Publication Ethics

Research involving interviews, surveys, observations, focus groups, community studies, or other human-participant methods must comply with applicable institutional, national, and professional ethical requirements.

• Obtain ethics committee or institutional approval where required and report the approving institution and reference where applicable.
• Ensure voluntary participation and informed consent where required.
• Explain research purposes, procedures, foreseeable risks, and intended uses of participant information.
• Protect privacy, confidentiality, and personal information.
• Obtain permission for identifiable quotations, images, or personal details.
• Apply additional safeguards for children, survivors of violence, and vulnerable participants.
• For minors, obtain appropriate parent or guardian permission and child assent where applicable.
• Avoid coercion arising from family, educational, employment, institutional, or community power relationships.

Jurnal Harkat recognizes the sensitivity of research involving family records, gender-based violence, discrimination, child-related information, personal narratives, and vulnerable communities.

• Use confidential information only with appropriate authorization.
• Protect identifiable transcripts, recordings, photographs, and case records.
• Apply anonymization or de-identification where appropriate and consider indirect identification through contextual details.
• Respect informed-consent and data-use restrictions.
• Do not publish information that could expose participants to retaliation, discrimination, social exclusion, or other harm.
• Handle personal data according to relevant laws and institutional obligations.
• Explain legitimate limits on data sharing without revealing protected information.

Authors must describe their research designs, sources, procedures, analytical methods, findings, and limitations honestly and transparently.

• State the research problem, objectives, scholarly gap, and methodological design.
• Describe participants, samples, cases, texts, documents, or datasets as appropriate.
• Explain sampling, case selection, inclusion criteria, instruments, and collection procedures.
• Document qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, historical, documentary, or interpretive analyses.
• Report validity, reliability, triangulation, or trustworthiness where relevant.
• Explain literature-search and synthesis procedures in reviews and use relevant guidance such as PRISMA for systematic reviews where appropriate.
• Disclose limitations, avoid overstating certainty, and distinguish results from speculation.

Editors must maintain a fair, independent, confidential, evidence-based editorial process.

• Assess manuscripts by originality, relevance, methodology, evidence, contribution, and ethical compliance.
• Apply policies consistently without inappropriate discrimination.
• Protect unpublished manuscripts, reviewer identities, reports, and editorial correspondence.
• Select appropriate expert reviewers and protect double-blind confidentiality.
• Disclose competing interests and recuse themselves where impartiality is compromised.
• Prevent peer-review manipulation, citation coercion, authorship misconduct, and inappropriate interference.
• Ensure that academic rank, identity, institutional affiliation, religion, or scholarly perspective does not improperly determine outcomes.
• Address complaints and allegations fairly and ensure publication fees do not affect decisions.
• Take suitable corrective action when serious problems are discovered after publication.

• Provide objective, constructive, respectful, independent, and timely reviews.
• Accept assignments only when expertise and availability are sufficient.
• Maintain confidentiality of manuscripts, supporting materials, and editorial correspondence.
• Disclose conflicts of interest and decline unsuitable assignments.
• Evaluate theoretical relevance, methodology, evidence, interpretation, and scholarly contribution.
• Identify weaknesses and omissions and report suspected misconduct confidentially to editors.
• Avoid discriminatory remarks, personal attacks, or unsupported accusations.
• Recommend additional citations only where academically warranted.
• Never exploit unpublished information for personal or institutional gain.
• Do not upload confidential manuscripts to unauthorized public AI services.

• Submit original work that has not been formally published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere.
• Report methods, evidence, findings, interpretations, and limitations accurately.
• Cite sources appropriately and verify references.
• Obtain required ethics approvals, permissions, and informed consent.
• Protect research participants' rights, confidentiality, and welfare.
• Disclose funding, competing interests, and relevant AI-assisted work.
• Ensure legitimate authorship and co-author approval.
• Maintain appropriate research records and cooperate with legitimate editorial inquiries.
• Promptly report substantial errors or ethical concerns in submitted or published work.

Every listed author must meet all four criteria:

1. Make a substantial contribution to conception, design, data acquisition, analysis, or interpretation.
2. Draft or critically revise important intellectual content.
3. Review and approve the final version for publication.
4. Accept accountability for the accuracy and integrity of the work.

• Funding, supervision, academic rank, or position alone is insufficient for authorship.
• Recognize other contributors in acknowledgments.
• CRediT roles may describe substantive contributions.
• Authorship changes after submission require justification and appropriate agreement.
• AI technologies cannot be listed as authors.

See the Authorship and Contributorship Policy.

Authors, reviewers, editors, and Editorial Board members must disclose financial and non-financial interests that could influence, or reasonably appear to influence, scholarly work or editorial decisions.

• Funding, employment, consultancy, or commercial relationships.
• Institutional, supervisory, collaborative, personal, or family relationships.
• Relevant advocacy, organizational, or ideological commitments.
• Intellectual-property or other benefits connected to the research.

Authors must disclose funding sources and the role of funders where relevant. Reviewers and editors should recuse themselves where conflicts compromise impartiality. Disclosure supports transparent management and does not itself establish misconduct.

See the Conflict of Interest Policy.

