Publication Ethics

 

 
 
POLICY & STANDARDS

Publication Ethics

Advances in Public Law and Crime (PLICE)

Commitment to integrity, transparency, responsible authorship, fair peer review, and malpractice prevention in legal and socio-legal scholarship.

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Core Principles

Advances in Public Law and Crime (PLICE) is committed to maintaining high ethical standards in scholarly publishing. This publication ethics policy is developed in line with the general principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and international best practices in editorial responsibility, peer review, authorship, transparency, and research integrity.

All parties involved in the publication process—authors, editors, reviewers, and the publisher—are expected to uphold ethical conduct, confidentiality, academic honesty, objectivity, and transparency throughout the editorial process.
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Authors

Responsible for originality, authorship integrity, accurate data, proper citation, and conflict-of-interest disclosure.

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Editors

Responsible for fair decisions, confidentiality, impartiality, conflict management, and editorial accountability.

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Reviewers

Responsible for objective, confidential, timely, and constructive evaluation of manuscripts.

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Publisher

Supports transparent editorial governance, digital access, corrections, and responsible publication management.

Duties of Authors

Originality, Plagiarism, and Proper Citation

Authors must ensure that submitted manuscripts are original, have not been published previously, and are not under consideration elsewhere. All sources, legal materials, statutes, cases, reports, datasets, and scholarly works used in the manuscript must be properly cited. PLICE may use similarity-checking tools such as Turnitin or equivalent software to support plagiarism detection and publication integrity.

Authorship and Contributor Responsibility

Authorship must be limited to individuals who have made substantial contributions to the conception, design, analysis, drafting, interpretation, or critical revision of the manuscript. All listed authors must approve the final version and agree to its submission. Ghost authorship, guest authorship, honorary authorship, and undisclosed writing assistance are not permitted.

Research Integrity and Data Accuracy

Authors must present accurate, honest, and reliable research findings. Fabrication, falsification, manipulation of data, misrepresentation of legal materials, selective reporting, and misleading interpretation are strictly prohibited. Where applicable, authors may be requested to provide supporting data, documentation, or clarification during review.

Human Subjects, Legal Cases, and Sensitive Information

For empirical research involving human participants, interviews, case records, vulnerable groups, institutional documents, or sensitive legal information, authors must ensure appropriate ethical approval, informed consent, anonymization, and confidentiality protection in accordance with institutional and legal requirements.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

Authors must disclose any financial, institutional, professional, personal, or legal conflicts of interest that may influence the research, interpretation, or publication of the manuscript. Funding sources, institutional support, and relevant acknowledgements must be stated transparently.

Duties of Editors

  • Fair editorial decision: Editors evaluate manuscripts based on academic merit, relevance, originality, methodological quality, legal reasoning, and contribution to the field.
  • Confidentiality: Editors and editorial staff must keep all submitted manuscripts and related communications confidential.
  • Conflict of interest: Editors must avoid handling manuscripts where they have personal, professional, financial, institutional, or collaborative conflicts.
  • Editorial independence: Editorial decisions must not be influenced by commercial interests, institutional pressure, or personal bias.
  • Correction and accountability: Editors are responsible for handling corrections, clarifications, retractions, and ethical complaints in a fair and documented manner.

Duties of Reviewers

  • Constructive contribution: Reviewers assist editors in making decisions and help authors improve the quality, clarity, and contribution of manuscripts.
  • Confidentiality: Manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents and must not be shared or discussed without editorial permission.
  • Objectivity: Reviews must be conducted objectively, respectfully, and based on scholarly evidence. Personal criticism is inappropriate.
  • Promptness: Reviewers should complete reviews within the agreed timeframe or notify the editor if they are unable to review promptly.
  • Ethical alert: Reviewers should inform editors of suspected plagiarism, duplicate publication, data concerns, citation manipulation, or ethical irregularities.

Ethical Screening and Misconduct Handling

Similarity and AI-Assisted Writing Check

PLICE may conduct similarity checks and review indications of inappropriate AI-assisted writing. Authors are responsible for ensuring that AI tools, if used, do not replace scholarly authorship, legal reasoning, data interpretation, or citation responsibility.

Publication Misconduct

Misconduct includes plagiarism, duplicate submission, fabricated data, falsified sources, fake peer review, manipulated citations, undisclosed conflicts of interest, and unethical use of human-subject information.

Editorial Actions

If misconduct is confirmed, PLICE may issue corrections, reject the manuscript, retract the article, notify relevant institutions, restrict future submissions, or take other appropriate editorial actions.

Digital Preservation and Accessibility

The publisher supports long-term accessibility, metadata quality, and digital preservation of published content through journal platform management, persistent identifiers, secure content backup, and open access dissemination practices.

OJS Platform

Manuscript, metadata, editorial records, and published files are managed through Open Journal Systems.

DOI and Metadata

Published articles are prepared with metadata and DOI information to support citation, discovery, and scholarly access.

Open Access

Published articles are made accessible to readers under the journal’s open access policy.

Publisher Backup

The publisher maintains editorial and publication files to support continuity and long-term access.

Open Access and Licensing

CC BY-SA 4.0

PLICE supports open access dissemination. Authors retain copyright while granting the journal the right of first publication. Reuse and distribution should follow the applicable journal license and proper citation practices.

Complaints, Appeals, and Corrections

Authors, reviewers, and readers may submit ethical concerns, complaints, appeals, or requests for correction to the editorial office. PLICE will review such matters carefully, document the process, and take appropriate actions according to publication ethics principles.

Ethics Contact

For ethical concerns, corrections, complaints, appeals, or publication integrity matters, please contact the PLICE editorial office.

plice@analysisdata.co.id

© 2026 Advances in Public Law and Crime (PLICE). Published by PT. Inovasi Analisis Data.

E-ISSN: 3064-5875 | P-ISSN: 3064-6057 | Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement