JIPSINDO
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Ethical Clearance Statement
Ethical Clearance · JIPSINDO
Ethical clearance.
What authors must obtain, report, and state, following COPE.
01Policy▾
JIPSINDO expects research to be conducted ethically and reported with transparency. Following the COPE Core Practices on ethical oversight, the journal requires, that research involving people, or data about them, has been reviewed by an appropriate ethics body or formally exempted, and that participants gave informed consent. The journal does not issue ethical clearance itself. It checks that authors have obtained and reported it.
02When it is required▾
— Interviews, focus groups, surveys, questionnaires, observation, and experiments with people.
— Research with children or other vulnerable groups, and research on sensitive topics such as politics, religion, ethnicity, or conflict.
— Use of personal, identifiable, or confidential data, including records, images, recordings, and social media content that is not clearly public.
— Any other study where participants could be harmed, identified, or put at risk by taking part or by publication.
Research that uses only public documents or published data without personal information, usually need no clearance. State this in the manuscript.
03What authors must state▾
Every manuscript includes an Ethics Approval and Informed Consent statement, placed in the end matter as set out in the Author Guidelines.
| Approval | The name of the ethics committee or body, the approval or reference number, and the date. Attach a copy to the submission if the editors request it. |
| Exemption | If approval was not required, say so, name who decided it (for example the institution’s ethics committee or the research board), and explain why. |
| Consent | How informed consent was obtained (written or verbal), and from whom. For children, consent from a parent or guardian, and assent from the child where appropriate. |
| Protection | How privacy and confidentiality were protected: anonymisation, safe storage of data, and who had access. |
| Voluntary | That participation was voluntary and participants could withdraw without penalty. |
| Publication | Consent to publish where a person, a quotation, or an image could identify them. Without it, identifying details are removed. |
04Example statement▾
This study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of [university name] (reference number [number], [date]). All participants received information about the study and gave their written informed consent before taking part. Participation was voluntary, and data were anonymised and stored securely.
If no clearance was needed: This study used only published documents and contained no personal data, so ethical approval was not required.
05Timing and checks▾
— Obtain ethics approval before collecting data. If approval was obtained afterwards or not at all, explain why in the cover letter. The editors may request evidence, ask for an explanation from the author’s institution, or decline the manuscript.
— Editors and reviewers may query the ethics statement. Missing or unclear statements are returned to the authors before review continues.
— Concerns about the ethics of published work are handled under the Research Misconduct and Correction, Retraction and Withdrawal policies.
06COPE 5.0 alignment: research ethics▾
— Research involving human participants follows the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and requires approval from an ethics committee; the article states the committee, approval number, and date.
— If a study is exempt from approval, the authors state the reason and upload proof of the exemption issued by the committee or institution; an exemption cannot be declared by the authors themselves.
— Identifiable personal material (names, photographs, quotations that could identify a person, case details) requires consent for publication, and the article includes a statement that consent was obtained.
— Minors and vulnerable participants require consent from a parent or guardian and, where possible, assent from the participant.
