Publication Ethics
Pamulang Law Review (PalRev) is committed to maintaining high standards of publication ethics, academic integrity, transparency, accountability, and professional responsibility throughout the scholarly publishing process. These principles apply to all parties involved in the publication process, including authors, editors, peer reviewers, and the publisher.
The journal follows internationally recognized principles and best practices in scholarly publishing, particularly those developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Editorial decisions and procedures are designed to preserve the integrity of the scholarly record, ensure fair and independent assessment of manuscripts, and prevent practices that may compromise academic credibility.
Pamulang Law Review does not tolerate plagiarism, data fabrication or falsification, duplicate or simultaneous submission, redundant publication, inappropriate authorship, citation manipulation, undisclosed conflicts of interest, or other forms of research and publication misconduct. Where credible evidence of misconduct is identified, the journal may take appropriate editorial action, including rejection, correction, expression of concern, withdrawal, or retraction, depending on the nature and severity of the case.
Submitted manuscripts may be screened using similarity-detection software as part of the journal's procedures for evaluating originality and maintaining publication integrity.
EDITOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Editorial Independence and Publication Decisions
The Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board are responsible for determining whether submitted manuscripts are suitable for publication in Pamulang Law Review. Editorial decisions are based on the manuscript's scholarly quality, originality, legal significance, methodological soundness, relevance to the journal's aims and scope, contribution to legal scholarship, and the recommendations of independent peer reviewers.
Editorial decisions must remain independent from commercial, institutional, political, or other external interests that could improperly influence the scholarly evaluation of a manuscript.
Fair and Impartial Evaluation
Editors evaluate submitted manuscripts exclusively on their academic merit and relevance to the journal. Editorial assessment must not be influenced by an author's nationality, ethnicity, gender, religion, institutional affiliation, political opinion, or other personal characteristics unrelated to the scholarly quality of the submission.
Confidentiality
Editors and editorial staff must maintain the confidentiality of manuscripts and information obtained during the editorial and peer-review process. Information concerning a submitted manuscript may only be disclosed to the corresponding author, reviewers, prospective reviewers, editorial advisers, and other individuals directly involved in the legitimate editorial process where appropriate.
Conflict of Interest
Editors must disclose and appropriately manage any actual or potential conflict of interest that could compromise the impartial handling of a manuscript. An editor who has a significant personal, professional, institutional, collaborative, or financial relationship with an author or the subject matter of a submission should recuse themselves from the editorial decision-making process for that manuscript.
Unpublished information or materials contained in submitted manuscripts must not be used for an editor's personal research, publication, or professional advantage without appropriate authorization.
REVIEWER RESPONSIBILITIES
Contribution to Editorial Decisions
Peer reviewers assist editors in evaluating the originality, methodological quality, legal reasoning, scholarly significance, and overall suitability of submitted manuscripts. Reviewer comments are also intended to assist authors in strengthening the academic quality of their work.
Confidentiality
All manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential scholarly documents. Reviewers must not share, reproduce, distribute, discuss, or disclose manuscripts or information contained therein to unauthorized third parties.
Objectivity and Professional Conduct
Peer reviews must be conducted objectively, constructively, and professionally. Reviewers should provide clear academic reasoning for their assessments and recommendations. Personal criticism, discriminatory comments, abusive language, or evaluations unrelated to the scholarly quality of the manuscript are unacceptable.
Conflict of Interest
Reviewers should decline an invitation to review where personal, professional, institutional, collaborative, competitive, or financial relationships could reasonably compromise—or appear to compromise—their impartiality.
Identification of Potential Misconduct
Reviewers should inform the editorial office when they identify suspected plagiarism, substantial similarity with previously published material, duplicate publication, citation manipulation, data irregularities, or other potential violations of publication ethics.
PEER REVIEW PROCESS
All manuscripts submitted to Pamulang Law Review undergo an initial editorial screening to determine their conformity with the journal's aims and scope, Author Guidelines, originality requirements, and basic standards of scholarly quality.
