Maspul Journal of Community Empowerment (MJCE) is committed to maintaining editorial independence, scholarly quality, transparency, and fairness throughout the publication process. All manuscripts are evaluated on the basis of academic merit, relevance to the journal’s scope, originality, clarity, and contribution to community service and empowerment practices.

Editorial decisions are made without discrimination based on race, gender, religion, nationality, institutional affiliation, or personal background. The editorial team reserves the right to accept, request revision, or reject any manuscript according to the journal’s standards, peer review reports, and ethical considerations.

Every manuscript submitted to MJCE undergoes an initial editorial screening to assess its suitability with the journal’s focus, formatting requirements, and basic ethical standards. Manuscripts that pass this stage are forwarded to reviewers with relevant expertise.

The journal applies a peer review process to assess the quality, relevance, methodological adequacy, clarity, and contribution of the manuscript. Based on the reviewers’ recommendations, the editorial decision may fall into one of the following categories:

• Accept without revision
• Accept with minor revision
• Accept with major revision
• Reject

MJCE expects all parties involved in the publication process, including authors, editors, reviewers, and the publisher, to uphold ethical academic conduct. Authors must submit original work, accurately present data and outcomes, acknowledge relevant sources, and avoid plagiarism, duplication, fabrication, falsification, and inappropriate authorship practices.

Editors are responsible for making fair and confidential editorial decisions, while reviewers are expected to provide objective, constructive, and timely evaluations. When ethical concerns arise, the journal reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate editorial action, including correction, withdrawal, or retraction when necessary.

All submitted manuscripts may be screened using plagiarism detection software or manual editorial review to identify overlap, unattributed copying, duplicate publication, or other forms of textual similarity.

Manuscripts found to contain substantial plagiarism, self-plagiarism, fabricated references, or unethical textual reuse may be rejected immediately or returned to the author for clarification. Authors are fully responsible for ensuring that the submitted manuscript is original and properly referenced.

Authors may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools only as limited support in language editing, grammar improvement, formatting assistance, or preliminary idea organization. AI tools must not replace the authors’ own intellectual contribution, interpretation, analysis, field implementation, or scholarly judgment.

If generative AI or AI-assisted tools are used in preparing the manuscript, authors must disclose such use in a clear statement at submission. AI tools cannot be listed as authors or co-authors. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and ethical acceptability of the manuscript.

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