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Jurnal Pendidikan Sains

Policies

Affiliations

Authors must include institutional affiliations representing where the research was conducted or supported. If affiliations change before publication, both prior and new affiliations should be noted.

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Appeals and Complaints

Concerns related to authorship or peer review must be directed to the Editor-in-Chief. Investigations follow COPE standards and may be referred to the editorial board if needed.

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Acknowledgment

Individuals contributing significantly without meeting authorship criteria must be acknowledged with consent. AI tools used must also be disclosed.

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Authorship

Authors must meet ICMJE authorship standards. Contributions should be transparently reported using the CRediT taxonomy. Authorship changes require documentation.

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Citations

All references must be accurate, relevant, and avoid citation manipulation. Over-citation or biased referencing is discouraged.

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Conflict of Interest/ Competing Interest

Authors must disclose financial or personal interests that may bias their work. Undisclosed conflicts may lead to retraction.

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Corrections, Expressions of Concern, and Retractions

Post-publication issues are handled following COPE guidelines. Retractions, corrections, or expressions of concern may be issued with clear public notices.

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Publication of identifiable data requires written informed consent. For minors, legal guardians must provide consent.

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Confidentiality

All submissions are treated as confidential and shared only with involved editorial or review parties.

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Who Can Submit?

Anyone may submit an original article to be considered for publication in  Jurnal Pendidikan Sains (JPS) provided he or she owns the copyright to the work being submitted or is authorized by the copyright owner or owners to submit the article.

Copyright Policy

JPS is Open Access under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Authors retain copyright and grant publishing rights to the journal.

Author Right

The journal allows the author(s) to hold the copyright, and to retain publishing rights without any restrictions.

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Data Falsification/ Fabrication

Data manipulation is unethical. Authors must retain and provide raw data upon request.

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Desk Rejection Policy

    Manuscripts may be desk-rejected for poor relevance, plagiarism, lack of novelty, or noncompliance with submission guidelines.

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Duplicate Submission/ Publication

Simultaneous submissions are not allowed. Secondary publications must disclose prior publication history and be approved.

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Funding

Authors must disclose all sources of financial support and funders’ roles in the research.

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Images and Figures

Consent is required for identifiable images. Scientific image editing must be disclosed. Reused content requires proper licensing.

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Misconduct

The journal takes all forms of misconduct seriously and will take all necessary action, in accordance with COPE guidelines, to protect the integrity of the scholarly record.

Examples of misconduct include (but are not limited to):

  • Affiliation misrepresentation
  • Breaches in copyright/use of third-party material without appropriate permissions
  • Citation manipulation
  • Duplicate submission/publication
  • “Ethics dumping”
  • Image or data manipulation/fabrication
  • Peer review manipulation
  • Plagiarism
  • Text-recycling/self-plagiarism
  • Undisclosed competing interests
  • Unethical research

Duplicate Submission

Manuscripts that have already been published or are concurrently under review by another journal will be subject to sanctions for duplicate submission or publication. If authors build upon their own previously published work or work currently under review, they must clearly reference the earlier material and explicitly describe how the submitted manuscript presents new and original contributions beyond the prior work.

Citation Manipulation

Manuscripts submitted with references that appear to be included primarily to artificially boost the citation count of a specific author or journal may be subject to sanctions for citation manipulation.

Data Fabrication and Falsification

Manuscripts determined to contain fabricated or falsified experimental data including altered or manipulated images will be subject to sanctions for data fabrication and falsification.

Improper Author Contribution or Attribution

Every author listed on the manuscript must have contributed meaningfully to the scientific aspects of the research and must have approved all the statements and findings presented. It is essential to acknowledge all individuals who played a substantial scientific role in the work, including students and lab technicians.

Redundant Publications

Redundant publication refers to the unethical practice of splitting the results of a single study into multiple separate articles without proper justification.

Image Manipulation

Intentionally altering or fabricating images in a deceptive manner is considered a serious violation of research ethics, as it aims to mislead readers and undermines the credibility of the scholarly record, potentially resulting in significant and lasting consequences.

The journal requires that all images submitted in manuscripts accurately reflect the original data and remain free from inappropriate manipulation. Image elements must not be selectively enhanced, hidden, repositioned, deleted, or artificially inserted unless the nature of the alteration is clearly described. Minor adjustments to brightness, contrast, or color balance are permissible, provided they do not distort or conceal any part of the original information. When images are composed from different sections such as in gels, western blots, or microscopic fields this must be transparently indicated either in the figure layout or in the accompanying figure legend.

If authors are unable to provide the original, unmodified image files upon request, the manuscript may be rejected or a published article may be subject to retraction.

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Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to all its content. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles freely, without prior permission from the publisher or author, fully in line with the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI).

The BOAI promotes the free availability of peer-reviewed journals online, enabling access without financial, legal, or technical barriers. It encourages two main strategies to achieve open access:

  • Self-Archiving – authors deposit their articles in open repositories.
  • Open-Access Journals – journals provide unrestricted access to content and adopt alternative funding models.

Open access increases visibility, accelerates research, and ensures equitable access to knowledge for all.

For more information, visit: https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org

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Peer Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to this journal undergo a double-blind peer review process, where both authors and reviewers remain anonymous to one another. Submissions are first screened by the editorial team to ensure alignment with the journal’s aims and scope, particularly its commitment to counseling as a form of social intervention that addresses systemic inequality. Manuscripts that meet the initial criteria will then be evaluated by at least two independent peer reviewers with relevant expertise.

