Focus & Scope

INSAN JPKM is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to upholding the quality and integrity of its articles. All participants in the editorial process, including researchers, authors, editors, peer reviewers, and publishers, are required to follow the publication ethics guidelines outlined in COPE's Best Practice for Journal Editors.

1. Procedures and Informed Consent

Authors are required to provide a journal submission statement in the cover letter to the editor that includes:

1. Declaration that the article has not been published elsewhere and is not currently under review in another journal. We still accept articles that have been published in the form of preprints, conference abstracts, and summarized forms of student final projects (theses, theses, or dissertations), but authors must write a complete statement by including an online link to the article (if any) or a scanned abstract of the final project.

2. Declaration that the article will not be republished elsewhere once it has been accepted by INSAN JPKM.

3. For research with vulnerable participants and sensitive issues, authors must attach a certificate of ethical clearance for their research issued by an authorized ethics committee.

4. For certain types of research that may not require formal ethical clearance, authors still need to provide a statement with credible evidence and a logical statement that their research does not pose a risk of harm to individuals or groups by always maintaining the rights of participants including confidentiality. Authors need to show evidence that their research adheres to the Belmont Report's principles of respect, kindness, and justice. Authors need to obtain Informed Consent in accordance with the ethical principles written by the APA which contains 8 aspects that must be informed and agreed by participants. Authors do not need to attach a copy of the written consent unless there is a specific situation that requires it (the case/study is considered sensitive).

2. Declaration of Funding and Conflicts of Interest

Research funding sources must be clearly stated to demonstrate integrity and transparency. The funding source must be written at the end of the article, i.e.: the name of the research grant provider, year of funding, and the grant number if any. If the funders are involved in the research process, it should be stated how they were involved and what efforts the researcher made to avoid bias.

Authors are required to declare potential conflicts of interest and their efforts to prevent bias in order to build trust in the results and interpretations of the study.

Conflicts of interest can involve financial or non-financial relationships. A financial relationship indicates whether the researcher receives honoraria, shares, or other forms of payment from a particular institution that could potentially benefit the institution. Non-financial relationships may include personal, work, or ideological relationships that could potentially bias the results and interpretations of the study.

If there is a financial or non-financial relationship with a particular entity that could potentially influence the results or interpretations, the author must state the efforts made to mitigate the bias. If there is none, the authors should declare that they have no conflict of interest.

3. Authorship

Every individual who lists his or her name as an author is required to contribute and assign substantive academic responsibility to the completion of the study and scientific article.

Following McNutt's (2018) recommendation, the substantive contribution must be made in at least two of the following four areas:

a. concept or development of research design
b. data collection and processing (e.g. data cleaning/transformation/coding/reduction/entry)
c. data analysis and interpretation
d. writing key sections from background to discussion, or synthesising the results of the literature review and/or the results of the study

4. Change of Authorship

Requests for changes in author spelling, author surname, affiliation, or rearrangement of the order of authorship are not permitted after the journal has been accepted. Requests for such amendments can only be made while the journal is still under review by providing the editors with strong and logical reasons for the proposed changes. These changes can only be requested by correspondent author but must be approved by all authors.

To avoid misspellings of names, affiliations, and order of authorship, authors will be given the opportunity to check the final copyediting. Once the correspondence author approves the copyediting, the author will not be able to make changes to spelling errors, affiliations, and the order of authorship.