Publication Ethics

Jurnal Kimia VALENSI is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal published by the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, Indonesia. The journal is available in print and online and publishes two issues annually, in May and November.

The journal promotes the dissemination of original, reliable, and scientifically significant research covering theoretical and computational chemistry, environmental chemistry, materials and polymer chemistry, organic synthesis and natural products, food and medical chemistry, biochemistry, analytical chemistry, and related areas.

As a scholarly publisher, Jurnal Kimia VALENSI recognizes that ethical publication is essential to the credibility of scientific knowledge and the advancement of chemical research. The journal is committed to maintaining responsible editorial procedures and protecting the integrity of submitted and published work.

This statement establishes the ethical obligations of authors, reviewers, editors, Editorial Board members, and the publisher. It is informed by internationally recognized principles of publication ethics, including guidance provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

Publication decisions must be based on scientific merit, originality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, and relevance to the journal's scope. All participants in the publication process share responsibility for preventing research misconduct, protecting confidential information, and maintaining the accuracy of the scholarly record.

1. Responsibilities of the Publisher

The Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, as the owner and publisher of Jurnal Kimia VALENSI, acknowledges its responsibility for supporting ethical and sustainable scholarly publishing.

The publisher is committed to:

• Supporting the journal's academic mission and editorial independence.
• Maintaining responsible and transparent publication practices.
• Providing appropriate institutional and administrative support.
• Protecting the confidentiality of unpublished manuscripts and editorial records.
• Supporting the investigation and resolution of credible publication-ethics concerns.
• Facilitating the correction of published records when necessary.
• Ensuring that commercial interests, institutional relationships, sponsorships, and publication fees do not improperly influence editorial decisions.
• Supporting appropriate digital preservation and long-term accessibility of published research.

2. Duties and Responsibilities of Editors

The Editor-in-Chief and authorized editors are responsible for determining which manuscripts are suitable for publication. Decisions must be based on scientific quality, originality, methodological soundness, relevance to the journal's aims and scope, reviewer assessments, and research-ethics compliance.

Editors may consult Editorial Board members and independent reviewers when evaluating manuscripts. Final publication decisions remain the responsibility of the authorized editorial leadership.

Editors must evaluate manuscripts fairly and objectively without discrimination based on nationality, race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, political belief, institutional affiliation, or other irrelevant personal characteristics.

Editorial evaluation must focus on the scientific contribution of the manuscript and compliance with the journal's policies.

Editors and editorial personnel must protect information concerning submitted manuscripts, author identities, reviewer identities, peer-review reports, editorial correspondence, and unpublished research data.

Such information may be shared only with individuals authorized to participate in the editorial process or where disclosure is appropriately justified by ethical or legal obligations.

Editors must disclose actual, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest. An editor must withdraw from handling a manuscript where personal, institutional, academic, or financial interests could compromise impartiality.

An appropriately independent editor should be assigned when necessary. Unpublished manuscript materials must not be used in an editor's own research without the authors' explicit permission.

Editors are expected to:

• Assess potential plagiarism and duplicate publication.
• Examine credible concerns about data reliability and scientific integrity.
• Ensure appropriate and independent peer review.
• Protect authors and reviewers from inappropriate pressure.
• Request clarification or additional evidence where necessary.
• Address corrections, retractions, and other post-publication concerns fairly.
• Maintain appropriate documentation of editorial decisions.

3. Duties and Responsibilities of Peer Reviewers

Peer reviewers support the editorial process by providing independent scholarly assessments of submitted manuscripts. Reviews should assist editors in making informed publication decisions and help authors improve the scientific quality of their work.

Reviewers should accept assignments only when they possess appropriate expertise and can complete the evaluation within the agreed period.

Reviewers who lack the required expertise or cannot meet the review deadline must promptly inform the editor.

Manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. Reviewers must not share, distribute, reproduce, or discuss unpublished materials with unauthorized individuals.

Unpublished experimental results, chemical structures, patentable findings, and confidential research methods must not be used for personal or professional benefit.

Reviews must be objective, respectful, evidence-based, and professionally expressed. Personal criticism, discriminatory remarks, unsupported allegations, and coercive citation requests are unacceptable.

