Publication Ethics
Rumah Medik is committed to upholding high standards of publication ethics and academic integrity. The journal expects all parties involved in the publishing process, including authors, editors, reviewers, and the publisher, to follow ethical standards in order to maintain the quality, credibility, and integrity of published articles.
Duties of Authors
- Originality and Plagiarism: Authors must ensure that submitted manuscripts are original and free from plagiarism. Any work, words, data, or ideas from other sources must be properly cited and acknowledged.
- Data Integrity: Authors are expected to present accurate, reliable, and honest research data. Fabrication, falsification, manipulation, or selective reporting of data is strictly prohibited.
- Authorship: All listed authors must have made a significant contribution to the research and manuscript preparation. All authors must approve the final version of the manuscript before submission.
- Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: Authors must disclose any potential conflicts of interest that may influence the interpretation of their research findings. Funding sources and relevant affiliations must also be clearly stated.
- Research Ethics: Research involving human participants, patient data, clinical materials, or health records must follow applicable ethical standards. Ethical approval and informed consent must be stated in the manuscript where required.
- Corrections and Retractions: If authors discover a significant error in their published work, they must promptly notify the journal so that a correction, clarification, or retraction can be issued when necessary.
Duties of Reviewers
- Confidentiality: Reviewers must treat all submitted manuscripts as confidential documents and must not share or discuss manuscript content with others outside the review process.
- Objective Assessment: Reviews should be conducted objectively and supported by clear arguments. Reviewers should provide constructive feedback to help authors improve the quality of their manuscripts.
- Conflict of Interest: Reviewers should decline to review manuscripts if they have conflicts of interest related to the authors, institutions, funders, or subject matter.
Duties of Editors
- Fair Editorial Decision: Editors evaluate manuscripts based on academic merit, originality, relevance, methodology, ethical compliance, and contribution to the field.
- Confidentiality: Editors and editorial staff must not disclose information about submitted manuscripts to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, editorial board members, and publisher as appropriate.
- Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: Editors must not use unpublished information from submitted manuscripts for personal research without written consent from the authors.
- Ethical Complaints: Editors will take appropriate action when ethical complaints arise regarding submitted or published manuscripts. Actions may include investigation, correction, retraction, or rejection.
By following these publication ethics guidelines, Rumah Medik aims to maintain a publishing process based on integrity, transparency, fairness, and trust.
