Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
1. General Principles
Jurnal Desain is committed to maintaining the integrity, reliability, transparency, and quality of the scholarly record.
The journal's publication-ethics practices are guided by recognized principles of scholarly publishing and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Core Practices and relevant COPE guidance.
All parties involved in the publication process—including authors, editors, peer reviewers, editorial staff, and the publisher—are expected to uphold principles of:
Jurnal Desain does not tolerate fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, inappropriate authorship, duplicate submission, redundant publication, citation manipulation, unethical image or data manipulation, undisclosed material conflicts of interest, or other forms of academic or publication misconduct.
2. Responsibilities of Authors
Authors are responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and ethical compliance of the manuscripts they submit.
Authors must:
Submission of a manuscript implies that all authors accept responsibility for the integrity of the work.
3. Originality and Plagiarism
Authors must ensure that submitted manuscripts are original and appropriately acknowledge the words, ideas, findings, data, images, or other intellectual contributions of others.
Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to:
Similarity-detection software may be used to identify textual overlap. However, a similarity percentage does not by itself establish plagiarism.
Similarity findings are interpreted by the editorial team according to their source, extent, concentration, attribution, and context in accordance with the journal's Plagiarism Screening Policy.
4. Fabrication and Falsification
Fabrication
Fabrication is the creation or reporting of fictitious research data, information, observations, participants, evidence, results, references, or other components of the research record.
Falsification
Falsification includes manipulating, altering, selectively omitting, or misrepresenting research materials, processes, images, data, observations, or results in a way that causes the research record to become inaccurate or misleading.
Fabrication and falsification constitute serious academic-integrity violations and may result in rejection, retraction, institutional notification, or other proportionate corrective action.
5. Multiple, Duplicate, and Redundant Submission or Publication
Authors must not simultaneously submit substantially the same manuscript to more than one journal.
A manuscript submitted to Jurnal Desain must not be under active consideration by another journal or publisher.
Duplicate or redundant publication includes publication of substantially the same data, findings, analysis, or scholarly contribution in more than one publication without appropriate disclosure, justification, and cross-reference.
Fragmentation of a single study into multiple publications solely to increase publication output (salami slicing) may also constitute inappropriate publication practice where the separate articles do not provide sufficiently distinct scholarly contributions.
Authors must disclose closely related manuscripts, preprints, conference papers, previous publications, or other potentially overlapping works where necessary for editorial assessment.
6. Authorship and Contributorship
Authorship must reflect genuine scholarly contribution.
Individuals listed as authors must have made substantive contributions to the research and/or preparation of the manuscript and must:
The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that:
The following practices are prohibited:
Material changes to authorship after submission must be explained and approved by the editorial team and all affected authors.
Addition of authors after formal acceptance is not normally permitted without a documented and academically justified reason.
Authorship changes must never be used to manipulate institutional, national, or international authorship diversity.
The contribution of each author must be reported in the Author Contribution Statement required by Jurnal Desain.
7. Acknowledgment of Sources and Citation Integrity
Authors must accurately cite literature and other materials that have substantively informed the research.
Citations must be academically relevant and must not be added primarily to:
Editors and reviewers must not require authors to add citations unless those citations are genuinely relevant to improving the scholarly quality and contextualization of the manuscript.
Excessive, irrelevant, or systematically manipulated self-citation may be treated as a publication-integrity concern.
8. Data Integrity, Availability, and Record Retention
Authors are responsible for the integrity of the data and other research evidence supporting their manuscript.
Where relevant, authors may be requested to provide:
for editorial verification.
Authors should retain relevant research materials for an appropriate period following publication.
Requirements concerning data accessibility, restrictions, reproducibility, confidentiality, intellectual property, and supporting materials are further governed by the journal's Research Data and Reproducibility Policy.
9. Ethical Approval and Research Involving Human or Animal Participants
Research involving human participants and/or animals must comply with applicable ethical principles, institutional requirements, and relevant laws or regulations.
Where ethical approval is required, the manuscript must clearly report:
Where appropriate, information regarding informed consent, participant privacy, confidentiality, or other applicable safeguards must also be reported.
