PUBLICATION ETHICS

Jurnal Sistem Cerdas 

1. Statement of Publication Ethics

Jurnal Sistem Cerdas (JSC) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics, academic integrity, transparency, accountability, and responsible scholarly communication.

The journal publishes original research in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computational intelligence, intelligent information systems, data science, and related scientific disciplines.

This Publication Ethics policy establishes ethical principles and responsibilities for all parties involved in the publication process, including authors, editors, reviewers, publishers, and editorial staff.

The journal's ethical framework is informed by the principles and recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and internationally recognized standards of responsible research and scholarly publishing.

All parties involved in the publication process are expected to uphold scientific integrity, fairness, confidentiality, and professional conduct.

2. Ethical Responsibilities of Authors

Authors are responsible for ensuring that their submitted manuscripts represent original, accurate, transparent, and ethically conducted research.

2.1. Originality and Plagiarism

Authors must submit original manuscripts that have not been previously published or submitted simultaneously to another journal.

All ideas, methods, findings, figures, datasets, and other intellectual contributions derived from previous works must be appropriately acknowledged and cited.

Plagiarism in any form is prohibited, including direct copying without attribution, inappropriate paraphrasing, unauthorized reproduction of copyrighted materials, and presenting another person's research as original work.

The journal may use plagiarism detection software to evaluate manuscript originality.

Similarity screening results will be assessed contextually rather than relying solely on a numerical similarity percentage.

2.2. Data Accuracy and Research Integrity

Authors must accurately present research data, methodologies, experimental procedures, analyses, and findings.

Data fabrication, falsification, selective manipulation of results, and intentional misrepresentation of scientific evidence are strictly prohibited.

Authors must not modify experimental findings, evaluation metrics, images, or statistical results to create misleading conclusions.

Research conclusions must be supported by appropriate evidence and must accurately reflect the limitations of the study.

2.3. Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication

Authors must not submit the same manuscript to multiple journals simultaneously.

Duplicate or redundant publication without appropriate disclosure, justification, or permission is prohibited.

Substantial overlap with previously published work must be clearly disclosed.

Authors who extend previous conference papers, preprints, or earlier research publications must transparently identify the original work and explain the additional scientific contribution.

Prior dissemination through a preprint server does not automatically constitute duplicate publication, but authors must disclose relevant preprints and comply with the journal's preprint policy.

2.4. Authorship and Contributorship

Authorship must accurately reflect substantial scholarly contributions to the research.

All listed authors must comply with the journal's Authorship Criteria and approve the final submitted manuscript.

Honorary authorship, guest authorship, ghost authorship, coercive authorship, and the sale or purchase of authorship positions are prohibited.

The corresponding author must ensure that all eligible contributors are properly recognized and that all authors agree to the submission and authorship order.

The journal encourages the use of the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) to provide transparent descriptions of author contributions.

2.5. Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest

Authors must disclose financial, institutional, professional, or personal relationships that could reasonably influence the research or its interpretation.

Relevant conflicts may include research funding, consultancy arrangements, employment relationships, intellectual property interests, or commercial affiliations.

The absence of competing interests should also be declared when required by the journal.

Disclosure of a conflict of interest does not automatically disqualify a manuscript from publication.

2.6. Acknowledgment of Funding Sources

Authors must disclose all relevant financial support received for the research.

Funding statements should identify the supporting institution or organization and the relevant grant number, where applicable.

Authors should also describe the funder's involvement in research design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, or manuscript preparation when relevant.

2.7. Ethical Approval and Informed Consent

Research involving human participants, personal data, medical information, or other activities requiring ethical oversight must comply with applicable ethical and legal requirements.

Authors must obtain approval from an appropriate ethics committee or institutional review board when required.

Informed consent must be obtained from research participants where applicable.

Research involving sensitive information must ensure appropriate privacy protection, confidentiality, and lawful data processing.

For research involving animals, authors must comply with relevant animal research ethics standards and institutional requirements.

