Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

TEKNOPANS: Jurnal Ilmiah Teknik Mesin dan Manajemen Informatika is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published online in the fields of Mechanical Engineering and Informatics Management.

This Publication Ethics statement establishes the ethical responsibilities of all parties involved in the publication process, including authors, editors, Editorial Board members, peer reviewers, and the publisher.

TEKNOPANS is committed to promoting research integrity, responsible scholarly communication, and high-quality scientific publication in accordance with the principles and best practices recommended by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Publishing Ethics Guidelines

Scientific and technological publications play an important role in the development, verification, and dissemination of reliable knowledge.

The publication of articles in TEKNOPANS: Jurnal Ilmiah Teknik Mesin dan Manajemen Informatika should therefore reflect rigorous research practices, transparent methods, accurate reporting, originality, and ethical responsibility.

The publisher and Editorial Board are committed to protecting editorial independence and ensuring that financial, commercial, institutional, or other external interests do not influence publication decisions.

Publication Decisions

The Editors are responsible for determining which manuscripts should be published.

Publication decisions should be based on originality, scientific validity, methodological rigor, technical significance, relevance to the journal's scope, contribution to knowledge, and value to readers.

Editors may consult members of the Editorial Board and peer reviewers in making decisions.

All editorial decisions must also comply with applicable legal and ethical requirements concerning plagiarism, copyright, defamation, research misconduct, intellectual property, and other relevant matters.

Fair Play

Editors must evaluate manuscripts objectively according to scientific and technical merit.

Authors must not be discriminated against on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, citizenship, nationality, institutional affiliation, or political philosophy.

Confidentiality

Editors, editorial staff, and reviewers must maintain strict confidentiality regarding submitted manuscripts.

Information about manuscripts may only be disclosed to authors, reviewers, potential reviewers, editorial advisers, and the publisher when necessary for legitimate editorial purposes.

Technical information, research data, system designs, algorithms, experimental procedures, prototypes, and unpublished findings contained in submitted manuscripts must not be shared or exploited without authorization.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

Unpublished information obtained through submitted manuscripts must not be used by editors, reviewers, or editorial staff for their own research, commercial development, technical applications, or personal advantage without explicit written permission from the authors.

Editors and reviewers must disclose potential conflicts of interest and withdraw from the editorial process where necessary.

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Peer review supports Editors in assessing the scientific quality, technical validity, relevance, originality, and methodological adequacy of submitted manuscripts.

Constructive peer-review comments should also help authors improve the quality, clarity, reproducibility, and technical presentation of their work.

Promptness

Invited reviewers who consider themselves insufficiently qualified to evaluate a manuscript or cannot complete the review within the designated period should immediately notify the Editor.

Reviewers should complete their assessments within a reasonable timeframe to avoid unnecessary delays in the publication process.

Confidentiality of Review

Manuscripts received for review are confidential documents.

Reviewers must not copy, distribute, disclose, reproduce, or discuss any part of the manuscript with unauthorized individuals.

Research ideas, algorithms, system architectures, technical designs, datasets, and experimental findings obtained through the review process must remain confidential.

Standards of Objectivity

Peer review must be conducted objectively and professionally.

Reviewers should assess the manuscript's research design, engineering methods, technical accuracy, analysis, originality, reproducibility, interpretation, and contribution.

Personal criticism of authors is inappropriate. Reviewer comments should be supported by clear scientific or technical arguments.

Acknowledgment of Sources

Reviewers should identify important published studies, technical standards, methods, datasets, algorithms, or other sources that have not been properly acknowledged by the authors.

Any observation, method, technology, algorithm, model, or finding derived from previous work must be cited appropriately.

Reviewers should inform the Editor if they identify substantial similarity, duplication, or overlap between the manuscript and other published or submitted works.

Conflicts of Interest for Reviewers and Authors

Reviewers must not assess manuscripts where they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, financial, professional, institutional, or personal relationships.

Authors must disclose financial interests, commercial relationships, funding arrangements, patents, intellectual property interests, or other circumstances that could reasonably influence the research or interpretation of findings.

All research funding and relevant institutional or commercial support should be disclosed.

Reporting Standards

Authors must provide an accurate, complete, and objective account of their research.

Experimental procedures, data, methods, algorithms, system specifications, testing procedures, and analytical techniques should be described with sufficient clarity to allow readers to evaluate the validity and, where possible, reproducibility of the work.

Fabrication, falsification, manipulation of data, misleading alteration of images, selective reporting, or intentionally inaccurate statements constitute serious ethical misconduct.

Originality and Plagiarism

Authors must ensure that submitted manuscripts are original.

Any ideas, methods, software, algorithms, datasets, designs, figures, text, or other intellectual contributions derived from other sources must be properly acknowledged and cited.

Plagiarism, self-plagiarism, inappropriate paraphrasing, unauthorized reproduction, and misrepresentation of another person's work are unacceptable.

Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication

Authors must not simultaneously submit the same or substantially similar manuscript to more than one journal.

Publishing essentially the same research results in multiple primary publications without proper justification or disclosure is considered unethical.

Authorship

Authorship should be restricted to individuals who have made substantial contributions to the conception, design, implementation, experimentation, analysis, system development, interpretation, or preparation of the manuscript.

All individuals who meet authorship criteria should be included as authors, and all listed authors should have reviewed and approved the final manuscript.

Individuals who contributed to specific technical, laboratory, programming, data collection, or other supporting activities without meeting authorship criteria should be acknowledged appropriately.

Fundamental Errors in Published Works

If authors discover significant errors, inaccuracies, or technical problems in their published work, they must notify the Editor or publisher immediately.

Authors should cooperate fully with the journal to correct, amend, retract, or otherwise update the article as necessary to maintain the reliability and integrity of the scientific record.