Publication Ethics

Educatum: Jurnal Dunia Pendidikan (e-ISSN: 3031-1209) is an open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by Lembaga Penelitian dan Publikasi Ilmiah (LPPI), Yayasan Yuta Pendidikan Cerdas, Indonesia. The journal is committed to maintaining integrity, transparency, accountability, fairness, and ethical standards throughout the scholarly publishing process.

This Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement applies to authors, editors, reviewers, members of the Editorial Board, and the publisher. The journal's ethical policies are guided by relevant recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing developed by COPE, DOAJ, OASPA, and WAME.

All parties involved in the publication process are expected to uphold academic integrity, respect intellectual property, protect the rights and dignity of research participants, disclose relevant conflicts of interest, maintain confidentiality, and contribute to the integrity of the scholarly record.

Duties of Editors

Publication Decisions

The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for the final decision regarding the acceptance or rejection of manuscripts submitted to Educatum. Editorial decisions are based on the manuscript's originality, scholarly merit, methodological or conceptual quality, relevance to the journal's focus and scope, ethical compliance, contribution to educational knowledge and practice, and the recommendations obtained through the peer-review process.

Editors may consult members of the Editorial Board and independent reviewers when making editorial decisions. Decisions must remain independent of commercial, institutional, personal, or other interests unrelated to the scholarly merit of the manuscript.

Fair and Impartial Evaluation

Editors evaluate submitted manuscripts solely on their scholarly merit and relevance without discrimination based on race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, age, disability, religious belief, political view, institutional affiliation, or other personal characteristics unrelated to the quality of the submitted work.

Confidentiality

Editors and editorial staff must treat submitted manuscripts and all related editorial materials as confidential.

Information concerning a manuscript may only be disclosed to the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, relevant editorial personnel, and the publisher when necessary for the editorial and publication process.

Unpublished information obtained through manuscript handling must not be used for personal, academic, professional, financial, or commercial advantage.

Conflicts of Interest

Editors must disclose any actual, potential, or perceived conflict of interest that could compromise their impartiality.

An editor who has a significant personal, professional, financial, institutional, collaborative, or other relationship with an author or manuscript should withdraw from handling the submission. The manuscript should be assigned to another qualified editor without a relevant conflict of interest.

Editorial Independence

Editorial decisions must remain independent of commercial considerations, sponsorship, institutional influence, advertising, or other external pressures.

The publisher supports the authority and independence of the Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board in making scholarly publication decisions.

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Peer reviewers assist editors in evaluating the originality, scholarly significance, methodological or conceptual quality, relevance, clarity, and ethical integrity of submitted manuscripts.

Reviewers should provide objective, constructive, evidence-based, and sufficiently detailed comments that assist editors in making editorial decisions and help authors improve the quality of their manuscripts.

Expertise and Promptness

Reviewers should accept a review assignment only when they have appropriate expertise relevant to the subject of the manuscript and can complete the review within the requested timeframe.

A reviewer who considers themselves insufficiently qualified or unable to complete the review on time should promptly inform the editor and decline the invitation.

Confidentiality

All manuscripts received for peer review are confidential documents.

Reviewers must not share, copy, distribute, discuss, disclose, or use unpublished manuscript content for unauthorized purposes. Information obtained through peer review must not be used for personal, academic, professional, or commercial advantage.

Objectivity

Reviews must be conducted objectively, fairly, and professionally. Reviewers should clearly explain their assessments and support critical comments with appropriate scholarly reasoning.

Personal criticism, discriminatory statements, hostile language, or comments unrelated to the scholarly quality of the manuscript are unacceptable.

Acknowledgement of Sources and Ethical Concerns

Reviewers should identify relevant scholarly works that may have been overlooked when such sources are important to evaluating the manuscript.

Reviewers should inform the editor when they identify suspected plagiarism, duplicate publication, citation manipulation, fabricated or falsified data, inappropriate authorship, ethical concerns, substantial overlap, or other indications of publication misconduct.

Conflicts of Interest

Reviewers must disclose any actual, potential, or perceived conflict of interest arising from personal, professional, financial, competitive, collaborative, or institutional relationships.

When a significant conflict exists, the reviewer should decline the review assignment.

Use of Artificial Intelligence

Reviewers must comply with Educatum's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy. Confidential manuscripts, supplementary materials, or unpublished information must not be uploaded to external generative AI systems where confidentiality, intellectual property protection, or data security cannot be assured.

