Publication Ethics

Eduistiqomah in Language Education (EILE) is committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics and academic integrity. The journal follows internationally recognized principles of responsible scholarly publishing and expects all authors, reviewers, editors, and the publisher to uphold honesty, transparency, fairness, confidentiality, and academic responsibility throughout the publication process.

This Publication Ethics policy applies to all manuscripts submitted to and published by EILE.

1. Ethical Principles

EILE is committed to:

• Maintaining academic integrity and research quality.
• Ensuring fair, objective, and confidential peer review.
• Preventing plagiarism and other forms of academic misconduct.
• Protecting the rights and confidentiality of research participants.
• Ensuring transparency in authorship, funding, and conflicts of interest.
• Correcting or retracting published articles when necessary.
• Maintaining editorial independence and professional responsibility.

2. Responsibilities of Authors

Authors are responsible for ensuring that submitted manuscripts meet the journal's ethical and academic requirements.

Authors must:

• Submit only original work.
• Ensure that the manuscript has not been published previously.
• Not submit the same manuscript simultaneously to another journal.
• Properly acknowledge all sources and previous research.
• Present research findings accurately and honestly.
• Avoid fabrication, falsification, manipulation, or selective reporting of data.
• Obtain appropriate ethical approval and informed consent where required.
• Protect the privacy and confidentiality of research participants.
• Disclose relevant funding sources.
• Declare potential conflicts of interest.
• Ensure that all listed authors have made substantial contributions.
• Obtain approval from all authors before submission.
• Cooperate with editors during the review and revision process.
• Correct errors discovered after publication when necessary.

3. Plagiarism and Academic Misconduct

EILE does not tolerate plagiarism or any form of academic misconduct.

Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to:

• Copying another person's ideas, words, data, or work without appropriate attribution.
• Presenting another person's work as one's own.
• Inappropriate text reuse.
• Failure to properly cite sources.
• Submitting substantially similar work that has already been published.

Manuscripts may undergo similarity or plagiarism screening before or during peer review.

A high similarity result does not automatically establish plagiarism; the editorial team evaluates the nature and context of the similarity. Where substantial plagiarism or academic misconduct is identified, the manuscript may be rejected or further investigated.

4. Fabrication and Falsification

Authors must not fabricate or falsify research data or findings.

Fabrication refers to making up data, participants, results, or research procedures that did not occur.

Falsification includes manipulating research materials, data, procedures, images, or results in a way that misrepresents the research.

Such misconduct may result in rejection, article retraction, notification of relevant institutions, or other appropriate action.

5. Duplicate and Redundant Publication

Authors must not submit or publish substantially the same manuscript in more than one journal.

If a manuscript contains material previously published by the authors, the relationship between the previous and current work must be clearly disclosed.

The journal may investigate suspected duplicate or redundant publication and take appropriate action when necessary.

6. Authorship and Contribution

Authorship should be based on substantial contributions to the research and manuscript.

All authors should:

• Make a meaningful contribution to the research.
• Participate in drafting or critically revising the manuscript.
• Approve the final version.
• Accept responsibility for the integrity of the work.

Individuals who do not meet authorship criteria should not be listed as authors.

The corresponding author is responsible for communicating with the editorial office and ensuring that all authors approve the submitted manuscript.

7. Changes in Authorship

Any request to add, remove, or reorder authors after submission must be justified and approved by all authors.

The editorial team may request written confirmation from all authors before approving a change in authorship.

8. Research Involving Human Participants

Research involving human participants must comply with applicable ethical standards.

Where appropriate, authors should obtain:

• Ethical approval from an appropriate institution or ethics committee.
• Informed consent from participants.
• Permission from relevant institutions.
• Appropriate safeguards for confidential or sensitive information.

Authors should not disclose personally identifiable information without appropriate permission.

9. Conflict of Interest

Authors, reviewers, and editors must disclose any conflict of interest that could influence or reasonably appear to influence the research, review, or editorial decision.

Potential conflicts may include:

• Financial relationships.
• Professional relationships.
• Institutional affiliations.
• Personal relationships.
• Academic competition.
• Funding relationships.

If no conflict exists, authors may state:

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest related to this study.

10. Funding Transparency

Authors must disclose all financial support received for conducting the research or preparing the manuscript.

The funding statement should identify the funding organization and, where applicable, the grant or project number.

