- Focus and Scope
- Section Policies
- Peer Review Process
- Open Access Policy
- Archiving
- Plagiarism Policy
- Publication Frequency
- Open Access Statement
- Copyright and License Statement
- Article Processing Charge (APC)
- Publication Ethics
Focus and Scope
IJNSP is a scientific journal to develop knowledge in the field of Nursing, IJNSP provides a platform for the publication of scientific research in the all areas of nursing such as:
- Advanced Practice Nursing
- Community Health Nursing
- Emergency and Trauma Nursing
- Education in Nursing
- Family Nursing
- Fundamentals of Nursing
- Geriatric Nursing
- Management in Nursing
- Maternity Nursing
- Mental Health Nursing
- Medical-surgical Nursing
- Oncology Nursing
- Pediatric Nursing
- Women's Health
Section Policies
Articles
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Peer Review Process
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
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...
Plagiarism Policy
The Indonesian Journal of Nursing Sciences and Practice (IJNSP) board recognized that plagiarism is not acceptable and therefore establishes the following policy stating specific actions (penalties) when plagiarism is identified in an article that is submitted for publication in IJNSP. Definition:
Plagiarism involves the "use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work."
Policy:
Papers must be original, unpublished, and not pending publication elsewhere. Any material taken verbatim from another source needs to be clearly identified as different from the present original text by (1) indentation, (2) use of quotation marks, and (3) identification of the source.
Any text of an amount exceeding fair use standards (herein defined as more than two or three sentences or the equivalent thereof) or any graphic material reproduced from another source requires permission from the copyright holder and, if feasible, the original author(s) and also requires identification of the source; e.g., previous publication.
When plagiarism is identified, the Editor in Chief responsible for the review of this paper and will agree on measures according to the extent of plagiarism detected in the paper in agreement with the following guidelines:
Level of Plagiaris
1. Minor : A short section of another article is plagiarized without any significant data or idea taken from the other paper
Action : A warning is given to the authors and a request to change the text and properly cite the original article is made
2. Intermediate: A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized without proper citation to the original paper
Action : The submitted article is rejected and the authors are forbidden to submit further articles for one year
3. Severe : A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized that involves reproducing original results or ideas presented in another publication
Action : The paper is rejected and the authors are forbidden to submit further articles for five years.
It is understood that all authors are responsible for the content of their submitted paper as they all sign the IJNSP Copyright Transfer Form. If a penalty is imposed for plagiarism, all authors will be subject to the same penalty.
If a second case of plagiarism by the same author(s) is identified, a decision on the measures to be enforced will be made by the Editorial board (Editor-in-Chief, and Editorial members) with the Chair of the Editor in Chief. The author(s) might be forbidden to submit further articles forever.
This policy applies also to material reproduced from another publication by the same author(s). If an author uses text or figures that have previously been published, the corresponding paragraphs or figures should be identified and the previous publication referenced. It is understood that in case of a review paper or a paper of a tutorial nature much of the material was previously published.
The author should identify the source of the previously published material and obtain permission from the original author and the publisher. If an author submits a manuscript to IJNSP with significant overlap with a manuscript submitted to another journal simultaneously, and this overlap is discovered during the review process or after the publications of both papers, the editor of the other journal is notified and the case is treated as a severe plagiarism case. Significant overlap means use of identical or almost identical figures and identical or slightly modified text for one half or more of the paper. For self plagiarism of less than one half of the paper but more than one tenth of the paper, the case shall be treated as intermediate plagiarism. If self plagiarism is confined to the methods section, the case shall be considered as minor plagiarism.
If an author uses some of his previously published material to clarify the presentation of new results, the previously published material shall be identified and the difference to the present publication shall be mentioned. Permission to republish must be obtained from the copyright holder. In the case of a manuscript that was originally published in conference proceedings and then is submitted for publication in IJNSP either in identical or in expanded form, the authors must identify the name of the conference proceedings and the date of the publication and obtain permission to republish from the copyright holder. The editor may decide not to accept this paper for publication.
However, an author shall be permitted to use material from an unpublished presentation, including visual displays, in a subsequent journal publication. In the case of a publication being submitted that was originally published in another language, the title, date and journal of the original publication must be identified by the authors, and the copyright must be obtained. The editor may accept such a translated publication to bring it to the attention of a wider audience. The editor may select a specific paper that had been published (e.g. a “historic” paper) for republication in order to provide a better perspective of a series of papers published in one issue of IJNSP. This republication shall be clearly identified as such and the date and journal of the original publication shall be given, and the permission of the author(s) and the publisher shall be obtained.
The IJNSP layout editor for the Journal is responsible for maintaining the list of authors subjected to penalties and will check that no authors of a submitted paper are on this list. If a banned author is identified, the layout editor will inform the Editor-in-Chief who will take appropriate measures. This policy will be posted on the web site with the instructions for submitting a manuscript, and a copy will be sent to the authors with the confirmation email upon initial receipt of their original manuscript. A sentence shall be added to the copyright transfer form to indicate that the author(s) have read the Plagiarism Policy.
