Jurnal IPTEK Bagi Masyarakat (J-IbM) and its publisher adhere to the principles and best practices promoted by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The journal is committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics, research integrity, transparency, and academic quality throughout the editorial and publication process.
Editors are responsible for making publication decisions based solely on academic merit, originality, relevance, ethical compliance, and alignment with the journal's aims and scope. Editors must ensure confidentiality, fairness, editorial independence, and appropriate management of conflicts of interest throughout the review process.
Reviewers contribute to editorial decisions through objective, constructive, timely, and confidential evaluations. Reviewers should identify relevant uncited work, report potential ethical concerns, and decline review assignments when conflicts of interest exist.
Authors are responsible for ensuring the originality, accuracy, and integrity of their work. Manuscripts must not be simultaneously submitted elsewhere, and all contributors, funding sources, and potential conflicts of interest must be appropriately disclosed.
All submitted manuscripts must comply with recognized ethical standards in research, publication, and professional conduct. Fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, citation manipulation, authorship manipulation, data manipulation, and other forms of research misconduct are strictly prohibited.
Research involving human participants must comply with applicable ethical standards and regulations. Where appropriate, authors should confirm that ethical approval was obtained from the relevant ethics committee or institutional review board and that informed consent was obtained from participants.
Research involving animals must comply with applicable institutional, national, and international ethical standards. Authors should provide information regarding ethical approval and animal welfare considerations where relevant and ensure that animals are treated humanely throughout the research process.
Authors, reviewers, and editors must disclose any financial, professional, institutional, or personal relationships that could influence the research, review, or publication process. All sources of funding must be transparently reported.
Authors should retain research data and be prepared to provide supporting information when requested by editors. The journal encourages transparency, reproducibility, and responsible data-sharing practices whenever appropriate.
Any use of artificial intelligence tools in manuscript preparation, data analysis, image generation, or related activities must be appropriately disclosed. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, integrity, originality, and validity of all submitted content. Artificial intelligence tools cannot be listed as authors.
The journal follows COPE guidance in handling corrections, retractions, expressions of concern, and other post-publication issues. Appropriate editorial action will be taken when ethical concerns, significant errors, or research misconduct are identified.
The journal does not tolerate plagiarism or any form of publication malpractice. All manuscripts may be screened using plagiarism detection tools. Suspected cases of plagiarism, duplicate publication, fabricated data, falsified data, inappropriate authorship, or other forms of misconduct will be investigated in accordance with COPE recommendations and may result in rejection, correction, retraction, or other appropriate actions.
