Publication Ethics
Statement of Publication Ethics
The Applied Agroecotechnology Journal (Jurnal Agroekoteknologi Terapan) is committed to maintaining the highest ethical standards of scientific publication. Our publication ethics and malpractice statement is strictly based on the guidelines established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
It is necessary that all parties involved in the act of publishing (the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, and the publisher) agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior.
Duties of Authors
1. Originality and Plagiarism Authors must ensure that they have written entirely original works. If authors use the work and/or words of others, this must be appropriately cited or quoted. The journal employs Turnitin to check for similarity. Manuscripts must have a similarity index of strictly below 18%. Submissions exceeding this threshold will be immediately rejected or returned for revision.
2. Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publications Authors should not generally publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
3. Authorship of the Paper Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. The corresponding author ensures that all contributing co-authors have approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
Duties of Editors
1. Publication Decisions The Editor in Chief is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editor may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism.
2. Fair Play & Confidentiality Editors must evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors. Editors and editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, and the publisher.
Duties of Reviewers
1. Contribution to Editorial Decisions Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions, and through editorial communications with the author, it may also assist the author in improving the paper. Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse themselves from the review process.
2. Objectivity and Confidentiality Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments. Furthermore, any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.
