Authorship Policy

Authorship identifies those responsible for a piece of research. PEMA: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat applies specific criteria—tailored for the fields of education, social sciences, and community service—to determine authorship.

Criteria for authorship

An author is a person who meets all four of the following conditions.

1. Substantial contribution to the conception or design of the work, or to the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data.
2. Drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content.
3. Approval of the version submitted and of the final published version.
4. Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work, including the integrity and accuracy of any part of it.

A person who meets fewer than all four criteria should be named in the Acknowledgement instead, with their permission.

Practices that are not permitted

Practice

1. Gift or honorary authorship
   Decription: Naming a person because of their seniority, position, or funding role rather than their contribution.
   
   2. Guest authorship
   Decription: Adding a well-known name to increase the chance of acceptance.
   
   3. Ghost authorship
   Decription: Omitting someone who meets the criteria, including a paid writer or analyst.
   
   4. Purchased authorship

Decription: Buying or selling a place in the author list, or using a paper mill. This is treated as research misconduct.

5. AI authorship

Decription: Listing a generative AI tool as an author or co-author.

Contribution statement

Every manuscript must include an "Author Contributions" section, specifying the roles of everyone (Author/Co-Authors/Others). This covers the drafting of the research, data objectivity, processing of research results, and the presentation of conclusions.

Order of authors and the corresponding author

The order of authors is decided by the authors themselves and should reflect their relative contributions. The journal does not arbitrate on order. The corresponding author manages communication with the journal, confirms that all co-authors have approved the submission, holds the signed consent of all co-authors for any change, and remains available after publication to respond to questions about the work.

Changes to authorship

Any addition, removal, or reordering of authors requires a written request to the Editor-in-Chief stating the reason, together with written confirmation from every author, including the one being added or removed.

• Before acceptance: the handling editor considers the request and, if satisfied, records the change.
• After acceptance but before publication: the request is considered by the Editor-in-Chief and publication is paused until it is resolved.
• After publication: the change is handled as a corrigendum, with a public notice and updated metadata through Crossref.

Where authors cannot agree, the journal does not adjudicate. The matter is referred to the authors' institutions under COPE guidance, and the article remains unchanged until the institutions report an outcome. A submission under dispute is held, not reviewed.

Deceased authors and name changes

An author who dies before publication remains in the author list, with a footnote recording this. An author who changes their name may ask for it to be updated discreetly, without a public notice, and the journal will update the article record and Crossref metadata.

Student and supervisor work

Articles derived from a thesis or dissertation are welcome. The student is normally the first author where the work is substantially theirs. Supervisors qualify as authors only if they meet all four criteria; routine supervision alone belongs in the Acknowledgement. The article should state that it draws on a thesis and cite it.