Publication Ethics
Educative: Jurnal Ilmiah Pendidikan is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and adheres to the guidelines established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We expect all participants in the publishing process—authors, reviewers, and editors—to follow these ethical standards to maintain the integrity and quality of the research we publish.
Duties of Authors:
- Originality and Plagiarism: Authors must ensure their work is original and free of plagiarism. Proper citation and acknowledgment are required when referencing the work or words of others.
- Data Integrity: Authors are expected to present accurate and reliable data. Fabrication, falsification, or selective reporting of data is strictly prohibited.
- Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: Authors must disclose any potential conflicts of interest that could influence the interpretation of their findings. All funding sources and relevant affiliations should be clearly stated.
- Corrections and Retractions: If authors discover a significant error in their published work, they are responsible for promptly notifying the journal to correct or retract the paper as necessary.
Duties of Reviewers:
- Confidentiality: Reviewers must treat all submitted manuscripts as confidential and refrain from sharing or discussing content with others outside the review process.
- Objective Assessment: Reviews should be conducted objectively, with clear arguments supporting their recommendations. Reviewers should provide constructive feedback to assist authors in improving their manuscripts.
- Conflict of Interest: Reviewers should decline to review manuscripts where conflicts of interest may arise from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships with any authors, companies, or institutions connected to the research.
Duties of Editors:
- Fair Play: Editors evaluate manuscripts solely based on their intellectual content, regardless of the author’s race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy.
- Confidentiality: Editors and editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, and publisher, as appropriate.
- Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: Editors must not use unpublished information disclosed in a submitted manuscript for their research without the author's explicit written consent.
- Decisive Action on Ethical Complaints: Editors will take appropriate action when ethical complaints arise regarding a submitted or published manuscript. Such actions may include formal retraction or correction.
By adhering to these publication ethics guidelines, Educative: Jurnal Ilmiah Pendidikan aims to ensure a publishing process grounded in integrity, fostering trust within the academic community and beyond. Non-compliance with these guidelines may result in rejection of the manuscript, retraction of published work, or suspension from future submissions.