Publication Frequency
Periodic journal published every semester, in January and July.
Open Access Statement
IJNSP publishes fully open access journals, which means that all articles are available on the internet to all users immediately upon publication. Non-commercial use and distribution in any medium are permitted, provided the author and the journal are properly credited.
Benefits of open access for authors include:
- Free access for all users worldwide
- Authors retain copyright to their work
- Increased visibility and readership
- Rapid publication
- No spatial constraints
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Publication Ethics
Human Participants
IJNSP policy is to ensure that all articles published by IJNSP report on work that is morally acceptable, and expects authors to follow the World Medical Association’s Declaration of Helsinki. To achieve this, we aim to appraise the ethical aspects of any submitted work that involves human participants, whatever descriptive label is given to that work including research, audit, and sometimes debate.
Statement of Ethics Approval
We require every research article submitted to include a statement that the study obtained ethics approval (or a statement that it was not required and why), including the name of the ethics committee(s) or institutional review board(s), the number/ID of the approval(s), and a statement that participants gave informed consent before taking part.
In addition we welcome detailed explanations of how investigators and authors have considered and justified the ethical and moral basis of their work. If such detail does not easily fit into the manuscript please provide it in the covering letter or upload it as a supplemental file when submitting the article. We will also be pleased to see copies of explanatory information given to participants. Even if we do not include such detailed information in a final published version, we may make it available to peer reviewers and editorial committees. We already ask peer reviewers to consider and comment on the ethics of submitted work.
Appraisal of Ethical Issues
Editorial appraisal of ethical issues goes beyond simply deciding whether participants in a study gave informed consent although this is, of course, one very important issue to consider. Editors should judge whether the overall design and conduct of each piece of work is morally justifiable, as summed up by the following questions:
- How much does this deviate from current normal (accepted, local) clinical practice?
- What is the (additional) burden imposed on the patients (or others)?
- What (additional) risks are posed to the patients (or others)?
- What benefit might accrue to the patients (or others)?
- What are the potential benefits to society (future patients)?
Even when a study has been approved by a research ethics committee or institutional review board, editors may be worried about the ethics of the work. Editors may then ask authors for more detailed information such as:
- How they justified the ethical and moral basis of the work
- To provide the contact details of the research ethics committee that reviewed the work, so that the journal can request further information and justification from that committee
- To explain what ethical issues they considered and how they justified their work, for studies that have not been reviewed by research ethics committees or institutional review boards
Editors may ask other editorial colleagues to evaluate the ethical aspects of an article, the authors’ comments, and the response of the relevant research ethics committee to the journal’s queries about ethics approval. This consultation may be informal, between the journal’s editors, or more formal, through seeking the advice of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Problems referred to COPE will be considered as anonymised summaries of the relevant articles, written by the editors concerned.
What happens when the journal considers a study to be unethical?
We believe that editors have a duty to take on issues of unethical audit or research, not to seek punishment for the authors, but to prevent unethical practice and to protect patients.
If the Editor, with or without the advice of its ethics committee and/or COPE, considers the work in a submitted article to be ethically unsound the editor may seek further advice or recommend investigation or action. The fact that the article would have been rejected anyway for other scientific or editorial reasons would not prevent the editor from taking such further action on serious ethics problems.
In the first instance the editor would usually contact the head of the department where the work was done to explain their concerns and recommend a local investigation. Secondly, the editor might write to the professional registration body of the paper’s guarantor or principal investigator.
Exceptional circumstances
In rare instances the journal might publish an article despite ethics problems in the work it reported. The usual reason would be that work done in one setting might not reach the ethical standard of work done in another setting, because of differing local resources and standards for health care and research. In deciding to publish such an article, we would consider carefully the context of the study and aim to balance the overall benefit to society against the possible harm to the research participants.
Animal Participants
All material published in IJNSP which reports experiments performed using animals must adhere to high ethical standards concerning animal welfare.
Manuscripts will be considered for publication only if the work described:
- Follows international, national and institutional guidelines for the humane treatment of animals and complies with relevant legislation;
- Has been approved by the ethics review committee at the institution or practice at which the studies were conducted (where such a committee exists);
- For studies involving non-human primates, demonstrates that the standards meet those of the NC3Rs primates guidelines;
- For studies using client-owned animals, demonstrates a high standard (best practice) of veterinary care and involves informed client consent.
Before a manuscript can be accepted, authors must:
- Confirm that legal and ethical requirements have been met with regards to the humane treatment of animals described in the study;
- Specify in the Materials or Methods section the ethical review committee approval process and the international, national, and/or institutional guidelines followed.
Editors retain the right to reject manuscripts on the basis of ethical or animal welfare concerns. Papers may be rejected on ethical grounds if the study involves unnecessary pain, distress, suffering or lasting harm to animals, or if the severity of the experimental procedure does not appear to be justified by the value of the work presented. We ask that the work would be likely to gain approval in Europe under the European Directive 2010/63/EU (on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes).
