International Conference on Sustainable Health Promotion

We are aware of the high responsibility that publication of a paper in an academic peer-reviewed conference entails. In fact, it serves several functions, one of which is to validate and preserve the results of research, besides sharing ideas that can be used to promote the scientific and technical advancement of Humanity. It is therefore important that these publications are accurate and trustworthy. The act of publishing involves many parties, each of which plays an important role in achieving these aims. It therefore follows that the author, the editor, the reviewer, the publisher, and the conference organizers have responsibilities to meet expected ethical standards at all stages in their involvement from submission to publication of a paper.

ICOSHPRO is committed to meeting and upholding standards of ethical behaviour at all stages of the publication process. We follow closely the recommendations of industry associations, such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), that set standards and provide guidelines for best practices in order to meet these requirements.

Editorial Quality Control
Publication of proceedings is based on an independence principle, avoiding conflicts of interest, corporate or political influence. Our editorial processes are transparent to all involved parties, including reviewers, conference chairs and other academics involved in the conferences whose proceedings are published by FAculty of Psychology and health UINSA.

Proposals submitted for our proceedings publishing programme are initially reviewed by a quality committee that analyses aspects such as the research activity of proponents and other parties involved, the review process, acceptance rate and other statistics related to scientific quality control. If the proposal is considered suitable for publication by ICOSHPRO, the proposal, along with sample material, may be sent to external and independent peer reviewers.

The acceptance or rejection of papers submitted to conference proceedings published by ICOSHPRO are made by reviewers nominated by the Program Committee chairs of the respective conferences and based on independent peer review reports.

Appeals and Complaints
We consider appeals on editorial decisions for proceedings, but only when new information relevant to the editorial decision has been made available, or if there is reason to believe we did not follow the Committee on Publication Ethics Guidelines. The contact available to all concerned parties is icoshpro@uinsby.ac.id

Authorship
COPE provides extensive resources on authorship and authorship disputes, and we encourage anyone involved in editorial decisions to familiarise themselves with these resources.
There are two main problems with authorship, that we encourage authors to avoid:

Putting down names of people who took little or no part in the research (gift authorship)
Leaving out names of people who did take part (ghost authorship).

We integrate with emerging industry standards (for example, ORCID) to increase transparency in authorship.

Duplicate and Redundant Publication
When a work, or a substantial part of a work, is published more than once, whether in the same or in a different language, we check if there is substantial overlap without appropriate cross-referencing or justification for the overlap. Our policy is not to support duplicate or redundant publication, unless:

it is felt that editorially this will strengthen the academic discourse; and
we have clear approval from the original publication; and
it includes citation of the original source.

We are available to readers, reviewers and editors to raise any suspicion of duplicate or redundant publication. We are reachable by email via: icoshpro@uinsby.ac.id

Transparency
We strive to follow COPE’s guidelines for Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing and encourage authors, reviewers and editors to uphold these same principles.

Conflicts of interest
Authors submitting papers to publications of ICOSHPRO are required to declare any potential conflicts of interest, i.e. anything that could be considered or viewed as exerting an undue influence on the presentation, review and publication of their work, either financial, non-financial, professional or personal in nature

Allegations of misconduct
The process for handling allegations, however they are brought to our attention, is taken seriously. Both pre-publication and post-publication allegations of misconduct are acceptable and properly processed. The preferred incoming channel is email: icoshpro@uinsby.ac.id.