Journal of Community Service Based on Participation, Collaboration, and Social Innovation is committed to maintaining high standards of publication ethics, academic integrity, transparency, and accountability in scholarly publishing. This publication ethics statement applies to all parties involved in the publication process, including authors, editors, reviewers, and the publisher.
The journal publishes scholarly articles related to community service, community empowerment, participatory development, collaborative action, social innovation, sustainable development, education, public engagement, and other relevant fields of community-based studies and practices.
Editors are responsible for ensuring that every manuscript submitted to Journal of Community Service Based on Participation, Collaboration, and Social Innovation is evaluated fairly, objectively, and professionally.
Editorial decisions are based on the manuscript’s relevance to the journal’s focus and scope, originality, academic quality, methodological clarity, ethical compliance, practical contribution, and relevance to community service, participation, collaboration, and social innovation.
Editors must not discriminate against authors based on gender, ethnicity, religion, nationality, institutional affiliation, political view, social background, or other personal characteristics.
Editors must maintain the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts and must not disclose any information about a manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, editorial board members, and publisher when necessary.
Editors must avoid conflicts of interest. If an editor has a personal, academic, financial, institutional, or collaborative conflict with a submitted manuscript, the editor must withdraw from the editorial process and assign the manuscript to another qualified editor.
Reviewers assist editors in making editorial decisions and help authors improve the quality of their manuscripts through constructive academic feedback.
Reviewers must conduct reviews objectively, fairly, and professionally. Review comments should be clear, constructive, evidence-based, and relevant to improving the manuscript’s academic quality, methodological clarity, community relevance, and practical contribution.
Reviewers must treat all manuscripts as confidential documents. Manuscripts received for review must not be shared, discussed, copied, or used for personal, academic, institutional, or professional advantage before publication.
Reviewers must disclose any potential conflict of interest and decline the review assignment if they are unable to provide an objective evaluation.
Reviewers are expected to notify the editor of any suspected plagiarism, duplicate publication, data manipulation, unethical authorship, inappropriate community data use, or substantial similarity with other published works.
Authors must ensure that the submitted manuscript is original, has not been published elsewhere, and is not under consideration by another journal at the same time.
Authors are responsible for presenting accurate, honest, and complete information regarding the background, objectives, methods, implementation, results, impacts, and evaluation of community service activities.
Authors must avoid fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, duplicate submission, data manipulation, citation manipulation, and improper authorship. These actions are serious violations of publication ethics.
Authors must properly acknowledge all sources used in the manuscript. Any ideas, data, instruments, theories, images, tables, figures, or findings taken from other works must be cited appropriately.
Authorship should be limited to individuals who have made significant contributions to the planning, implementation, analysis, evaluation, writing, or revision of the manuscript. All listed authors must approve the final version of the manuscript and agree to its submission.
Authors must disclose any potential conflict of interest, including financial, institutional, personal, professional, or collaborative relationships that may influence the manuscript or interpretation of findings.
Authors conducting community service, participatory research, social innovation programs, or community-based activities must ensure that the activities are conducted ethically, responsibly, and respectfully.
Authors must respect the rights, dignity, culture, values, and local knowledge of the community involved. Community participation must be based on fairness, transparency, mutual benefit, and voluntary involvement.
When the manuscript involves community members, institutions, students, vulnerable groups, surveys, interviews, focus group discussions, observations, photographs, videos, or personal data, authors must obtain informed consent, institutional permission, or ethical approval when required.
Authors must protect confidential information, personal identities, and sensitive community data. Any use of photographs, names, locations, or identifiable community information must be handled carefully and ethically.
Journal of Community Service Based on Participation, Collaboration, and Social Innovation does not tolerate plagiarism in any form.
All submitted manuscripts may be checked using plagiarism detection tools or similarity checking software. Manuscripts with unacceptable similarity levels, plagiarism, improper citation, duplicate publication, or unethical use of sources may be rejected before review, returned to authors for revision, or withdrawn from the publication process.
All authors, editors, and reviewers must disclose any conflict of interest that may affect the objectivity, integrity, or fairness of the publication process.
If a conflict of interest is identified, the journal will take appropriate steps to ensure transparency and fairness, including assigning another editor or reviewer when necessary.
Authors must ensure that the data, results, documentation, and claims presented in the manuscript are accurate, verifiable, and responsibly reported.
Community service outcomes, social impacts, program achievements, and innovation results must not be exaggerated or manipulated. Any limitations, challenges, or constraints in program implementation should be explained honestly.
The journal is committed to maintaining the accuracy and integrity of the scholarly record.
If significant errors, ethical violations, plagiarism, data manipulation, duplicate publication, false claims, or other forms of misconduct are discovered after publication, the editorial team may issue corrections, expressions of concern, retractions, or article withdrawals depending on the seriousness of the case.
Authors are expected to cooperate with the editorial team in clarifying or correcting any issues related to their submitted or published work.
Publication misconduct includes, but is not limited to, plagiarism, data fabrication, data falsification, citation manipulation, duplicate submission, redundant publication, unethical authorship, peer-review manipulation, failure to disclose conflicts of interest, and misuse of community data or documentation.
Any allegation of misconduct will be handled carefully, fairly, and transparently by the editorial team. The journal may contact authors, reviewers, institutions, or other relevant parties to investigate the matter.
The publisher of Journal of Community Service Based on Participation, Collaboration, and Social Innovation supports the editorial team in maintaining publication ethics, editorial independence, transparency, and scholarly quality.
The publisher is responsible for ensuring that editorial decisions are not influenced by commercial, political, institutional, or personal interests. The publisher also supports appropriate actions to correct the scholarly record when ethical issues are identified.
By submitting a manuscript to Journal of Community Service Based on Participation, Collaboration, and Social Innovation, authors acknowledge and agree to comply with this publication ethics statement and accept responsibility for the originality, accuracy, integrity, and ethical standards of their submitted work.
