Focus & Scope

INSAN Jurnal Psikologi dan Kesehatan Mental is a peer-reviewed journal with printed and online editions. Therefore, all parties involved in the INSAN JPKM editorial processes, including authors, chief editor, editorial boards, peer reviewers, and publishers, shall uphold the ethical publication principles adopted from the COPE's Best Practice for Journal Editors.

INSAN Jurnal Psikologi dan Kesehatan mental publishes peer-reviewed journals to maintain the quality and credibility of articles. All parties (researchers, authors, editors, peer reviewers, and publishers) involved in the journal editorial process must adhere to the publication ethics principles of COPE's Best Practice for Journal Editors.

1. Procedures

Research that uses human subjects ensures that procedures are conducted in accordance with the code of ethics in accordance with the principles of the Belmont Report. The authors are required to maintain the privacy and rights of participants.

2. Informed Consent

All studies with research participants require verbal or written consent. It is not recommended to include a copy of the written consent unless a specific situation requires it. Inclusion of participant's personal information in the journal must be authorized by the participant otherwise the information cannot be published and must be removed.

3. Declaration of Conflict of Interest

Authors are required to disclose funding sources and personal relationships with individuals and organizations that may influence the authors' bias in reporting results and discussion. Conflicts of interest that may influence the results and discussion may relate to employment, consulting, shareholding, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent registration, grant funding, and other funding.  If there is a risk of conflict of interest, the authors will need to complete a conflict of interest declaration statement.

4. Authorship

Authors are required to have substantially contributed to the following: 

1. Research concept and design, data collection process, or data analysis and interpretation
2. Drafting or revision of the article 
3. Approval of the final version submitted

5. Change of Author

Authors are expected to carefully consider the final author list before submitting the manuscript for the first time. Additions, deletions, or rearrangements of author names in the authorship list should be made before the manuscript is accepted and only if approved by the journal editor. 

To request such changes, the editor must receive the following from the corresponding author: 

1. The reason for the change in the author list 
2. Written confirmation (email, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, deletion, or rearrangement. 

Only under certain circumstances, the editor will consider author additions, deletions or rearrangements after the manuscript has been accepted. 

While the editors are considering author change requests, publication of the manuscript will be suspended.