For research categorized as low or negligible risk, where formal Ethical Clearance is not required or reasonably applicable, the journal may accept an author's Ethical Compliance Statement explaining the ethical safeguards applied to the research.
Such a statement is subject to evaluation and acceptance by the responsible Editor and/or peer reviewers.
The absence of required ethical approval or an appropriate ethical-compliance statement may prevent the manuscript from proceeding to publication.
Authors must provide supporting documentation when requested by the editorial team.
10. Research Participants, Privacy, and Informed Consent
Research involving identifiable individuals must appropriately protect participant privacy, confidentiality, dignity, and personal data.
Authors must obtain informed consent where required.
Identifiable photographs, recordings, personal information, interview materials, or other potentially identifying content must not be published without appropriate ethical and legal justification and, where required, permission or consent.
Special care must be taken where research involves vulnerable participants or communities.
11. Images, Visual Evidence, and Copyrighted Materials
Because Jurnal Desain publishes research involving visual, material, design, media, and cultural objects, authors have particular responsibility for the ethical and lawful use of visual evidence.
Authors must:
Image adjustment for legitimate technical purposes must not misrepresent the underlying evidence.
Fabricated, falsified, deceptively manipulated, or falsely attributed visual materials constitute serious publication-integrity concerns.
12. Funding and Financial Disclosure
All manuscripts must include a Funding Statement.
Authors must disclose:
Where no specific funding was received, this must be stated explicitly.
Funding sources must not determine or improperly influence research findings, interpretation, peer review, editorial decisions, or publication outcomes.
13. Conflicts of Interest / Competing Interests
Authors, editors, and peer reviewers must disclose relationships or interests that could reasonably be perceived as influencing their judgment.
Conflicts may include:
Authors
Authors must include a Conflict of Interest / Competing Interests Statement in the manuscript.
Reviewers
Reviewers must disclose relevant conflicts and decline assignments when the conflict may compromise impartiality.
Editors
Editors must recuse themselves from handling or deciding manuscripts where a material conflict of interest exists. Another qualified editor should manage the manuscript.
The existence of a conflict does not necessarily constitute misconduct; failure to disclose a material conflict may constitute an ethical concern.
14. Use of Artificial Intelligence
Authors and editors must comply with the journal's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy.
Authors are required to disclose applicable AI use.
AI cannot be credited as an author and must not replace human scholarly responsibility or editorial judgment.
Peer reviewers are prohibited from using generative AI or AI-assisted systems to analyze, evaluate, or prepare reviews of confidential manuscripts.
The detailed requirements governing AI use are provided separately in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy.
15. Responsibilities of Editors
Editors are responsible for safeguarding the integrity and independence of the editorial process.
Editors must:
Editorial decisions must remain independent from:
The Editor-in-Chief has final responsibility for editorial acceptance and rejection decisions.
16. Responsibilities of Peer Reviewers
Reviewers must:
Reviewers should report suspected misconduct to the Editor rather than making unsupported accusations directly to authors.
Detailed reviewer responsibilities are also described in the journal's Peer Review Process and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy.
17. Responsibilities of the Publisher
The publisher supports the editorial independence and ethical governance of Jurnal Desain.
The publisher must:
Commercial interests must not compromise academic standards or editorial independence.
Handling Allegations of Academic or Publication Misconduct
18. Scope of Misconduct
Potential misconduct includes, but is not limited to:
19. Reporting an Allegation
Concerns regarding a submitted or published manuscript may be reported to the editorial office or Editor-in-Chief.
A report should, where reasonably possible, identify:
Anonymous allegations may be considered where they contain sufficiently specific and verifiable evidence.
The journal will not dismiss a credible concern solely because the person reporting it is anonymous.
20. Misconduct Handling Procedure
Jurnal Desain applies a documented process consisting of the following stages:
Stage 1 — Initial Assessment
The Editor-in-Chief or designated Editor evaluates whether the allegation:
Clearly unsupported, malicious, or irrelevant allegations may be closed after preliminary assessment.
Stage 2 — Clarification
Where a concern warrants further assessment, the journal may request clarification from the author(s), reviewer(s), editor(s), or other relevant parties.
The request may include supporting materials such as:
Parties involved should be given a reasonable opportunity to respond.