Reviewers remain fully responsible for the academic judgment, analysis, comments, and recommendations contained in their review reports.

Duties of Authors

Reporting Standards

Authors must present an accurate, honest, transparent, and objective account of the research or scholarly work reported in the manuscript.

For empirical studies, research methods, data collection procedures, analyses, findings, and interpretations should be described with sufficient detail to allow appropriate scholarly evaluation and, where applicable, replication.

For review articles and conceptual papers, authors should provide transparent approaches to literature selection, theoretical development, argumentation, and scholarly interpretation where relevant.

Fabrication, falsification, inappropriate manipulation, selective misrepresentation of data, or deliberately misleading statements constitute serious violations of publication ethics.

Originality and Plagiarism

Authors must ensure that submitted manuscripts represent original scholarly work.

Any ideas, words, data, figures, tables, instruments, images, or other materials originating from other sources must be appropriately cited, acknowledged, and used in accordance with applicable copyright requirements.

All submitted manuscripts are subject to similarity screening in accordance with Educatum's Plagiarism Policy.

Multiple, Duplicate, and Concurrent Publication

Authors must not submit the same manuscript or substantially the same scholarly work simultaneously to more than one journal.

Duplicate publication, redundant publication, and concurrent submission are considered unethical publication practices unless a legitimate secondary publication has been transparently disclosed and explicitly approved in accordance with applicable scholarly publishing standards.

Data Integrity and Availability

Authors are responsible for the accuracy and integrity of the data supporting their research.

Research data must not be fabricated, falsified, selectively manipulated, or presented in a misleading manner.

Authors should retain relevant research data and supporting documentation for an appropriate period and, when reasonably requested by the editors in connection with an ethical or scholarly inquiry, be prepared to provide supporting information subject to ethical, privacy, confidentiality, and legal restrictions.

Where appropriate and ethically permissible, authors are encouraged to make research data available through suitable repositories or provide an appropriate data availability statement.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Authors must properly acknowledge all sources that have substantially influenced the research, analysis, interpretation, or preparation of the manuscript.

References must be accurate, relevant, traceable, and appropriately cited. Authors are responsible for verifying the existence and accuracy of all references included in the manuscript.

Citation manipulation, unnecessary citation of the authors' own publications, coercive citation, or inclusion of irrelevant references solely to increase citation counts is unacceptable.

Authorship and Contributorship

Authorship should be limited to individuals who have made substantial scholarly contributions to the work and who are willing to take responsibility for the content of the manuscript.

All individuals who meet the journal's authorship criteria should be listed as authors. Individuals who contributed to the work but do not meet authorship criteria should be acknowledged appropriately.

The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that:

  • all listed authors have made appropriate contributions;

  • no eligible contributor has been omitted;

  • all authors have reviewed and approved the final manuscript;

  • all authors agree to its submission and publication; and

  • authorship information is accurate and transparent.

Guest, honorary, and ghost authorship are not acceptable.

Any request to add, remove, or rearrange authors after submission must be accompanied by a clear explanation and agreement from all affected authors and is subject to editorial approval.

Research Involving Human Participants

Research involving human participants must comply with applicable ethical principles, institutional requirements, and relevant regulations.

Where required, authors must obtain approval from an authorized research ethics committee or institutional review body and provide appropriate information regarding ethical approval in the manuscript.

Appropriate informed consent must be obtained from participants or their legal representatives where required.

Research Involving Children and Vulnerable Participants

Because educational research may involve children, students, persons with disabilities, or other potentially vulnerable participants, authors must apply appropriate ethical safeguards.

Research involving minors should obtain appropriate parental or guardian consent and, where appropriate, the assent of the child or young participant in accordance with applicable ethical requirements.

The dignity, safety, privacy, confidentiality, and welfare of participants must remain a primary consideration throughout the research and publication process.

Privacy and Identifiable Information

Authors must protect participants' privacy and confidential information.

Identifiable photographs, recordings, quotations, case descriptions, student information, personal records, or other materials that could reveal a participant's identity should only be published when ethically justified and when appropriate consent for publication has been obtained.

Research Involving Animals

Where educational or interdisciplinary research involves animals, authors must comply with applicable ethical standards, institutional policies, and relevant regulations.

Ethical approval should be obtained and reported where required.

Conflicts of Interest and Funding

Authors must disclose any financial, institutional, professional, personal, or other relationships that could reasonably be perceived as influencing the conduct, interpretation, or reporting of the work.