3. Ethical Responsibilities of Editors

Editors are responsible for maintaining the scientific quality, integrity, confidentiality, fairness, and independence of the journal's editorial process.

3.1. Fair and Objective Evaluation

Editors must evaluate submitted manuscripts based on scientific merit, originality, methodological rigor, relevance, and contribution to the journal's Focus and Scope.

Editorial decisions must not be influenced by authors' nationality, ethnicity, gender, religious beliefs, institutional affiliation, academic position, or personal relationships.

All manuscripts must receive fair consideration according to the journal's established editorial policies.

3.2. Editorial Independence

The Editor-in-Chief and authorized editors are responsible for editorial decisions.

The publisher, sponsors, funding organizations, and other external parties must not improperly influence manuscript acceptance or rejection.

Financial considerations, including Article Processing Charges, must remain separate from scientific evaluation and editorial decision-making.

3.3. Confidentiality

Editors and editorial staff must protect confidential information contained in submitted manuscripts.

Unpublished manuscripts, research findings, datasets, and reviewer reports must not be disclosed to unauthorized parties.

Confidential information obtained during editorial processing must not be used for personal research or professional advantage.

3.4. Conflicts of Interest

Editors must disclose potential conflicts of interest involving authors, institutions, research projects, or commercial organizations.

Editors must withdraw from handling manuscripts where their impartiality could reasonably be compromised.

Such manuscripts should be assigned to another qualified editor.

3.5. Editorial Decisions and Accountability

Editors must ensure that publication decisions are supported by appropriate scientific evaluation and consistent editorial standards.

Reviewer recommendations should be carefully considered, but the final editorial decision remains the responsibility of the authorized editor.

Editors are responsible for addressing concerns regarding research integrity, publication misconduct, corrections, and retractions.

4. Ethical Responsibilities of Reviewers

Reviewers contribute to the scientific quality and credibility of the journal through independent and constructive manuscript evaluation.

4.1. Objectivity and Professionalism

Reviewers must evaluate manuscripts objectively and provide constructive, evidence-based comments.

Personal criticism, discriminatory remarks, hostile language, and unsupported allegations are prohibited.

Reviewer recommendations must be based on scientific arguments and relevant evidence.

4.2. Confidentiality

Reviewers must treat manuscripts as confidential documents.

Manuscripts must not be shared, distributed, reproduced, or discussed with unauthorized individuals.

Reviewers must not use unpublished research findings or confidential information for personal or professional advantage.

4.3. Competence and Timeliness

Reviewers should accept assignments only when they possess appropriate expertise and can reasonably complete the evaluation within the agreed timeframe.

Reviewers who lack sufficient expertise or cannot meet the deadline should promptly inform the editorial office.

4.4. Conflict of Interest

Reviewers must disclose relationships or circumstances that could compromise their objectivity.

Potential conflicts may include close professional collaborations, personal relationships, institutional affiliations, financial interests, or academic competition.

Reviewers should decline assignments when an impartial assessment cannot reasonably be ensured.

4.5. Identification of Ethical Concerns

Reviewers should notify the editorial team if they identify suspected plagiarism, duplicate publication, fabricated data, manipulated research results, inappropriate citations, or other potential research integrity concerns.

Such concerns must be communicated confidentially and supported by appropriate evidence when possible.

5. Ethical Responsibilities of the Publisher

The publisher of Jurnal Sistem Cerdas is responsible for supporting ethical, transparent, independent, and sustainable scholarly publishing.

The publisher must provide appropriate organizational and technical support for editorial operations while respecting editorial independence.

Publisher responsibilities include:

1. Supporting the implementation of publication ethics policies.

2. Maintaining the journal's publishing infrastructure and online accessibility.

3. Promoting transparency in ownership, management, and publication charges.

4. Supporting investigations into allegations of publication misconduct.

5. Facilitating corrections, expressions of concern, and retractions where appropriate.

6. Maintaining the integrity and accessibility of published scholarly records.

7. Ensuring that financial considerations do not improperly influence editorial decisions.

The publisher and editorial team share responsibility for protecting the credibility of the journal and the scholarly literature.

