Publication Ethic

  1. Publication Ethics Statement

KINDAI : Kumpulan Informasi dan Artikel Ilmiah Manajemen dan Akuntansi is published by STIE Pancasetia Banjarmasin, Indonesia. The journal was first published in March 2017 and is published three times a year, in April, August, and December. KINDAI provides a platform for the dissemination of scientific research, literature reviews, and empirical studies in management, finance, accounting, and marketing.

KINDAI is committed to maintaining academic integrity, transparency, fairness, and accountability throughout the publication process. The journal refers to the guidelines and international standards established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Further information is available at the COPE website.

This statement outlines the ethical responsibilities of journal managers, editors, reviewers, and authors. All parties are expected to uphold the following principles:

  1. Impartiality: Editorial and publication decisions must be made objectively and without inappropriate influence or undisclosed conflicts of interest.
  2. Fairness: Manuscripts must be evaluated based on their academic merit, and authorship must be attributed appropriately.
  3. Integrity and Honesty: All parties must prevent plagiarism, data fabrication, data falsification, duplicate publication, citation manipulation, and other forms of research or publication misconduct.
  4. Confidentiality: Manuscripts and information obtained during editorial and peer-review processes must be protected from unauthorized disclosure.
  5. Accountability: All parties are responsible for fulfilling their ethical obligations and protecting the integrity of the scholarly record.
  1. Duties and Responsibilities of Journal Managers

Journal managers are responsible for establishing and maintaining the policies, resources, and operational standards necessary for ethical and sustainable journal publishing.

Their duties and responsibilities include:

  1. Determining the journal's name, scope, subject areas, publication frequency, and accreditation objectives, where applicable.
  2. Appointing editorial board members based on their relevant expertise and academic qualifications.
  3. Establishing clear working relationships among the publisher, editors, reviewers, and other relevant parties.
  4. Protecting confidential information relating to authors, researchers, editors, reviewers, and submitted manuscripts.
  5. Implementing appropriate policies concerning intellectual property rights, copyright, and publication licensing.
  6. Reviewing journal policies periodically and communicating applicable policies to authors, editors, reviewers, and readers.
  7. Providing ethical guidelines and codes of conduct for editors and reviewers.
  8. Ensuring that the journal is published according to its announced publication schedule.
  9. Maintaining adequate financial and operational resources to support the journal's sustainability.
  10. Developing professional networks, institutional collaborations, and appropriate journal promotion activities.
  11. Addressing licensing, copyright, and other relevant legal requirements.
  12. Supporting transparent procedures for handling complaints, appeals, and allegations of publication misconduct.
  1. Duties and Responsibilities of Editors

Editors are responsible for managing the editorial process fairly, transparently, and objectively. Editorial decisions must be based on the manuscript's scholarly quality, originality, relevance, contribution, and compliance with the journal's policies.

Their duties and responsibilities include:

  1. Fair and Unbiased Evaluation: Evaluating manuscripts based on their intellectual content without discrimination based on the authors' race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, nationality, institutional affiliation, or other irrelevant personal characteristics.
  2. Confidentiality: Protecting information about submitted manuscripts and disclosing it only to authorized individuals involved in the editorial and publication process.
  3. Publication Decisions: Making editorial decisions in accordance with the journal's policies, peer-review reports, and applicable ethical standards.
  4. Initial Manuscript Assessment: Assessing each submission for relevance to the journal's scope, completeness, originality, and compliance with submission requirements before assigning reviewers.
  5. Appropriate Reviewer Selection: Selecting reviewers whose expertise is relevant to the manuscript and who can provide an objective assessment.
  6. Editorial Independence: Avoiding decisions influenced by personal relationships, financial interests, academic rivalry, or other conflicts of interest.
  7. Conflicts of Interest: Disclosing relevant conflicts of interest and arranging for an independent editor to handle a manuscript when necessary.
  8. Research Integrity: Taking appropriate action when plagiarism, duplicate publication, data fabrication, data falsification, or other possible ethical violations are suspected.
  9. Corrections and Retractions: Facilitating corrections, expressions of concern, or retractions when necessary to maintain the accuracy and integrity of the scholarly record.
  10. Constructive Communication: Providing clear editorial decisions and encouraging authors to improve their manuscripts where revision is appropriate.
  11. Ethical Research Requirements: Requesting evidence of ethical approval, informed consent, or other relevant documentation when required by the nature of the research and applicable regulations.
  12. Responsible Use of AI: Protecting confidential manuscript information and complying with the journal's Generative AI policy.
  1. Duties and Responsibilities of Reviewers

Reviewers play an essential role in maintaining the quality, credibility, and integrity of scientific publications. Their assessments should help editors make informed decisions and help authors improve their manuscripts.