If there is no external funding, authors may state:

This research received no external funding.

11. Reviewer Responsibilities

Reviewers play an essential role in maintaining the quality and integrity of EILE.

Reviewers should:

• Evaluate manuscripts objectively and fairly.
• Maintain confidentiality.
• Provide constructive and academically relevant comments.
• Identify significant published work that has not been appropriately cited.
• Inform the editor of potential plagiarism or academic misconduct.
• Declare potential conflicts of interest.
• Decline a review assignment when they lack sufficient expertise or cannot provide an impartial review.
• Complete reviews within the agreed timeframe whenever possible.

Reviewers must not use unpublished information obtained during peer review for personal or professional advantage.

12. Editorial Responsibilities

Editors are responsible for maintaining the integrity, quality, and fairness of the editorial process.

Editors should:

• Evaluate manuscripts based on academic merit and relevance.
• Maintain confidentiality.
• Select qualified and independent reviewers.
• Avoid conflicts of interest.
• Make editorial decisions objectively.
• Protect the identities of authors and reviewers in the double-blind review process.
• Investigate suspected ethical misconduct.
• Provide authors with fair and constructive editorial decisions.
• Correct significant errors in published articles when necessary.

Editorial decisions must not be influenced by an author's nationality, institutional affiliation, gender, religion, political views, or other irrelevant personal characteristics.

13. Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI

Authors may use artificial intelligence tools for limited purposes such as language editing, proofreading, translation assistance, or technical support.

However:

• AI systems cannot be listed as authors.
• Authors remain responsible for all content submitted to the journal.
• AI must not be used to fabricate data, results, references, citations, or research evidence.
• Authors must verify the accuracy of AI-assisted content.
• Substantive use of generative AI should be disclosed in accordance with the journal's requirements.

Editors and reviewers should also maintain confidentiality when handling manuscripts and must not upload confidential manuscript content into external AI systems in ways that could compromise the manuscript or authors' rights.

14. Corrections and Retractions

EILE is committed to correcting the scholarly record when errors or misconduct are identified.

Corrections

A correction may be published when a published article contains an error that affects the accuracy or clarity of the article but does not invalidate the overall findings.

Retractions

An article may be retracted when there is substantial evidence of serious problems such as:

• Fabricated or falsified data.
• Serious plagiarism.
• Major methodological errors that invalidate the findings.
• Duplicate publication.
• Serious ethical violations.
• Other misconduct that substantially undermines the reliability of the publication.

A retraction notice will explain the reason for the retraction and will remain associated with the original publication record.

15. Complaints and Appeals

Authors may submit an appeal if they believe that an editorial decision was based on a significant misunderstanding, procedural problem, or other legitimate concern.

Appeals should:

• Be submitted through the journal's official communication channel.
• Clearly explain the reason for the appeal.
• Address specific editorial or reviewer concerns.
• Provide supporting evidence where appropriate.

The editorial team will review legitimate appeals fairly and independently.

16. Complaints About Ethical Misconduct

Suspected cases of plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, inappropriate authorship, duplicate publication, or other misconduct may be reported to the editorial office.

The journal will assess reported concerns carefully and may request relevant evidence or explanations from the authors, reviewers, institutions, or other parties.

Where necessary, the journal may consult the authors' affiliated institutions or other appropriate authorities.

17. Confidentiality

All submitted manuscripts are treated as confidential documents.

Editors and reviewers must not:

• Share manuscripts with unauthorized individuals.
• Disclose confidential information about submitted manuscripts.
• Use unpublished information for personal research.
• Reveal the identity of authors or reviewers.
• Discuss manuscripts outside the legitimate editorial and peer-review process.

18. Editorial Independence

EILE maintains editorial independence in all publication decisions.

Editorial decisions are based on:

• Academic quality.
• Originality.
• Methodological rigor.
• Relevance to the journal's scope.
• Contribution to language education.
• Ethical compliance.

Commercial, political, personal, or institutional interests must not improperly influence editorial decisions.

19. Ethical Compliance

By submitting a manuscript to Eduistiqomah in Language Education (EILE), authors confirm that they have read and agree to comply with the journal's publication ethics, peer-review, authorship, originality, and research integrity requirements.

EILE expects all participants in the publication process to contribute to a scholarly environment characterized by integrity, transparency, fairness, respect, confidentiality, and responsibility.