Manuscripts that successfully pass the preliminary editorial assessment proceed to a double-blind peer-review process, in which the identities of both authors and reviewers are concealed from one another. Each manuscript is ordinarily evaluated by at least two independent reviewers with relevant expertise in the subject area.
Reviewers assess manuscripts on the basis of originality, methodological rigor, analytical depth, legal reasoning, engagement with relevant scholarship, significance of the findings, and contribution to legal studies.
The final decision to accept, request revision, or reject a manuscript rests with the Editor-in-Chief, taking into consideration the reviewers' reports, the authors' responses to requested revisions, and the journal's editorial standards.
AUTHOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Accuracy and Reporting Standards
Authors must present their research accurately, honestly, transparently, and with sufficient scholarly detail to permit appropriate academic evaluation. Fabrication, falsification, intentional misrepresentation, manipulation of research findings, or other deceptive practices constitute serious violations of publication ethics.
Originality and Proper Attribution
Authors must ensure that submitted manuscripts constitute original scholarly work. Material, arguments, ideas, data, or language derived from other sources must be appropriately acknowledged and cited in accordance with accepted academic standards.
Plagiarism in any form, including unattributed reproduction of another person's work or inappropriate reuse of previously published material, is unacceptable.
Data and Research Integrity
Where applicable, authors must maintain accurate records of research data and supporting materials. Authors may be requested to provide relevant supporting information where reasonably necessary to verify the integrity of the research or address legitimate editorial concerns.
Ethical and Legal Compliance
Research reported in manuscripts must comply with applicable legal, professional, institutional, and ethical standards. Where research involves human participants, confidential information, personal data, or other ethically sensitive materials, authors are responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable ethical requirements and obtaining necessary approvals or consent where required.
Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest and Funding
Authors must disclose financial, institutional, professional, personal, or other relationships that could reasonably be perceived as influencing the research, interpretation of findings, or presentation of the manuscript.
Sources of financial support or research funding must be appropriately acknowledged where applicable.
Authorship and Contributorship
Authorship should be limited to individuals who have made substantial scholarly contributions to the conception, design, execution, analysis, interpretation, or preparation of the research.
All listed authors must approve the final version of the manuscript and consent to its submission and publication. Individuals who have contributed to the research but do not satisfy the criteria for authorship should be appropriately acknowledged where applicable.
Multiple Submission and Redundant Publication
Authors must not simultaneously submit the same manuscript, or a manuscript containing substantially the same scholarly content, to more than one journal. Authors must also disclose relevant previous publications where necessary to enable editors to assess potential redundant or overlapping publication.
Corrections and Retractions
Authors are responsible for promptly notifying Pamulang Law Review when they identify significant errors or inaccuracies in their published work. Authors are expected to cooperate with the Editorial Board in issuing corrections, clarifications, expressions of concern, or retractions where appropriate to preserve the integrity of the scholarly record.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING POLICY
Pamulang Law Review (PalRev) is an open-access scholarly journal published by the Faculty of Law, Universitas Pamulang. All published articles are made immediately and freely accessible to readers without subscription charges or access barriers.
Copyright in articles published by Pamulang Law Review remains with the author(s). Authors grant Pamulang Law Review the right of first publication and a non-exclusive right to publish, reproduce, distribute, archive, preserve, and disseminate their works as part of the journal's scholarly record.
All articles published in Pamulang Law Review are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Under this license, users are permitted to copy and redistribute published material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial purposes, provided that appropriate attribution is given to the original author(s), the original publication in Pamulang Law Review is properly acknowledged, a link to the applicable license is provided, and any adapted material is distributed under the same or a compatible license.
The CC BY-SA 4.0 license does not transfer copyright ownership from the author(s) to the journal or to users of the published material. Authors retain ownership of their copyright while permitting reuse of their work in accordance with the conditions established by the license.
Authors may enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of their work, including depositing it in institutional repositories, personal or professional websites, or other scholarly platforms, provided that the original publication in Pamulang Law Review is appropriately acknowledged and such distribution complies with the applicable license.
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