Their duties and responsibilities include:

  1. Contribution to Editorial Decisions: Providing expert assessments that assist editors in determining the suitability of manuscripts for publication.
  2. Appropriate Expertise and Timeliness: Accepting assignments only when they have appropriate expertise and sufficient time. Reviewers should decline assignments outside their expertise or notify the editor promptly if they cannot complete a review on time.
  3. Objectivity: Evaluating manuscripts objectively and supporting comments and recommendations with clear academic reasoning.
  4. Confidentiality: Treating manuscripts and review materials as confidential documents. They must not be disclosed or distributed to unauthorized parties without the editor's permission.
  5. Constructive Feedback: Providing professional, respectful, and specific comments that help authors improve their work.
  6. Acknowledgment of Relevant Sources: Identifying relevant published work that has not been cited and notifying the editor of potential plagiarism, duplicate publication, or other suspected ethical violations.
  7. Conflicts of Interest: Disclosing actual or potential conflicts of interest, including financial interests, personal relationships, academic rivalry, or collaborations that may compromise impartiality. Reviewers must decline assignments when a conflict prevents an objective assessment.
  8. Protection of Unpublished Information: Not using ideas, data, methods, or findings obtained through peer review for personal or professional advantage without authorization.
  9. Assessment of Revised Manuscripts: Reviewing revised manuscripts when requested and assessing whether authors have adequately addressed previous comments.
  10. Responsible Use of AI: Not uploading confidential manuscripts or review materials to public or third-party AI tools without explicit authorization under the journal's policies.

Further guidance is available in the COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers.

  1. Duties and Responsibilities of Authors

Authors are responsible for the originality, accuracy, integrity, and ethical compliance of their manuscripts. By submitting a manuscript to KINDAI, authors agree to comply with the following requirements.

5.1. Reporting Standards

Authors must present their research accurately and provide sufficient detail about the research methods, data, analysis, and findings to allow readers to understand and evaluate the work.

Statements that are knowingly false, misleading, or inaccurate constitute unacceptable research and publication practices. Relevant methods, sources, and limitations must be reported transparently.

5.2. Originality and Plagiarism

Authors must ensure that submitted manuscripts represent original work and appropriately acknowledge the contributions of other researchers.

All material taken from other sources, including ideas, text, data, tables, figures, and other intellectual contributions, must be properly cited or acknowledged.

Plagiarism, inappropriate reuse of previously published material, and unauthorized use of another person's work are unacceptable.

5.3. Plagiarism Screening and Similarity Check

All manuscripts submitted to KINDAI are subject to plagiarism screening using Turnitin.

The journal applies a maximum similarity index of 25% as an initial screening threshold. Manuscripts with a similarity index exceeding 25% will undergo further editorial assessment and may be returned to the authors for revision or rejected, depending on the nature and extent of the identified similarities.

Where supported by Turnitin, the reference list and properly quoted material may be excluded from the similarity calculation, provided that the exclusion settings are applied consistently.

The similarity index is an initial screening indicator and does not, by itself, determine whether plagiarism has occurred. Editors will examine the similarity report, the sources involved, the context of the matched text, and the adequacy of citations and acknowledgments. A manuscript with a similarity index of 25% or below may still undergo further assessment if substantial unattributed overlap or other evidence of publication misconduct is identified.

5.4. Research Data Access and Retention

Authors must maintain accurate and appropriate records of the data supporting their research findings.

Upon reasonable request from the editor, authors may be required to provide relevant raw data, research records, or supporting documentation for editorial assessment or verification of reported findings.

Authors are expected to retain supporting research data for at least five years after publication, unless a different period is required by applicable laws, ethical obligations, institutional policies, or funding agreements.

