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Policy

Commitment to Ethical Publishing

The Journal of Environmental Science and Sustainable Development (JESSD) upholds the highest standards of publication ethics, adhering to the guidelines established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We have developed a comprehensive ethical framework tailored to our journal's specific needs and objectives while maintaining alignment with international publishing standards.

Ethical Framework Components

Our publication ethics framework encompasses the following key areas:

Publication Infrastructure

Author Guidelines and Responsibilities

Publication Process

Quality Assurance

For detail of this policy, you can find the explanation below.

Publisher Business Model

JESSD operates as an open-access journal supported by Universitas Indonesia's School of Environmental Science and the Directorate of Administration, Data and Management of Research and Innovation Products. As a non-profit institution, we ensure completely free access to all our content—readers can freely read, download, copy, distribute, print, and link to full-text articles. We maintain a zero-charge policy for manuscript submission, article processing, publication, and color reproduction of photographs.

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Authorship

Authorship or a co-author means a person who has made a significant contribution to manuscript and who shares responsibilities and accountability of the results. If a manuscript is written by more than one author, you’ll choose one person to be the corresponding author. This person will handle all correspondence about the manuscript and sign the publishing agreement on behalf of all the authors. If you are a co-author, this means that

  1. You have made a significant contribution to the research, whether it is in the concept or design, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation, or in all these areas.
  2. You have drafted, written, or revised the article.
  3. You have reviewed and agreed on the final version of the article before submission.
  4. You have agreed on the journal to which your manuscript will be submitted.
  5. You are aware that you are taking responsibility and accountability for the content of the manuscript.
  6. You are aware that the corresponding author will be acting on your behalf in any communication about the article, through submission, peer review, production, and after publication.
  7. You are aware that self citation is FORBIDDEN to use to article that has been published in Journal of Environmental Science and Sustainable Development
  8. In line with standard publishing ethics, if your article is found to be unsafe, have errors, in some way fraudulent, or in breach of the publishing agreement, that responsibility is shared by all named co-authors.

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Author Contribution

Each author is expected to make substantial contributions to the design or design of the work; or to the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of the data; or to the creation of new software used in the work; or to the drafting or substantive revision of the work; and to the approval of the version submitted (and the version substantially modified by the staff of the journal, which includes the contribution of the author to the work).

For each article with several authors, a short paragraph specifying their individual contributions must be provided. The following statements should be used "Conceptualization, X.X. and Y.Y.; Methodology, X.X.; Software, X.X.; Validation, X.X., Y.Y. and Z.Z.; Formal Analysis, X.X.; Investigation, X.X.; Resources, X.X.; Data Curation, X.X.; Writing – Original Draft Preparation, X.X.; Writing – Review & Editing, X.X.; Visualization, X.X.; Supervision, X.X.; Project Administration, X.X.; and Funding Acquisition, Y.Y.”. Please turn to the CRediT taxonomy (https://casrai.org/CRediT/) for an explanation of the term and background of the CRediT.

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Complaints

Authors who may have grievances about any aspect of their interaction with the JESSD should e-mail the Editor-in-Chief by email at jessd@ui.ac.id. All questions or complaints will be responded within 7 days. If required, the Editor-in-Chief will consult with other editors regarding the complaint. The Editor-in-Chief will liaise directly with the complainant and thoroughly explain the steps they have taken to resolve the matter.

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Ethical Clearance

At the beginning of the submission process, the authors must confirm whether the manuscript has ethical clearance or no. If the ethical clearance is obtained, the information on the ethical clearance number should be provided.

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Screening Plagiarism

At the beginning of the submission process and before an article is published, the Journal of Environmental Science and Sustainable Development uses Similarity Check with iThenticate to prevent any suspected plagiarism in the manuscripts. We consider a similarity index of no more than 20% acceptable, ensuring that all submissions maintain the integrity and originality expected in scholarly publishing.

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Conflict of Interest Policy

Authors who submit their manuscripts to Journal of Environmental Science and Sustainable Development (JESSD) must disclose all relationship or interest that could influence, or bias the work. Although authors may not be aware of potential conflicts, disclosure of relationships and interest affords a more transparent process, leading to an accurate and objective assessment of the work. A few potential conflicts of interests that are directly or indirectly related to the research may include but are not limited to the following:

  1. Research grants from funding agencies (please give the research funder and the grant number)
  2. Honoraria for speaking at conferences
  3. Financial support for attending conferences
  4. Financial support for educational programs
  5. Support from a project sponsor
  6. Position on advisory board or board of directors or other type of management relationships
  7. Multiple affiliations
  8. Intellectual property rights (e.g. patents, copyrights and royalties from such rights)

The corresponding author of the manuscript will include a summary statement on the title page that is separate from their manuscript. This statement reflects what is recorded in the potential conflict of interes disclosure form(s).

