Ethical Approval

All manuscripts submitted and involving research on animals and/or human subjects must have obtained approval from the authorized independent ethics committee.

Authors are required to include the ethics approval letter number in the manuscript. The soft file of the ethical approval letter must be uploaded through the NMJ Open Journal System (OJS).

All articles involving human subjects should respect principles of research ethics as described in the Declaration of Helsinki . Studies involving animals should obey the International Guiding Principles for Biomedical Research as developed by the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) .

1. Ethical Guidelines for Journal Publication

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed journal such as NMJ is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method.

It is, therefore, important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher, and the society.

Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Hamzanwadi as the publisher of NMJ, takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing extremely seriously, and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities.

We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprinting, or other commercial revenues have no impact or influence on editorial decisions.

2. Research Misconduct

Research misconduct means fabrication, falsification, citation manipulation, or plagiarism in producing, performing, or reviewing research and writing an article, or in reporting research results.

When authors are found to have been involved in research misconduct or other serious irregularities involving articles that have been published in scientific journals, editors have a responsibility to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the scientific record.

In cases of suspected misconduct, the editors and Editorial Board assist them in resolving the complaint and addressing the misconduct fairly. This will include an investigation of the allegation by the editors.

A submitted manuscript that is found to contain such misconduct will be rejected. In cases where a published paper is found to contain such misconduct, a retraction can be published and will be linked to the original article.

The first step of the process involves determining the validity of the allegation and assessing whether the allegation is consistent with the definition of research misconduct. This initial step also involves determining whether the individuals alleging misconduct have relevant conflicts of interest.

If scientific misconduct or the presence of other substantial research irregularities is a possibility, the allegations are shared with the corresponding author, who, on behalf of all of the co-authors, is requested to provide a detailed response.

After the response is received and evaluated, additional review and involvement of experts (such as statistical reviewers) may be obtained.

For cases in which it is unlikely that misconduct has occurred, clarifications, additional analyses, or both, published as Letters to the Editor, and often including a correction notice and correction to the published article, are sufficient.

Institutions are expected to conduct an appropriate and thorough investigation of allegations of scientific misconduct. Ultimately, authors, journals, and institutions have an important obligation to ensure the accuracy of the scientific record.

By responding appropriately to concerns about scientific misconduct, and taking necessary actions based on evaluation of these concerns, such as corrections, retractions with replacement, and retractions, eJKI will continue to fulfill the responsibilities of ensuring the validity and integrity of the scientific record.

3. Duties of Editor-in-Chief and Deputy of Editor-in-Chief

1. Coordinate all journal activities, lead the publication, decide on articles to publish, decide on managing editor, perform final editing and pre-printing / online, perform quality assurance of processes, prints, and publications.
2. Provide editorial board with work guidelines, required training, and prepare all members to get information on current policies and developments.
3. Select members of the editorial board who are qualified and are able to actively contribute to the publication’s development and management.
4. Evaluate the composition of the editorial board.
5. Retract the publication of an article that has unreliable information (e.g due to procedural error, miscalculation or misstatement of data), has been published elsewhere, contains plagiarism, or does not comply with the code of ethics.
6. Should guarantee the confidentiality of the submitted manuscript.

4. Duties of Authors

1. Reporting standards. Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
2. Data Access, Retention, and Reproducibility. Authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data, if practicable, and should, in any event, be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication. The authors are responsible for data reproducibility.
3. Originality and Plagiarism. The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
4. Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication. An author should not, in general, publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
5. Acknowledgment of Sources. Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

5. Managing Editor

The conformity with the journal format, writing style, bibliography, and references.

6. Duties of Secretariat

Responsible for maintaining or archiving documents, letters and others, remainding the editors-reviewers-authors, answer the email.

7. Duties of Website Administrator

Designing, developing, maintaining, and troubleshooting websites. They are also responsible for creating and updating content, implementing security protocols, creating backups, sorting out software issues

8. Duties of Layout Editor

The Layout Editor is responsible for setting the appearance of the journal to be published, with regards to layout and image format settings, and article format conversion

9. Complaints and Appeals

NMJ have a clear procedure for handling complaints against the journal, Editorial Staff, the Editorial Board, or the publisher.

Complaints will be clarified to a respected person with respect to the case of complaint.

The scope of complaints includes anything related to the journal’s business process, i.e. editorial process, found citation manipulation, unfair editors/reviewers, peer-review manipulation, etc.

10. Ethical Oversight

If the research work involves chemicals, humans, animals, or procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript in order to obey the ethical conduct of research.

If required, authors must provide legal ethical clearance from the relevant association or legal organization.

If the research involves confidential data and/or business/marketing practices, authors should clearly justify whether the data or information will be classified or not.

The research articles should respect principles of research ethics as described in Declaration of Helsinki and fulfill the principles of Good Clinical Pactice (GCP).