See ‘What happens when the journal considers a study to be unethical?’ above for an outline of how ethical concerns will be dealt with. Manuscripts describing animal research must include a justification for the use of animals, and for the particular species used. They should also provide details of animal welfare, including information about housing, feeding and environmental enrichment, a description of steps taken to minimise suffering, humane endpoints and method of euthanasia. If the study has any implication for the 3Rs (replacement, reduction and refinement), these should be discussed in enough detail so that readers can implement the 3Rs in similar experiments.
VulnerableParticipants
IJNSP places a particular emphasis on research involving vulnerable participants. In the Declaration of Helsinki, the World Medical Association defines vulnerable groups and individuals as those who may have an increased likelihood of experiencing harm or injustice. Specifically, the Declaration identifies vulnerability as arising from a reduced ability to provide informed consent. It states, "Some research populations are particularly vulnerable and require special protection. These include individuals who cannot provide or refuse consent for themselves...," as well as those "who may be susceptible to coercion or undue influence."
According to the guidelines provided by the US Department of Health and Human Services regarding the Protection of Human Subjects, vulnerable groups specifically encompass children, prisoners, pregnant women, fetuses, individuals with mental disabilities, and economically and educationally disadvantaged individuals. Consequently, authors submitting manuscripts to IJNSP that involve vulnerable groups must provide a detailed explanation of the ethical process, informed consent procedures, and the legal guardian authorized to grant consent.
Categories of Vulnerability
The categoies of vulnerability based on National Bioethics Advisory Committee:
Cognitive or communicative vulnerability
Cognitive or communicative vulnerability occurs when any participant is unable to process, understand, appreciate, and reason through the consent documentation and/or explanations either by mental limitation or language limitation. There are various degrees as to how this may occur. For example, a participant may not be able to read a consent form because of illiteracy, low reading comprehension skills, and/or not speaking the language in which the form is written. If you are targeting a population where this is likely to occur, you need to provide a consent procedure that will accommodate the needs of your participants either by translating the document, writing it in lay language, or discussing the consent. In some cases, you may not be targeting this population, but the issue may arise during a consent session. Do your best to make sure that the participant understands what he or she is consenting to before enrolling them in the study. If you are likely to work with participants where capacity to consent is an issue, it may be necessary for you to include a procedure to assess the participant's capacity to consent. In the case where a participant may not be able to process the full meaning of consent (such as a young child) or is limited by mental defect or disorder, it will be necessary that you obtain consent from a surrogate who is legally responsible for the individual. Although the person may not be able to give full consent, it is still important to involve the person in the consent procedure as to their capability.
Institutional vulnerability
Institutional vulnerability occurs when individuals are subject to a formal authority and whose consent may be coerced either directly or indirectly. Examples include prisoners, student/professor relationships, and/or employee/employer relationships. The role of the formal authority in the study will determine the level of perceived or real coercion in the study (i.e. professor studying his students). The solution to this issue is often in the manner in which data are collected and consent is obtained. Using a third party to do so often eliminates any conflicts of interest. However, in the case of prisoners, specific rules are in place regarding their use.
Deferential vulnerability
Deferential vulnerability occurs when individuals informally subordinate to an authority figure. For example, abuse victims, doctor/patient relationships, and/or husband/wife relationships are all situations where one party may feel obligated to follow the advice of another. These situations require a sensitive recruitment and consent plan where participants have the opportunity to consent voluntarily.
Medical vulnerability
Medical vulnerability occurs when individuals' medical state may cloud their ability to make a decision regarding study participation. The patient may see the research study as a miracle cure to their disease instead of a procedure that has no guarantee for results. Often presenting the study in an environment where the participant is able to understand the full meaning of the study will help to alleviate any misunderstanding.
Economic vulnerability
Economic vulnerability occurs when individuals' economic situation may make them vulnerable to the prospect of free medical care and/or the payments issued for participating in the study. It is important that the payment offered will not encourage an individual to put themselves at a greater risk than they would otherwise.
Social vulnerability
Social vulnerability occurs when participants are at risk for discrimination based on race, gender, ethnicity, and age. Researchers may not offer the full explanation in the consent because they feel a participant is not able to comprehend it because of that person’s race, etc. The participant may also be prone to feel discriminated against as well and may not participate as a result of this predisposition.
Legal vulnerability
Legal vulnerability occurs when participants do not have the legal right to consent or who may be concerned that their consent could put them at risk for legal repercussions. For those who are unable to legally consent, it is important that you obtain consent from a legal representative and in most cases obtain assent from the individual. For those that are concerned about having their legal status compromised by the study, you should take steps to legally protect participants. For example, obtaining a Certificate of Confidentiality for U.S. citizens can protect confidentiality. For some, alternative consent methods may appropriate, such as oral consent.
Study vulnerability
Study vulnerability occurs when participants are made vulnerable by the study’s design. Generally this category refers to participants who are deceived during the study and/or the nature of the study is not revealed to the participant. This can be alleviated by providing full consent and disclosure after the study is completed or whenever a participant withdraws from the study.
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