Publication Ethics

Nusantara Criminal Law Journal: Jurnal Hukum Pidana (NCLJ) is committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics, academic integrity, and professional responsibility in scholarly publishing. These ethical principles apply to all parties involved in the publication process, including authors, editors, reviewers, and the publisher. The journal follows internationally recognized ethical standards and best practices established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

NCLJ adopts a strict policy against plagiarism, data fabrication, data falsification, duplicate publication, citation manipulation, and all forms of academic misconduct. Any manuscript or published article found to violate ethical standards may be rejected, corrected, retracted, or removed from publication at any stage of the editorial process. The journal reserves the right to utilize plagiarism detection software to assess the originality of all submitted manuscripts.

Editor Responsibilities

Accountability and Editorial Decisions

The Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board are responsible for determining which submitted manuscripts are suitable for publication. Editorial decisions are based on academic merit, originality, methodological rigor, relevance to the journal’s scope, and recommendations from peer reviewers.

Fairness and Impartiality

Editors evaluate manuscripts solely on their scholarly quality and intellectual contribution. Editorial decisions shall not be influenced by the authors’ race, nationality, gender, religion, institutional affiliation, political beliefs, or other personal characteristics.

Confidentiality

Editors and editorial staff must maintain the confidentiality of all submitted manuscripts and related communications. Information regarding a manuscript shall not be disclosed to anyone except the corresponding author, reviewers, editorial advisers, and the publisher when necessary.

Conflicts of Interest

Editors must not use unpublished materials disclosed in submitted manuscripts for personal research or professional gain. Any editor who has a conflict of interest regarding a manuscript shall withdraw from the editorial decision-making process.

Reviewer Responsibilities

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Peer reviewers assist editors in evaluating manuscripts and contribute to editorial decisions through objective, constructive, and scholarly assessments.

Confidentiality

Reviewers must treat manuscripts as confidential documents and must not disclose, share, or discuss manuscript content without authorization from the editorial office.

Objectivity and Professionalism

Reviews should be conducted fairly, objectively, and professionally. Reviewers are expected to provide clear, evidence-based comments that assist authors in improving the quality of their work.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

Reviewers should decline review assignments when conflicts of interest arise from professional, institutional, financial, collaborative, or personal relationships with the authors or related organizations.

Ethical Concerns

Reviewers should promptly notify the Editor-in-Chief if they identify plagiarism, duplicate publication, unethical conduct, fabricated data, or substantial similarities between the manuscript under review and previously published works.

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to NCLJ undergo an initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal’s scope and quality standards are subsequently evaluated through a double-blind peer-review process involving at least two independent reviewers. Final publication decisions are made based on reviewers’ recommendations and editorial evaluation.

Author Responsibilities

Reporting Standards

Authors must present research findings accurately, honestly, and transparently. Research data and results should not be fabricated, falsified, selectively reported, or manipulated inappropriately.

Originality and Plagiarism

Authors are responsible for ensuring that submitted manuscripts are original works and have not been previously published or simultaneously submitted to another publication. Proper acknowledgment and citation must be provided whenever ideas, data, or materials from other sources are used.

Data Availability and Retention

Authors should retain supporting research data and make such data available for editorial review when reasonably requested for verification purposes.

Ethical Compliance

Research submitted to NCLJ must comply with applicable legal requirements, ethical standards, and professional regulations relevant to criminal law and criminal justice research.

Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest

Authors must disclose any financial, institutional, professional, or personal interests that could influence the interpretation or presentation of their research findings.

Authorship

Authorship should be limited to individuals who have made substantial scholarly contributions to the conception, design, execution, analysis, or interpretation of the study. All listed authors must approve the final manuscript before submission.

Multiple or Redundant Publication

Authors must not submit substantially similar manuscripts to multiple journals simultaneously. Duplicate publication and redundant publication are considered serious breaches of publication ethics.

Corrections and Retractions

Authors are obliged to promptly notify the journal if significant errors or inaccuracies are discovered in their published work and cooperate fully with the editorial team in issuing corrections or retractions when necessary.

Copyright Policy

Nusantara Criminal Law Journal: Jurnal Hukum Pidana (NCLJ) is an open-access journal published by PT Adikara Cipta Aksa. All published articles are freely accessible to readers worldwide without subscription fees or access restrictions.

All articles published in NCLJ are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This license permits users to read, download, copy, distribute, adapt, and reproduce the published material for non-commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and source, and that any derivative works are distributed under the same license.

The copyright of published articles remains with the author(s). By submitting and publishing their work in NCLJ, authors grant the journal and its publisher, PT Adikara Cipta Aksa, a non-exclusive right to publish, reproduce, distribute, archive, preserve, and make the article available in electronic and printed formats.