Authorship and Contributorship Policy

Authorship and Contributorship Policy

Transparent attribution of scholarly contributions and responsibilities

Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pengembangan Masyarakat Indonesia (JPPMI) requires authorship to accurately reflect substantive intellectual and practical contributions to the submitted work. Authorship provides academic credit and carries responsibility for the integrity of the article.

All authors must agree with the submitted manuscript, approve the author order, accept responsibility for their contributions, and cooperate with editorial inquiries before and after publication.

1. Authorship Criteria

An author should satisfy all of the following criteria:

1. Make a substantial contribution to the program's conception or design, implementation, data acquisition, analysis, or interpretation;
2. Draft the manuscript or critically revise it for important intellectual content;
3. Approve the final version to be published; and
4. Accept accountability for the accuracy and integrity of the work.

2. Author Contributions

Every manuscript must include an Author Contributions statement. Authors are encouraged to use relevant CRediT contributor roles, including:

• Conceptualization;
• Methodology;
• Community engagement or program implementation;
• Investigation and data collection;
• Formal analysis;
• Resources;
• Data curation;
• Writing—original draft;
• Writing—review and editing;
• Visualization;
• Supervision; and
• Project administration.

3. Corresponding Author

The corresponding author is responsible for:

• Ensuring that all authors meet the authorship criteria;
• Confirming author names, affiliations, ORCID identifiers, and order;
• Obtaining approval of the submitted and final versions;
• Completing required ethics, funding, data, AI, and conflict disclosures;
• Communicating with the journal during review and production;
• Responding to reasonable questions after publication.

4. Author Order

Author order should be agreed upon by all authors before submission and should reflect the disciplinary conventions and actual contributions of the team. The journal does not determine author order on behalf of the authors.

5. Changes in Authorship

Requests to add, remove, reorder, or replace authors must include:

• A clear explanation for the requested change;
• An updated Author Contributions statement;
• Written agreement from all existing and proposed authors; and
• Confirmation that the change does not conceal an authorship dispute or misconduct.

Changes after acceptance are permitted only in exceptional and adequately documented circumstances. Changes after publication require a formal correction notice. Publication may be suspended while an authorship dispute remains unresolved.

6. Unacceptable Authorship Practices

• Guest or honorary authorship: including a person who did not make a qualifying contribution;
• Gift authorship: offering authorship as a favor or reciprocal benefit;
• Ghost authorship: omitting a person who made a qualifying contribution;
• Purchased authorship: buying or selling a position in an author list;
• Coercive authorship: requiring inclusion because of seniority or authority; and
• Identity misrepresentation: submitting false names, affiliations, emails, or contributor information.

7. Acknowledgments

Individuals, community partners, institutions, technical staff, language editors, or other contributors who do not meet authorship criteria should be recognized in the acknowledgments with their permission. Financial and material support must be reported separately in the Funding Statement.

8. Authorship Disputes

JPPMI may request documentation and attempt to clarify an authorship issue, but the journal is not an investigative body and does not determine the relative contributions of disputing parties. Unresolved disputes may be referred to the authors' institution. Editorial processing may be suspended until an authorized institution or all authors provide an agreed resolution.