INTI JOURNAL
PUBLICATION POLICY
Peer
Review of Content
Peer review is an important process to ensure
the quality of the papers submitted to INTI Journal. All papers submitted
to INTI Journal are subjected to inspection of the experts from the same or
related fields, to ensure the relevance of the content to the scope of
publication of INTI Journal. In this process, comments from experts,
including the suitability of the content, originality, novelty, and
presentation are given to the authors to improve their papers before the
publication. INTI Journal exercise the double-blind peer review process to
our best to ensure fair editorial decision in the publication process. All
the experts who serve as reviewers have the right to accept or reject a
submission based on their own decision. INTI Journal, by the recommendation
from the reviewers, will either publish a paper without revision, publish
the paper after the revision by authors, or reject it from the publication
in INTI Journal.
Plagiarism
Statement
Plagiarism is an act of duplicating or taking other authors’
work, which has been produced and published before, and claiming to be
one’s own work. Plagiarism is considered unethical and should be avoided at
all costs.
INTI Journal takes plagiarism as a serious violation of publication
ethics. We reject any type of plagiarism, in any part of the paper
published in our journal. Therefore, all the corresponding authors should
make sure the papers submitted to INTI Journal is free from plagiarism
elements. Submission of a report from a plagiarism checking tool is highly
recommended upon submission of the paper. A non-plagiarism declaration is
obligated upon the submission of the final draft to INTI Journal.
If a paper submitted was found plagiarizing, it will be rejected by
us. Even after publication, if we found disputes on plagiarism or
discovered elements of plagiarism, we will remove the paper concerned
without prior notification to the authors.
The corresponding author should submit a similarity report together
with the paper upon the first submission of the paper. The paper with the
similarity of < 20 % will be considered for publication in INTI Journal.
The similarity report should be generated by trusted and licensed software,
such as Turnitin and SafeAssign.
Other Misconduct
Besides plagiarism, publication misconduct might include
citation manipulation, data falsification, fabrication of information,
undeclared conflict of interest or any ownership, authorship and patent
issues. All the misconduct report should be sent to the editor’s email for further
investigation. For all the cases, INTI Journal will seek opinion from an
independent reviewer.
INTI Journal
has the right to withdraw / retain the published paper any time after the
publication of the paper, without prior notification.
Open
Access Statement
Open Access allows free access and the
use of contents published by various sources, which promotes visibility,
readership, and sharing of knowledge and information online. INTI Journal
provides an open access platform to all authors and readers. We will not
impose any readership fees or any restrictions to access our contents. All
papers published in INTI Journal are permanently deposited for online
access by Tan Sri Abdul Majid Library, Malaysia.
License
Term
All articles published in this journal
are licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY-4.0)
Copyright
Statement
Copyright defines the
ownership of the contents published in INTI Journal. As an open-access
journal, the copyright of the papers published in INTI Journal belongs to
the producers of the contents and authors of the papers. Authors are
allowed to share, publicize, reprint, or use the paper published in INTI
Journal freely, as long as the ethics of publication and integrity of the
contents are maintained. All the intellectual properties produced from the
papers published belong to the authors. Authors are allowed to
deposit all versions of their paper(s) published by INTI Journal in any
institutional or other repository of the author’s choice without
restriction.
The readers are allowed to
share, reprint, or use the papers, or contents taken from the papers
published by INTI Journal, with clear and proper citation, where credits
are given to the authors and the publisher (as stated in CC-BY: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Before the paper publication,
the corresponding author has to sign a Publishing Agreement Form to give
INTI Journal permission to publish, distribute, publicize the
paper submitted by the authors.
Consent and Privacy Statement
Human subjects of a study should be made
known to the usage of the information taken from them. Consent from the
subjects of a study, especially in clinical and medical research is
essential in publishing related information. INTI Journal requires all authors
to declare the consent given by the subjects of study wherever necessary.
The privacy of the human subjects should
be kept to safeguard their rights. INTI Journal therefore will not be under
any circumstances, publishes sensitive personal information, such as
national identification number, social security number, email, or phone
number of the human subjects in the study.
All papers with the personal information
of human subjects will be rejected. In additional to that, information that
reflects discrimination on genders, regions, or ethnicity will be rejected.
Personal
Data Protection Statement
INTI Journal recognizes the importance to
protect the personal information of authors and institutes. Serving as an
open-access journal that currently requires no publication fees, authors
should not, under any circumstances provide sensitive information, such as
national identification number, social security number, bank account
number, and credit card number to the editorial board of INTI Journal.
Identification of institutions, however,
might be requested whenever required. We will fully comply with the
personal data protection act and will not tolerate any deed of leaking of
any sensitive information of the authors and institutes to the external
party.
Fee
of Publication
INTI Journal is currently managed by INTI
International University, Malaysia. The repository of INTI Journal is
currently managed by Tan Sri Abdul Majid Library, Malaysia. All the
management and publication fees are currently sponsored by INTI International
University and Tan Sri Abdul Majid Library, Malaysia. Therefore, INTI
Journal imposes zero publication fee on the authors.
Frequency
of Publication
INTI Journal is accepting rolling
submissions from authors. The submitted paper will be published and make
available online in 2 – 4 weeks after the submission of final draft (after
the reviewing process) from corresponding author. We are publishing one volume
per year.
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