Allegations of Research Misconduct

Jurnal Analis Kesehatan takes allegations of research and publication misconduct seriously and handles them fairly, confidentially, and based on evidence. This policy applies to authors, reviewers, editors, editorial board members, and other parties involved in the publication process.

Potential forms of misconduct include:

• Data fabrication: creating data or research results that were never obtained.
• Data falsification: altering, omitting, or manipulating data so that the research no longer reflects what actually occurred.
• Plagiarism: using another party’s ideas, text, data, images, or other work without appropriate attribution.
• Duplicate publication: republishing the same work without disclosure or acceptable justification.
• Authorship manipulation: listing authors who do not meet the criteria or omitting eligible authors.
• Citation or peer-review manipulation: coercing irrelevant citations, using false reviewer identities, or interfering with the review process.
• Research ethics violations: conducting research without required ethics approval, violating participant consent, or misusing data or specimens.

5.1 Procedure for handling allegations

• Receipt of a report. Reports may be submitted by authors, reviewers, readers, institutions, or other parties with relevant information.
• Initial assessment. The editor checks the completeness and relevance of the report and the available preliminary evidence.
• Request for clarification. The parties involved can explain and provide supporting evidence.
• Further investigation. When necessary, the journal requests additional clarification, consults independent experts, or contacts the institution where the research was conducted.
• Decision. Based on the available evidence, the editor may continue the process, request revisions, reject the manuscript, issue a correction, publish an expression of concern, or retract the article.
• Documentation. The process and decisions are adequately documented while maintaining the confidentiality of the parties involved.

The journal will not conclude that misconduct has occurred solely based on an unverified allegation. Reports made in good faith must not result in retaliation against the person reporting the concern.

If an allegation involves an editor, the matter is referred to an independent editor or an authorized party without a conflict of interest. The journal also seeks to cooperate with the relevant institution to ensure that the matter is examined appropriately.