The Indonesian Journal on Learning and Advanced Education (IJOLAE) is committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics, academic integrity, and editorial transparency. IJOLAE follows internationally accepted principles of publication ethics, including guidance from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and expects all authors, editors, reviewers, and publishers to uphold ethical conduct throughout the publication process.

1. Authorship and Contributorship

IJOLAE requires that authorship be limited to individuals who have made substantial scholarly contributions to the submitted manuscript. Authorship should be based on meaningful contributions to one or more of the following:

1. conception and design of the study;
2. data collection, analysis, or interpretation;
3. drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content;
4. approval of the final version to be published;
5. accountability for the accuracy and integrity of the work.

All listed authors must approve the submitted manuscript and agree to its publication. Contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be acknowledged in the acknowledgement section.

The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that all eligible authors are included, that no inappropriate authors are listed, and that all co-authors have approved the manuscript before submission. Any request to add, remove, or rearrange author names after submission must be approved by all authors and explained clearly to the editor.

IJOLAE does not allow ghost authorship, guest authorship, gift authorship, or authorship manipulation.

2. Complaints and Appeals

IJOLAE provides a transparent mechanism for handling complaints and appeals related to editorial decisions, peer review, publication processes, ethical concerns, or published content.

Authors may submit an appeal if they believe that an editorial decision was affected by procedural error, misunderstanding, bias, or insufficient consideration of the manuscript. Appeals must be submitted in writing to the Editor-in-Chief with clear reasons and supporting evidence.

Complaints may be submitted by authors, reviewers, readers, or other parties concerning editorial conduct, reviewer conduct, ethical issues, publication delays, conflicts of interest, or suspected misconduct.

All complaints and appeals will be handled fairly, confidentially, and without conflict of interest. The Editor-in-Chief may consult section editors, editorial board members, reviewers, ethics advisors, or the publisher when necessary. The final decision on complaints and appeals rests with the Editor-in-Chief or an appointed editorial ethics committee.

3. Conflicts of Interest / Competing Interests

IJOLAE requires all authors, reviewers, editors, and editorial board members to disclose any conflicts of interest or competing interests that may influence, or be perceived to influence, the publication process.

Conflicts of interest may include financial relationships, research funding, employment, consultancies, personal relationships, academic competition, institutional affiliation, political or religious interests, or other circumstances that could affect objective judgment.

Authors must disclose all relevant conflicts of interest and funding sources in the manuscript. If there are no conflicts of interest, authors should state: “The authors declare no conflict of interest.”

Reviewers must decline review invitations if they have a conflict of interest with the authors, institutions, research topic, or funding bodies. Editors must not handle manuscripts where they have a conflict of interest and should assign such manuscripts to another qualified editor.

If an undisclosed conflict of interest is discovered after publication, IJOLAE may issue a correction, editorial note, expression of concern, or retraction, depending on the seriousness of the case.

4. Data Sharing and Reproducibility

IJOLAE encourages transparency, data availability, and reproducibility in scholarly research. Authors are expected to present research methods, data sources, instruments, analytical procedures, and findings accurately and in sufficient detail to allow evaluation and, where possible, replication.

Authors may be requested to provide supporting data, instruments, questionnaires, interview protocols, statistical outputs, coding files, or other research materials during peer review or after publication.

Where appropriate and ethically permissible, authors are encouraged to deposit research data in a recognized data repository and include a data availability statement in the manuscript.

Examples of data availability statements include:

“The data supporting the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.”

or

“The data supporting this study are available in [repository name] at [DOI/link].”

Data sharing must comply with ethical approval, informed consent, privacy protection, confidentiality agreements, institutional regulations, and applicable laws. If data cannot be shared, authors must clearly explain the reason.

5. Ethical Oversight

IJOLAE requires that all research involving human participants, students, teachers, children, vulnerable groups, institutions, personal data, surveys, interviews, classroom interventions, experiments, or other educational settings be conducted according to appropriate ethical standards.

Authors must state whether ethical approval was obtained from an institutional review board, research ethics committee, university authority, school authority, or other relevant body. If ethical approval was not required, authors should provide a clear explanation.

Research involving human participants must include appropriate informed consent. For research involving minors or vulnerable participants, consent from parents, guardians, schools, or responsible institutions may be required, along with participant assent where appropriate.

Authors must protect participant confidentiality, privacy, anonymity, and welfare. IJOLAE reserves the right to request documentation of ethical approval, informed consent, research permission, or institutional clearance.

Manuscripts may be rejected or retracted if ethical approval, consent, or participant protection is inadequate, misrepresented, or absent where required.

6. Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Licensing

Authors are responsible for ensuring that submitted manuscripts do not violate copyright, trademark, privacy rights, or other intellectual property rights.

All text, data, tables, figures, images, instruments, questionnaires, and other materials taken from previous publications or third-party sources must be properly cited. Authors must obtain written permission to reproduce copyrighted materials when required.

Plagiarism, inappropriate paraphrasing, duplicate publication, unauthorized use of copyrighted material, and misappropriation of ideas or data are strictly prohibited.

IJOLAE applies its stated copyright and licensing policy to all published articles. Authors and readers should refer to the journal’s copyright and license information for details on author rights, reuse rights, distribution, and permitted use of published content.

7. Post-Publication Discussions and Corrections

IJOLAE is committed to maintaining the accuracy and integrity of the scholarly record after publication. The journal welcomes responsible post-publication discussion, including comments, critiques, letters to the editor, author responses, and scholarly correspondence related to published articles.

Readers, authors, or other parties may contact the Editor-in-Chief if they identify errors, ethical concerns, data problems, authorship issues, citation problems, or other matters affecting a published article.

When necessary, IJOLAE may take one or more of the following post-publication actions:

1. Correction — issued when an article contains an error that does not invalidate the findings.
2. Editorial note — issued to clarify minor issues or provide additional information.
3. Expression of concern — issued when serious concerns exist but the investigation is ongoing or inconclusive.
4. Retraction — issued when findings are unreliable due to misconduct or major error, plagiarism, unethical research, duplicate publication, or other serious ethical violations.
5. Author response or post-publication discussion — published when scholarly debate or clarification is needed.

All corrections, expressions of concern, and retractions will be clearly linked to the original article and will state the reason for the editorial action.