6. Peer Review Ethics

Jurnal Sistem Cerdas adopts a double-blind peer review process to support impartial and independent scientific evaluation.

Manuscripts proceeding to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two qualified independent reviewers.

The identities of authors and reviewers are concealed from one another throughout the review process.

Reviewers must maintain confidentiality and disclose relevant conflicts of interest.

Editors must ensure appropriate reviewer selection, transparent editorial decisions, and fair handling of reviewer recommendations.

The journal does not guarantee manuscript acceptance based on reviewer recommendations alone.

7. Plagiarism and Similarity Screening Policy

All submitted manuscripts may undergo originality and similarity screening before publication.

The editorial team evaluates similarity reports by considering the source, context, and significance of textual overlap.

The journal distinguishes between legitimate similarities, properly cited material, technical terminology, and unattributed copying.

Manuscripts containing substantial plagiarism or other serious originality violations may be rejected.

If plagiarism is identified after publication, the editorial team may initiate an investigation and take appropriate corrective action.

The journal does not treat similarity scores as conclusive evidence of plagiarism without editorial assessment.

8. Research Data, Reproducibility, and Transparency

Jurnal Sistem Cerdas encourages authors to conduct transparent and reproducible scientific research.

Authors should provide sufficient methodological information to enable independent understanding, verification, and reasonable reproduction of their findings.

For artificial intelligence and computational research, authors are encouraged to disclose:

• Dataset sources and characteristics.

• Data collection and preprocessing procedures.

• Model architecture and implementation details.

• Training, validation, and testing configurations.

• Experimental parameters and evaluation metrics.

• Baseline models and comparative methods.

• Relevant software frameworks and computational environments.

• Random seeds and reproducibility settings, where applicable.

• Research limitations and potential threats to validity.

Authors are encouraged to make research data, source code, and supporting materials available through appropriate repositories when legally and ethically permissible.

Restrictions on data or code availability should be clearly explained.

9. Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools

Jurnal Sistem Cerdas recognizes the growing role of artificial intelligence tools in scientific research, programming, data analysis, and manuscript preparation.

The journal supports responsible and transparent use of AI-assisted technologies.

9.1. AI Authorship

Artificial intelligence tools, including large language models and generative AI systems, cannot be listed as authors or co-authors.

AI tools cannot assume the legal, ethical, and scholarly responsibilities required of human authors.

Human authors remain fully accountable for all manuscript content.

9.2. Disclosure of AI Use

Authors must disclose substantive use of generative AI tools in manuscript preparation, scientific analysis, image generation, or research processes.

Disclosures should identify the AI tool used, its purpose, and how it contributed to the research or manuscript.

Routine language or spelling assistance may be treated in accordance with the journal's specific disclosure requirements.

9.3. Prohibited AI Practices

The journal prohibits the use of AI tools to:

1. Fabricate research data or experimental findings.

2. Generate fictitious references or citations.

3. Manipulate images or scientific results deceptively.

4. Misrepresent the originality of research contributions.

5. Produce misleading or unverifiable scientific conclusions.

6. Conceal plagiarism or academic misconduct.

9.4. AI Use in Editorial and Peer Review Activities

Editors and reviewers must protect the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts.

Confidential manuscripts, unpublished data, or reviewer materials must not be uploaded to external AI systems unless the journal has explicitly authorized the use and appropriate confidentiality safeguards are established.

Human editors and reviewers remain responsible for all evaluations, recommendations, and editorial decisions.

10. Citation Ethics and Reference Integrity

Authors must accurately acknowledge relevant previous studies and intellectual contributions.

References must be genuine, verifiable, relevant, and appropriately cited.

Citation manipulation is prohibited, including:

• Adding irrelevant references solely to increase citation counts.

• Excessive self-citation without scholarly justification.

