Publication Ethics

Journal of Nursing Science Research, in maintaining manuscript quality and avoiding publishing violations/plagiarism in the publishing process, the editorial board determines scientific publication ethics referring to COPE (Committee of Publication Ethics). These publication ethics provisions apply to authors, editors, reviewers and journal managers.

Writer's Ethics

  1. Reporting; Authors are obliged to provide information about the process and results of their research and/or studies to the editor honestly, clearly and thoroughly, and keep their research and study data well and safely.
  2. Originality and plagiarism; The author must ensure that the manuscript sent or submitted to the editor is an original manuscript, written by the author himself, derived from his thoughts and concepts, and not a plagiarism of the author's written work or thoughts and ideas. another. Authors are strictly prohibited from changing the name of the cited reference source to someone else's name.
  3. Repeat delivery; The author must inform that the manuscript sent or submitted to the editor is a manuscript that has never been submitted or submitted to a journal publisher or other publication. If there is "redundancy" in sending a manuscript to another publisher, the editor will reject the manuscript sent by the author.
  4. Author status; The author is obliged to inform the editor that the author has competence or qualifications in a particular field of expertise in accordance with the published field of science, namely the fields of Midwifery, Reproductive Health and Public Health. Authors must include their affiliation, namely the author's agency. The author who sends the manuscript to the editor is the first author (co-author), so that if problems are found in the manuscript publishing process they can be resolved immediately.
  5. Script writing errors; The author must immediately notify the editor if errors are found in writing the manuscript, either as a result of the review or editing. These writing errors include writing names, affiliations or agencies, quotations, and other writing that can reduce the meaning and substance of the text. If that happens, the author must immediately propose improvements to the manuscript.
  6. Disclosure of conflicts of interest; Authors must understand the above scientific publication ethics to avoid conflicts of interest with other parties so that manuscripts can be processed smoothly and safely.

Editor's Ethics

  1. Publication decisions; editors must ensure that the manuscript review process is thorough, transparent, objective, fair, and thoughtful. This becomes the basis for the editor in deciding on a manuscript, whether it is rejected or accepted. In this case, the editorial board acts as the manuscript selection team.
  2. Publication information; editors must ensure that manuscript writing guidelines for authors and other interested parties can be accessed and read clearly, both in printed and electronic versions.
  3. Sharing of peer-reviewed manuscripts; the editor must ensure reviewers and manuscript materials for review, as well as inform the reviewers of the terms and process of reviewing manuscripts.
  4. Objectivity and neutrality; editors must be objective, neutral, and honest in editing manuscripts, regardless of gender, the business side, ethnicity, religion, race, inter-group, and nationality of the author.
  5. Confidentiality; editors must safeguard any information properly, especially about the author's privacy and distribution of the manuscript.
  6. Disclosure of conflicts of interest; editors must understand the ethics of scientific publications above to avoid conflicts of interest with other parties so that the process of publishing the manuscript runs smoothly and safely.

Reviewer Ethics

  1. Objectivity and neutrality; reviewers must be honest, objective, unbiased, independent, and only side with scientific truth. The process of reviewing the manuscript is carried out professionally without distinction of gender, the business side, ethnicity, religion, race, inter-group, and nationality of the author.
  2. Clarity of reference sources; the reviewer must ensure that the source of the reference/text citation is appropriate and credible (accountable). If errors or irregularities are found in the writing of the reference/quotation source, the reviewer must immediately inform the editor of corrections by the author according to the notes from the reviewer.
  3. Peer-review effectiveness; the reviewer must respond to the manuscript that has been sent by the editor and work following --the predetermined peer-review time (maximum 3 weeks). If additional time is needed in reviewing the manuscript, it must immediately report (confirm) to the editorial secretariat.
  4. Disclosure of conflicts of interest; reviewers must understand the ethics of scientific publications above to avoid conflicts of interest with other parties so that the process of publishing the manuscript runs smoothly and safely.