CROSSMARK AND POST-PUBLICATION UPDATE POLICY

JPEKA: Jurnal Pendidikan Ekonomi, Manajemen dan Keuangan is committed to maintaining the accuracy, integrity, transparency, reliability, and continuity of the scholarly record. This proposed policy sets out a framework for communicating significant post-publication updates and, where the journal participates in Crossmark, helping readers identify the current status of published scholarly content.

Crossmark is a Crossref service that can help readers determine whether published content remains current or has received a significant update, such as a Correction, Erratum, Corrigendum, Expression of Concern, Retraction, Removal, Replacement, or another relevant update. The provisions concerning Crossmark implementation below apply only if JPEKA has adopted and technically implemented the service; this document does not itself establish that JPEKA currently participates in Crossmark.

1.    Scope

This policy is intended to apply to scholarly content submitted to or published by JPEKA, including research articles and formal editorial notices relating to published content. It supplements, and does not replace, JPEKA’s existing Publication Ethics statement, submission guidelines, and any other applicable editorial policies. Where a more specific approved JPEKA policy applies, that policy should be followed.

2.    Editorial and Ethical Oversight

JPEKA is committed to editorial independence, research integrity, responsible peer review, appropriate authorship, transparency, and protection of the scholarly record. Decisions concerning acceptance, rejection, Correction, Erratum, Corrigendum, Expression of Concern, Retraction, Article Removal, Article Replacement, or other post-publication action should be based on scholarly, ethical, legal, editorial, and research-integrity considerations.

Such decisions must not be determined by publication fees, administrative charges, payment status, institutional or commercial interests, sponsorship, advertising, or other considerations unrelated to the scholarly merits and integrity of the case. Detailed requirements for Editors, Reviewers, and Authors are governed by JPEKA’s applicable policies.

3.    Reporting Concerns and Scholarly Discussion

Readers, Authors, Reviewers, institutions, and other relevant parties may report possible errors, ethical concerns, research-integrity issues, authorship concerns, legal concerns, or suspected research or publication misconduct to the JPEKA Editorial Team. Reports should include sufficient information and, where possible, supporting evidence to permit an appropriate assessment.

The Editorial Team may request clarification or documentation from Authors, Reviewers, institutions, research ethics committees, funders, or other relevant parties. Allegations of serious misconduct should normally be assessed confidentially under the applicable research-misconduct procedures. Unverified allegations should not be presented as established facts in public scholarly discussion.

Scholarly disagreement, methodological criticism, interpretation, clarification, reproducibility, and related academic discussion may be considered through an appropriate editorial process where the journal’s publication categories and procedures allow. If substantial concerns exist but the evidence is inconclusive or an investigation remains in progress, the Editorial Team may consider an Expression of Concern.

4.    Post-Publication Changes

JPEKA aims to preserve the scholarly record as an accurate, transparent, reliable, and traceable record of scholarly communication. Substantive changes affecting interpretation, reliability, attribution, authorship, ethical status, conclusions, or the publication record should not be made silently. The appropriate action depends on the nature, origin, severity, and impact of the issue.

4.1 Minor Updates

Minor typographical, punctuation, formatting, display, hyperlink, or technical errors that do not materially affect meaning, interpretation, scholarly credit, reliability, conclusions, or important bibliographic metadata may be corrected without a separate formal notice. Minor updates must not be used to make substantive changes to the scholarly record and would not ordinarily require a separate DOI or Crossmark update.

4.2 Correction, Erratum, and Corrigendum

A Correction, Erratum, or Corrigendum may be issued when a published article contains a substantive error or omission that requires correction but does not invalidate the principal findings or conclusions. The classification should reflect the nature and origin of the error and the journal’s approved procedures.

A formal notice should identify the affected article, explain the error and the correction, and link to the Original Article. Where technically and editorially feasible, the notice may be published as a separate record with its own DOI. The Original Article should normally remain accessible and traceable under its original DOI and publication history.