Requests for data must respect applicable privacy, confidentiality, intellectual property, and legal requirements. Personal or sensitive information must be appropriately protected. Data sharing is not required where it would violate applicable ethical, legal, or confidentiality obligations, provided that the authors explain the relevant restrictions to the editor.

Authors must reasonably cooperate with legitimate editorial requests concerning the verification of their research.

5.5. Duplicate, Redundant, and Concurrent Publication

Authors must not submit the same manuscript simultaneously to more than one journal.

Manuscripts must not substantially duplicate research that has already been published or is under consideration elsewhere without appropriate disclosure and editorial approval.

Related manuscripts, previous publications, preprints, or overlapping research outputs must be disclosed to the editor when relevant so that the originality and publication status of the submission can be assessed.

5.6. Acknowledgment of Sources

Authors must acknowledge all sources that have significantly influenced their research. Relevant prior research must be cited appropriately, and all citations must accurately represent the sources referenced.

Authors must not fabricate references, misrepresent cited works, or engage in citation practices intended to manipulate citation metrics.

5.7. Authorship and Contributions

Authorship should be limited to individuals who have made substantial intellectual contributions to the conception or design of the research, the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data, or the development of the manuscript, and who meet the applicable authorship criteria.

All listed authors must approve the final manuscript and accept responsibility for their contributions and the integrity of the work.

Individuals who contributed to the research but do not qualify for authorship should be acknowledged appropriately, with their permission where necessary.

Authors are encouraged to use the CRediT Taxonomy to describe individual contributions transparently. CRediT describes contributor roles and does not, by itself, determine who qualifies for authorship.

5.8. Funding and Conflicts of Interest

Authors must disclose all relevant sources of funding and any actual or potential conflicts of interest that could reasonably be perceived to influence the research, its interpretation, or its reporting.

Conflicts of interest may include financial, professional, institutional, personal, or other relationships. If no relevant conflict of interest exists, authors should provide an explicit declaration to that effect.

5.9. Research Ethics and Corrections

Authors must obtain any required ethical approval, informed consent, permissions, or other authorizations before conducting research where applicable.

Authors must cooperate with the editorial team in investigating credible concerns about their work. If a significant error is discovered after publication, authors must promptly notify the editor and cooperate in correcting the record or retracting the article when necessary.

  1. Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy

KINDAI is committed to preserving academic integrity, originality, transparency, and human accountability in scholarly publishing. This policy applies to authors, editors, and reviewers.

6.1. General Principles

Generative AI tools may assist with limited supporting tasks, but they must not replace the intellectual contribution, critical judgment, or responsibility of human authors.

AI tools cannot be listed as authors or co-authors. Authors remain fully responsible for all content submitted for publication, including any material produced or modified with AI assistance.

6.2. Permitted Uses by Authors

Subject to the requirements below, authors may use Generative AI tools for supporting tasks such as:

  1. Correcting grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure.
  2. Improving language clarity and readability without changing the scientific meaning.
  3. Assisting with translation and language editing.
  4. Summarizing or organizing non-scientific and administrative material.
  5. Providing other limited editorial assistance that does not replace the authors' intellectual contribution.

Authors must carefully review and verify all AI-assisted output before submission.

6.3. Prohibited Uses by Authors

Authors must not use Generative AI to:

  1. Replace their intellectual contribution by independently generating the central research ideas, research design, methodology, interpretation, or conclusions presented as their own scholarly work.
  2. Fabricate or manipulate research data, findings, images, results, or citations.
  3. Generate references or factual claims that cannot be independently verified.
  4. Write substantive scientific content in place of the authors' own work, including the core content of the abstract, methodology, results, and discussion.
  5. Conceal AI use where disclosure is required by this policy.
  6. Violate confidentiality, privacy, copyright, or other applicable legal and ethical requirements.

AI tools may support the editing of scientific text originally prepared by the authors, but authors must retain intellectual control over the research and its interpretation.

6.4. Disclosure of AI Use by Authors

Authors must disclose the use of Generative AI that goes beyond routine spelling, grammar, or basic language correction. This includes AI use to generate or substantially revise text, create images or graphical elements, or assist in data collection or analysis.

