Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Lex Librum is a legal science journal published in Indonesia. Published since 2014, Lex Librum focuses on various subdisciplines of law, including:

Basic principles of jurisprudence
Civil law
Criminal law
Procedural law
Economic and business law
Constitutional law
State administration law
International law
Law and society
Apart from that, Lex Librum also receives articles covering cross-topics between the fields of law and other scientific fields, such as legal sociology, legal anthropology, law and economics, and others.
Issued 2 (two) times in 1 (one) year, in June and December. Each number has 7 to 8 research articles. Lex Librum is published in Indonesian.

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Editorial

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

Lex Librum is published with a process that strictly follows the Open Jounal System guidelines and templates that have been determined based on the guidelines for writing scientific articles Lex Librum. All submitted by the manuscript and will go through a review process from reviewers.

Editor in Chief will assign the manuscript to Managing Editor for further handling. The Managing Editor will request at least two scientists to review the research article manuscript. All manuscripts are subject to double-blind peer-review, both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process to meet standards of academic excellence.

Detailed information about the flow for the manuscript submission (author) to the acceptance by the editor is shown in the following figure.

Turnitin

The steps are:

- Submission of Manuscript by the author.
- Examination and selection of manuscripts by the editor. The editorial team has the right to accept, reject or review directly. Before further processing steps, plagiarism checking using Turnitin is applied to each manuscript.
- Manuscript Review Process by reviewers.
- Notification of Manuscript Acceptance, Revision, or Rejection by the editor to the author based on reviewer comments.
- Revision of the Paper by the author. Submission of revisions based on reviewer suggestions by the author in accordance with the flow.
- If the reviewer appears satisfied with the revision, notify the editor of its acceptance. Kitchen proofing and publishing process.

Lex Librum has four types of decisions:

Accepted as is,
Accepted and revised on a small scale (let the author be revised with the time set)
Accepted and revised on a large scale (allowing the author to be revised with the time set)
Rejected (generally, in the background, outside the scope and objectives, the main problems of technical description, lack of clarity of presentation)
To check plagiarism, Lex Librum Editorial Board will screen plagiarism using the Turnitin (https://www.turnitin.com/). If indications of plagiarism are found (above 30%), the editorial board will immediately reject the text.

Open Access Policy

To spread knowledge without limits, Lex Librum fully supports open-access policies. Each reader can freely download, quote, and distribute each article published in this journal, provided that it is properly quoted under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The author is not charged for paper submission and publication.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

Publication Ethics

Lex Librum: Journal of Legal Sciences (Lex Librum: Journal of Legal Sciences. - LEXLIBRUM) is a peer-reviewed journal published by the Youth Pledge College of Law. The journal is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and taking all possible action against any publication malpractice. This statement clarifies the ethical behaviour of all parties involved in the act of publishing articles in this journal as well as allegations of research misconduct, including the author, editor-in-chief, Editorial Board, peer-reviewers, and publisher. This statement is based on the COPE Best Practices Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed Lex Librum: Journal of Legal Sciences is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is, therefore, important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behaviour for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher, and the society.

Faculty of Law Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Hukum Sumpah Pemuda as the publisher of Lex Librum: Journal of Legal Sciences takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing extremely seriously, and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. The Editorial Board will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful and necessary.

Allegations of Research Misconduct

Research misconduct means fabrication, falsification, citation manipulation, or plagiarism in producing, performing, or reviewing research and writing an article by authors, or in reporting research results. When authors are found to have been involved with research misconduct or other serious irregularities involving articles that have been published in scientific journals, Editors have a responsibility to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the scientific record.

In cases of suspected misconduct, the Editors and Editorial Board will use the best practices of COPE to assist them in resolving the complaint and addressing the misconduct fairly. This will include an investigation of the allegation by the Editors. A submitted manuscript that is found to contain such misconduct will be rejected. In cases where a published paper is found to contain such misconduct, a retraction can be published and will be linked to the original article.

The first step involves determining the validity of the allegation and an assessment of whether the allegation is consistent with the definition of research misconduct. This initial step also involves determining whether the individuals alleging misconduct have relevant conflicts of interest.

