Peer Review Confidentiality

Peer Review Confidentiality  ·  Jurnal Civics
What is shared in review stays in review.
Duties of reviewers, editors, and authors to protect manuscripts and identities.
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Policy
Manuscripts submitted to Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan are confidential documents. Editors and reviewers protect the manuscript, the identity of authors and reviewers, and the review reports, following the COPE Core Practice on peer review processes and the COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers.
Review model Double-anonymous: authors and reviewers do not know each other’s identity.
Confidential The manuscript, its files, the reviews, the correspondence, and the decision.
Duration Before, during, and after review, whatever the outcome.
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Reviewers
—  Do not share the manuscript, or discuss it, with anyone, including colleagues and students, without the editor’s permission.
—  Do not upload the manuscript, or any part of it, to generative AI tools or online services. See AI in Peer Review.
—  Do not use ideas, data, or text from the manuscript for their own work, and do not cite it.
—  Do not try to identify the authors, and do not contact them.
—  Do not reveal that they reviewed the manuscript, or share their report, without the journal’s permission.
—  Delete or destroy copies of the manuscript after the review is completed.
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Editors and the editorial office
—  Share information about a manuscript only with the authors, the reviewers, and editorial advisers who need it.
—  Remove information that could identify authors or reviewers before files and reviews are sent on. See Editing Peer Reviews.
—  Keep reviewer identities confidential. The reviewer list names reviewers by issue only, never by manuscript.
—  Do not use unpublished material for their own research without the authors’ written consent.
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Authors
—  Remove names, affiliations, acknowledgements, and identifying self-citations from the anonymised manuscript, and remove personal data from file properties.
—  Do not contact reviewers, or try to find out who they are.
—  Keep the reviews and decision letters confidential, unless the journal agrees to their use.
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Limits to confidentiality
—  If there is evidence of misconduct, the editors may share relevant information with the authors’ institutions or other journals, in confidence. See Institutional Cooperation.
—  Where the law requires disclosure, the journal discloses only what is required.
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Breaches
A breach of confidentiality is treated as misconduct. The reviewer may be removed from the reviewer database, and serious cases are handled under the Research Misconduct policy. Report a suspected breach to journalcivics@uny.ac.id.