Publication Ethics

Publication Ethics

Jurnal Mutiara Ners, Universitas Sari Mutiara Indonesia, in maintaining the quality of manuscripts and avoiding publishing violations/plagiarism in the publishing process, the editorial board determines the ethics of scientific publications reffering to COPE (Committee of Publication Ethics). The provisions of this publication’s ethics apply to authors, editors, reviewers, and journal managers.

Writer's Ethics

  1. Reporting; The author must provide information about the process and results of his research and/or study to the editor in an honest, clear, and comprehensive manner, as well as keep the research and study data properly and safely.
  2. Originality and plagiarism; the author must ensure that the manuscript that has been sent or submitted to the editor is the original manuscript, written by the author himself, comes from his ideas and ideas, and is not the result of plagiarizing the written work or ideas and or ideas of others. Authors are strictly prohibited from changing the names of the cited reference sources to other people's names.
  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 a "redundancy" in sending the manuscript to another publisher, the editor will reject the manuscript sent by the author.
  4. Author status; the author must inform the editor that the author has competence or qualifications in a particular field of expertise by the published field of science, namely the field of Midwifery, Reproductive Health, and Public Health. Authors must include affiliation, namely the origin of the author's agency. The author who sends the manuscript to the editor is the first author (co-author), so if a problem is found in the process of publishing the manuscript, it can be resolved immediately.
  5. Script writing errors; the author must immediately inform the editor if errors are found in the writing of the manuscript, both the results of the review and the edits. The writing errors include writing names, affiliations or agencies, quotes, and other writings that can reduce the meaning and substance of the manuscript. If that happens, the author must immediately propose improvements to the manuscript.
  6. Disclosure of conflicts of interest; the author 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.

 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.

 Journal Management Ethics

  1. Decision-making; the journal manager or editorial board must describe the mission and goals of the organization, especially those related to policy setting and journal publishing decisions without any particular interest.
  2. License; Journal managers must give independency to reviewers and editors to create a comfortable working atmosphere and respect the author's privacy.
  3. Guarantees and promotions; Journal managers must guarantee and protect intellectual property rights (copyright), as well as be transparent in managing funds received by third parties. In addition, journal managers must publish and promote the results of publications to the public by guaranteeing the benefits of using the manuscript.
  4. Disclosure of conflicts of interest; Journal managers must understand the ethics of scientific publications above to avoid conflicts of interest with other parties so that the manuscript publishing process runs smoothly and safely.