Publication Ethics
PUBLICATION ETHICS AND MALPRACTICE STATEMENT
JURISTA: Jurnal Hukum dan Keadilan
- Statement of Publication Ethics
JURISTA: Jurnal Hukum dan Keadilan (JJHK) is committed to maintaining the highest standards of academic integrity, publication ethics, editorial independence, and scholarly accountability. As an international-oriented, peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of law and justice, JURISTA recognises that ethical scholarly publishing is fundamental to the advancement of legal knowledge, the development of justice-oriented legal systems, and the preservation of public trust in academic research.
The journal's publication ethics policy is informed by the principles and best practices established by Elsevier, the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and internationally recognised standards of responsible scholarly publishing.
This policy applies to all parties involved in the publication process, including authors, editors, editorial board members, peer reviewers, publishers, and other individuals contributing to the journal's scholarly activities.
JURISTA is committed to ensuring that every published manuscript demonstrates originality, intellectual honesty, methodological rigor, accurate legal interpretation, and respect for academic freedom. The journal does not tolerate plagiarism, fabrication or falsification of research findings, manipulation of the peer-review process, inappropriate authorship practices, citation manipulation, or other forms of academic misconduct.
The journal aims to promote responsible scholarship in legal studies, including constitutional law, criminal law, civil law, international law, comparative law, Islamic law, customary law, human rights, socio-legal studies, and other interdisciplinary fields related to law and justice.
- Ethical Responsibilities of Editors
Editorial Independence and Publication Decisions
The Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board are responsible for ensuring that editorial decisions are made independently, transparently, and exclusively on scholarly grounds.
All manuscripts shall be evaluated according to their academic originality, intellectual contribution, methodological soundness, relevance to the journal's aims and scope, and compliance with publication ethics.
Editorial decisions must not be influenced by commercial interests, institutional affiliation, nationality, political ideology, religious beliefs, gender, race, ethnicity, or personal relationships.
The final decision to accept, revise, or reject a manuscript rests with the Editor-in-Chief or an appropriately designated independent editor, taking into account the recommendations of qualified peer reviewers and the journal's editorial policies.
Confidentiality
Editors and editorial staff must treat submitted manuscripts and associated correspondence as confidential documents. Information concerning a manuscript shall not be disclosed to unauthorised individuals.
Unpublished materials, research findings, legal arguments, or intellectual ideas contained in a submitted manuscript must not be used for personal research or professional advantage without the explicit written consent of the authors.
Conflicts of Interest
Editors must disclose any financial, institutional, professional, academic, or personal relationships that could reasonably influence their editorial judgment.
An editor must withdraw from handling a manuscript where a conflict of interest exists, including submissions authored by themselves, close colleagues, family members, or individuals with whom they have a significant professional relationship.
Such manuscripts must be assigned to an independent editor and subjected to the journal's established peer-review procedures.
Editorial Accountability
Editors are responsible for protecting the integrity of the scholarly record. They must respond appropriately to credible allegations of misconduct, including those arising after publication.
Editors must also ensure that corrections, expressions of concern, and retractions are issued when justified by the available evidence.
- Ethical Responsibilities of Authors
Originality and Academic Integrity
Authors submitting manuscripts to JURISTA must ensure that their work is original, academically rigorous, and based on authentic research.
Authors are responsible for presenting accurate findings, arguments, interpretations, and conclusions supported by verifiable legal authorities and appropriate scholarly references.
Any use of previously published research, statutory provisions, judicial decisions, legal commentaries, or other intellectual materials must be properly acknowledged through accurate citation.
Authors must not present another person's words, ideas, research findings, or intellectual contributions as their own.
Accurate Reporting of Legal Research
Authors must accurately describe the research methods, legal sources, data collection procedures, analytical frameworks, and interpretative approaches employed in their studies.
For normative or doctrinal legal research, authors must ensure that legislation, judicial decisions, international legal instruments, and scholarly interpretations are accurately represented.
For empirical and socio-legal research, authors must provide a transparent account of their research design, data collection procedures, sampling methods, and analytical processes.
