Publication Ethics

Eureka Herba Indonesia is committed to the integrity of the scholarly record. This statement sets out the ethical obligations of everyone involved in publishing with the journal, the conduct the journal treats as a breach of academic integrity, and the procedure by which allegations are handled.

Duties of the Publisher

To guarantee the continuity of the journal and the permanence of its published record.
To maintain a documented and transparent mechanism for handling allegations of academic misconduct, comprising preliminary examination of evidence, request for clarification, investigation, decision, and corrective action.
Not to intervene in editorial decisions. Decisions to accept or reject a manuscript rest on academic merit alone and are free from interference by the publisher, sponsors, funders, service providers, or any commercial interest.
To build the capacity and integrity of the editorial team and the reviewer panel through training, ethics briefings, mentoring, and periodic evaluation of performance.

Duties of Editors

To evaluate manuscripts on scholarly merit alone, without discrimination on grounds of the authors' nationality, institution, gender, ethnicity, religion, or seniority.
To preserve the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts, disclosing them only to the reviewers and editorial staff involved in handling them.
To disclose competing interests and to withdraw from handling any manuscript in which such an interest exists; the manuscript is then reassigned to another editor.
To select reviewers whose expertise matches the manuscript and who are independent of the authors' institutions.
To act on credible evidence of misconduct, whether the manuscript is under consideration or already published.
Not to promise expedited publication that guarantees acceptance, and not to issue a letter of acceptance before a manuscript has formally been accepted.
Not to manipulate citations, metadata, or publication dates, and not to require authors to cite this journal as a condition of acceptance.

Members of the editorial team may publish in this journal subject to strict conditions: the manuscript is processed exactly as any other submission; the handling editor and the reviewers are not the author; and no member of the editorial team publishes more than one article per year in this journal.

Duties of Reviewers

To provide an objective, substantive, and timely assessment, supported by reasons, and to decline an assignment falling outside their expertise.
To treat the manuscript as a confidential document, neither sharing it nor using the information it contains for personal advantage before publication.
To disclose competing interests and to decline an assignment where one exists.
To draw the editor's attention to substantial similarity with other published work.
Not to use artificial intelligence to analyse or evaluate the manuscript, to draft the review, or to upload the manuscript or any part of it into an AI application.

Duties of Authors

To submit original work, accurately reported, with sufficient methodological detail for the study to be repeated.
To cite all sources fully and to obtain permission for any third-party material reproduced.
To obtain ethical approval for research involving humans or animals, and to state the number and year of the approving document together with the name of the ethics committee. For research posing low or negligible risk, a signed statement of compliance from the authors, endorsed by the reviewers or the editorial team, may be substituted.
To obtain informed consent where research involves human participants, and to protect their privacy.
To disclose all sources of funding and all competing interests.
To make the data underlying the findings available in accordance with the journal's data availability policy, with due regard for ethical approval, personal data protection, confidentiality, and intellectual property.
To notify the editor promptly on discovering a significant error in their own published work, and to cooperate in issuing a correction or retraction.
To refrain from excessive or unwarranted self-citation.

Breaches of Academic Integrity

The journal treats the following as breaches of academic integrity:

Fabrication — inventing research data or information.
Falsification — manipulating research data or information, including the manipulation of images, chromatograms, and bioactivity results.
Plagiarism — appropriating part or all of another's work without proper attribution; rewriting another's work without using one's own language even where the source is cited; and reusing one's own published work or ideas without proper citation.
Improper authorship — naming a person who made no contribution, omitting a person who did contribute, or commissioning another to produce work claimed as one's own.
Undisclosed competing interests that bear upon the content of the article.
Duplicate submission — submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal.
Breach of research ethics — research involving humans, animals, or biological material conducted without valid ethical approval.

A reported similarity percentage is an indicator, not a finding. Plagiarism is established where the similarity is substantial, or where a sizeable block of text points to a single source and is not a properly attributed quotation.

Procedure for Handling Allegations

Preliminary examination of evidence by the Editor-in-Chief, within 14 calendar days of receipt.
Request for clarification in writing to those concerned, allowing 14 calendar days for response.
Investigation by a panel convened by the Editor-in-Chief, involving the authors' institutions and independent experts where required.
Documented decision, communicated in writing to all parties.
Corrective action: correction, erratum, or corrigendum; retraction; or withdrawal where the manuscript has not yet been published.

Allegations are assessed fairly, in confidence, and on the evidence. Those who raise concerns in good faith are protected from retaliation. Prompt, transparent, and voluntary corrective action by the authors is treated as a mitigating factor, though it does not extinguish the consequences of systematic or repeated breaches.

Allegations may be sent to eureka.herba.indonesia@gmail.com.

Related Policies

This statement should be read together with the journal's policies on Authorship, Competing Interests, Corrections and Retractions, Similarity and Plagiarism, Data Availability and Reproducibility, the Use of Artificial Intelligence, and Complaints and Appeals.

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