The following is the Journal Social and Humanities Studies Ethics Statement

This statement is adapted from the principles of the Publication Ethics Committee (COPE) and includes a code of conduct for editors-in-chief, editorial board members, reviewers, and authors. This statement is based on:

https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Pedoman

The article published in the Journal of Social and Humanities Studies is an important part of the development of a coherent and respected knowledge network in the field of social sciences and humanities, and is a direct reflection of the quality of the authors and institutions. Therefore, it is important to agree on the standards of ethical conduct expected for all parties involved in the act of publishing: authors, journal editors, peer reviewers, publishers, and the public. The editors of the Journal Social and Humanities Studies are committed to ensuring that all procedures are directed only to facilitate objective and intellectual treatment. Further, editors and reviewers evaluate the manuscript regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, nationality, or political interests and specific groups. The software is used to avoid plagiarism between articles.

Editor's Duties

1. Publication Decisions:

The journal's editorial board is responsible for deciding which articles to submit to journals should be published. The validation of the work in question and the importance of the work to the researcher and the reader must always be the basis for the decision. Editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and are limited by applicable legal requirements regarding defamation, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. Editors can consult with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

2. Editorial Fairness:

An editor at any time evaluates a manuscript based on its intellectual content regardless of the author's race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnic origin, nationality, or political philosophy.

3. Confidentiality:

The editor and the entire editorial staff should not disclose any information about the submitted manuscript to anyone other than the author concerned, reviewers, prospective reviewers, other editorial advisors, and publishers, as appropriate.

4. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest:

Unpublished material disclosed in a submitted manuscript should not be used by anyone who has a view of the paper (while handling it) in his or her research without the written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review should be kept confidential and not used for personal gain. Editors should ask all contributors to disclose relevant conflicting interests and publish corrections if conflicting interests are revealed after publication.

5. Manuscript Review:

The editor must ensure that the editor for originality initially evaluates each manuscript. The editor should organize and use peer review justly and wisely. Editors should explain their peer review processes in the information for authors and also indicate which parts of the journal are peer-reviewed. The editor should use appropriate peer reviewers for papers that considered for publication by selecting people with sufficient expertise and avoiding those with conflicts of interest.

Duties of Reviewers

A reviewer should review and send the review comments in due period. If the article is not in your area of interest, then revert to the editor so that the other reviewers can be approached.

1. Contribution to Editorial Decisions:

Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

2. Promptness: 

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the assigned manuscript or unable to provide a prompt review should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process

3. Confidentiality: 

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

4. Standards of Objectivity: 

Reviews should be conducted objectively. There shall be no personal criticism of the author. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments

5. Acknowledgment of Sources: 

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. The proper citation should accompany any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

6. Disclosure and Conflict of Interest: 

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for particular advantage. Reviewers should not review manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Duties of Authors

1. Reporting Standard: 

Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

2. Data Access and Retention: 

Authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data, if practicable, and should, in any event, be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

3. Originality and Plagiarism: 

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, this must appropriately be cited or quoted. Plagiarism takes many forms, from 'passing off' another's paper as the author's paper, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another's paper (without attribution), to claiming results from research conducted by others. Plagiarism, in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

4. Multiple Publication: 

An author should not, in general, publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

5. Acknowledgment of Sources: 

Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work. Information obtained privately, as in conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, must not be used or reported without explicit, written permission from the source. Information obtained in the course of confidential services, such as refereeing manuscripts or grant applications, must not be used without the explicit written permission of the author of the work involved in these services.

6. Authorship of the Paper: 

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where others have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

7. Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects: 

If the work involves chemicals, procedures, or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must identify these in the manuscript.

8. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: 

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or another substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

9. Fundamental errors in published works: 

If an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in their published work, the author must immediately notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper. If the editor or publisher learns from a third party that a published work contains significant errors, the author must promptly retract or correct the paper, or provide the editor with evidence of the correctness of the original article.