Fabricated judicial decisions, falsified legal citations, manipulated research data, invented interviews, or deliberately misleading interpretations constitute serious violations of publication ethics.
Authorship and Contributorship
Authorship must be limited to individuals who have made substantial intellectual contributions to the conception, design, execution, analysis, or interpretation of the research and who accept responsibility for the published work.
All listed authors must approve the final manuscript and agree to its submission for publication.
Guest authorship, honorary authorship, ghost authorship, and the deliberate exclusion of legitimate contributors are prohibited.
Individuals who have contributed to the research but do not meet the criteria for authorship should be appropriately acknowledged.
Any request to modify authorship after submission must be accompanied by an explanation and documented agreement from all affected authors, subject to editorial approval.
Multiple and Redundant Publication
Manuscripts submitted to JURISTA must not be under consideration by another journal or publication outlet simultaneously.
Authors must not submit substantially identical manuscripts to multiple journals or reproduce previously published research without proper disclosure and editorial approval.
Where a manuscript derives from a thesis, dissertation, conference paper, research report, or preprint, the author must disclose the relationship and explain the manuscript's substantial original contribution, consistent with the journal's applicable policies.
- Ethical Responsibilities of Peer Reviewers
Objectivity and Professionalism
Peer reviewers play a fundamental role in maintaining the scholarly quality and integrity of JURISTA.
Reviewers must evaluate manuscripts objectively, independently, and constructively, based on academic merit rather than personal preferences or institutional relationships.
Reviews should provide reasoned assessments of the manuscript's originality, research methodology, theoretical contribution, legal analysis, argumentation, presentation, and scholarly significance.
Reviewers must avoid personal criticism, discriminatory remarks, or comments unrelated to the academic quality of the manuscript.
Confidentiality and Intellectual Property
Reviewers must maintain strict confidentiality concerning manuscripts assigned for evaluation.
Manuscripts must not be distributed, reproduced, disclosed, or used for personal academic or professional advantage without authorisation.
Reviewers must not appropriate unpublished legal arguments, research findings, conceptual frameworks, or other intellectual contributions obtained through the peer-review process.
Conflicts of Interest and Competence
Reviewers must declare any circumstances that could compromise their impartiality.
A reviewer should decline an invitation where there is a significant conflict of interest, insufficient subject-matter expertise, or an inability to complete the assessment within the agreed period.
Identification of Ethical Concerns
Reviewers should inform the editor when they identify suspected plagiarism, substantial textual overlap, inappropriate citation practices, unreliable sources, fabricated evidence, or other possible violations of publication ethics.
Reviewers must not request unnecessary citations to their own publications or those of their associates for the purpose of increasing citation counts.
- Peer-Review Integrity and Transparency
JURISTA adopts a double-blind peer-review model in which the identities of authors and reviewers are concealed from one another during the review process.
Research manuscripts that pass initial editorial screening are evaluated by at least two suitably qualified and independent peer reviewers.
The editorial evaluation process considers the originality of the manuscript, the significance of the research question, the quality of the theoretical framework, the appropriateness of the methodology, the accuracy of legal analysis, and the contribution to national or international legal scholarship.
Peer-review recommendations may include acceptance, revision, or rejection. The final editorial decision shall remain the responsibility of an independent handling editor.
The journal prohibits fabricated reviewer identities, fraudulent reviewer reports, undisclosed conflicts of interest, and any deliberate attempt to manipulate editorial decisions.
The review process must be conducted fairly, confidentially, and within a reasonable timeframe. Authors shall receive constructive feedback intended to improve the quality and reliability of their research.
- Plagiarism, Citation Integrity, and Research Misconduct
JURISTA maintains a strict policy against plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty.
Plagiarism includes the unattributed reproduction or close paraphrasing of another person's text, ideas, research findings, legal interpretations, or original intellectual contributions.
The journal may use recognised similarity-detection software to identify potentially overlapping content. However, similarity reports are interpreted through editorial assessment rather than treated as conclusive proof of misconduct.
