Ethics

Submission Ethics

Ethics in JESSD Symposium is based on Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Before submitting your article(s), please ensure that your submission completely represents the following statements:

• The uploaded files have been carefully prepared based on the provided templates, both title page (title, author name(s), affiliation(s), abstract, and acknowledgements) and article (title, abstract, introduction, method, results and discussion, conclusion, and references).
• The article represents a qualified scientific knowledge that might come from international collaborations.
• Author(s) has/have approved the article and agree(s) with the submission, therefore any withdrawal of the article is prohibited once it is submitted.
• Author(s) is/are willing to pay the symposium fee and publication fee charged by the organizers (symposium fee is mandatory charged for one author attendance virtually while publication fee is optionally charged before the symposium or after the article is listed in Scopus).
• The article does not contain any form of plagiarism.
• Author(s) has/have made significant substantial contribution to the article, whether it is in the concept or design, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation, or in all these areas.
• The article has not been published elsewhere and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere (either partly or wholly).
• Author(s) has/have acknowledged any conflict of interest in the article, if necessary.
• Author(s) has/have acknowledged any source of funding in the article, if necessary.
• The article was written in English and carefully reviewed by a native English editor.

Review Ethics

The author(s) is/are required to propose one reviewer and another one reviewer optionally. However, the organizers manage to prevent any conflict of interest that might be happened during review process. Therefore, please ensure that your suggested reviewer fits the following criteria:

• He/she is an expert in the relevant field.
• He/she has no competing interest with the author(s).
• He/she has never been involved in any related work with the author(s).
• He/she does not know the author(s) personally.

There is no certainty that the organizer will accept your suggested reviewer. The double-blind peer review will be conducted, therefore reviewers will not receive any author(s) information and vice versa.

Similarity Check

Each submitted article will be going to preliminary review with Turnitin. Through the preliminary review, any form of plagiarism will be detected and measured. If similarity check result is more than 20%, the article will be returned or directly rejected. Moreover, the preliminary review will also consider return or direct rejection due to, but not limited to, the following reasons:

• Falling out of topic.
• Multiple submission or consideration for other publications.
• Recommendation for rejection from reviewer.