The disclosure should identify the tool used and explain its purpose and scope. It should be included in the Methods section or another appropriate section of the manuscript, depending on the nature of the research and the type of AI assistance.

Authors must verify the accuracy of AI-assisted content and ensure that all sources, references, data, and claims are authentic and traceable.

6.5. Use of AI by Editors

Editors may use AI-assisted tools only where permitted by the journal's procedures and where doing so does not compromise confidentiality, impartiality, or editorial accountability.

Editors must not upload confidential manuscripts, personal information, or unpublished research materials to public or third-party AI systems without explicit authorization under the journal's policies.

AI tools must not replace the editor's independent judgment in evaluating manuscripts or making publication decisions.

6.6. Use of AI by Reviewers

Reviewers must not upload manuscripts, unpublished data, or confidential review materials to Generative AI tools without explicit authorization under the journal's policies.

Reviewers must not delegate their responsibility for evaluating a manuscript to an AI system. Review reports and recommendations must reflect the reviewer's own expert assessment.

6.7. Violations of the AI Policy

Failure to disclose relevant AI use, submission of fabricated or unverifiable AI-generated material, or misuse of confidential manuscript information may be treated as a breach of publication ethics.

The editorial team will assess suspected violations on a case-by-case basis and may request clarification or supporting evidence. Appropriate action may include manuscript rejection, correction, retraction, or other measures consistent with the journal's policies.

  1. Conflicts of Interest and Funding Disclosure

Authors, editors, and reviewers must disclose actual or potential conflicts of interest that may affect, or reasonably appear to affect, their judgment.

Editors must ensure that manuscripts involving an editorial conflict are handled by an appropriately independent editor. Reviewers must disclose relevant conflicts before accepting an assignment and decline assignments when impartiality cannot be maintained.

Authors must disclose relevant research funding and financial or non-financial relationships in the manuscript or the designated disclosure section.

  1. Procedures for Handling Allegations of Publication Misconduct

KINDAI takes allegations of research and publication misconduct seriously. Allegations may concern plagiarism, duplicate publication, data fabrication or falsification, authorship disputes, undisclosed conflicts of interest, unethical research practices, or violations of the journal's Generative AI policy.

The journal will handle allegations fairly, objectively, and confidentially to the extent possible. The following procedure will generally apply:

  1. Initial Assessment: The editor assesses the allegation and available evidence to determine whether further action is warranted.
  2. Request for Explanation: Where appropriate, the individuals concerned are informed of the issue and given a reasonable opportunity to provide an explanation and relevant supporting documentation.
  3. Further Assessment and Consultation: The editor evaluates the available evidence and may consult editorial advisers, independent experts, the publisher, or the relevant author's institution when necessary.
  4. Editorial Decision: Based on the available evidence, the journal may request clarification or revision, reject a submitted manuscript, publish a correction, issue an expression of concern, retract a published article, or take other appropriate action.
  5. Documentation and Follow-up: The journal maintains appropriate records of the process and its decisions. Where necessary, the published record is corrected to protect the accuracy and integrity of the scholarly literature.

All parties will be treated fairly, and confidentiality will be maintained as far as practicable, subject to the requirements of a proper assessment or investigation. The journal may communicate with relevant institutions or authorities when necessary.

The journal will refer to relevant COPE guidance when handling allegations and determining appropriate editorial action.

  1. Corrections, Retractions, and Post-Publication Issues

KINDAI is committed to maintaining the accuracy and integrity of its published record.

When errors or credible concerns are identified in a published article, the journal will assess the matter and determine whether a correction, expression of concern, retraction, or other action is appropriate.

Authors are expected to cooperate with the editorial team when investigating potential errors or ethical concerns. Editorial decisions will be based on the available evidence, the seriousness of the issue, and the need to protect the reliability of the scholarly record.

Corrections and retractions will be communicated transparently through appropriate notices linked to the affected article, where applicable.

  1. Commitment to Ethical Publishing

All journal managers, editors, reviewers, and authors are expected to comply with this publication ethics statement and the journal's applicable policies.

KINDAI will review and improve its ethical policies in accordance with developments in scholarly publishing and relevant international guidance.

For further information about publication ethics and international standards, please visit the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).