Publication Ethics
Jurnal Keperawatan Indonesia (JKI) is a peer-reviewed international journal. This statement clarifies the ethical conduct of all parties involved in publishing, defines research misconduct, and outlines the roles and duties of all parties, confidentiality, plagiarism, and AI use tools. JKI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics and the statement follows COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and the ICMJE Recommendations.
Roles & Duties of All Parties
- Publication Decisions & Fair Play: Responsible for final publication decisions objectively based on scientific merit, independent of the authors' demographics or affiliations.
- Peer-Review Management: Must organize fair, double-blind peer reviews, selecting qualified reviewers and respecting authors' well-reasoned requests to exclude specific individuals.
- Confidentiality & CoI: Must guarantee strict confidentiality of submissions and recuse themselves if a conflict of interest exists. Unpublished materials must not be used for personal research.
- Addressing Misconduct: Guided by COPE flowcharts to handle suspected misconduct or authorship disputes.
- Promptness & Qualification: Must decline invitations and notify the editor if unqualified, unable to meet deadlines, or facing a conflict of interest.
- Objectivity: Conduct reviews objectively with supporting arguments. Personal criticism of the author is strictly inappropriate.
- Confidentiality: Treat manuscripts as confidential documents. Not to be used for personal advantage or discussed with unauthorized parties.
- Acknowledgment of Sources: Alert editors to missing citations, substantial similarity with published papers, or any suspected ethical/publication misconduct.
- Reporting Standards: Submit original, accurate, and reproducible research without fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements.
- Prohibited Practices: Strictly prohibited from engaging in plagiarism, self-plagiarism, 'salami' slicing, or concurrent submissions to multiple journals.
- Authorship & Integrity: Ensure all listed authors meet ICMJE criteria and written following the CRediT categories, properly acknowledge/cite external sources. Provide raw data if requested.
- Fundamental Errors: Obliged to promptly notify the editor to correct or retract the paper if a significant error is discovered post-publication.
- See specific sections below for details on Authorship, Ethics, and CoI.
As the publisher of JKI, the Faculty of Nursing Universitas Indonesia takes its guardianship duties extremely seriously. We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprinting, or other commercial revenues have no impact or influence on editorial decisions.
The Publisher and the Editorial Board will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers where necessary to maintain academic integrity.
- Copy Editor: Responsible for verifying and correcting the grammar, conformity with the journal format, writing style, bibliography, and references of the manuscript.
- Layout Editor: Responsible for setting the appearance of the published journal, managing layout configurations, image format settings, and overall article format conversion.
Human/Animal Rights & Ethical Oversight
The research being reported should have been conducted ethically and responsibly, complying with all relevant legislation.
- Human Research: For studies involving human participants, authors must certify that the research aligns with the ethical standards of the Helsinki Declaration and domestic/foreign governing committees. The authors must provide a statement identifying the ethics committee that approved the study.
- Patient Privacy: Authors must ensure no personal information makes a patient's identity recognizable (in descriptions, photographs, or pedigrees). If photographs are essential, written consent must be obtained and clearly stated.
- Animal Research: Research involving animals should implement the 3Rs principles (replacement, reduction, and refinement) and follow relevant institutional/national guidelines. Authors must describe husbandry details and state the approving body.
- Ethical Oversight & Hazards: If the research involves chemicals, procedures, or equipment with unusual inherent hazards, the author must clearly identify these hazards. If the research involves confidential data or business practices, authors should clearly justify whether the data will be classified.
Funding, Conflicts of Interest, & Bias Mitigation
Funding and Authors' Conflicts of Interest (CoI)
All authors should disclose any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might be understood to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. Authors must clarify on the ICMJE disclosure form anything that may cause conflicts of interest, such as work, research expenses, consultant expenses, and intellectual property. The author’s conflict-of-interest statement together with the funding sources will appear in a separate heading section titled “Conflicts of Interest.”
Editorial Submissions and Bias Mitigation
When a submitting author and the editors of JKI have a professional or personal relationship that could create a perception of bias, a different editor from another institution will be assigned to manage the manuscript. This independent editor will select peer reviewers and hold exclusive responsibility for the final decision. The original editor will be excluded from the process entirely.
Reviewer Conflicts of Interest
To ensure an impartial review process, reviewers are instructed to declare immediately if they know the author's identity or perceive any conflict of interest (e.g., personal friendship, professional rivalry, or shared institutional affiliation). If a conflict is declared, an alternative reviewer will be appointed.
Research Misconduct
Research misconduct refers to fabrication, falsification, citation manipulation, or plagiarism in producing, performing, or reviewing research and writing an article. Editors have a responsibility to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the scientific record.
In cases of suspected misconduct, the editors and Editorial Board will use COPE’s best practices to resolve the complaint and fairly address the misconduct. The process includes:
- Verifying the allegation and assessing if it is consistent with the research misconduct definition, while checking for conflicts of interest among those alleging misconduct.
- Sharing the allegations with the corresponding author, who is requested to provide a detailed response on behalf of all co-authors.
- Involving experts (such as statistical reviewers) for additional evaluation if necessary.
A submitted manuscript containing misconduct will be rejected. If a published paper is found to contain misconduct, a retraction can be published and linked to the original article. Clarifications or minor issues may be addressed via Letters to the Editor and correction notices. Ultimately, authors, journals, and institutions are obliged to ensure the scientific record’s accuracy.
↑ Back to topPlagiarism
Plagiarism means presenting someone else’s ideas or words as if they were yours, without permission, credit, or acknowledgment, or by not citing the sources correctly. JKI considers plagiarism unethical and strictly prohibited.
To determine if an author has plagiarized, the following potential scenarios are highlighted:
- Literal copying: Reproducing another’s work word for word, wholly or partially, without permission or citation.
- Substantial copying: Reproducing a large portion of another’s work without permission or citation. The term “substantial” refers to both the amount and the qualitative importance of the copied material within the original work.
- Paraphrasing: Taking ideas, words, or phrases from another source and rewriting them in your own words without properly citing or acknowledging the original source.
Confidentiality & Disclaimer
Confidentiality
The JKI editorial board treats all submitted manuscripts and all communication with authors and reviewers as strictly confidential. Authors are expected to maintain the same level of confidentiality regarding their communications with the journal. Editorial correspondence, peer-review reports, and other confidential documents may not be posted online or otherwise made public without the editors’ prior written permission, even if the manuscript is ultimately accepted for publication.
Disclaimer
The opinions, findings, and conclusions presented in the articles and creative works published in Jurnal Keperawatan Indonesia belong exclusively to the individual authors. They are not intended to represent the official positions or policies of the Editorial Board, the editors, or the publisher.
Complaints, Appeals, & Post-Publication Discussions
Complaints and Appeals
JKI has a clear procedure for handling complaints against the journal, editorial staff, editorial board, or publisher. The scope of complaints includes anything related to the journal’s business process, such as the editorial process, citation manipulation, unfair editors/reviewers, and peer-review manipulation.
Complaints will be processed according to the COPE guidelines. Complaints should be sent by email to: jurnal.keperawatan@ui.ac.id.
Discussions and Corrections After Publication
JKI accepts reader discussions of, and corrections to, published articles. Readers can contact the Editor-in-Chief by email to discuss and suggest corrections. If accepted, the discussions and corrections will be published in the next issue as Letters to the Editor. The respective authors can respond to these discussions by sending their replies, which may be published as Replies to Letters to the Editor.
