Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

This journal focuses on the development of knowledge, technology, arts, and cross-disciplinary collaboration to address societal issues at local, national, and global levels. The key areas of interest include:

Knowledge Innovation
This section emphasizes the development of ideas, models, and frameworks that respond to societal challenges. Topics include citizenship education, character education, civic engagement, local knowledge integration in schools, social transformation through participatory research, and policy analysis with applied ethics in science and education.

Technological Innovation
This section highlights research that applies scientific principles to improve products, systems, and services. Key topics include appropriate technologies for rural and urban communities, smart agriculture, renewable energy, clean technology, ICT for education and social entrepreneurship, and prototypes with measurable impact or scalability.

Artistic Innovation
This section explores the role of arts and design in transforming societies and cultures. It includes art projects, performance studies, multimedia installations, revitalization of traditional arts through modern interpretations, and the preservation of cultural heritage through community-based approaches.

Integrative Innovation (Knowledge–Technology–Arts)
This section supports cross-disciplinary projects that blend scientific, artistic, and local knowledge. Topics include transdisciplinary projects with community-based outcomes, holistic innovation models, socio-technical solutions co-developed with stakeholders, and innovation ecosystems rooted in culture, education, and environmental awareness.

By embracing a wide range of topics, the journal aims to serve as a platform for impactful research that fosters the advancement of knowledge, technology, and culture through innovative approaches.

 

Section Policies

Articles

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Peer Review Process

Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of INOTEKS will be reviewed. The manuscript will be sent to at least two reviewers (double-blind peer review). At their discretion, the reviewer may opt to reveal their name to the author in their review. However, our standard policy practice is for both identities to remain concealed.

The suggested decision will be evaluated in an editorial board meeting based on the reviewer’s recommendation from several possibilities: rejected, require major revision, need minor revision, or accepted. Afterward, the editor will send the final decision to the corresponding author. All manuscripts are reviewed as rapidly as possible. The editors aim to reach an editorial decision within three months of submission.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Publication Ethics

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

INOTEKSis a peer-reviewed electronic journal. This statement clarifies ethical behaviour of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal, including the author, the chief editor, the Editorial Board, the peer-reviewer and the publisher (Institute of Research and Community Service, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta). 

This journal adheres to the principles and guidelines set forth by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We are committed to ensuring the integrity of the research process and maintaining the highest ethical standards in the publication of scholarly work. The journal follows COPE’s recommendations regarding publication ethics, including but not limited to the prevention of plagiarism, accurate data reporting, and fair peer review practices.

For more information on COPE's guidelines, please refer to their official website: COPE Guidelines.

Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication

The publication of a peer-reviewed article in of INOTEKS 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.

Institute of Research and Community Service, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta as the publisher of INOTEKS takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing extremely 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. In addition, Institute of Research and Community Service, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta and Editorial Board will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful and necessary.

Publication decisions

The editor of the INOTEKS 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 evaluates 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.

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Promptness

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Confidentiality

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

Standards of Objectivity

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Duties of Authors

Reporting standards

Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.

Data Access and Retention

Authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data (consistent with the ALPSP-STM Statement on Data and Databases), if practicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

Originality and Plagiarism

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication

An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Authorship of the Paper

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study (following the guidellines) . All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects

If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

 

 

Retraction

The papers published in the INOTEKS will be considered to retract in the publication if :

  1. They have clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct (e.g. data fabrication) or honest error (e.g. miscalculation or experimental error)
  2. the findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper crossreferencing, permission or justification (i.e. cases of redundant publication)
  3. it constitutes plagiarism
  4. it reports unethical research

The mechanism of retraction follows the Retraction Guidelines of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) which can be accessed at https://publicationethics.org/files/retraction%20guidelines.pdf.

 

Screening of Plagiarism

Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to:

  1. Directly copying text from other sources without attribution
  2. Copying ideas, images, or data from other sources without attribution
  3. Reusing text from your own previous publications without attribution or agreement of the editor. Exception: Reusing text from the Methods section in the author’s previous publications, with attribution to the source, is acceptable.
  4. Using an idea from another source with slightly modified language without attribution.

If plagiarism is detected during the peer review process, the manuscript may be rejected. If plagiarism is detected after publication, we may issue a correction or retract the paper, as appropriate.

All manuscripts under review or published with the Jurnal INOTEKS are subject to screening using TURNITIN software.

Every manuscript submitted to INOTEKS is going to be scanned using Turnitin (similarity check)

  1. Similarity Index above 40%: Article Rejected(due to poor citation and/or poor paraphrasing, article outright rejected, NO RESUBMISSION accepted)
  2. Similarity Index (20-40%): Send to the author for improvement [provide correct citations to all places of similarity and do good paraphrasing even if the citation is provided]
  3. Similarity indexLess than 20%: Accepted or citation improvement may be required. [proper citations must be provided  to all outsourced texts]
    In cases 2 and 3, The authors should revise the article carefully, add required citations, and do good paraphrasing outsourced text. And resubmit the article with a new Turnitin report showing NO PLAGIARISM and similarity below 20%.

Data Fabrication 

This concerns the making up of research findings

Data Falsification 

Manipulating research data with the intention of giving a false impression. This includes manipulating images (e.g. micrographs, gels, radiological images), removing outliers or “inconvenient” results, changing, adding or omitting data points, etc.

Duplicate Submissions

Duplicate submission is a situation whereby an author submits the same or similar manuscripts to two different journals at the same time either within Academic Journals or any other publisher. This includes the submission of manuscripts derived from the same data in such a manner that there are no substantial differences in the manuscripts. Duplicate submission also includes the submission of the same/similar manuscript in different languages to different journals.

Authorship Issues

Clear policies (that allow for transparency around who contributed to the work and in what capacity) should be in place for requirements for authorship and contributorship as well as processes for managing potential disputes.

Here is some advice by COPE on how to spot potential authorship problems. Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan strives to follow these guidelines.

Citation Manipulation

Citation Manipulation is including excessive citations, in the submitted manuscript, that do not contribute to the scholarly content of the article and have been included solely for the purpose of increasing citations to a given author’s work, or to articles published in a particular journal. This leads to misrepresenting the importance of the specific work and journal in which it appears and is thus a form of scientific misconduct.

Suspected Manipulation of Peer Review/Bias of Peer Reviews

INOTEKS selects the reviewers on any manuscript with due care so as to avoid any conflict of interest between the reviewers and the authors. Jurnal Civics's peer review policy is adequately explained here. Our policy is compliant with COPE Guidelines on peer review.