Stage 3 — Investigation
If the concern cannot be resolved through clarification, the Editor-in-Chief may conduct or coordinate further investigation.
Depending on the nature of the case, the journal may:
Investigations must be conducted as fairly, confidentially, and objectively as reasonably possible.
Stage 4 — Decision
The Editor-in-Chief determines the appropriate editorial action based on:
Where the Editor-in-Chief has a conflict of interest, responsibility must be transferred to an appropriate independent editor or authorized body.
Stage 5 — Corrective Action
Where an integrity problem is established, proportionate action may include:
The journal will document material decisions and actions.
21. Principles Governing Investigations
An allegation does not automatically establish misconduct.
Jurnal Desain will distinguish between:
The journal will avoid publicly accusing individuals of misconduct before sufficient evidence has been evaluated.
Where evidence remains inconclusive but the reliability of a published article is materially uncertain, an Expression of Concern may be considered.
Editorial Actions and the Scholarly Record
22. Action on Manuscripts Before Publication
Where ethical or integrity concerns arise before publication, possible actions include:
A manuscript may be rejected where serious integrity concerns materially compromise the reliability, originality, ethics, or scholarly validity of the work.
23. Corrections
A Correction, Erratum, or Corrigendum may be issued where an error is identified after publication but the principal findings and conclusions remain reliable.
A correction notice must:
Where relevant, the corrected status must also be reflected in the article's DOI and publication metadata.
24. Retractions
Retraction may be required where:
A retraction notice must:
A retracted article will not normally be deleted from the journal website or archive.
Instead:
Removal of published content may occur only in exceptional circumstances involving compelling legal, privacy, safety, or other overriding considerations. Where removal is necessary, an explanatory notice should remain wherever reasonably possible.
25. Expression of Concern
An Expression of Concern may be published where credible doubts exist regarding an article but:
An Expression of Concern may later be replaced or supplemented by a correction, retraction, or notice that no further action is required.
26. Manuscript Withdrawal
Authors may request withdrawal of a manuscript before publication by submitting a written explanation to the editorial office.
Before External Peer Review
A manuscript may normally be withdrawn upon a legitimate author request.
During Peer Review
Authors must provide a reasonable explanation because reviewer and editorial resources have already been committed.
After Acceptance but Before Publication
Withdrawal is strongly discouraged and is permitted only where there is a legitimate and sufficiently justified reason.
An author request does not become effective until the editorial office formally confirms the withdrawal.
Withdrawal must not be used to:
Where a manuscript has already been made publicly available as an Article in Press, Accepted Manuscript, or equivalent public pre-publication record, concerns regarding reliability or integrity will ordinarily be handled through the appropriate correction, withdrawal notice, or retraction mechanism necessary to preserve the transparency of the scholarly record.
27. Post-Publication Concerns and Discussion
Readers, authors, institutions, or other interested parties may submit evidence-based scholarly concerns regarding published articles to the editorial office.
Jurnal Desain will evaluate credible post-publication concerns and, where necessary:
Detailed procedures may be provided in the journal's separate Post-Publication Discussion, Corrections and Retractions Policy.
Complaints and Appeals
28. Complaints
Complaints concerning:
may be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief or editorial office.
Complaints will be assessed fairly and should be handled by a person who does not have a material conflict of interest in the matter.
29. Appeals Against Editorial Decisions
Authors may appeal an editorial decision where they believe that:
An appeal must provide specific academic or procedural grounds. Mere disagreement with a reviewer recommendation or editorial decision is not sufficient.
An appeal does not guarantee reconsideration or acceptance.
Where appropriate, the appeal may be assessed by an Editor who was not materially involved in the original disputed decision.
The decision following completion of the journal's appeal procedure is final.
30. Confidentiality, Fairness, and Record Keeping
Ethical concerns and misconduct investigations will be handled with appropriate confidentiality.
Information will be disclosed only to parties whose involvement is reasonably necessary for:
The journal will retain appropriate documentation of significant ethics investigations and corrective actions.
31. Continuous Ethical Oversight
Jurnal Desain and its publisher are committed to strengthening publication integrity through:
All authors, editors, reviewers, and editorial personnel are expected to familiarize themselves with and comply with the journal's applicable publication policies.
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