Authorship Criteria
Authorship of an article in Applied Information System and Management (AISM) carries both credit and responsibility. This policy sets out who qualifies as an author, how author names and affiliations are presented, and how changes and disputes are handled. It follows the guidance of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the accreditation standards for scientific journals in Indonesia.
Who Qualifies as an Author
Each person listed as an author must meet all three of the following criteria:
- Made a substantial contribution to the conception or design of the work, or to the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data, systems, or results;
- Drafted the manuscript or revised it critically for important intellectual content; and
- Approved the final version to be published and agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work, including its accuracy and integrity.
People who contributed to the work but do not meet all three criteria, such as those who only provided funding, general supervision, technical help, data collection support, language editing, or administrative support, should be named in the Acknowledgment section with their permission.
Unacceptable Authorship Practices
The following practices are regarded as violations of academic integrity and are handled under the journal's Research Misconduct policy:
- Gift or honorary authorship: listing a person who made no substantial contribution, for example because of their position or seniority;
- Ghost authorship: omitting a person who made a substantial contribution, or having a manuscript written by another person who is not named;
- Purchased or traded authorship: buying, selling, or exchanging author positions;
- Unauthorized or fictitious authorship: listing a person without their consent, or using a fictitious name or affiliation;
- Adding authors after acceptance without a clear and documented justification.
Artificial intelligence tools, including large language models, cannot be listed as authors, because they cannot take responsibility for the work. Their use must be disclosed as described in the Generative AI Policy.
Number of Authors
A manuscript submitted to AISM may have a maximum of six authors. Every author must be entered with complete metadata in the "Enter Metadata" stage of the online submission.
Corresponding Author
One author is designated as the corresponding author. The corresponding author:
- Communicates with the journal on behalf of all authors during submission, review, revision, and after publication;
- Ensures that all co-authors have seen and approved the submitted and final versions of the manuscript and agree to its submission to AISM;
- Ensures that all appropriate co-authors, and no inappropriate co-authors, are included;
- Provides the Author Contribution Statement and the other declarations required by the journal; and
- Uses an active institutional email address, which is printed on the article.
Author Names and Affiliations
- Author names are written without academic titles or job positions.
- In the article metadata, each name consists of a given name and a family name. An author who has only one name enters the same name in both fields. The family name is never abbreviated to an initial.
- Each affiliation is written in full, without abbreviation, and includes at least the institution, city, and country, for example: Department of Information Systems, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, Tangerang Selatan, Indonesia.
- Superscript numbers (1, 2, 3) refer to different institutions, not to individual authors. If all authors share one affiliation, no numbers are used. The corresponding author is marked with an asterisk (*).
- Names, affiliations, and the order of authors must be identical in the manuscript, the article metadata, and the published PDF.
- Authors are strongly encouraged to provide an ORCID iD.
Author Contribution Statement
Every published article includes an Author Contribution Statement that describes each author's role. AISM uses the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) roles below:
| Conceptualization | Ideas; formulation of the research goals and aims |
| Data curation | Managing, annotating, and maintaining research data |
| Formal analysis | Applying statistical, computational, or other techniques to analyse data |
| Funding acquisition | Acquiring the financial support for the project |
| Investigation | Conducting the research, including experiments and data collection |
| Methodology | Developing or designing the methods and models |
| Project administration | Managing and coordinating the research activity |
| Resources | Providing study materials, data, instruments, or computing resources |
| Software | Programming, software development, and implementation of code |
| Supervision | Oversight and leadership of the research activity |
| Validation | Verifying the reproducibility of results and experiments |
| Visualization | Preparing figures, tables, and other visual presentation of the data |
| Writing – original draft | Writing the initial draft of the manuscript |
| Writing – review & editing | Critical review, commentary, and revision of the manuscript |
Example. First Author: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft. Second Author: Software, Formal analysis, Visualization. Third Author: Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing. All authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript.
Changes to Authorship
- Before acceptance: any addition, removal, or reordering of authors requires a written request from the corresponding author explaining the reason, together with written confirmation from every author, including any author being added or removed. The request is decided by the Editor in Chief.
- After acceptance: changes are not permitted except in exceptional cases with a clear and documented justification approved by the Editor in Chief. The review process may be suspended while the request is considered.
- After publication: a justified change is made only through a published correction (corrigendum), following the Erratum and Corrigendum policy.
Editorial Team Members as Authors
Members of the editorial team may publish in AISM at most one article per year. Their manuscripts follow the regular review process, and they take no part in the editorial handling or review of their own manuscript.
Authorship Disputes
AISM does not decide who should be an author. Authorship disputes should be resolved among the authors before submission. If a dispute arises after submission or publication, the journal follows the relevant COPE flowcharts, may pause the process, and may refer the matter to the authors' institutions for investigation. Concerns can be sent to the Editor in Chief through the Contact page.