Reviewers should evaluate:

• Scientific originality and significance.
• Appropriateness of experimental or computational methods.
• Accuracy of analytical and characterization data.
• Reliability and reproducibility of results.
• Consistency between results, discussion, and conclusions.
• Adequacy of references and acknowledgment of previous research.
• Compliance with applicable ethical requirements.

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been appropriately cited. Suspected plagiarism, substantial overlap, duplicate publication, or questionable research practices should be reported confidentially to the editor with supporting information where possible.

Reviewers must disclose relevant conflicts involving financial interests, research competition, professional relationships, recent collaborations, or institutional connections.

A reviewer should decline an assignment where such circumstances may reasonably compromise independent evaluation.

Reviewers must not upload confidential manuscripts, supplementary files, research data, or reviewer reports to external artificial intelligence systems without appropriate editorial authorization and confidentiality safeguards.

AI-generated assessments must not replace independent scientific judgment.

4. Duties and Responsibilities of Authors

Authors must report research procedures, experimental observations, analytical results, computational findings, and scientific interpretations accurately and honestly.

Manuscripts must provide sufficient methodological details and references to allow readers and other researchers to evaluate, understand, and, where feasible, reproduce the reported work.

Deliberately misleading descriptions, fabricated findings, and knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unacceptable research practices.

Authors must submit original scholarly work. Text, ideas, figures, chemical structures, tables, experimental methods, data, and other intellectual contributions originating from external sources must be acknowledged appropriately.

Plagiarism, undisclosed text recycling, unauthorized reproduction, and misappropriation of scientific findings are not acceptable.

Submitted manuscripts must not be simultaneously under consideration by another journal or publisher.

Authors must not present substantially the same research findings as new work in multiple publications without appropriate disclosure and justification.

Where relevant, previously disseminated preprints must be disclosed and handled in accordance with the journal's applicable preprint policy.

Authors must properly cite scientific publications and other legitimate sources that informed the research. References should be relevant, accurate, traceable, and appropriately integrated into the scholarly argument.

Fabricated citations, misleading references, and citation manipulation are prohibited.

Authorship must reflect genuine and substantial intellectual contributions. Authors should participate meaningfully in the research and manuscript development, approve the final manuscript, and accept responsibility for its integrity.

Unacceptable authorship practices include:

• Guest or honorary authorship.
• Ghost authorship.
• Purchased or fraudulent authorship.
• Coercive inclusion of individuals who did not qualify for authorship.
• Unauthorized omission of qualified contributors.

Contributions from technicians, laboratory assistants, instrument operators, and other individuals who do not meet authorship criteria should be acknowledged appropriately.

The corresponding author must ensure that all authors have reviewed and approved the submitted manuscript and agreed to its submission and publication.

Authors must disclose relevant research funding, institutional support, sponsorship, patents, commercial interests, and financial or non-financial relationships that could influence the research or its interpretation.

The role of funding organizations should be described where relevant. All declarations must accurately represent the circumstances of the research.

When authors discover a significant error or inaccuracy in their submitted or published work, they must promptly notify the Editorial Office and cooperate in implementing an appropriate correction or other editorial action.

Authors should also cooperate with legitimate research-integrity inquiries and provide relevant supporting evidence when appropriately requested.

5. Plagiarism Screening and Similarity Assessment

Jurnal Kimia VALENSI applies similarity screening as part of its initial editorial evaluation. Submitted manuscripts may be examined using Turnitin or other appropriate text-similarity detection tools.

Similarity reports are interpreted by editors in context. A numerical percentage alone does not establish whether plagiarism has occurred.

Editorial assessment may consider:

• Whether similar material has been properly cited.
• The location and extent of the overlapping material.
• Similarity involving research methods, results, discussion, or conclusions.
• Unattributed reproduction of substantial scientific contributions.
• Reuse of an author's previous publications without appropriate disclosure.
• Possible plagiarism involving figures, experimental data, or chemical schemes.

Manuscripts exceeding the stated similarity requirement may be returned for revision or rejected following editorial assessment. Serious unattributed copying may also constitute plagiarism even when the overall similarity score is relatively low.

Full details are provided in the Jurnal Kimia VALENSI Plagiarism Policy .

6. Research Data Integrity and Scientific Reproducibility

Research published in Jurnal Kimia VALENSI must be based on authentic, accurately reported, and scientifically interpretable data and evidence.