• Coercive citation requests.

• Coordinated citation exchanges intended to manipulate metrics.

• Including fabricated or nonexistent references.

Editors and reviewers must not request citations to their own publications unless the references are directly relevant and scientifically justified.

11. Image, Figure, and Experimental Data Integrity

Scientific images, graphs, tables, and experimental results must accurately represent the underlying research evidence.

Image manipulation that changes the scientific meaning of results is prohibited.

Permissible image adjustments must be applied consistently and transparently.

Authors must disclose image-processing procedures when they could affect scientific interpretation.

Generated or synthetic datasets must be clearly identified and must not be misrepresented as real-world observations.

For computer vision and machine learning research, dataset construction, annotation, augmentation, and preprocessing procedures should be reported transparently.

12. Handling Allegations of Research Misconduct

Jurnal Sistem Cerdas takes allegations of research and publication misconduct seriously.

Concerns may be raised by authors, reviewers, editors, readers, institutions, or other parties.

The journal will evaluate allegations through a fair and confidential process.

The general procedure includes:

1. Receiving and documenting the allegation.

2. Conducting an initial assessment of the available information.

3. Determining whether further investigation is warranted.

4. Requesting clarification or supporting evidence from the parties involved.

5. Consulting relevant institutions or experts when necessary.

6. Evaluating the findings and determining appropriate editorial action.

7. Communicating the outcome to relevant parties.

8. Issuing corrections, expressions of concern, or retractions when justified.

The journal will consider evidence objectively and provide an appropriate opportunity for affected parties to respond.

Anonymous or confidential reports may be considered when they provide sufficiently specific and credible information.

The editorial team will protect confidentiality to the extent reasonably possible while conducting a fair investigation.

13. Corrections, Expressions of Concern, and Retractions

Jurnal Sistem Cerdas is committed to maintaining the integrity and accuracy of the published scientific record.

13.1. Corrections

A correction may be published when an article contains significant errors that do not invalidate its overall findings or conclusions.

Correction notices should clearly identify the affected article and describe the changes made.

13.2. Expressions of Concern

An expression of concern may be issued when serious questions arise regarding the reliability or integrity of a published article and the available evidence does not yet support a definitive editorial conclusion.

The notice may be updated following further investigation.

13.3. Retractions

Retraction may be considered when published findings are unreliable because of serious errors, fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, unethical research, or other circumstances that substantially undermine the scientific record.

Retractions are intended to correct the scholarly literature rather than primarily punish authors.

Retraction notices must clearly identify the affected article, explain the reason for retraction, and remain publicly accessible.

Retracted articles should remain identifiable in the publication record and be clearly marked as retracted.

13.4. Post-Publication Complaints

Readers and other stakeholders may report suspected errors or ethical concerns after publication.

The editorial team will assess credible complaints and determine appropriate actions according to the available evidence and relevant ethical guidance.

14. Complaints and Appeals

Authors may submit formal appeals concerning editorial decisions when they believe that a significant factual error, procedural irregularity, or conflict of interest affected the evaluation.

Appeals must include a clear explanation and appropriate supporting evidence.

The appeal will be assessed by the Editor-in-Chief or another qualified editor who is not subject to the relevant conflict of interest.

Complaints regarding editorial conduct, peer review procedures, confidentiality, or publication ethics may be submitted through the journal's official communication channels.

All complaints and appeals will be handled professionally and fairly.

15. Copyright and Intellectual Property

Authors must respect intellectual property rights and obtain permission when reproducing copyrighted materials.

All submitted manuscripts must comply with the journal's official Copyright Notice and licensing policy.

The journal supports transparent publication agreements that clearly explain authors' rights and responsibilities.

Authors must ensure that figures, tables, datasets, software components, and other materials included in their manuscripts are used lawfully and appropriately attributed.

16. Publication Fees and Financial Transparency

Jurnal Sistem Cerdas applies an Article Processing Charge (APC) of IDR 500,000 per accepted article.

