DIFERENSIAL: Jurnal Pendidikan Matematika is committed to maintaining high standards of publication ethics and to preventing all forms of publication malpractice. This statement applies to all parties involved in the publication process, including authors, editors, reviewers, and the publisher. The journal promotes integrity, transparency, fairness, academic responsibility, and respect for scholarly standards throughout submission, review, editing, and publication.

This statement is intended to guide all parties involved in the submission, review, editing, and publication of manuscripts and to ensure that the journal maintains a credible, responsible, and trustworthy scholarly record.

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed journal is an essential contribution to the development of a credible and respected body of academic knowledge. Peer-reviewed publication reflects the quality of scholarly work and the institutions that support it. Therefore, all parties involved in the publication process are expected to follow ethical principles that ensure responsible and trustworthy academic publishing.

• Publication Decisions: Editors are responsible for deciding which submitted manuscripts should be published, based on academic merit, originality, clarity, relevance to the journal’s scope, and reviewers’ recommendations.
• Fair Play: Manuscripts should be evaluated for intellectual content without discrimination based on race, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, institutional affiliation, or political views.
• Confidentiality: Editors and editorial staff must not disclose information about submitted manuscripts to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, editorial advisers, and publisher when appropriate.
• Conflict of Interest: Editors must not use unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript for their own research without the explicit written consent of the author.
• Ethical Oversight: Editors should take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of manuscripts involving plagiarism, data fabrication, citation manipulation, unethical research, or other forms of publication misconduct.

• Contribution to Editorial Decisions: Peer review assists editors in making editorial decisions and helps authors improve their manuscripts.
• Promptness: Reviewers who feel unqualified or unable to complete the review within the required time should inform the editor promptly.
• Confidentiality: Manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents and must not be shared or discussed with others without editorial permission.
• Standards of Objectivity: Reviews should be conducted objectively, respectfully, and supported by clear academic reasoning. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate.
• Acknowledgement of Sources: Reviewers should identify relevant published work not cited by the authors and notify the editor of any substantial overlap or similarity with other known works.
• Conflict of Interest: Reviewers must decline review assignments when they have conflicts of interest arising from competitive, collaborative, institutional, or personal relationships.

• Reporting Standards: Authors should present an accurate, clear, and objective account of the research or scholarly work, together with a meaningful discussion of its significance.
• Originality and Plagiarism: Authors must ensure that the manuscript is entirely original and that the works or words of others are properly cited or quoted.
• Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication: Authors should not submit the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time. Simultaneous submission is considered unethical.
• Acknowledgement of Sources: Proper acknowledgment of all sources and prior works that influence the manuscript must always be given.
• Authorship of the Paper: Authorship should be limited to individuals who have made significant scholarly contributions to the study and manuscript preparation.
• Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: Authors should disclose any financial, institutional, or personal conflicts of interest that may influence the findings or interpretation of the manuscript.
• Data Integrity: Authors must not fabricate, falsify, or manipulate data, citations, images, or research findings.
• Human or Animal Subjects: If the manuscript involves human participants or animals, authors must ensure that the research has been conducted ethically and in accordance with relevant institutional or legal requirements.
• Fundamental Errors: If authors discover a significant error in their published work, they must promptly notify the editor and cooperate in correcting or retracting the article when necessary.

Publication misconduct includes, but is not limited to, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, data fabrication, data falsification, citation manipulation, duplicate submission, redundant publication, unethical research practices, and inappropriate authorship claims.

When misconduct is suspected, the editorial team reserves the right to investigate the matter and take appropriate action. Such action may include manuscript rejection, correction, retraction, publication of an editorial notice, or notification to relevant institutions or authorities where necessary.

Corrections

The journal may publish corrections when significant errors affecting the accuracy, clarity, or interpretation of the article are identified after publication.

Retractions

A published article may be retracted if there is clear evidence that the findings are unreliable due to misconduct or serious error, if the article contains plagiarism, if it has been published elsewhere without proper acknowledgment, or if the research is found to be unethical.