Authors are expected to maintain appropriate documentation of their research, including materials relevant to:

• Experimental procedures and laboratory observations.
• Instrumental measurements and original analytical outputs.
• Chromatographic and spectroscopic data.
• Microscopy and material characterization results.
• Statistical analysis and data-processing procedures.
• Computational methods, simulations, and model outputs.
• Research findings supporting published conclusions.

The journal may request relevant raw data, original figures, spectra files, laboratory records, or computational documentation where necessary to assess scientific reliability.

Data sharing and verification must respect applicable confidentiality, intellectual property, and research-ethics requirements.

7. Research Misconduct and Unacceptable Practices

Jurnal Kimia VALENSI does not tolerate intentional research misconduct or serious publication-ethics violations.

Suspected misconduct is assessed through fair, confidential, and evidence-based editorial procedures. An allegation alone does not establish that misconduct has occurred.

See the Allegations of Research Misconduct Policy .

8. Ethical Approval and Responsible Research Conduct

Authors must comply with relevant ethical requirements applicable to their research design, materials, procedures, and participants.

For manuscripts reporting research involving human or animal interventions, Jurnal Kimia VALENSI requires an ethical clearance document issued by an authorized ethics committee. The approval documentation must accompany the manuscript submission.

Where applicable, authors must describe informed consent, protection of participants, animal welfare procedures, and other relevant ethical safeguards.

Chemistry research that does not involve human or animal interventions must still comply with applicable laboratory safety, chemical handling, environmental protection, biosafety, and institutional requirements.

Further information: Ethical Clearance Approval .

9. Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI

The journal recognizes the potential contribution of artificial intelligence to chemical research and scientific manuscript preparation. However, AI-assisted technologies must be used responsibly and transparently.

In accordance with the journal's Declaration of Generative AI in Scientific Writing, generative AI assistance for manuscript writing is limited to improving language quality and readability under human supervision.

Authors must:

• Verify the accuracy of AI-assisted content.
• Preserve the originality of scientific reasoning and interpretation.
• Ensure that AI-generated content does not fabricate research evidence.
• Disclose relevant generative AI use during manuscript submission.
• Include the required AI-use declaration before the References section.
• Accept full responsibility for the final manuscript.

Where AI or machine learning constitutes part of the scientific methodology, such as computational chemistry, molecular prediction, or chemometric analysis, authors must describe the methods and validation procedures sufficiently for scientific evaluation.

AI systems must not be listed as manuscript authors or co-authors.

See the Declaration of Generative AI in Scientific Writing .

10. Peer-Review Integrity

Jurnal Kimia VALENSI employs a double-blind peer-review process for scholarly manuscript evaluation. Manuscripts that pass initial editorial screening are normally assessed by at least two qualified reviewers with relevant subject expertise.

The peer-review process must protect:

• Reviewer independence and professional judgment.
• Confidentiality of submitted manuscripts.
• Appropriate management of competing interests.
• Fair treatment of authors.
• Objectivity and scientific rigor in reviewer recommendations.
• Integrity of editorial communication and decision-making.

Reviews must not be manipulated through fabricated identities, undisclosed relationships, coercive citation practices, or inappropriate interference.

Reviewers' recommendations inform editorial decisions but do not automatically determine acceptance or rejection.

The Editor-in-Chief or authorized editor retains responsibility for the final editorial decision.

11. Conflicts of Interest and Funding Transparency

Authors, reviewers, editors, and Editorial Board members must disclose relevant financial and non-financial interests that may affect, or reasonably appear to affect, independent scholarly judgment.

Relevant interests may include:

• Research sponsorship and financial support.
• Employment or consultancy relationships.
• Patents, royalties, and commercial licensing interests.
• Professional or institutional affiliations.
• Personal relationships and recent academic collaborations.
• Financial relationships with chemical, pharmaceutical, materials, or instrumentation industries.

Disclosure of a competing interest does not automatically indicate misconduct. Relevant interests should be managed appropriately to maintain scientific credibility and independent editorial evaluation.

Further information: Conflict of Interest Policy .

12. Publication Fees and Editorial Independence

Jurnal Kimia VALENSI applies an Article Processing Charge (APC) to articles accepted for publication. The applicable charges are publicly disclosed through the journal's Author Fees page.

Full details: Author Fees .

