Publication & Ethics Statement
The Chief Editor, Editorial Board and publisher of The Asia Pacific Journal of Education and Society believe that ethical guidelines should be respected and upheld in the publishing of all academic journals, and the ownership of intellectual property be recognized and acknowledged.
Statement on Diversity and Equity
As a journal, The Asia Pacific Journal of Education and Society, as a founding principle of ethics, supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, particularly in the representation of minority groups. We are committed to representing all peoples with fairness, dignity and respect, regardless of age, health or disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and parental responsibility, race, ethnicity, religion and belief, social class, caste, or sexual orientation (or any other form of cultural or social axis of potential discrimination). In general, as academic publishers, we support the right to self-expression and freedom of speech, and we believe it is necessary and important to engage with difficult topics which will in some cases may cause offense to social or cultural groups. We also recognize and acknowledge that as a journal involved in developmental and societal debates, some content may occasionally prove to cause offense to members of the public. We strongly support the principal of supporting minority voices, particularly those who have been traditionally excluded from academic fora. As a journal, we strive to be anti-censorship and support the principles of open and honest debate within an academic context; nevertheless we will also aim to avoid causing unnecessary hurt or harm to minority social groups or cultures, particularly in the use of stereotyped or demeaning, reductive representations (whether in image or words). Authors should take care when publishing images of objects or subjects that might have cultural significance which potentially could cause offense. The Chief Editor on behalf of the Editorial Board and Lectito reserves the right to refuse articles that may cause offense or hurt and/or are perceived to be violations of human dignity.
Conflicts of interest
The scientific reliability of the published articles is important, and thus any conflict of interest on the side of the author, peer-reviewer or the editors should be declared and avoided. These conflicts of interest can be on the personal, financial, political, academic or religious level. Authors, peer-reviewers or editors should, whenever these are relevant to the content being considered or published, declare their interests and affiliations, so that the appropriate measures can be taken by the Chief Editor on behalf of the Editorial Board. If necessary and in exceptional circumstances, a qualifying statement can be made in the journal that a specific person has a personal, financial, political, academic or religious conflict of interest with the topic.
Where there is a declared conflict of interest, alternative peer reviewers will be sought. Authors can also be prevented to publish their article in the journal if there is a clear conflict of interest. The existence of a conflict of interest should however not prevent someone of being included in the list of authors, if they qualify for authorship.
Funding
Readers should know who funded the research project or the publication of a document. This can be public or private funding through a charity or government department, university or commercial company. And so:
- Funders of a paper, in the form of persons, organizations, research institutions, companies or any other form should be mentioned.
- The role of the research funders or any other research contributors in the design or preparation of the article should be mentioned, if they are not mentioned in the list of authors. They can, for example, be mentioned in acknowledgment.
- If a funder wants to publish a supplement or separate section in an alternative publication within 2 years of publication in The Asia Pacific Journal of Education and Society, they should ask for the permission of Lectito. Applications will be handled on a case by case basis.
Authors
All contributors and their sources have to be properly acknowledged in the article’s publication according to guidelines. Guidelines on notes and references can be found here.
Authors of research papers should state whether they had complete access to the research data that supports the article and if not, they should state this in the article.
When the article is written by a group of authors, the individual authors who have direct responsibility for the manuscript should be mentioned. When a group author manuscript is submitted, the corresponding author should indicate the preferred citation or acronym of the group name as well the names of the individual authors.
COPE also provides extensive resources on authorship and authorship disputes, and we encourage anyone involved in editorial decisions to familiarize themselves with these resources.
Confidentiality
It is important that authors and peer-reviewers handle all information carefully and that informants and research subjects are protected in respect of confidentiality.
Across the scholarly disciplines, there are variations in practice and standards around privacy and confidentiality. In educational sciences, written consent of subjects or their parents/caretakers is important. This must be obtained where relevant, such as in questionnaire, observation or intervention studies, and must be available for the journal to see if requested. Authors should strive to treat the privacy of research subjects with as much care as possible and anonymize the data unless otherwise requested by the participant.
The journal's policy requires that authors who discuss a clinical trial, demonstrate that the clinical trial is registered in a publicly accessible database. Authors should include the name of the trial register and their clinical trial registration number at the end of their abstract. If you wish the editor[s] to consider an unregistered trial, please explain briefly why the trial has not been registered.