PUBLICATION ETHICS

The editors of Jurnal Buana Teknologi Pendidikan are responsible for deciding which submitted manuscripts are suitable for publication. Editorial decisions should be based on scholarly quality, relevance, originality, methodological soundness, ethical integrity, and the journal's editorial policies. Editors may consult other editors or reviewers when necessary.

Manuscripts are evaluated on the basis of their intellectual and scholarly content without discrimination based on race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, nationality, political views, institutional affiliation, or other personal characteristics of the authors.

Editors and editorial staff must not disclose information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, appropriate editorial advisers, and the publisher or journal management where necessary.

Editors must avoid handling manuscripts where an actual, potential, or perceived conflict of interest could compromise editorial impartiality. Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used for an editor's own research without the author's explicit permission.

Peer review assists editors in making informed editorial decisions and may also help authors improve the scholarly quality, clarity, and rigor of their manuscripts.

A reviewer who feels unqualified to evaluate a manuscript or is unable to complete the review within the requested period should promptly notify the editor and decline the review assignment.

Manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents and must not be shared, discussed, or disclosed to others without authorization from the editor.

Reviews should be conducted objectively and professionally. Personal criticism of authors is not acceptable. Reviewers should provide clear, constructive, and evidence-based comments supported by appropriate academic reasoning.

Reviewers should identify relevant scholarly work that may have been overlooked by the authors when such references are directly relevant to the manuscript. Reviewers should also inform the editor of any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and other published or submitted work known to them.

Reviewers should decline manuscripts when personal, professional, financial, institutional, competitive, or collaborative relationships could compromise their impartiality. Confidential information or unpublished material obtained through peer review must not be used for personal advantage or research purposes.

Authors of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed and provide an objective discussion of its significance. Data and findings should be represented honestly and accurately. Fraudulent, fabricated, falsified, or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

Authors should retain relevant research data and supporting documentation for an appropriate period after publication. Where appropriate and ethically permissible, authors may be asked to provide supporting data for editorial assessment or research-integrity purposes. Data sharing must respect privacy, confidentiality, informed consent, institutional policies, and applicable legal restrictions.

Authors must ensure that submitted work is original. When the work, ideas, data, or words of others are used, they must be appropriately acknowledged and cited. Plagiarism, self-plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, and inappropriate text recycling are not acceptable.

Authors should not submit or publish substantially the same research in more than one primary publication without appropriate justification and disclosure. Concurrent submission of the same manuscript to multiple journals constitutes unethical publishing behavior.

Authors must appropriately acknowledge scholarly work that has contributed to or influenced the submitted research. References should be selected on the basis of scholarly relevance and should be accurate and verifiable.

Authorship should be limited to individuals who have made substantial contributions to the conception, design, execution, analysis, interpretation, or preparation of the work. All listed authors must approve the final manuscript and agree to its submission. Individuals who contributed to the work but do not meet the criteria for authorship should be acknowledged appropriately.

Authors must disclose any financial, personal, professional, institutional, or other relationships that could influence the research or its interpretation. All relevant sources of financial support should also be disclosed.

When authors discover a significant error or inaccuracy in their published work, they should promptly notify the journal and cooperate with the editorial team in issuing an appropriate correction, clarification, retraction, or other post-publication notice.

A published article may be considered for retraction when serious concerns substantially undermine the reliability, integrity, or ethical validity of the publication. This may include situations where:

1. there is clear evidence that the findings are unreliable because of misconduct, fabrication, falsification, serious methodological error, miscalculation, or other significant error;
2. the findings have previously been published elsewhere without appropriate disclosure, cross-reference, permission, or justification;
3. the article contains plagiarism or other serious breaches of publication ethics; or
4. the research was conducted or reported in violation of applicable ethical requirements.

Retraction decisions are handled in accordance with the journal's Corrections, Retractions, and Withdrawals Policy. Retraction notices should remain publicly accessible, clearly identify the affected article, and explain the reason for the retraction. Published articles should not be silently removed from the scholarly record.