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Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered on this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

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JESSD requires publishing rights for articles through a publishing agreement with authors. This agreement transfers non-exclusive publishing rights to JESSD while authors retain copyright to their articles. Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms: JESSD operates under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, ensuring that the manuscript, which describes an experiment and its results, is protected. JESSD is committed to defending authors’ research against allegations of infringement, plagiarism, ethical disputes, and fraud. This arrangement ensures proper attribution of the authors' work, allowing them to maintain stewardship over the scholarly record of their research.

Authors grant the right to publish their manuscripts in all forms and media for future issues, as well as the authority to enforce these rights on their behalf, including taking action against plagiarism or copyright infringement. Additionally, both authors and readers may copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any reason, including commercial use, as well as remix, transform, and expand upon the content. However, they must provide proper credit (by citing the article or content), link to the license, and indicate any changes made. If remixing, transforming, or expanding upon the original content, contributors must distribute their new contributions under the same license as the original.

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About this Publishing System

This journal uses Digital Commons which is a journal management and publishing software developed, supported, and distributed by Bepress.

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Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research available to the public for free supports a greater global exchange of knowledge in term of environmental science and sustainable development. This journal is accessible on the public internet, permitting any users (academics, students, lecturer, etc.) to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and also to remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Disclaimer

Opinions expressed in articles and creative pieces published on the JESSD are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial board or the publisher.

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Licensing

Journal of Environmental Science and Sustainable Development, School of Environmental Science, Universitas Indonesia is currently licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

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Archiving

Contents of the Journal are archived for perpetual access through Bepress Digital Common Publishing Platform, and Google Drive File Manager system. Once article published, the contents are never changed.

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Erratum and Corrigendum

The editorial review process is subject to all published papers in the Journal of Environmental Science and Sustainable Development, coordinated by and under the auspices of the editors and reviewers. If, after notification of approval, the writers want to add their content, they must send a request to the editor and the new material will be reviewed.

1. If the new material is added to the accepted article, it must be submitted again and will be reviewed as a new submission;

2. If the new material should replace the original content of the accepted article, the editor may allow doing an erratum or a corrigendum.

Erratum

An erratum refers to a correction of errors introduced to the article by the publisher.

Our journal will be introduced changes are highlighted to the author(s) and any errors are mentioned by the author(s) and regenerated by the journal before final publication. Authors who notice these errors and urgently need to revise these errors, please contact our journal manager by email to jessd@ui.ac.id.

Corrigendum

A corrigendum means that the author could decide any time that their article needs to publish. The authors should contact the editor journal that will consider any action of this change. Our journal will only process a corrigendum to a published manuscript after receiving consent and briefing from the editor.

Example for the Erratum and Corrigendum

RETRACTION TO:

Name of Authors to Published Article. (Published Year). Title of Article. Journal of Environmental Science and Sustainable Development, Number of Volume and Issue: Number of Page (DOI Link)

This article has been retracted by Publisher based on the following reason: Letter to Editor in Chief from Journal Editorial Board (Affiliation) and Reviewer (Affiliation) express that this manuscript, previously published in the Name of Journal (Volume, Number, Year, Page, and DOI Link) shows strong duplication according to analysis by iThenticate. The authors have plagiarized part of the paper that had already published in those journals. Based on clarification via email, Authors of the above paper have admitted their plagiarism to the previously published paper by those journals.

One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication in this journal is that authors declare that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication on another journal. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited.

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Advertising Policy

The Journal of Environmental Science and Sustainable Development (JESSD) welcomes advertising that aligns with its mission to promote research and knowledge in the fields of environmental science and sustainable development. To ensure transparency and maintain the integrity of the journal, our advertising policy is as follows:

  • Types of Advertisements: JESSD considers advertisements relevant to academia, research, environmental science, sustainable development, and related fields. Advertisements promoting products, services, or organizations that contribute to sustainability, innovation, and education are encouraged. We reserve the right to reject ads that do not align with our values or that promote activities harmful to the environment or society.

  • Decision-Making on Advertisements: Decisions regarding the acceptance or rejection of advertisements are made independently by the journal’s advertising team. The editorial team is not involved in these decisions to ensure that advertising and editorial processes remain entirely separate.

  • Ad Placement and Display: Advertisements are displayed either randomly or based on predefined placements on the website. Online ads are not linked to specific content or reader behavior but are placed in designated sections of the journal's website. All advertisements are clearly distinguishable from the editorial content to avoid any confusion.

  • Editorial Independence: The presence of advertisements in JESSD has no influence on editorial decisions, peer review processes, or the publication of articles. We uphold the highest standards of editorial independence, ensuring that all content is evaluated solely based on academic merit.

  • Separation from Published Content: Advertisements are kept entirely separate from the journal’s published content, both in the digital and print formats. Ads are visually distinct to prevent any confusion between paid promotions and peer-reviewed articles or editorial materials.

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