Publication Ethics
Holistik Jurnal Kesehatan (HJK) is a peer-reviewed electronic journal. This statement clarifies ethical attitude in a team work in the process of publishing an article in this journal, including the author, the chief editor, the Editorial Board, the peer-reviewer and the publisher (The Association of Ners Alumni of Malahayati University, Bandar Lampung-Indonesia). This statement is based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.
Ethical Direction for Publication
A peer-reviewed article is an absolutely necessary in the development of the quality of an article and giving feedback to the author. The author gets direct reflection regarding their article in the aim of improving of his effort.Through a peer-reviewed articles, it is part of following the scientific method. Therefore, necessary to concur in a standard attitude of the ethical direction for publication as a team who are involved, such as the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer and the publisher.
The publisher takes commitment following all stages and extremely seriously in a consequence of ethical responsibilities. The publisher ensures in all stages of process without affected by advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue on editorial decisions. In addition, the editorial team like to collaborate with other journals and/or publishers for improvement.
Publication Decisions
The editors are responsible for deciding which of the articles to publish. The editors adhere to the policies of the journal's editorial board and require legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editors like to discuss in a team to make a final decision.
Fair Play
Regularly evaluates of articles as intellectual property with justice without any discrimination to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
Confidentiality
The editor's team prohibited the spread any information about an article to anyone except the author, reviewers, and other editorial advisers. Ensuring in the secrecy of the author is the right of dignity.
Disclosure And Conflicts of Interest
Unpublished articles would like to be returned back to the author, removed from the database, and prevent misapplication of an article in the future.
The Reviewers Task
Contribution in Editorial Decisions
Assignment as a peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial could feedback on any suggestions or recommendations to the author to improve the quality of the article.
Promptness
After receiving the article, the editor will immediately process and the author could follow the path of the management process until the final results of the publication.
Confidentiality
The article has been submitted at a time during a process, handling as confidential documents. The reviewer and editorial board take responsibility for an article.
Standards of Objectivity
The reviewing process is conducted in objectively. Personal criticism of the author is prohibited. The arbiter assesses an article as a consideration of their views with clarity and supporting arguments.
Acknowledgment of Sources
Reviewers identified relevant and appropriate articles, supported by citations. All statements that an observation, derivation, or argument reported are accompanied by the relevant citation. Reviewers warn to keep attention when finding any substantial similarity or overlap.
Disclosure And Conflict of Interest
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review are on confidential and prevent illegal use. Reviewers pay attention in conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaboration, or fellow authors, companies, or institutions.
The Author's Task
Reporting standards
The authentic article presented by an author in referring the research result, finding data accurately, credibly, and accountable performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Insufficient detail and references may others by convenient to find the references. The proceeding of data manipulation is considered a violation, unethical behavior, and unacceptable.
Data Access and Retention
The authors supply the raw data a relation to an article for editorial review, and also providing a public access to such data (consistent with the ALPSP-STM Statement on Data and Databases), The author's article published, the author has to retain such data in serve of information when any event of a seminar presentation.
Originality and Plagiarism
The authors make ensure that the article written is original, of one's own and if the authors have used the statement of others, requiring an appropriate citation.
Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication
The author is prohibited a publishing the same article in several journals, as indicating unethical behavior and is unacceptable.
Acknowledgment of Sources
The author's attitude has to acknowledge of the scientific paper of others, also requiring several citations from reputable of the journal.
Authorship of Research an Article
The authorship to be restricted, merely to those who have a contribution in research process such as conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the result. The contributors to be mentions as co-authors. The main author ensures that all co-authors have an agreement, a final version of the article and going to be published.
Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects
When the project involves a chemical, procedures or equipment that on the type of hazardous properties inherent in their use, the author to be explained clearly and identify these in the manuscript.
Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
Authors are required to expose clearly regarding a conflict such as financial conflict, substantive conflict, of interest that might be interpreted to affect of the result during a project. All financial resource support in the project needs to be disclosed.
Fundamental errors in published works
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.