Publication Ethics

Sriwijaya Journal of Environment is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and follows the Core Practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). All parties involved in publishing — authors, editors, reviewers, and the publisher — are expected to observe the standards of ethical behaviour set out below.

Duties of authors

  • Manuscripts must report original work; the data must be accurate and free from fabrication or falsification.
  • The work must not have been published previously and must not be under consideration elsewhere (no duplicate or redundant submission).
  • All sources must be appropriately cited; plagiarism in any form is unacceptable.
  • Authorship must be limited to those who have made a significant contribution; all listed authors must approve the submission and its author order.
  • Authors must disclose all sources of funding and any conflicts of interest, and must provide ethics approval and informed consent where applicable.

Duties of editors

  • Editors decide which submissions are published on the basis of validity, scholarly importance, and relevance to the journal’s scope, independent of commercial considerations.
  • Editors evaluate manuscripts without regard to the authors’ race, gender, religion, nationality, or institutional affiliation, and preserve the confidentiality of all submissions.
  • Editors recuse themselves from handling manuscripts in which they have a conflict of interest and delegate them to an independent editor.

Duties of reviewers

  • Reviewers assist editorial decisions through objective, constructive, and timely assessment, and treat manuscripts as confidential documents.
  • Reviewers declare any conflict of interest and decline review where appropriate; they do not use unpublished material for personal advantage.
  • Reviewers identify relevant published work that has not been cited and alert the editor to any ethical concern.

Research misconduct (fabrication, falsification, plagiarism)

Allegations of misconduct are investigated in accordance with the relevant COPE flowcharts. Substantiated misconduct may lead to correction, retraction, notification of the authors’ institution, and a ban on future submissions.

Complaints and appeals

Authors who wish to appeal an editorial decision, or anyone who wishes to raise a complaint about the journal’s processes or ethics, should contact the Editor-in-Chief in writing at the official journal e-mail. Complaints are acknowledged within seven working days and resolved as promptly as possible; unresolved matters may be referred to COPE.

Corrections, retractions, and expressions of concern

The journal issues corrections (errata/corrigenda) for errors that do not affect the main findings, retractions for invalid or unethical work, and expressions of concern where a serious issue is under investigation. Each notice is linked to the original article, states the reason factually, carries its own DOI where possible, and updates the article’s metadata. The original article is not removed from the record.