Research Misconduct

Kertha Patrika is committed to addressing all allegations of research misconduct, academic integrity violations, and publication ethics breaches, including fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, improper authorship, duplicate publication, and citation manipulation, in an objective and documented manner.

This policy applies to suspected misconduct identified in manuscripts undergoing editorial review as well as in articles that have already been published. Each allegation will be investigated based on the available evidence and information. Relevant parties will be given an opportunity to provide clarification, explanations, and supporting evidence before a decision is made by contact the editorial team of Kertha Patrika through the journal's official editorial contact channel

Allegations of misconduct will be handled in accordance with the guidance issued by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), available at COPE Guidance