Self-plagiarism, redundant publication, inappropriate textual recycling, fabricated references, and deliberate misrepresentation of sources are also prohibited.
All legal and academic citations must be accurate, relevant, and independently verifiable.
The journal prohibits citation manipulation, including coercive citation requests, excessive journal self-citation, coordinated citation arrangements, and irrelevant references inserted to artificially enhance citation metrics.
Suspected research misconduct shall be evaluated fairly and proportionately in accordance with recognised publication-ethics procedures.
- Research Ethics, Human Participants, and Data Protection
JURISTA is committed to protecting the rights, dignity, privacy, and welfare of individuals who participate in legal and socio-legal research.
Research involving interviews, surveys, observations, vulnerable populations, confidential case records, or personal information must comply with applicable ethical standards, data protection requirements, and relevant laws.
Where required by the nature of the research and applicable institutional regulations, authors must obtain approval from an appropriate research ethics committee before conducting the study.
Authors must obtain informed consent when required and explain how participants' privacy, anonymity, and confidentiality have been protected.
Particular attention should be given to research involving children, victims of crime, prisoners, vulnerable communities, and individuals involved in sensitive legal proceedings.
Authors must not disclose confidential judicial information, privileged legal communications, protected personal data, or identifiable research information without appropriate legal and ethical authorisation.
Where legally and ethically permissible, authors should provide sufficient information about research materials, methods, and underlying data to support transparency and independent scholarly verification.
Any restrictions on access to research data should be clearly explained.
- Conflicts of Interest and Research Funding
All authors must disclose financial and non-financial interests that could reasonably be perceived as influencing the research process or its findings.
Such interests may include institutional affiliations, consultancy arrangements, professional engagements, litigation-related interests, advocacy relationships, research sponsorship, or other relevant connections.
Authors must identify sources of research funding and describe the funder's role, if any, in research design, data collection, analysis, manuscript preparation, or publication decisions.
The absence of competing interests should also be declared.
Editors and reviewers must disclose relevant conflicts of interest and withdraw from the evaluation process where their independence or impartiality may reasonably be questioned.
- Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence and AI-Assisted Technologies
JURISTA recognises the increasing use of artificial intelligence and AI-assisted technologies in academic research and scholarly writing.
Authors may use such technologies responsibly for appropriate research-support and manuscript-preparation activities, provided that human authors retain full intellectual control and responsibility for their work.
The use of generative AI must not replace independent academic judgment, original legal reasoning, critical analysis, or the verification of research sources.
Authors must disclose substantive use of generative AI in manuscript preparation, identifying the technology used, its purpose, and the extent of human review and verification. Routine spelling, punctuation, and basic grammar checks do not require disclosure.
The use of AI technologies as part of the research methodology must be explained in the relevant methodological section.
AI systems may not be designated as authors or co-authors because they cannot assume responsibility for research integrity, approve the final manuscript, or respond to ethical accountability requirements.
Authors remain fully responsible for all content, including AI-assisted text, citations, interpretations, data, and legal arguments.
Editors and reviewers must not upload confidential submitted manuscripts or peer-review correspondence into external generative AI systems. Editorial decisions and expert reviews must remain under human responsibility and control.
- Allegations of Misconduct and Ethical Investigations
JURISTA takes seriously all credible allegations of research misconduct, publication malpractice, or unethical editorial conduct, whether raised before or after publication.
Allegations may concern plagiarism, fabricated or falsified research, authorship disputes, manipulated peer review, conflicts of interest, citation manipulation, breaches of confidentiality, or other serious violations of academic integrity.
The journal shall follow a fair and impartial process that includes an initial assessment of the allegation, examination of relevant evidence, an opportunity for affected parties to respond, and, where appropriate, consultation with independent experts or relevant institutions.
The journal may request supporting documents, original research materials, or other evidence necessary to establish the reliability and integrity of the work.
Where misconduct is substantiated, the journal may reject a manuscript, issue an editorial notice, publish a correction or retraction, or take other proportionate action.
Where appropriate, relevant academic institutions, research funders, or competent authorities may be informed.
