Policies
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Allegations of Misconduct:
Protocols for reporting and investigating allegations of misconduct, ensuring adherence to COPE's guidelines. -
Authorship and Contributorship:
Define authorship and contributorship criteria, ensuring rightful crediting in alignment with WAME and COPE recommendations. -
Handling of Complaints and Appeals:
Implement a transparent and efficient system for handling complaints and appeals, as advocated by COPE. -
Conflict of Interest:
Disclose and effectively manage conflicts of interest as per WAME’s guidelines and COPE’s recommendations. -
Data and Reproducibility:
Uphold data integrity and reproducibility of findings, aligning with COPE’s practices. -
Ethical Oversight:
Adhere to stringent ethical oversight on research and publications, following the COPE’s practices. -
Intellectual Property Issues:
Respect intellectual property rights and manage related issues as per COPE’s guidelines. -
Journal Management:
Uphold integrity and quality in journal management, ensuring alignment with COPE’s guidelines. -
Peer Review Process:
Maintain a fair, constructive, and timely double-blind peer review process, providing necessary training as advocated by WAME and COPE. -
Post-publication Discussion and Corrections:
Facilitate post-publication discussions and issue corrections when necessary, in accordance with COPE’s practices. -
Study Design and Ethics:
Ensure well-justified, well-planned, and appropriately designed research, aligning with WAME’s recommendations. -
Plagiarism:
Employ Turnitin to prevent plagiarism, maintaining a similarity limit of 20%. Manuscripts exceeding this limit will be returned for correction or rejected. The articles can be resubmitted as new manuscripts following the necessary revisions. -
Advertising:
Ethically manage advertising as per WAME’s guidelines. -
Responding to Allegations of Possible Misconduct:
Responsibly respond to allegations of misconduct following WAME’s guidelines. -
Relation of the Journal to the Sponsoring Society:
Clearly delineate the relationship between the journal and its sponsoring society, Asosiasi Pendidikan Kebidanan Indonesia (AIPKIND), as advised by WAME. - Open Access, Archiving, and Repository Compliance:
The archiving of manuscript versions in compliance with Sherpa/Romeo, CC BY license, and the journal's open-access and copyright policies.