The journal maintains high standards of academic rigor and ethical integrity. The final decision regarding the acceptance or rejection of a manuscript rests with the editorial board and is made based on the reviewers’ recommendations, academic merit, relevance, and the manuscript's contribution to the field of counseling as a tool for empowerment, inclusion, and social transformation.

In cases where a manuscript raises significant ethical, social, or contextual concerns particularly those involving vulnerable populations, cultural sensitivities, or structural inequities, we may seek input beyond the standard review process. This may involve consultation with subject matter experts, additional editorial assessment, or the recruitment of reviewers with specialized knowledge. In certain circumstances, the journal may also decline to proceed with the review process to uphold ethical and social responsibility in scholarly publishing.

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Plagiarism Policy

The journal has a strict policy against plagiarism, where the journal does not tolerate using others’ ideas, words, or work without acknowledgment. Submissions containing plagiarism in whole or part, duplicate and redundant publication, or self-plagiarism (same or a different language), will be rejected. The Preprint archive will not be considered a duplicate publication. The corresponding author is responsible for the manuscript through and after the evaluation and publication process with the authority to act on behalf of all co-authors. All submitted manuscripts are checked for plagiarism using professional plagiarism-checking software. Submitted manuscripts with an unacceptable similarity index resulting from plagiarism are rejected immediately.

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Preprints Policy

Authors can share their preprint anywhere at any time. If accepted for publication, we encourage authors to link from the preprint to their formal publication via its Digital Object Identifier (DOI). Authors can update their preprints on arXiv or RePEc, etc. with their accepted manuscript.

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Protection of Patients' Rights to Privacy

Identifying information should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, sonograms, CT scans, etc., and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian, wherever applicable) gives informed consent for publication. Authors should remove patients' names from figures unless they have obtained informed consent from the patients. The journal abides by ICMJE guidelines:

  • Authors, not the journals nor the publisher, need to obtain the patient consent form before the publication and have the form properly archived. The consent forms are not to be uploaded with the cover letter or sent through email to editorial or publisher offices.
  • If the manuscript contains patient images that preclude anonymity or a description that has an obvious indication of the identity of the patient, a statement about obtaining informed patient consent should be indicated in the manuscript.

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Research Ethics and Consent

Studies in Humans and Animals

If the work involves the use of human subjects, the author should ensure that the work described has been carried out in accordance with The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki) for experiments involving humans. The manuscript should be in line with the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals and aim for the inclusion of representative human populations (sex, age, and ethnicity) as per those recommendations. The terms sex and gender should be used correctly.

Authors should include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human subjects. The privacy rights of human subjects must always be observed.

All animal experiments should comply with the ARRIVE guidelines and should be carried out in accordance with the U.K. Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act, 1986 and associated guidelines, EU Directive 2010/63/EU for animal experiments, or the National Research Council's Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, and the authors should clearly indicate in the manuscript that such guidelines have been followed. The sex of animals must be indicated, and where appropriate, the influence (or association) of sex on the results of the study.

Informed consent

Patients have a right to privacy that should not be violated without informed consent. Identifying information, including names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, or pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. Informed consent for this purpose requires that an identifiable patient be shown the manuscript to be published. Authors should disclose to these patients whether any potentially identifiable material might be available via the Internet as well as in print after publication. Patient consent should be written and archived either with the journal, the authors, or both, as dictated by local regulations or laws. Nonessential identifying details should be omitted. Informed consent should be obtained if there is any doubt that anonymity can be maintained. For example, masking the eye region in photographs of patients is inadequate protection of anonymity. If identifying characteristics are altered to protect anonymity, such as in genetic pedigrees, authors should provide assurance, and editors should so note, that such alterations do not distort scientific meaning. When informed consent has been obtained, it should be indicated in the published article.

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Standards of Reporting

Research should be communicated in a way that supports verification and reproducibility, and as such, we encourage authors to provide comprehensive descriptions of their research rationale, protocol, methodology, and analysis.

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Use of Third-party Material

You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article. These materials may include – but are not limited to – text, illustration, photographs, tables, data, audio, video, film stills, screenshots, or musical notation.

The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission. If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission.

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Use of Generative AI and AI-assisted Technologies in Writing

Please note the policy only refers to the writing process, and not to the use of AI tools to analyze and draw insights from data as part of the research process.

Authors who incorporate AI and AI-assisted technologies into their writing process should do so with the intention of enhancing readability and language, rather than substituting essential authoring tasks such as generating scientific, pedagogic, or medical insights, drawing scientific conclusions, or offering clinical recommendations. The application of this technology should always be under human oversight and control, and all work should be subjected to careful review and editing. AI has the potential to produce content that sounds authoritative but may be incorrect, incomplete, or biased. Ultimately, authors bear the responsibility and accountability for the content they produce.

Authors must openly disclose their use of AI and AI-assisted technologies in their manuscripts, and a statement to this effect will be included in the published work. Such transparency fosters trust among authors, readers, reviewers, editors, and contributors and ensures compliance with the terms of use for the relevant tools or technologies.

Authors should refrain from attributing authorship to AI or listing AI as a co-author. Authorship entails responsibilities and tasks that can only be fulfilled by humans. Each author is responsible for addressing inquiries regarding the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work and for approving the final version of the work and consenting to its submission. The authors also have a duty to ensure the originality of the work, that the stated authors meet the criteria for authorship, and that the work does not infringe upon the rights of third parties.

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