Publication Ethics

In order to maintain the quality of manuscripts and avoid publishing violations, the Tekmapro editorial board establishes the Journal's scientific publication ethics. This publication ethics is based on the regulation of the head of the science institute No. 5 of 2014 concerning the Code of Ethics for Scientific Publications which contains the provisions of the Ethics of Scientific publications.

The following Publication Ethics document describes the ethics of all parties involved in the manuscript publication process and applies to authors, editors, reviewers, and journal managers/editors.

All parties involved must uphold ethical values in publication, namely:

  1. Neutrality, which is free from conflicts of interest in the management of publications;
  2. Fairness, namely giving authorship rights to those who are entitled as authors; and
  3. Honesty, which is free from duplication, fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism in publications.

Manager/Publisher of Tekmapro Journal

  1. Journal publishers are required to prepare personnel and other journal tools including the availability of funding sources for the sustainability of journal publishing, licensing and other legal aspects, building cooperation and marketing networks.
  2. Journal publishers are obliged to create journal management guidelines, conduct policy reviews and submit them to authors, editorial boards, bestarial partners, and readers.
  3. Journal publishers are responsible for publishing manuscripts after going through the editing, reviewing, and layout process in accordance with the rules for publishing Scientific Journals and publishing journals regularly.
  4. To create a comfortable working atmosphere, publishers are responsible for ensuring academic freedom for editors and partners in carrying out their respective duties.
  5. Journal managers must guarantee and protect intellectual property rights (copyright).
  6. Journal managers must publish and promote publications to the public by providing guarantees of benefits in the use of manuscripts.
  7. Respect confidential matters, both for contributing researchers, authors, editors, and bestarial partners.
  8. Implement norms and provisions regarding intellectual property rights, especially copyright.

Editor's Code of Ethics

The editor ensures a thorough, transparent, objective, fair, and thoughtful manuscript review process that becomes the basis for making decisions on a manuscript, rejected or accepted.

  1. Editors are responsible for deciding which manuscripts are worthy of publication through editorial board meetings that refer to applicable legal requirements regarding defamation, copyright infringement, duplication, data fabrication, data falsification and plagiarism.
  2. In the process of reviewing and accepting manuscripts, the editorial team is based on the principle of equal treatment in making decisions to publish manuscripts by not distinguishing between race, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, or political ideology of the author.
  3. The editors and editorial team will not disclose any information about the manuscript or manuscript except with the author's permission.
  4. Unpublished manuscripts will not be used by the editors for their own purposes and will be returned directly to the author.
  5. Bringing together the needs of readers and authors,
  6. Encourage authors/writers, so that they can make improvements to the written work until it is suitable for publication. Strive for continuous improvement of publication quality,
  7. Implement a process to ensure the quality of published papers,
  8. Promote freedom of opinion objectively,
  9. Provide corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when necessary,
  10. Responsible for the style and format of the paper, while the content and all statements in the paper are the responsibility of the author/writer,
  11. Have an open mind to new opinions or views of others that may conflict with personal opinions. Not to defend one's own, the author's or a third party's opinion that may result in a non-objective decision.

Code of Ethics for Bestarial Partners

Bestari Partners carry out reviews honestly, objectively, unbiased, independent, adhere to basic principles and scientific analysis and only favor the truth.

  1. Bestari Partners assist editors in determining which papers are worth publishing and assist authors in improving the quality of their papers.
  2. Bestary partners who review the content of a paper are required to be critical according to their expertise, open to new things and uphold the principle of confidentiality.
  3. Bestari Partners have the spirit to improve the written work.
  4. To carry out the task of reviewing manuscripts from Tekmapro editors and submitting the results of the review as a consideration for determining the feasibility of publishing a paper, in accordance with:
    • Scientific principles
    • Set deadlines
    • Tekmapro's sneaky style
  5. Review the revised paper in accordance with predetermined standards.
  6. Encourage authors to make improvements by providing criticism, suggestions, input and recommendations.
  7. Maintain the author's privacy by not disseminating the results of the review.
  8. A Bestari Partner may not conduct a review of a paper in which he/she is directly or indirectly involved.
  9. Guarantee the principles of truth, novelty and originality.
  10. Prioritizing the benefits of writing for the development of science technology and innovation.
  11. Understand the impact of writing on the development of science.
  12. Free from interventions based on religion, politics, nationality, gender, commercial and other relationships that result in recommendations that are not objective.
  13. Guarantee the confidentiality of the findings in the paper.
  14. Do not personally criticize the author
  15. Do not communicate with authors/research sponsors
  16. Not to utilize the paper for personal or third party interests
  17. Not to disseminate the paper under review.

Code of Ethics for Authors

  1. Authors must present the manuscript of their thoughts or research clearly, honestly, and without duplication, data fabrication, data falsification and plagiarism.
  2. Authors must provide information about the process and results of their research to the editor in an honest, clear and comprehensive manner, and keep their research data properly and safely.
  3. The author must ensure that the manuscript that has been sent/submitted to the editor is original, written by himself/herself, originating from his/her own ideas and not plagiarizing other people's papers or ideas.
  4. The author must inform that the manuscript sent/submitted to the editor is a manuscript that has never been sent/submitted to another journal/publication publisher.
  5. Authors must immediately inform the editor if errors are found in the writing of the manuscript, both review results and editing results. These writing errors include writing names, affiliations / agencies, quotations, and other writings that can reduce the meaning and substance of the manuscript. If this happens, the author must immediately propose improvements to the manuscript.
  6. Authors must understand the ethics of scientific publications above to avoid conflicts of interest with other parties, so that the manuscript can be processed smoothly and safely.
  7. Authors are responsible for the confirmation of the manuscript.
  8. The author must indicate the reference of the opinions and works of others quoted.
  9. Authors must write the manuscript ethically, honestly and responsibly, in accordance with applicable scientific writing regulations.
  10. The author does not object if the manuscript undergoes editing in the review and layout process without changing the substance or main idea of the writing.

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