Publication Ethics

UNIVERSE : Journal of Science Education Teaching and Learning set of publication ethics as guidelines for persons engaged in the publication of science research to comply with COPE practices establishes a high quality standard of ethics for journal publication. 

Authorship
Authors are expected to comply with the following ethical guidelines. Any infringement may lead to a retraction of the article, or even ban the author from journal publication.
1. Author's main obligation is to deliver accurate and complete details of the research performed. The research data should contain sufficient information on the related subject.
2. Authors should ensure the originality of their work and that no fraud nor fabrication is involved in their manuscript.
3. Authors should guarantee that the article has not been published previously or is not being evaluated for publication elsewhere.
4. Authors should ensure that their works do not contain any unlawful statements and any comment that may violate the law.
5. Authors are aware and abide by misconduct policy.

Editorship
1. Editors should provide a fair judgment and consideration to all manuscripts based on its quality with no regard to race, religion, nationality, sex, seniority, or institutional affiliation of the author(s).
2. Editors are responsible to consider all the submitted manuscripts in reasonable time frame.
3. Editors, with their expertise and fair judgment are responsible to accept or reject the manuscripts. They are to build a good communication with authors in regards to the manuscripts publication. The final decision will be accompanied by the reviewer's comment.
4. Editors are to make sure no private information of authors are included in the manuscript sent to reviewers.
5. Editors should ensure the confidentiality of the submitted manuscript and not to disclose any information about the manuscript under consideration to other parties.
6. Editors are to respect authors request to not use certain reviewers  with a well reasoned objection - to consider their manuscript. However, editors can decide to use one or more of these reviewers if their professional input is considered to be important for the manuscript publication.
7. Editors are to comply with COPE practices when considering a manuscript for publication.

Reviewer Process
All papers will be critically read by at least two anonymous reviewers, selected for their competences in the subject area of the paper. Acceptance of the paper will depend upon its scientific merit and suitability for the Makara Journal of Science. A paper may be accepted in its original form, subject to revision, or rejection. The reviewers' (and editor's) suggestions will be conveyed to the author, who will then have an opportunity to revise the paper. A manuscript returned to an author for revision can be held for a maximum of eight weeks. All submitted papers will be checked for their originalities by Turnitin. Reviewers are to comply with following ethical guidelines:
1. The main obligation of a reviewer (referee) is to objectively judge the complete manuscript both scientifically and literally in high standards.
2. Referees should treat the submitted manuscript as confidential documents.
3. Referees identity should be remain anonymous  unless if the editors decided otherwise.
4. Referees should complete the evaluation of a manuscript in a reasonable time frame and directly inform the editors should the work can not be completed within schedule.
5. Reviewers should explain and provide adequate professional judgment for their evaluation on a manuscript.
6. Reviewers are to promptly notify the editors should they find the manuscript is expected to be misapplied by others to pose a threat to public health and safety.

Data and Responsibility
Data availability and reporting guidelines are available in section Author Guidelines.

Research Misconduct Policy
The purpose of this policy is to prevent any misconduct related to research conducted for the journals and to suggest the fundamental principles and structural procedures in relation to research integrity deliberation required to ensure research ethics. It can be accessed in Allegation of Research Misconduct.

Ethical Oversight
All submitted articles and exchanging information involving authors and editors will be considered as confidential. Communications related to publication process should not be disclosed in any website without prior consent from the editors. The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

Publishing
This journal uses Open Journal Systems 3.5 which is open source journal management and publishing software developed, supported, and freely distributed by the Public Knowledge Project under the GNU General Public License.

Conflict of Interest Policy
UNIVERSE: Journal of Science Education Teaching and Learning is committed to maintaining transparency, objectivity, and integrity throughout the scholarly publishing process. All authors, reviewers, and editors are required to disclose any potential conflicts of interest that could influence, or reasonably be perceived to influence, their research, evaluation, editorial decisions, or the publication of scholarly work.
1. Authors should clearly inform their source of financial support -institution, private, and/or corporate- for their research.
2. Should the author and editor have a relationship which may lead to an unfair evaluation another editor will be appointed instead.
3. Reviewers should be aware for any appearance of conflict of interest when receive a manuscript for evaluation and are required to promptly return the manuscript to editor, informing the conflict of interest issue.