Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Jurnal Agronomi Indonesia (Indonesian Journal of Agronomy) encourage the best standards of publication ethics and take all possible measures against publication malpractices. The journal is committed to maintain the highest level of integrity in the content published, and has agreed to follow the ethical standards as determined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Conflict of Interest

Authors, reviewers, and editors must disclose potential conflicts of interest that could affect their objectivity and integrity. These conflicts may include financial interests, personal relationships, or professional affiliations that might introduce bias into their work or decision-making processes.

The editorial board follows the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (http://publicationethics.org) and makes every endeavour to prevent any infringements of the norms. All of this is therefore expected of all parties involved: Editors, Editorial Staff, Reviewers and Authors.

Author(s) requires to acknowledge all sources of institutional, private and corporate financial support for the research within the manuscript, and notes any potential conflicts of interest.

Editors

• All submitted papers are subject to blind peer-review process by reviewers that are experts in the area/theme of the particular paper. The factors that are taken into account in review are relevance, originality, soundness of method and data analysis, significance, readability and language.
• Articles will be returned to authors if they do not comply to the journal’s author guidelines
• The possible decisions include acceptance, acceptance with revisions, or rejection. The authors are encouraged to revise and resubmit a submission, but there is no guarantee that the revised submission will be accepted.
• Rejected articles can be re submitted after revisions.
• The paper acceptance is constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism.
• When a conflict of interests arising, all the participants of reviewing process should inform the editorial staff.
• The accepted papers are allocated in open access on the journal site and the copyrights are reserved.
• Editors must not use unpublished information in the editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.
• The editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Reviewers

• Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.
• The reviewers evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, religion, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political views of the authors.
• The selected referee who feels unqualified to review the manuscript or should notify the editor and excuse him/herself from the review process.
• Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.
• Reviews should be conducted objectively with supporting arguments.
• Peer review assists the publisher in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the experts from the scientific staff and may assist the author in improving the paper.
• Manuscripts received for review are treated as confidential documents and are reviewed by anonymous staff (double-blind peer review).
• A reviewer should also call to the publisher's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Authors

• Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All authors must have contributed significantly to the study and agree to be accountable for its content. Contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be acknowledged appropriately. Any changes in authorship after submission must have the consent of all authors.
• Authors should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance.
• A paper should contain sufficient details and references to permit others to replicate the work.
• Review articles should be objective, comprehensive, and accurate.
• The authors should ensure that they have written entirely review works, if the authors have used the work and/or words of others it is obligatory to appropriately cite or quote the source.
• Submitting the same manuscript to more than one publication concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.
• The corresponding author should ensure that there is a full consensus of all co-authors in approving the final version of the paper and its submission for publication.
• Sources of financial support for the study must be addressed in the Acknowledgement section.

• Fabrication, manipulation or falsification of data is an ethical violation and is prohibited.
• Only relevant citations should be used in the manuscripts.  Irrelevant (self) citation to increase author(s)'s citation (h-index) or unnecessary citation to improve the references are not allowed.
• Author(s) must obedient to the law and/or ethics in treating the object of research and pay attention to the legality of material sources and intellectual property rights.
• Duplicate publication, i.e., publication of a paper that overlaps substantially with one already published, without clear, visible reference to the previous publication, is prohibited. Manuscript submissions will be considered for publication only if they are submitted solely to this journal and do not overlap substantially with a published article. Any manuscript that has (near) similar hypothesis, sample characteristics, methodology, results, and conclusions to a published article is a duplicate article and is prohibited, even if it is published in different languages. The slicing of data from a "single research" to make some individuals manuscript without substantial differences should be avoided.
• Manuscript submission implies that all authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript, and agree to the manuscript submission to this journal. All authors must be responsible for the quality, accuracy, and ethics of the research. 

Plagiarism

• Plagiarism, i.e., the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own, in all its forms, constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.
• Submitted manuscripts should be the original works of the author(s). The journal will carry a similarity check on each submission, and acceptable similarity is less than 20% excluding reference.
• If plagiarism is identified, the COPE Principles of Transparency and Best Practice Guidelines and the COPE Code of Conduct on plagiarism will be followed.
• For more information on the ethics of scientific publications, please access the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) website.