If scientific misconduct or the presence of other substantial research irregularities is a possibility, the allegations are shared with the corresponding author, who, on behalf of all of the co-authors, is requested to provide a detailed response. After the response is received and evaluated, additional review and involvement of experts (such as statistical reviewers) may be obtained. For cases in which it is unlikely that misconduct has occurred, clarifications, additional analyses, or both, published as letters to the editor, and often including a correction notice and correction to the published article are sufficient.

Institutions are expected to conduct an appropriate and thorough investigation of allegations of scientific misconduct. Ultimately, authors, journals, and institutions have an important obligation to ensure the accuracy of the scientific record. By responding appropriately to concerns about scientific misconduct, and taking necessary actions based on the evaluation of these concerns, such as corrections, retractions with replacement, and retractions, Lex Librum: Jurnal Ilmu Hukum will continue to fulfil the responsibilities of ensuring the validity and integrity of the scientific record.

Publication decisions

The editor of the Lexlibrum: Journal of Legal Sciences journal is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Complaints and Appeals

Lexlibrum: Journal of Legal Sciences will have a clear procedure for handling complaints against the journal, Editorial Staff, Editorial Board or Publisher. The complaints will be clarified to a respected person with respect to the case of the complaint. The scope of complaints includes anything related to the journal business process, i.e. editorial process, found citation manipulation, unfair editor/reviewer, peer-review manipulation, etc. The complaint cases will be processed according to COPE guidelines. The complaint cases should be sent by email to: jurnallexlibrum@gmail.com.

Fair play

An editor at any time evaluates manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality

The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions:
Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Promptness:
Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Confidentiality:
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorised by the editor.

Standards of Objectivity:
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgement of Sources:
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest:
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Duties of Authors

Reporting standards:
Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.

Data Access, Retention and Reproducibility:
Authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data, if practicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication. Authors are responsible for data reproducibility.

Originality and Plagiarism:
The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication:
An author should not, in general, publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgement of Sources:
Proper acknowledgement of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Authorship and Contributorship of the Article:
Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest:
All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published works:
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

ETHICAL OVERSIGHT

If the research work involves chemicals, humans, animals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript in order to obey ethical conduct of research using animals and human subjects. If required, Authors must provide legal ethical clearance from an association or legal organization. If the research involves confidential data and business/marketing practices, authors should clearly justify this matter whether the data or information will be hidden securely or not.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (COPYRIGHT POLICY)

As a journal author, you have rights for a large range of uses of your article, including use by your employing institute or company. These Author rights can be exercised without the need to obtain specific permission.

Authors publishing in Lexlibrum journals have wide rights to use their works for teaching and scholarly purposes without needing to seek permission, including use for classroom teaching by Author or Author's institution and presentation at a meeting or conference and distributing copies to attendees; use for internal training by author's company; distribution to colleagues for their research use; use in a subsequent compilation of the author's works; inclusion in a thesis or dissertation; reuse of portions or extracts from the article in other works (with full acknowledgement of final article); preparation of derivative works (other than commercial purposes) (with full acknowledgement of final article); voluntary posting on open web sites operated by author or author’s institution for scholarly purposes (follow CC by SA License).

Authors and readers can copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, as well as remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially, but they must give appropriate credit (cite to the article or content), provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. If you remix, transform or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

PEER-REVIEW PROCESS POLICY

Peer-Review process/policy is declared here:
https://lexlibrum.id/index.php/lexlibrum/about/editorialPolicies#peerReviewProcess

POST-PUBLICATION DISCUSSIONS AND CORRECTIONS

Lexlibrum accepts discussion and corrections on published articles by readers. In case the reader gives discussions and corrections toward a published article, the reader can contact by email to Editor in Chief by explaining the discussions and corrections. If accepted (by the Editor in Chief), the discussions and corrections will be published in the next issue as a Letter to the Editor. Respected Authors can reply/answer the discussions and corrections from the reader by sending the reply to the Editor in Chief. Therefore, Editors may publish the answer as a Reply to Letter to the Editor.

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Dr. Hj. Jauhariah,

Editor-in-Chief, Lexlibrum : Jurnal Ilmu Hukum
Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Hukum Sumpah Pemuda