All relevant sources of funding, grants, sponsorship, or institutional support should be transparently disclosed.

Copyright and Permissions

Authors are responsible for ensuring that copyrighted materials included in their manuscripts are used lawfully.

Permission must be obtained where required for the reproduction or adaptation of copyrighted figures, tables, instruments, questionnaires, photographs, illustrations, or other third-party materials.

Use of Artificial Intelligence

Authors must comply with Educatum's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy.

Generative AI and AI-assisted technologies must not be listed as authors or co-authors. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and scholarly validity of all submitted content.

Substantive use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies must be disclosed in accordance with the journal's applicable policy.

Fundamental Errors After Publication

If authors discover a significant error, inaccuracy, or ethical concern in their published article, they must promptly notify the Editorial Office and cooperate with the journal in correcting the scholarly record.

Depending on the nature and severity of the issue, appropriate action may include a correction, clarification, expression of concern, or retraction.

Research and Publication Misconduct

Educatum takes allegations of research and publication misconduct seriously.

Potential misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism or inappropriate text recycling;

  • fabrication or falsification of data;

  • manipulation or misrepresentation of research findings;

  • duplicate or redundant publication;

  • inappropriate authorship;

  • citation manipulation;

  • undisclosed conflicts of interest;

  • peer-review manipulation;

  • misuse of confidential information;

  • unethical treatment of research participants;

  • unauthorized disclosure of identifiable participant information;

  • manipulation of images or other research evidence; and

  • other practices that compromise the integrity of the scholarly record.

Allegations of misconduct will be handled fairly, confidentially, and in accordance with appropriate editorial procedures.

The Editorial Board may request explanations, original data, ethical approval documents, authorship information, or other supporting materials when necessary to evaluate an allegation.

If serious misconduct is confirmed, appropriate editorial action may include manuscript rejection, correction, retraction, notification of relevant institutions or funding organizations when appropriate, or other actions necessary to protect the integrity of the scholarly record.

Corrections, Retractions, and Expressions of Concern

Educatum is committed to maintaining an accurate and trustworthy scholarly record.

A correction may be issued when an error affects part of a published article but does not invalidate the article's overall findings or scholarly contribution.

A retraction may be considered when there is reliable evidence that the findings are seriously compromised by fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, major error, duplicate publication, unethical research, or other serious violations of publication ethics.

An expression of concern may be issued when serious concerns regarding a published article exist but an investigation has not yet reached a definitive conclusion.

Post-publication notices will be clearly identified and linked to the original article to preserve the transparency and integrity of the scholarly record.

Complaints and Appeals

Authors, reviewers, readers, and other relevant parties may submit complaints concerning editorial procedures, peer review, publication ethics, or other matters related to the journal.

Authors may appeal an editorial decision when they believe that a significant academic or procedural error occurred during the evaluation of their manuscript.

Appeals should provide clear reasons and supporting information addressing the relevant editorial or reviewer comments.

Complaints and appeals will be handled objectively, confidentially, and independently as far as reasonably possible. Submission of an appeal does not guarantee that the original editorial decision will be changed.

Post-Publication Discussion

Educatum supports responsible scholarly discussion concerning published articles.

Readers, authors, or other scholars who identify significant errors, ethical concerns, or matters requiring clarification may contact the Editorial Office. Legitimate concerns will be evaluated and, when appropriate, may result in author responses, corrections, expressions of concern, retractions, or other editorial actions.

Post-publication criticism should be evidence-based, respectful, and focused on scholarly content.

Responsibilities of the Publisher

Lembaga Penelitian dan Publikasi Ilmiah (LPPI), Yayasan Yuta Pendidikan Cerdas, as the publisher of Educatum, supports the editorial independence of the journal and is committed to maintaining the integrity, accessibility, continuity, and preservation of its scholarly publications.

The publisher does not interfere with editorial decisions for commercial, institutional, or other inappropriate purposes and supports appropriate editorial action when allegations of publication misconduct, corrections, retractions, complaints, or other ethical matters arise.

Commitment to Publication Integrity

Educatum is committed to maintaining a trustworthy scholarly publishing process through transparent editorial policies, independent peer review, responsible authorship, appropriate ethical oversight, confidentiality, and mechanisms for correcting the scholarly record.

The journal's publication ethics policies are guided by relevant recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing developed by COPE, DOAJ, OASPA, and WAME.