notify the editorial office immediately. All manuscripts received must be treated as strictly confidential.
• Standards of Objectivity: Reviews must be conducted objectively without personal criticism of authors. Reviewers should express their scientific assessments clearly with supporting evidence.
• Conflicts of Interest: Reviewers must not evaluate manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or institutional relationships.

3. Duties and Responsibilities of Authors

• Authorship Criteria & CRediT Roles: Authorship of articles must be limited to those who have contributed sufficiently to take public responsibility for the contents. Eligible authors must fulfill all of the following criteria:
  1. Substantial contributions to the conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data;
  2. Drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content;
  3. Final approval of the version to be published; and
  4. Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work by ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
  Contributors who do not meet all four criteria should be acknowledged in the Acknowledgements section rather than listed as authors.
• Originality and Plagiarism: Authors must ensure that they have written entirely original research. Plagiarism in all forms is unacceptable. All manuscripts submitted to Jurnal Epidemiologi Kesehatan Indonesia are screened using iThenticate plagiarism detection software (similarity index threshold < 20%).
• Multiple or Concurrent Publication: Authors should not submit or publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal simultaneously.
• Human & Animal Ethics: Research involving human participants or animal models must explicitly state ethical approval from an institutional review board (IRB) and compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki.

4. Policy on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI-Assisted Technologies

• Authorship Limits: Generative AI tools do not satisfy authorship criteria and cannot be credited as an author or co-author.
• Author Disclosure: Authors who utilize generative AI for text drafting, outlining, coding, or data visualization must explicitly declare the software name, version, and scope of usage in the Methods or Acknowledgements section.
• Strict Prohibition for Reviewers & Editors: Peer reviewers and editors are strictly prohibited from uploading submitted manuscripts or peer-review materials into generative AI systems.