Allegations of Misconduct

Allegations of Misconduct
UTJAGR is sensitive to research misconduct and uses all means available to prevent publishing miscounted research. Though there is no standard definition of research misconduct, the Council of Editors defines research misconduct broadly in three categories of action and conducts. UTJAGR uses this definition of misconduct in dealing with the issue and strictly follows the COPE follow the chart in dealing with research misconduct. In addition, for each component of the research misconduct, UTJAGR has many assurance policies as follows
- Mistreatment of research subjects
- Falsification and Fabrication of data
- Piracy and Plagiarism

Protection of Plant and Animal rights
UTJAGR does not publish manuscripts that do not declare a statement about the protection of plant and animal rights. Normally, the journal requires that a statement is declared that research has been reviewed by an institutional review board either in the material method section of the manuscript or in the acknowledgment section of the manuscript. UTJAGR encourages authors to report the registry number of the council certification.

Falsification and Fabrication of data
Fabrication is making up data without collecting or synthesizing scientific data. Falsification is the manipulation of research material to reach a favorable result. Fabrication and falsification could happen at any stage of research (in the field) up to the publication of a manuscript, where misuse of citation can happen (referencing a citation when the citation does not support the argument). UTJAGR tries to identify any kind of fabrication or falsification in all levels of manuscript processing, from initial screening to comprehensive evaluation of a revised manuscript and even after a manuscript has been published. Reporting any fabrication and falsification is an ethical duty of our authors, co-authors, reviewers, editors, and readers. In any event of falsification or fabrication, UTJAGR keeps its right to retract or withdraw the fabricated or falsified article. UTJAGR strictly follows the COPE follow chart in dealing with fabrication and falsification.

Plagiarism
Plagiarism is appropriating another person's ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit. Another category of plagiarism is self-plagiarism when the author publishes his own idea, data, and text in different journals without such duplication. UTJAGR uses all means to detect plagiarism. As a matter of quality assurance, a similarity of more than 20% in the text of a manuscript will be returned to the author to remove the similarities and reduce the chance of plagiarism. UTJAGR strictly follows the COPE follow chart in dealing with plagiarized articles.