IJI Publication Ethics.

PUBLICATION ETHICS AND MALPRACTICE STATEMENT FOR THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATION (IJI)

IJI is committed to fostering and promoting research culture with a focus on innovation across various disciplines, particularly in technology, business, and education. The journal emphasizes research that explores innovative solutions and methodologies, prioritizing studies related to Southeast Asia for publication. IJI encourages scholars to contribute original empirical or conceptual papers that advance innovative thinking and interdisciplinary research.

The Editorial Board takes responsibility for preventing publication malpractice. Unethical behavior, including any form of plagiarism, is strictly prohibited. By submitting manuscripts to IJI, authors affirm the originality of their work. Submission also indicates that the manuscript has not been previously published, in whole or in part, in any language, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Publication Decisions: The editors are responsible for deciding whether to accept, reject, or request modifications to manuscripts.

Review of Manuscript: The editor ensures that each manuscript is initially evaluated by the editor, who may make use of appropriate means, to examine the originality of the contents of the manuscript. After the manuscript passes this test, it is forwarded to two reviewers for double-blind peer review, and each of whom will make a recommendation to publish the manuscript in its present form or to modify or to reject it. The review period will be no more than 30 days.

Fair Review: The editor ensures that each manuscript received is evaluated on its intellectual content without regard to authors’ sex, gender, race, religion, citizenship, etc.

Confidentiality: The editor must ensure that information regarding manuscripts submitted by the authors is kept confidential.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: The editor cannot use unpublished materials, disclosed in submitted manuscript.

Confidentiality: Manuscript reviewers, the editor and the editorial staff must not disclose any information regarding submitted manuscripts. All submitted manuscripts are to be treated as privileged information.

Acknowledgement of Sources: Reviewers of manuscripts must ensure that authors have acknowledged all sources of data used in the research. Any similarity or overlap between the considered manuscripts, or with any other published paper, which is in personal knowledge of reviewer, must be immediately brought to the editor’s notice.


Standards of Objectivity: Review of submitted manuscripts will be conducted objectively. The reviewers shall express their views clearly, with supporting arguments.

Promptness: If a reviewer cannot complete the review within the designated time or guidelines, they should notify the editor to ensure an accurate and timely review.

Conflict of Interest: All reviewers should have no conflict.

Reporting Standards: Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements are considered unethical and are unacceptable.

Originality: Authors must ensure that their work is entirely original.

Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publications: Authors should not concurrently submit the same manuscript for publishing to other journals. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgement of Sources: Author(s) should acknowledge all sources of data used in the research and cite publications that have influenced their research.

Authorship of the Paper: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Data Access and Retention: Authors should retain raw data related to their submitted paper, and must provide it for editorial review, upon request of the editor.

Disclosure of Financial Support: All sources of financial support, if any, should be disclosed.

Fundamental Errors in Published Works: When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her submitted manuscript, the author must immediately notify the editor.