PUBLICATION ETHICS

PUBLICATION ETHICS
 
Research Integrity, Transparency, and Responsible Scholarly Publishing
SITEKNIK: Sistem Informasi, Teknik dan Teknologi Terapan
E-ISSN 3032-3991 | P-ISSN 3090-1626
1. Purpose and Commitment

SITEKNIK is committed to maintaining scholarly integrity, editorial independence, transparency, accountability, and responsible open-access publishing. The journal follows internationally recognized principles of publication ethics and refers to the COPE Core Practices and the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing when addressing ethical and editorial matters. Editorial decisions are based solely on scholarly merit, relevance, methodological quality, originality, research integrity, and contribution to the journal's scope.

2. Duties of Editors and Editorial Management

Editors are responsible for ensuring the integrity, fairness, confidentiality, and independence of the editorial process. Decisions must not be influenced by commercial considerations, publication fees, institutional affiliations, nationality, personal relationships, or other inappropriate interests.

  • Merit-based decisions: Manuscripts are evaluated according to scholarly quality, originality, relevance, methodological rigor, and contribution.
  • Confidentiality: Editors must protect confidential information contained in submitted manuscripts and editorial correspondence.
  • Conflict of Interest: Editors must disclose actual, potential, or perceived conflicts and must recuse themselves from handling manuscripts where impartiality could reasonably be questioned.
  • Editorial Independence: Editorial decisions are independent of publication fees, commercial interests, or publisher influence.
  • Fairness: Manuscripts are assessed without discrimination based on nationality, ethnicity, gender, institutional affiliation, political belief, religion, or other personal characteristics unrelated to scholarly merit.
3. Authors' Responsibilities
  • Originality: Authors must submit original work and properly acknowledge all sources, ideas, data, and materials obtained from others.
  • No Duplicate or Simultaneous Submission: Manuscripts must not be under consideration by another journal at the same time.
  • Authorship: Authorship must reflect substantial scholarly contributions to the work. Individuals who do not meet authorship criteria should not be listed as authors.
  • Accuracy: Authors are responsible for the accuracy, integrity, and completeness of the research and manuscript.
  • Conflict of Interest: Authors must disclose financial, institutional, personal, or other relationships that could reasonably be perceived to influence the research.
  • Ethical Approval: Research involving human participants, animals, sensitive personal data, or other regulated activities must comply with applicable ethical standards and obtain approval where required.
4. Artificial Intelligence and Automated Tools

Authors must disclose substantive use of generative artificial intelligence or automated content-generation tools in the preparation of a manuscript, except for routine language correction, formatting, or similar technical assistance. AI systems and automated tools cannot be credited as authors because they cannot assume responsibility for the integrity of scholarly work.

Authors remain fully responsible for verifying the accuracy, originality, citations, data, interpretations, and other content produced or assisted by automated tools. Generative AI output should not be cited as an authoritative scholarly source.

Reviewers and editors must not use generative AI systems to create substantive peer-review reports or editorial assessments. Confidential manuscripts or unpublished material must not be uploaded to external AI systems where confidentiality cannot be assured. Any routine use of automated integrity tools by the journal, including similarity detection or related screening systems, remains subject to human editorial review and verification.

5. Peer Review, Reviewer Conduct, and Confidentiality
SITEKNIK applies a double-blind peer-review process involving at least two independent reviewers. Reviewers must evaluate manuscripts objectively, constructively, confidentially, and within their areas of expertise. Reviewers must declare conflicts of interest and decline assignments where impartiality could be compromised. They must not use unpublished information for personal advantage, engage in citation manipulation, or participate in practices associated with fabricated peer review, paper mills, or other forms of publication misconduct.
6. Data, Transparency, and Reproducibility
Authors should provide sufficient methodological information to enable scholarly evaluation and, where appropriate, reproducibility of the research. A Data Availability Statement should be included where relevant, indicating whether supporting data are publicly available, available upon reasonable request, subject to ethical or legal restrictions, or not applicable. Authors are responsible for ensuring that data sharing complies with privacy, confidentiality, consent, intellectual property, and applicable legal requirements.
7. Research and Publication Misconduct
SITEKNIK takes allegations of research and publication misconduct seriously. Misconduct may include plagiarism, fabrication or falsification of data, inappropriate image manipulation, duplicate publication, authorship manipulation, undeclared conflicts of interest, citation manipulation, peer-review manipulation, paper-mill activity, or other practices that undermine the reliability of the scholarly record. When credible concerns are raised, the editorial team will assess the available evidence, seek clarification from relevant parties where appropriate, and conduct the process fairly and confidentially. Editorial action will be based on the nature and seriousness of the issue and may include rejection, correction, expression of concern, retraction, or other appropriate action.
8. Corrections, Expressions of Concern, and Retractions
SITEKNIK is committed to maintaining the accuracy and integrity of the published scholarly record. A correction may be issued when an error affects part of an article but does not invalidate its main findings. An expression of concern may be issued when serious questions have been raised but an investigation remains incomplete or inconclusive. A retraction may be issued when findings are unreliable because of major error or misconduct, when publication involves serious ethical violations, plagiarism, fraudulent data, duplicate publication, or other circumstances that substantially undermine the reliability of the article. Notices will be clearly identified and linked to the original publication whenever technically possible.
9. Complaints and Appeals
Authors, reviewers, readers, or other parties may submit a reasoned complaint regarding editorial procedures, publication ethics, or journal conduct to the editorial office. Complaints will be evaluated objectively and confidentially by an appropriate editor or responsible journal representative who is not directly involved in the matter whenever practicable. Authors may appeal an editorial decision when they believe that a significant factual misunderstanding, procedural error, or inappropriate interpretation materially affected the decision. Appeals should clearly state the grounds for reconsideration and provide supporting information. Appeals do not guarantee reversal of the original decision.
10. Open Access, Copyright, and Licensing
SITEKNIK provides immediate open access to its published content. Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication. No embargo period is applied. Detailed copyright and licensing terms are provided in the journal's Copyright & Licensing Policy.
11. Digital Preservation
SITEKNIK is committed to the long-term preservation and accessibility of its scholarly content. The journal uses recognized digital preservation arrangements as described in its Archiving Policy. Only preservation services in which the journal actively participates or deposits content should be considered part of the journal's preservation infrastructure.
12. Revenue Sources and Editorial Independence
Revenue sources, including Article Processing Charges, optional processing services, advertising, sponsorship, or other financial arrangements, must not influence editorial decisions. Acceptance and publication decisions are based solely on scholarly and editorial considerations.