13. Corrections, Retractions, and Expressions of Concern

Jurnal Kimia VALENSI is committed to maintaining the accuracy, transparency, and integrity of its published scholarly record.

When significant problems are identified in published articles, editorial action is determined according to the seriousness of the issue and its impact on research reliability.

Editorial notices should clearly identify the affected publication, explain the reason for the action, and maintain an appropriate link to the original article.

Retracted articles should normally remain identifiable in the scholarly record with clear retraction labeling, except where exceptional legal, confidentiality, privacy, or safety considerations require removal.

See the Retraction, Withdrawal & Correction Policy .

14. Complaints, Appeals, and Ethical Concerns

Authors, reviewers, readers, research institutions, and other relevant parties may submit complaints or concerns regarding the journal's editorial practices, peer-review procedures, publication decisions, and published research.

Complaints or appeals should:

1. Identify the relevant manuscript or published article.
2. Describe the concern clearly and professionally.
3. Provide supporting information or evidence where available.
4. Explain the basis for requesting editorial reconsideration.
5. Include contact information for further communication.

The Editorial Team will assess relevant concerns fairly and with appropriate confidentiality. Where a complaint involves an editor or an apparent conflict of interest, independent editorial handling should be arranged where feasible.

Appeals do not automatically require the reversal of an editorial decision. Reconsideration should be based on a substantive factual concern, procedural irregularity, or other relevant evidence.

15. Post-Publication Discussion and Scientific Criticism

The journal recognizes that scholarly evaluation continues after publication. Researchers and readers may raise evidence-based questions, offer alternative scientific interpretations, or identify potential errors in published work.

Appropriate scholarly criticism may concern research methods, experimental observations, data interpretation, theoretical arguments, analytical results, and scientific conclusions.

Comments should be professional, constructive, and supported by relevant evidence. Original authors may be invited to respond to substantive concerns.

Scientific disagreement alone does not constitute research misconduct and does not automatically justify correction or retraction.

For further information, see the Post-Publication Discussion Policy .

16. Copyright, Licensing, and Open Access

Jurnal Kimia VALENSI supports the dissemination of scholarly knowledge through open-access publishing. Readers may access published articles without subscription or pay-per-view charges.

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication under the applicable journal copyright arrangements.

Published content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0), subject to the license terms.

Authors are responsible for obtaining appropriate permissions for third-party figures, tables, illustrations, and other copyrighted materials.

See the Copyright Notice and CC BY-SA 4.0 License .

17. Digital Preservation and Scholarly Record Integrity

The journal recognizes the importance of long-term digital preservation and continued access to published research.

Its Archiving Policy identifies the LOCKSS distributed preservation system as an arrangement intended to support the preservation and potential restoration of scholarly content through participating libraries.

Publication metadata, article records, and editorial notices should remain identifiable and appropriately connected to the published scholarly record.

Further details: Archiving Policy .

18. Policy Governance and Continuous Improvement

Jurnal Kimia VALENSI may periodically review its publication-ethics policies and editorial procedures in response to developments in research integrity, scientific methodology, publication standards, and relevant ethical requirements.

The Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Team are responsible for promoting consistent implementation of journal policies, maintaining appropriate editorial records, and identifying opportunities to improve publication quality and accountability.

The journal encourages authors, reviewers, and readers to communicate legitimate concerns and suggestions through its official editorial channels.

The journal's publication-ethics framework addresses interconnected responsibilities throughout the scholarly publishing process.

Jurnal Kimia VALENSI is committed to maintaining the credibility of chemical research through ethical conduct, responsible authorship, independent peer review, transparent editorial management, scientific reproducibility, and fair post-publication procedures. The journal seeks to protect legitimate scholarly contributions while safeguarding the integrity of the scientific literature.

The following policies provide additional guidance on specific ethical and editorial matters.

The journal's ethical publishing framework is informed by relevant internationally recognized guidance and principles, including:

• Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
• Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
• ICMJE Recommendations on Responsible Scholarly Publishing

Reference to international guidance indicates the principles informing the journal's policies and does not imply organizational membership or formal endorsement.

Questions concerning publication ethics, research integrity, plagiarism, editorial procedures, conflicts of interest, authorship, corrections, or complaints may be addressed to the Jurnal Kimia VALENSI Editorial Office.

Email: kimia@apps.uinjkt.ac.id