All investigations must respect confidentiality, procedural fairness, and the legitimate rights of the individuals concerned.
- Corrections, Expressions of Concern, and Retractions
JURISTA is committed to maintaining an accurate, reliable, and transparent scholarly record.
Where a published article contains an error that does not fundamentally undermine its findings or conclusions, the journal may publish a correction or corrigendum linked to the original publication.
An expression of concern may be issued where substantial doubts about a publication's reliability remain unresolved or an investigation is ongoing.
A retraction may be warranted where there is convincing evidence of serious research misconduct, plagiarism, fabricated or falsified data, unreliable findings, or other violations that fundamentally compromise the integrity of the published work.
Retraction notices shall identify the affected publication, explain the reasons for the retraction, and remain publicly accessible.
Retracted articles should ordinarily remain part of the scholarly record, clearly identified as retracted and linked to the corresponding notice.
Complete removal of published content shall be reserved for exceptional circumstances involving significant legal, privacy, safety, or rights-related concerns where correction or retraction would be insufficient.
Authors who identify substantial errors in their published work are required to inform the editorial office promptly and cooperate in appropriate corrective action.
- Copyright, Licensing, and Intellectual Property
JURISTA respects the intellectual property rights of authors, researchers, and third parties.
The journal operates under an open-access publishing model in which authors retain copyright to their scholarly works while granting the journal the necessary non-exclusive rights for publication and dissemination.
Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0), subject to the journal's applicable copyright agreement.
Authors must ensure that they possess the necessary rights and permissions to reproduce copyrighted materials, including illustrations, photographs, tables, figures, and substantial extracts from previously published works.
The journal supports lawful scholarly reuse, proper attribution, and the responsible dissemination of academic knowledge.
- Complaints, Appeals, and Editorial Accountability
Authors, reviewers, readers, and other stakeholders may raise concerns regarding editorial decisions, publication ethics, peer-review fairness, or the integrity of published material.
Complaints should be submitted through the journal's official editorial contact channels, together with sufficient information and supporting evidence.
The editorial office shall acknowledge and assess complaints in a fair, confidential, and proportionate manner.
Authors may appeal editorial decisions where they can demonstrate a substantive procedural error, a material misunderstanding of the manuscript, or other reasonable grounds for reconsideration.
Appeals shall be considered by an editor or appropriate editorial representative who was not directly responsible for the disputed decision, wherever practicable.
Complaints involving the Editor-in-Chief shall be referred to an independent representative of the publisher or another appropriately designated authority.
The journal prohibits retaliation against individuals who raise legitimate ethical concerns in good faith.
- Responsibilities of the Publisher
The Centre for Adat and Legal Studies of Aceh Province (CeFALSAP), in collaboration with the relevant academic partners of JURISTA, supports the editorial team in safeguarding the integrity, independence, accessibility, and continuity of the journal.
The publisher is responsible for supporting transparent editorial governance, ethical publication procedures, preservation of scholarly content, and the responsible management of complaints and publication misconduct.
The publisher must not interfere improperly with editorial decisions or allow financial, institutional, political, or other external interests to compromise academic independence.
Publication decisions must be based on scholarly quality, editorial evaluation, and recognised principles of publication ethics.
The publisher and editorial board shall cooperate in addressing ethical concerns and implementing appropriate corrective measures when necessary.
- Commitment to International Publishing Standards
JURISTA: Jurnal Hukum dan Keadilan is committed to developing a responsible, inclusive, transparent, and internationally credible scholarly publishing environment.
The journal's publication ethics framework is informed by the ethical principles of Elsevier and COPE, including editorial independence, research integrity, objective peer review, authorship transparency, responsible citation practices, the protection of intellectual property, and accountability for the published scholarly record.
JURISTA encourages legal scholarship that contributes to the advancement of jurisprudence, the rule of law, human rights, access to justice, and the development of fair and accountable legal institutions.
All individuals participating in the journal's publication activities are expected to uphold these principles and contribute to the integrity, credibility, and long-term sustainability of legal research and scholarly communication.
