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.
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, in the form of e-print.
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.
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.
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. INTI Journal retains exclusive
publishing right of the paper.
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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