Peksos: Jurnal Ilmiah Pekerjaan Sosial follows the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for its statements of ethics. 

Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed PEKSOS JOURNAL is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher, and the society.  

Intallation for Publication, POLTEKESOS as the publisher of PEKSOS JOURNAL takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing seriously and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint, or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions.

Publication Decisions

The editor of the PEKSOS JOURNAL 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 editors 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. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Fair Play

An editor at any time evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

 Confidentiality

The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor’s own research without the express written consent of the author

Allegations of Misconduct

Peksos: Jurnal Ilmiah Pekerjaan Sosial takes seriously allegations of misconduct pre-publication and post-publication. We will assess any information to identify any type of misconduct. If the allegation is true, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing corrections; retract the article; resolve this issue with the head of the department or dean of the relevant author institution and/or academic body or community, or take appropriate legal action.

Authorship and Contributorship

Peksos: Jurnal Ilmiah Pekerjaan Sosial obligates the authors to explain the originality of their works, avoidance of duplicate and/or salami publications, and the contribution of each author listed in the manuscript through an Ethical Statement. The template of the Ethical Statement can be downloaded here. 

It should be noted that Peksos: Jurnal Ilmiah Pekerjaan Sosial does not accept any articles that have been submitted to other types of publication (journals, proceeding, book chapter, etc.)

The authors must properly cite all works mentioned in the articles (articles or data set), both in the body text and in the reference list. Self-citation is allowed as long as it is relevant to the topic discussed. 

Conflict of interest/competing interests

Since conflicts of interest may influence the judgment of authors, reviewers, and editors, authors should avoid conflicts of interest or the appearance of conflicts of interest throughout the research process. All such interests (or their absence), such as roles in a project or funding source, should be stated explicitly by authors upon submission of the manuscript. If the manuscript is published, such a statement will be published within the article. If there is doubt about whether a circumstance represents a conflict, it should be disclosed, so that Editors may assess its significance. Any queries about possible conflicts of interest should be addressed to Peksos: Jurnal Ilmiah Pekerjaan Sosial

Data and reproducibility

Editorial Board or Peer-Reviewers have the responsibility to identify the use of fabricated data. If suspicion arose, the Editorial Board will ask opinions from more than one additional peer-reviewers and have a dialogue with authors. Peksos: Jurnal Ilmiah Pekerjaan Sosial also has the right to check data sets from the Author, if there is concern about data fabrication.

Ethical oversight

Peksos: Jurnal Ilmiah Pekerjaan Sosial also has concerns about ethical problems such as consent from respondents/informants, handling confidential data, and ethical business/marketing practices.

Intellectual property

As mentioned in the ‘Copyright Notice’, by publishing in, authors grant any third party the right to use their article to the extent provided by the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

Copyright on articles is retained by the respective author(s), without restrictions. A non-exclusive license is granted to Peksos: Jurnal Ilmiah Pekerjaan Sosial to publish the article and identify itself as its original publisher, along with the commercial right to include the article in a hardcopy issue for sale to libraries and individuals.

Every article submitted in Peksos: Jurnal Ilmiah Pekerjaan Sosial will be checked with plagiarism checking software. Article with a similarity index of more than 20% will be rejected upon submission. For duplicate publications and salami publications, we encourage the readers and peer-reviewers to inform us on these types of misconduct. Duplicate publication (sometimes referred to as redundant or dual publication) implies reporting identical or very similar data in multiple papers. Salami publication (also known as salami slicing and salami publishing) refers to the inappropriate fragmentation of data into the smallest publishable units.

Post-publication discussions and corrections

Peksos: Jurnal Ilmiah Pekerjaan Sosial allows changes in article post-publication. Correction, revision, or retracting articles post-publication can be done through discussion between the authors and the Editorial Board.

In the copy-editing and proofreading process, the editor will make changes to the text without changing the meaning if there is a grammatical error, spelling, or ineffectiveness of the sentence. Prior to the publication of the article, the results of the copy-editing and proofreading will be provided to the author for approval.

Copyright Notice

Articles published in Peksos: Jurnal Ilmiah Pekerjaan Sosial are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. You are free to copy, transform, or redistribute articles for any lawful purpose in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation, link to the DOI, indicate if changes were made, and redistribute any derivative work under the same license.

Copyright on articles is retained by the respective author(s), without restrictions. A non-exclusive license is granted to Peksos: Jurnal Ilmiah Pekerjaan Sosial to publish the article and identify itself as its original publisher, along with the commercial right to include the article in a hardcopy issue for sale to libraries and individuals.

By publishing in Peksos: Jurnal Ilmiah Pekerjaan Sosial, authors grant any third party the right to use their article to the extent provided by the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.