Policy

Diklus: Jurnal Pendidikan Luar Sekolah welcomes reports of possible misconduct or unethical practice by authors, reviewers, editors, or the journal itself. Reports are handled confidentially and fairly, following the COPE guidance and flowcharts.

What you can report

• Plagiarism, fabrication, or falsification of data. See the Plagiarism Policy and Research Misconduct.
• Duplicate publication, authorship misconduct, or undisclosed conflicts of interest.
• Breaches of research ethics, such as research with people or communities without consent. See the Ethical Clearance Statement.
• Manipulation of peer review or of citations. See Peer Review Manipulation.
• Misconduct by an editor or a reviewer, or a breach of confidentiality.

How to report

• Write to the editorial office through the Contact page with the manuscript ID or the article, a description of the concern, and the evidence.
• If the concern is about the Editor-in-Chief, it is handled by the publisher, the Faculty of Education, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta. Send it through the same channel, marked “Confidential – for the publisher”, and the Managing Editor forwards it unopened by the Editor-in-Chief. See the Editorial Team.
• Anonymous reports are considered if the evidence is clear and specific.

Protection

• The identity of the person who reports is kept confidential, unless that person agrees otherwise or the law requires it.
• People who report in good faith are protected from retaliation by the journal.
• Reports that are knowingly false or malicious are not accepted, and may themselves be treated as misconduct.

What happens next

The editors acknowledge the report, decide whether it should be looked into, ask the people concerned to respond, and act on the outcome, as described in Research Misconduct. See also the Complaints Policy.