NERS Jurnal Keperawatan (NJK) is committed to maintaining the integrity, transparency, and credibility of the scholarly record. The journal recognizes that high-quality scholarly publishing requires responsible conduct from all parties involved in the publication process, including authors, reviewers, editors, the publisher, and other relevant stakeholders.

The journal's publication ethics framework is developed with reference to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Core Practices and the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. These principles provide a framework for addressing ethical issues throughout the submission, peer-review, publication, and post-publication processes.

The journal is committed to applying its policies fairly, consistently, and transparently while protecting the integrity of the scholarly record and respecting the rights and responsibilities of all participants in the publication process.

Publication Ethics Policies

The following policies constitute the publication ethics framework of NERS Jurnal Keperawatan (NJK):

1. Allegations of Misconduct

The journal's procedures for receiving, assessing, investigating, and responding to allegations of research and publication misconduct, including fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, citation manipulation, authorship misconduct, and peer-review manipulation.

2. Authorship and Contributorship

The journal's principles concerning authorship, contributorship, author responsibilities, changes in authorship, authorship disputes, and appropriate attribution of contributions.

3. Complaints and Appeals

The procedures for submitting and handling complaints concerning the journal, editorial processes, editorial decisions, reviewers, editors, or other aspects of the publication process, including mechanisms for appeals.

4. Conflicts of Interest

The journal's requirements for the disclosure and management of conflicts of interest and competing interests involving authors, reviewers, editors, editorial board members, and other relevant parties.

5. Data Availability and Reproducibility

The journal's expectations concerning research data, data availability, research transparency, reproducibility, reporting standards, and, where applicable, research or study registration.

6. Research Ethics and Ethical Oversight

The journal's requirements concerning ethical approval, research involving human participants, vulnerable populations, animals where applicable, informed consent, consent for publication, privacy, and the protection of confidential information.

7. Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Licensing

The journal's policies concerning intellectual property, copyright ownership, publishing rights, licensing, and permissions, third-party materials, plagiarism, and redundant or overlapping publication.

8. Peer Review Policy

The journal's peer-review principles, reviewer responsibilities, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, reviewer conduct, editorial independence, peer-review integrity, and procedures for addressing concerns arising during the review process.

9. Corrections, Retractions, and Expressions of Concern

The journal's procedures for correcting the scholarly record, including corrections, retractions, expressions of concern, and other post-publication actions when errors or concerns affect the integrity or reliability of published work.

10. Post-Publication Discussion

The journal's mechanisms for scholarly discussion and the communication of substantive concerns regarding published articles, including correspondence, comments, and other appropriate post-publication channels.

11. Plagiarism and Redundant Publication

The journal's policy concerning plagiarism, self-plagiarism, duplicate publication, redundant publication, text recycling, inappropriate reuse of previously published material, and related forms of publication misconduct.

12. Generative Artificial Intelligence

The journal's requirements concerning the use of generative artificial intelligence and other AI-assisted technologies by authors, reviewers, editors, and other participants in the publication process.

The policy addresses transparency and disclosure of AI use, authors' responsibility for submitted content, authorship, confidentiality, protection of unpublished manuscripts and peer-review materials, and human responsibility for editorial decisions.

13. Editorial Independence and Journal Governance

The journal's principles concerning editorial independence, responsibilities of the editor and editorial board, separation of editorial decisions from commercial interests, and the governance and management of the journal.

14. Publication Fees and Business Practices

The journal's policies concerning publication-related fees, financial transparency, and the relationship between business practices and editorial decision-making. Advertising, sponsorship, promotional activities, and direct marketing are addressed in the journal's Advertising and Direct Marketing Policy.

15. Open Access Policy

The journal's policy concerning access to published content, the availability of scholarly articles to readers, and the principles governing the journal's open-access publishing model.

16. Copyright and Self-Archiving / Repository Policy

The journal's policy concerning authors' rights to deposit, share, and reuse their published work through institutional or subject repositories, subject to the journal's applicable copyright and licensing conditions.

17. Digital Preservation and Archiving

The journal's policy for the long-term preservation and continued accessibility of published scholarly content.

18. Preprints and Prior Dissemination

The journal's policy concerning manuscripts that have previously appeared as preprints or have otherwise been publicly disseminated before formal publication.

19. Special Issues and Supplementary Publications

The journal's ethical and editorial requirements for special issues, supplements, guest-edited collections, and other forms of supplementary publication.

20. Advertising and Direct Marketing

The journal's principles governing advertising, promotional activities, direct marketing, and other commercial communications to ensure that such activities do not improperly influence editorial decisions.

Commitment to Publication Integrity

NERS Jurnal Keperawatan (NJK) expects all participants in the publication process to act honestly, transparently, responsibly, and in accordance with applicable ethical and professional standards.

When concerns arise before or after publication, the journal will assess and address them using appropriate editorial procedures and, where relevant, established ethical guidance. The journal may consult appropriate institutions, professional bodies, or other authoritative sources when necessary to resolve complex ethical matters.

The journal's policies will be reviewed periodically and updated when necessary to reflect developments in scholarly publishing, relevant ethical standards, and applicable COPE guidance.

The journal's publication ethics framework is developed with reference to COPE guidance and the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. This reference does not constitute or imply COPE endorsement, certification, or approval of the journal.

Relevant COPE Resources

• COPE Core Practices
• Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing

Contact

For questions or concerns regarding publication ethics, authors, reviewers, editors, and other stakeholders may contact the editorial team through the journal's official contact channel.

Editorial Office
NERS Jurnal Keperawatan (NJK)
Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Andalas
Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia

Email: jurnal.fkep.unand@gmail.com
Website: https://ners.fkep.unand.ac.id/index.php/NJK/index