Publication Ethics

Journal Manager Task

As the manager of the journal, the Department of Library Science at Universitas Wijaya Kusuma Surabaya must stand as the guardian of scientific papers published by the journal. The journal manager must fully support the great efforts made by the editor. As a peer-reviewed journal, journal managers must build solid communication with reviewers, and also writers.

Editor's Duty

Publication Decision

The journal editor is solely responsible and independent to decide which articles are sent to the journal to be published.

Peer Review

The editor must ensure that the peer-review process is fair, impartial, timely. Research articles usually must be reviewed by at least two external and independent reviewers. Editors must maintain good communication with reviewers.

Fair game

The editor must evaluate the text for their intellectual content regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnic origin, nationality, or the political philosophy of the author.

The editor must use a standard journal electronic delivery system for all journal communications.

The editor must establish, together with the journal manager, a transparent mechanism for appealing against editorial decisions.

Review Task

Contributions to Editorial Decisions

Peer reviews help editors in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communication with the author can also help writers improve their papers. Peer reviews are an important component of formal scientific communication and are at the core of the scientific method.

Confidentiality

Reviewers must save documents received as confidential documents. They may not share reviews or information about the paper to anyone or contact the author directly without permission from the editor.

Standard Objectivity and Interest Competing

The review must be carried out objectively. The reviewer must know of any personal biases they may have and consider them when reviewing the paper. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees must express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

If the reviewer suggests that the author include a quote into the work of the reviewer (or partner), this must be for genuine scientific reasons and not with the intention of increasing the number of review citations or increasing the visibility of their work (or their partners)).

Author's Duty

The author must ensure that the manuscript does not violate any copyright laws, and must compensate the journal editor and manager for any copyright infringement. It is the responsibility of the author to obtain permission to use copyrighted material and provide such evidence after submitting the manuscript.