Publications Ethics
Oceania: Jurnal Pendidikan, Sosial dan Humaniora uses the Committee on Publication Ethics (CoPE) as its reference on publication ethics. We strongly oppose the publication of plagiarized works or duplicate submissions. In addition, we are committed to ensuring that all submissions are original. Therefore, our journal editorial office is responsible for double-checking to ensure that the submitted manuscript has not been published before being submitted to Humaniora.
There are limitations to how far Oceania; Jurnal Pendidikan, Sosial dan Humaniora can review submitted work. Therefore, we urge external reviewers and the academic community to report any violations to our help desk officer via humaniora@ugm.ac.id so that immediate action can be taken.
Oceania: Jurnal Pendidikan, Sosial dan Humaniora may initiate a retraction if a work is proven to be fraudulent, or express concern if our editors have reasonable suspicion of misconduct. In addition, Humaniora may facilitate its replacement. In this case, the author of the original article may wish to retract the original flawed article and replace it with a revised version.
Neither comments nor peer-reviewer correspondence should contain personal attacks on the author. Editors and peer-reviewers should only critique the work, not the researcher, and should edit (or reject) letters that contain personal or offensive statements.
Authors at Oceania Journal: Education, Social and Humanities must adhere to the following guidelines:
- Authors should balance intellectual contributions to the conception, design, analysis, and writing of the manuscript with other work related to the research. If no work can be reasonably attributed to a specific individual, that individual should not be considered the author.
- Authors must declare that the reported work is their own and that they are the copyright owner (or have obtained permission from the copyright owner).
- Authors must declare that the submitted article and its essential content have not been published previously and are not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
- Authors should avoid disputes over the attribution of academic credit. Therefore, it is helpful to decide early on who will be credited as corresponding author, contributor, and who will be acknowledged.
- Authors should take public responsibility for the content of their papers. It is unethical to submit a manuscript to more than one journal concurrently.
- Any conflicts of interest must be clearly stated.
- Authors must cite the sources of their research data and must mention the sources of financial support for the research, if any.
- Any errors discovered in a manuscript after submission must be immediately communicated to the Editor.
- Authors should declare that their submitted paper has been approved by the relevant research ethics committee or institutional review board. If human participants were involved, the manuscript should be accompanied by a statement that the participants have signed an informed consent form.
- Authors should submit a brief description of all contributions to their manuscript. The contribution of each author should be briefly described. Authors of research papers should state whether they had full access to the research data that supported the publication. Contributors who do not qualify as authors should also be listed and their specific contributions described. This information should appear as an acknowledgement.
- Authors must include information about their research funding in their manuscript.
- Authors have the right to appeal editorial decisions.
Reviewers of Oceania: Journal of Education, Social and Humanities must adhere to the following guidelines:
- All manuscripts are reviewed fairly based on the intellectual content of the paper without regard to gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, or political values of the authors.
- Any conflicts of interest discovered during the review process must be communicated to the editor.
- All information related to the manuscript is kept confidential.
- Any information that might be a reason for refusal of publication must be communicated to the Editor.
- The obligation of confidentiality in the assessment of manuscripts must be maintained by expert reviewers, and this also applies to peer reviewers who may be asked (with the permission of the editor) to provide opinions on specific parts.
- Submitted manuscripts may not be saved or copied.
- Reviewers and editors must not use any data, arguments, or interpretations unless they have received permission from the author.
- Reviewers must provide reports that are prompt, accurate, courteous, impartial, and justified.
- Reviewers assigned to an article will comment on the following:
- Importance, originality and timeliness of research
- Strengths and weaknesses of research design and data analysis for a research paper or analysis and commentary for an essay
- Writing, organizing, and presenting
- To what extent do the findings justify the conclusions?
- Relevance, usefulness, and understandability of the article for the Journal's target readers.
Editors of Oceania Journal of Education, Social and Humanities must adhere to the following guidelines:
- The editor's decision to accept or reject a paper for publication should be based solely on the merits, originality, and clarity of the paper, and the relevance of the research to the interests of the journal.
- Editors must treat all submitted papers as confidential.
- Editors must notify peer reviewers of these Violations.
- Editors should encourage peer reviewers to consider the ethical issues raised by the research they review.
- Editors should request additional information from authors if they feel this is necessary.
- Editors should exercise caution when publishing images of objects that may have cultural significance or be offensive.
- Editors must notify readers if an ethical violation has occurred.
- Editors should encourage peer reviewers to decline peer review requests if they identify a conflict of interest with the manuscript.
- Editors may assign peer reviewers suggested by the authors, but should not consider suggestions made by the authors to be binding.
- The editor should mediate all exchanges between authors and peer reviewers during the peer-review process (i.e. before publication). If agreement cannot be reached, the editor should consider inviting comments from additional peer reviewers if the editor feels this would be helpful.
- The editor's decision whether or not to publish a submitted manuscript should not be influenced by pressure from the editor's superiors, the journal owner, or the publisher.
- Editors should publish corrections to any errors discovered that may affect the interpretation of the data or information presented in the manuscript.
- Editors should expect allegations of theft or plagiarism to be substantiated and should treat allegations of theft or plagiarism seriously.
- Editors should keep the identity of peer reviewers confidential from authors. If a peer reviewer's identity is revealed, editors should discourage authors from contacting the peer reviewer directly, especially if misconduct is suspected.
- The editor reserves the right to reject a manuscript if there is any doubt as to whether proper procedures have been followed. If a paper is submitted from a country that does not have an ethics committee or institutional review board, the editor should use their own experience to judge whether the paper is publishable. If a decision is made to publish a paper under these circumstances, a brief statement should be included explaining this situation.
- Editors should ensure peer review and timely publication of manuscripts they receive, especially those where the findings are likely to have important implications.
- The Editorial Board is responsible for making publication decisions based on reviewer evaluations, the journal's editorial board policies and legal controls against plagiarism, libel and copyright infringement.
