Publication Ethics

KING: Knowledge Integrated Networking for Global Sport and Health is a national scientific journal open to seeking innovation, creativity, and novelty. For this reason, this journal clarifies the ethical behavior of all parties involved in the publication of KING articles: Knowledge Integrated Networking for Global Sport and Health including authors, editor-in-chief, Editorial Board, bestarial partners, and publisher (UIR Press). This statement is based on the COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

The Board of Editors is responsible, among other things, for deciding which research papers/articles to publish and preventing publication malpractice. Unethical behavior is not acceptable and KING: Knowledge Integrated Networking for Global Sport and Health does not tolerate plagiarism in any form.

Editor Responsibilities

Publication Decisions: Editors should be responsible for everything published in their journals and should strive to meet the needs of readers and authors. The editor's decision to accept or reject a manuscript for publication should be based on the editorial board's review and the manuscript's merit.

Manuscript Review: Editors should ensure that each manuscript is first evaluated by the editors, who may use appropriate means, to check the originality of the content of the manuscript and ensure the quality of the material they publish, recognizing that journals and sections within journals have different objectives and standards.

Fair Review: Editors should strive to ensure that peer review in their journals is fair, unbiased, and timely. Editors ensure that each accepted manuscript is evaluated based on its intellectual content without regard to gender, sex, race, religion, nationality, etc.

Confidentiality: Editors and other editorial staff should not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisors, and the publisher, as appropriate, editors should ensure that information regarding manuscripts submitted by authors is kept confidential.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: Editors should ask reviewers to disclose potential competing interests before agreeing to review a manuscript.

Author Responsibilities

Reporting Standards: Authors should present their original research appropriately, as well as discuss its significance objectively. Manuscripts should be edited according to the author guidelines.

Originality: Authors must certify that their work is entirely unique and original.

Redundancy: Authors should not submit manuscripts describing essentially the same research simultaneously. Submitting the same paper to more than one journal is unethical and unacceptable publishing behavior.

Acknowledgment of Sources: Authors should acknowledge all sources of data used in the research and cite publications that influenced their research.

Paper Authorship: Authorship should be limited to those who have made significant contributions in conceiving, designing, carrying out and/or interpreting the proposed research. All persons who have contributed significantly to the research should be listed as co-authors. The corresponding author should also ensure that all authors and co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the submitted manuscript and their inclusion as co-authors.

Data Access and Storage: Authors should retain raw data related to the submitted manuscript, and should make it available for editorial review, upon request of the editor.

Fundamental errors in published work: When an author discovers significant errors or inaccuracies in the submitted manuscript, the author should notify the editor immediately.

Reviewer Responsibilities

Confidentiality: Manuscript reviewers, editors, and editorial staff should not disclose any information regarding submitted manuscripts. All submitted manuscripts should be treated as confidential information, and editors should provide guidance to reviewers on what is expected of them including the need to handle incoming material confidentially.

Acknowledgment of Sources: Reviewers should ensure that authors have acknowledged all sources of data used in the research, any assertion that an observation, derivation, or argument has been previously reported should be accompanied by relevant citations. Reviewers should also bring to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and other published manuscripts of which they are personally aware.

Objectivity Standards: The review of submitted manuscripts will be conducted objectively. Reviewers should express their views clearly, with supporting arguments. Personal criticism of authors is inappropriate.

Timeliness: If a reviewer believes that he/she cannot review the research reported in the manuscript within the prescribed guidelines, or within the prescribed time, he/she should inform the editor, so that an accurate and timely review can be ensured.

Conflict of Interest: All reviewers must have no conflict of interest with respect to the research, authors and/or funding agency.

Changes or Modifications to a Published Manuscript

Manuscript withdrawal is strongly discouraged, as it will waste valuable resources that have been expended by the publisher. If authors still request withdrawal of their manuscript, the following guidelines should be followed

Manuscript withdrawal will only be allowed for the most compelling and unavoidable reasons. Withdrawal of a manuscript from a journal cannot be accepted because the manuscript has been accepted by another journal;

Authors should apply to the editorial office in the form of a letter signed by all authors stating the full reasons that led to the withdrawal of the manuscript;

In cases where the manuscript has taken more than six months for the review process, the publisher allows the author to withdraw the manuscript without paying any fees;

If the manuscript is still in the peer-review process, the author must pay IDR 500,000 per manuscript as a manuscript withdrawal fine;

If the manuscript has been accepted for publication, the author must pay IDR 1,000,000 per manuscript as a withdrawal fine;

If the author does not agree to pay the fine, the author and his/her affiliation will be blacklisted for publication in this journal;

Authors should not assume that their manuscript has been withdrawn until they receive appropriate notification to this effect from the editorial office.

Penalties

Multiple submissions: If double submissions are discovered or known from other sources, the editorial board must check their status. If the double submission is confirmed as intentional,

The review process will be terminated.

The reason will be sent to the reviewer, the editorial board and the author.

The author's name will be blacklisted, and the author will not be able to submit manuscripts to KING: Knowledge Integrated Networking for Global Sport and Health for two years.