Jurnal Harkat encourages responsible sharing of research materials where doing so is ethically and legally appropriate.

• A Data Availability Statement is encouraged where relevant.
• Identify research sources, instruments, and analytical procedures accurately.
• Supporting data and supplementary material may be shared where permitted.
• Explain legitimate restrictions on access transparently.
• Protect consent conditions, privacy, confidentiality, and participant safety.
• Do not disclose identifiable data without appropriate authorization.
• Fabrication, falsification, and misleading selective reporting are prohibited.

See the Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy.

Jurnal Harkat prohibits plagiarism, self-plagiarism, inappropriate text recycling, and undisclosed redundant publication.

Submitted manuscripts are subject to originality checks using Turnitin or comparable software. The similarity score must be below 20% according to the journal's Publication Ethics requirements.

• Acknowledge borrowed text, ideas, arguments, data, and images.
• Disclose and cite substantive reuse of the authors' earlier work.
• Translation plagiarism and unattributed paraphrasing are unacceptable.
• Manuscripts not meeting the similarity requirement may be revised or rejected depending on the substantive assessment.
• A low similarity score does not establish originality by itself; editors must assess context, attribution, extent, and significance.

See the Plagiarism Policy.

AI may assist limited aspects of manuscript preparation but must not replace human intellectual contribution, scholarly judgment, or research accountability.

• Language editing, grammar correction, and readability assistance.
• Organization of author-developed manuscript content.
• Translation support subject to verification.
• Appropriately documented research procedures using AI, subject to methodological and ethical requirements.

• Inventing interviews, data, survey responses, findings, references, or quotations.
• Presenting AI-generated material as authentic evidence.
• Concealing plagiarism or substituting AI for critical research interpretation.
• Listing AI tools as authors or exposing confidential data to unauthorized AI systems.

See the Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI Policy.

Jurnal Harkat uses double-blind peer review. Manuscripts passing initial screening are evaluated by at least two qualified reviewers.

• Initial screening considers scope, originality, quality, and ethics.
• Reviewers are selected according to expertise, independence, and suitability.
• Author and reviewer identities are concealed from each other.
• Additional assessments may be requested when necessary.
• Review recommendations inform, but do not determine, editorial decisions.
• Editors with relevant competing interests must not handle the affected manuscript.
• Final decisions rest with the Editor-in-Chief or properly authorized editors.

See the Peer Review Process.

The journal does not tolerate practices that compromise research reliability, originality, participant protection, or publication integrity.

Credible allegations must be examined fairly, confidentially, and proportionately. An allegation does not alone establish misconduct.

1. Initial Assessment: Evaluate credibility, relevance, and seriousness.
2. Clarification: Request explanations and supporting evidence.
3. Independent Evaluation: Obtain relevant expertise when needed.
4. Institutional Coordination: Consult research institutions or ethics committees where appropriate.
5. Editorial Decision: Determine action proportionate to the evidence and effect on the scholarly record.

Actions may include clarification, revision, suspension, rejection, correction, Expression of Concern, retraction, or institutional referral.

See the Allegations of Research Misconduct Policy.

The journal takes appropriate action when errors or integrity concerns affect a publication.

Formal notices should identify affected articles, explain editorial actions objectively, and remain linked to the publication record where appropriate.

See the Retraction, Withdrawal and Correction Policy.

Authors requesting withdrawal before publication must submit a written explanation to the Editorial Office, identify the manuscript, and confirm that all authors agree.

The Editorial Team may request clarification. Serious concerns involving duplicate submission, authorship disputes, plagiarism, or misconduct may still require assessment. Once an article is published, correction or retraction procedures normally apply.

Authors, reviewers, readers, and other stakeholders may submit complaints or appeals concerning decisions, peer-review conduct, authorship, confidentiality, ethics, conflicts of interest, or editorial procedures.

• Identify the manuscript, article, or relevant editorial issue.
• Explain grounds for an appeal and supply supporting evidence or procedural concerns.
• Maintain confidentiality and protect against retaliation.
• Seek independent advice where conflicts or procedural fairness require it.
• Document and communicate decisions appropriately.

An appeal does not automatically reverse a decision. Authors must not submit the manuscript simultaneously elsewhere while the submission or appeal remains active.

See the Complaints and Appeals Procedure.

Authors retain copyright to original scholarly work and grant Jurnal Harkat a non-exclusive right of first publication. Copyright is not transferred solely through publication.

Published articles are distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Authors may share published articles in repositories and academic websites while acknowledging the original publication, DOI, and license. Third-party copyrighted materials require appropriate acknowledgment and permissions.

See the Copyright Notice, License Statement, and Open Access Policy.

Manuscripts, reviewer reports, editorial correspondence, ethics documentation, participant records, allegations, and investigation materials must be treated confidentially.

• Restrict access to authorized editorial personnel.
• Protect reviewer identities and reports under double-blind procedures.
• Apply additional safeguards to sensitive gender- and child-related research.
• Record editorial decisions and relevant supporting information appropriately.
• Manage complaints, misconduct assessments, and post-publication records responsibly.
• Do not disclose or reuse unpublished manuscripts without authorization.
• Follow applicable institutional, confidentiality, data-protection, and legal requirements.