Publication Ethics

Improvement: Jurnal Manajemen dan Bisnis has been published by Universitas Muhammadiyah Surabaya since 2021, in both print and online formats, with two issues per year in March and September.

This statement sets out the ethical standards expected of all parties involved in the publication process: authors, journal editors, reviewers, the publisher, and the wider scholarly community. The journal adheres to the ethical guidelines and core practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (https://publicationethics.org/).

Duties of the Publisher

Improvement: Jurnal Manajemen dan Bisnis (Universitas Muhammadiyah Surabaya) is responsible for publishing manuscripts that have undergone editorial handling, peer review, and typesetting in accordance with scholarly publishing standards.

The publisher safeguards the academic freedom and independence of the editors and peer reviewers in carrying out their respective duties.

The publisher is committed to protecting privacy, intellectual property, and copyright, and to preserving editorial independence.

Duties of the Editors

The editors are responsible for deciding which submitted manuscripts are suitable for publication. Decisions are made through editorial board deliberation and are guided by applicable legal requirements concerning defamation, copyright infringement, duplicate publication, data fabrication, data falsification, and plagiarism.

In reviewing and deciding on manuscripts, the editorial team upholds the principle of fair and equal treatment. Editorial decisions are made without regard to the authors’ race, gender, religion, ethnic origin, nationality, or political ideology.

The editors and editorial staff will not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, and the publisher, unless the author has given consent.

Unpublished manuscripts will not be used by the editors for their own research or personal advantage, and will be promptly returned to the authors.

Duties of the Peer Reviewers

Peer reviewers assist the editors in making editorial decisions on submitted manuscripts.

Reviewers are accountable for the recommendations they give. Reviews must be conducted objectively, with clear and well-supported arguments.

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that the authors have not cited, and should alert the editors to any suspected problems with citations, references, duplicate publication, data fabrication, data falsification, or plagiarism in the manuscripts they evaluate.

Reviewers must treat all manuscript information as confidential and must not use it for personal gain or advantage.

Duties of the Authors

Authors must present their research or conceptual work clearly, honestly, and without duplicate publication, data fabrication, data falsification, or plagiarism.

Authors are accountable for the content, claims, and interpretations presented in their manuscripts.

Authors must acknowledge and properly cite the ideas and works of others that they have used.

Authors must write and report their work ethically, honestly, and responsibly, in line with accepted standards of scholarly writing.

Authors agree that their manuscripts may undergo peer review and copyediting or layout editing, provided that the substance and main ideas of the article are not altered.