Under the journal's stated fee policy, manuscript submission and peer review are free of charge.

The APC is payable only after formal manuscript acceptance.

Editorial decisions are made independently of payment and are based on scientific merit, research integrity, and compliance with the journal's publication standards.

The journal does not permit authors to purchase favorable reviewer recommendations or editorial decisions.

Publication fees must be communicated transparently through the journal's official website.

17. Editorial Independence and Conflict Management

Jurnal Sistem Cerdas maintains a clear separation between editorial evaluation, institutional interests, and financial administration.

Editors must make decisions independently and must not permit inappropriate influence from publishers, sponsors, institutions, or individuals.

Potential conflicts of interest must be disclosed and appropriately managed.

Where necessary, editorial responsibilities must be reassigned to preserve impartiality.

18. Ethical Standards for Research Involving Human Data

Research involving personal information, human-generated datasets, biometric data, medical records, or behavioral information must comply with applicable privacy laws and research ethics requirements.

Authors must take appropriate measures to protect confidentiality, data security, and individual privacy.

Where required, authors must obtain ethical approval, informed consent, or appropriate authorization for data collection and use.

Public availability of information does not automatically eliminate ethical or legal obligations concerning its collection, processing, or publication.

19. Ethical Standards for Cybersecurity Research

Research involving cybersecurity, vulnerability assessment, network traffic analysis, malware detection, or penetration testing must be conducted responsibly.

Authors must ensure that their research activities comply with applicable laws, institutional policies, authorization requirements, and ethical principles.

Experiments involving operational networks, third-party systems, or sensitive security infrastructure must be conducted with appropriate authorization.

The journal may request clarification regarding the ethical and legal basis of cybersecurity experiments.

Research findings should be reported in a manner that supports scientific understanding while avoiding unnecessary disclosure of sensitive information that could create foreseeable security risks.

20. Ethical Standards for Artificial Intelligence Research

Artificial intelligence research submitted to Jurnal Sistem Cerdas should consider relevant ethical implications, including fairness, accountability, transparency, privacy, robustness, and potential societal impacts.

Authors are encouraged to discuss algorithmic bias, dataset limitations, generalization challenges, interpretability, and deployment risks where relevant.

Research involving automated decision-making systems should explain the intended application, limitations, and appropriate human oversight.

Claims concerning AI performance, safety, or reliability must be supported by appropriate scientific evidence.

21. Responsibilities After Publication

Authors remain responsible for the integrity of their published research.

When authors discover significant errors, inaccuracies, or ethical concerns in their published work, they must promptly notify the editorial office.

Authors are expected to cooperate with reasonable requests for supporting evidence, clarification, or post-publication investigation.

Editors and publishers are responsible for taking appropriate corrective action when necessary to maintain the integrity of the scholarly record.

22. Commitment to Ethical Scholarly Publishing

Jurnal Sistem Cerdas is committed to promoting responsible scientific research, transparent editorial practices, independent peer review, and ethical dissemination of scholarly knowledge.

The journal expects all authors, editors, reviewers, and publishing personnel to comply with the principles described in this Publication Ethics policy.

Violations may result in editorial actions, including manuscript rejection, publication correction, retraction, or referral to relevant institutions when appropriate.

Through consistent implementation of ethical publishing standards, Jurnal Sistem Cerdas aims to maintain public trust, strengthen academic integrity, and contribute to the responsible advancement of intelligent systems research.

23. References and Ethical Guidelines

This Publication Ethics policy is informed by internationally recognized scholarly publishing guidance, including:

Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

https://publicationethics.org/

COPE Core Practices

https://publicationethics.org/core-practices

COPE Retraction Guidelines

https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.1.4

COPE Position Statement on Authorship and AI Tools

https://doi.org/10.24318/cCVRZBms

Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing

https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.1.12

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)

https://www.icmje.org/recommendations/

All individuals involved in the journal's publication process are expected to comply with applicable journal policies and recognized standards of research and publication ethics.