Publication Ethics

Jurnal Keolahragaan follows the Core Practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The duties below apply to everyone involved in publishing with the journal: editors, reviewers, authors, and the publisher.

Duties of editors

  • Fair decisions. Editors decide on publication based on the academic merit, originality, and relevance of a manuscript, taking the reviewers' reports into account and complying with legal requirements on defamation, copyright, and plagiarism. Decisions are not influenced by the authors' nationality, ethnicity, political views, race, religion, or institution.
  • Confidentiality. Information about a manuscript is shared only with the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, and editorial advisers as needed. Editors do not use unpublished material from a submission in their own research without the authors' written consent.
  • Peer review. Editors run a fair, unbiased, and timely double-blind review. Manuscripts from editorial board members are handled by an editor without a conflict of interest. Reviewers' comments are passed to the authors in full unless they are offensive or defamatory. Reviewers who repeatedly submit poor, discourteous, or late reviews are removed from the reviewer pool.
  • Funding transparency. Editors ensure that the funding sources of the research, and any role of the funder in the study or its publication, are disclosed in the article.
  • Research ethics. Editors check that studies involving humans or animals have approval from an appropriate ethics committee or institutional review board.
  • Correcting the record. When errors, inaccuracies, or misleading statements are found in a published article, editors act promptly to publish a correction or retraction.

Duties of reviewers

  • Reviewers help editors reach decisions and help authors improve their work. A reviewer who feels unqualified or cannot finish on time should tell the editor promptly.
  • Manuscripts under review are confidential and must not be shared or discussed without the editor's permission, or uploaded to generative AI tools.
  • Reviews must be objective and supported by clear arguments. Personal criticism of the authors is not acceptable.
  • Reviewers point out relevant work that has not been cited and tell the editor about any substantial overlap with other publications.
  • Reviewers declare any conflict of interest and do not use information obtained through review for personal advantage.

Duties of authors

  • Accuracy and data. Authors report their research accurately and in enough detail to allow replication. They keep the raw data and provide it to the editor on request.
  • Originality. All work is original, and the work of others is properly cited. See our Plagiarism Policy.
  • One journal at a time. A manuscript must not be under consideration by another journal. Redundant publication is not allowed.
  • Authorship. Authorship is limited to those who made a significant contribution, and every author approves the final manuscript. Contributions are described using the CRediT taxonomy.
  • Ethics approval and consent. Research involving humans or animals needs approval from an ethics committee, must follow international guidelines such as the Declaration of Helsinki, and must report informed consent. For participants under 18, consent from parents or guardians is required.
  • Disclosure. Authors declare any financial or personal conflicts of interest, or state that there are none. They also disclose all funding sources and any hazards in the procedures or equipment used.
  • Use of AI. Authors follow our AI Policy.
  • Errors in published work. Authors who find a significant error in their published article must notify the journal promptly and cooperate in correcting or retracting it.

Handling misconduct

The journal treats allegations of misconduct seriously. Misconduct includes:

  • Plagiarism: copying text, ideas, images, or data without attribution, or reusing published content without permission.
  • Fabrication and falsification: creating or manipulating data or images, including removing outliers to obtain a desired result.
  • Duplicate submission: submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal. Translations or secondary publications need prior approval from the original publisher.
  • Authorship problems: listing people who did not contribute, or leaving out people who did.
  • Citation manipulation: adding citations mainly to raise citation counts of an author or journal.
  • Peer review manipulation: for example, suggesting fake reviewers or reviewing with an undisclosed conflict of interest.

Suspected misconduct is investigated following the COPE flowcharts. Depending on the outcome, the journal may reject the manuscript, publish a correction, an expression of concern, or a retraction, inform the authors' institution, or refuse further submissions from the authors. See our R-W-C Policy.

Corrections and retractions

Errors introduced by the journal during production are corrected with an erratum. Errors made by the authors are corrected with a corrigendum. Both are linked to the original article with a clear explanation. If an error undermines the findings, the article is retracted instead. Substantial changes to an accepted article are treated as a new submission.

Copyright and author rights

Authors retain the copyright of their work. Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0), which allows anyone, including the authors, to share and adapt the article for any purpose, provided the original publication is credited and adaptations use the same license. Authors grant the journal the right of first publication. Full details are on the Copyright and License page.