Publication Ethics

Outline Journal of Education (e-ISSN: 2963-1521) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Outline Publishers. The journal publishes scholarly works in the field of education, including research articles, literature studies, and other scholarly works relevant to educational development.

This Publication Ethics and Ethical Guidelines statement outlines the ethical responsibilities and expected behavior of all parties involved in the publication process of Outline Journal of Education, including authors, the Editor-in-Chief, editors, editorial board members, peer reviewers, and the publisher.

The journal is committed to maintaining academic integrity, transparency, fairness, confidentiality, and responsible scholarly publishing practices. This ethical guideline is developed with reference to the principles and best practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Ethical Guidelines for Journal Publication

The publication of scholarly articles in a peer-reviewed journal is an essential component in the development and dissemination of knowledge. The publication process reflects the quality and integrity of the authors, editors, reviewers, institutions, and publishers involved. Therefore, all parties involved in the publication of Outline Journal of Management and Accounting are expected to uphold the highest standards of academic and publication ethics.

Outline Publikasi, as the publisher of Outline Journal of Management and Accounting, is committed to maintaining the integrity of the publication process and ensuring that editorial decisions are made independently and objectively. Advertising, commercial considerations, sponsorship, or other financial interests shall not influence editorial decisions. The publisher and editorial team are also committed to maintaining professional communication with authors, reviewers, editors, and other journals or publishers when necessary.

Publication Decisions

The Editor-in-Chief and editorial team of Outline Journal of Management and Accounting are responsible for determining which submitted manuscripts are accepted for publication. Editorial decisions must be based primarily on the manuscript's academic quality, originality, relevance to the journal's scope, methodological soundness, significance, and contribution to the fields of service management, marketing, business, and accounting.

Editors may consult with peer reviewers and other editorial advisers when making publication decisions. Editorial decisions shall not be influenced by the author's race, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, institutional affiliation, political views, or other personal characteristics. Editors must also take into consideration applicable legal and ethical requirements concerning plagiarism, copyright infringement, libel, research misconduct, and other forms of unethical academic practice.

Fair Play

The editorial team shall evaluate manuscripts based solely on their intellectual and academic content. Authors shall receive fair and equal treatment regardless of their personal characteristics, institutional affiliation, academic position, nationality, gender, religious beliefs, or other non-academic considerations. The journal is committed to ensuring that editorial evaluation is conducted objectively and professionally.

Confidentiality

Editors and editorial staff must maintain the confidentiality of all submitted manuscripts. Information concerning a submitted manuscript shall not be disclosed to anyone other than the corresponding author, assigned reviewers, potential reviewers, editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate. Editors and reviewers must not use unpublished information obtained from submitted manuscripts for personal research, professional advantage, or any other purpose without the written permission of the authors.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest 

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not use in an editor's research without the express written consent of the author.

Duties of Peer-Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Peer-reviewers assist the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also help 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 considered as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorised by the editor.

Standards of Objectivity

Peer-review process should conduct objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Peer-reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument reported should accompany by the appropriate 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. Peer-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 actions and if the authors have used the works, or words of others that this has 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 paper concurrently to more than one journal constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be provided. 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. 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 article and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects

1. 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.

2. The confidential and anonymous treatment of human participants’ data is considered the norm for the conduct of research. Authors should recognise the entitlement of both institutions and individual participants to privacy, and should accord them their rights to confidentiality and anonymity. This could involve employing ‘fictionalising’ approaches when reporting, and where using such approaches researchers should fully explain how and why they have done so. However, in some circumstances individual participants, or their guardians or responsible others, may want to specifically and willingly waive their right to confidentiality and anonymity: researchers should recognise participants’ rights to be identified in any publication of their original works or other inputs if they so wish. This statement baseb on the ethical guidance of the privacy and data storage from BERA Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research (4th ed.).

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.