Publication Ethics

Prudentia: Jurnal Hukum Perdata 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 adheres to internationally recognized ethical standards established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Prudentia maintains a zero-tolerance policy toward plagiarism, data fabrication, data falsification, duplicate publication, citation manipulation, and other forms of academic misconduct. Any manuscript found to violate publication ethics may be rejected, corrected, retracted, or removed from publication regardless of its stage in the editorial process. The journal reserves the right to utilize plagiarism detection software and other screening mechanisms to evaluate the originality and integrity of all submitted manuscripts.

As a scholarly journal focusing on civil law and private legal studies, Prudentia is committed to promoting ethical research, academic transparency, responsible authorship, and high-quality legal scholarship that contributes to the development of private law at both national and international levels.

Editor Responsibilities

Accountability and Editorial Decisions

The Editor-in-Chief and editorial team are responsible for determining which manuscripts submitted to the journal should be published. Editorial decisions are based on scholarly merit, originality, relevance to the journal's scope, and the recommendations of peer reviewers. Editors may consult members of the Editorial Board and external reviewers when making publication decisions.

Fairness and Impartiality

Editors evaluate manuscripts exclusively on the basis of their academic quality, intellectual contribution, and relevance. Decisions shall not be influenced by the authors’ race, gender, nationality, religious beliefs, institutional affiliation, political views, or other personal characteristics.

Confidentiality

Editors and editorial staff shall maintain the confidentiality of all submitted manuscripts and related communications. Information concerning a manuscript shall not be disclosed to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, editorial advisers, and the publisher as appropriate.

Conflicts of Interest

Editors shall not use unpublished information obtained during the review process for personal research or professional advantage. Any editor who has a conflict of interest concerning a submitted manuscript shall recuse themselves from handling the manuscript.

Reviewer Responsibilities

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Peer reviewers assist editors in making publication decisions and help authors improve the quality of their manuscripts through constructive feedback.

Confidentiality

Reviewers must treat all manuscripts received for review as confidential documents and must not share or discuss them with others without authorization from the editorial office.

Objectivity and Professionalism

Reviews should be conducted objectively, fairly, and constructively. Personal criticism of authors is inappropriate. Reviewers should provide clear, evidence-based evaluations and recommendations.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

Reviewers must decline to review manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest arising from competitive, collaborative, financial, institutional, or personal relationships with any of the authors or organizations involved.

Ethical Concerns

Reviewers should inform the Editor-in-Chief of any suspected plagiarism, duplicate publication, ethical misconduct, or substantial similarity between the manuscript under review and other published works.

Peer Review Process

All submitted manuscripts undergo an initial editorial assessment. Manuscripts deemed suitable for publication are subjected to a double-blind peer-review process involving at least two independent reviewers. Editorial decisions are made based on reviewers’ recommendations and the journal’s editorial standards.

Author Responsibilities

Reporting Standards

Authors must present their research accurately, objectively, and transparently. Research findings should be reported honestly without fabrication, falsification, selective reporting, or inappropriate data manipulation.

Originality and Plagiarism

Authors must ensure that submitted manuscripts are original works that have not been previously published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Proper acknowledgment and citation must be provided whenever the work or ideas of others are used.

Data Availability and Retention

Authors should retain research data supporting their findings and provide access to such data when reasonably requested by the editorial office for verification purposes.

Ethical Compliance

Research reported in manuscripts must be conducted in accordance with applicable ethical standards, legal requirements, and professional regulations.

Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest

Authors must disclose any financial, institutional, professional, or personal relationships that could influence the interpretation or presentation of the research. Sources of funding must also be clearly identified.

Authorship

Authorship should be limited to individuals who have made substantial contributions to the conception, design, execution, analysis, or interpretation of the study. All authors must approve the final manuscript and agree to its submission for publication.

Multiple or Redundant Publication

Authors should not submit substantially similar manuscripts to more than one journal simultaneously. Duplicate or redundant publication constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is strictly prohibited.

Corrections and Retractions

When authors discover significant errors or inaccuracies in their published work, they must promptly notify the journal and cooperate with the editorial team to correct or retract the publication when necessary.

Copyright Policy

Prudentia: Jurnal Hukum Perdata is an open-access journal published by PT Adikara Cipta Aksa. All published articles are freely and permanently accessible to readers worldwide without subscription fees or access restrictions, supporting the wider dissemination of knowledge in civil law and private legal studies.

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

Copyright of each published article remains with the author(s). By submitting and publishing their work in SLR, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive right to publish, reproduce, distribute, archive, and make the article available in electronic and printed forms.