4.3 Expression of Concern

An Expression of Concern may be issued when substantial questions arise about the integrity, reliability, ethical status, or validity of a published article, but an investigation is ongoing, the available evidence is inconclusive, or a final determination cannot yet be made. The notice may remain part of the publication history after the matter is resolved. Further assessment may lead to no additional action, a correction, retraction, removal, replacement, or another appropriate editorial response.

4.4 Retraction

Retraction may be considered when a published article contains serious errors, unreliable findings, fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, duplicate or redundant publication, serious data or image manipulation, unethical research, peer-review fraud, serious authorship misconduct, or another major problem that undermines the integrity or reliability of the work.

A Retraction Notice should identify the affected article and explain the reason as clearly as legally and ethically appropriate. The Original Article should ordinarily remain accessible as part of the scholarly record and be clearly marked “RETRACTED,” unless legal, privacy, confidentiality, safety, or other exceptional circumstances require removal. Where feasible, the notice should be published as a separate record with its own DOI and linked to the Original Article.

4.5 Manuscript Withdrawal

Withdrawal primarily concerns manuscripts that have not yet been publicly published by JPEKA. Assignment or registration of a DOI alone does not necessarily mean that a manuscript has been made publicly available. Withdrawal requests and any related administrative provisions must follow the journal’s current approved policies, if applicable.

Once an article has been publicly published, including as an Article in Press, Online First, Ahead of Print, or Version of Record where such formats are used, concerns should normally be addressed through an appropriate post-publication action rather than ordinary manuscript withdrawal.

4.6 Article Removal

Article Removal is an exceptional measure and is not a routine alternative to correction or retraction. It may be considered when continued public availability creates serious legal, privacy, confidentiality, copyright, safety, security, or similar risks, including circumstances involving a binding court order or legal requirement.

Where possible, bibliographic metadata, DOI, title, authors, and the article landing page should remain available. The full text may be removed or restricted and replaced with an appropriate notice explaining, to the extent legally and ethically permissible, why the content is no longer available.

4.7 Article Replacement

Article Replacement may be considered in exceptional circumstances when the changes required are too extensive to be adequately addressed through a Correction, Erratum, or Corrigendum and a replacement version is necessary to maintain an accurate scholarly record.

Replacement must not obscure the publication history or be used to silently rewrite a previously published article. The Original Article should remain traceable and linked to the replacement record. Where appropriate, it may be identified as “REPLACED” or “RETRACTED AND REPLACED.”

5.    Preservation of the Scholarly Record

JPEKA should not ordinarily delete, overwrite, or silently replace published scholarly content. When a significant post-publication update occurs, the journal should aim to preserve the Original Article and its bibliographic record where appropriate, issue a transparent editorial notice, identify the current status of the affected article, maintain links between the Original Article and subsequent notices or versions, and update relevant DOI metadata where applicable and technically supported.

Editorially significant updates should normally be issued as separate records rather than through silent modification of the Original Article.

6.    Crossmark and Crossref Metadata

If JPEKA participates in Crossmark, the journal or responsible publisher should deposit and maintain relevant Crossmark metadata with Crossref in accordance with the applicable technical requirements. Depending on the implementation, metadata may identify the DOI of the published content, the policy DOI, the current status of the content, the DOIs and relationships of significant post-publication updates, and other supported publication metadata.

Significant updates should be registered with Crossref using appropriate supported update metadata or relationships, where applicable. For content enrolled in Crossmark, the Crossmark button should be applied consistently in accordance with Crossref requirements and the journal’s implementation, rather than only to articles that have subsequently changed. Retrospective application may be considered where appropriate and technically supported.

The use of Crossmark, the existence of a dedicated Crossmark policy DOI, and the application of Crossmark buttons to JPEKA articles must be confirmed by the Editorial Team before this section is published as a statement of current practice.

7.    Fees and Editorial Independence

Any administrative, editorial, technical, or production charges associated with Author-requested withdrawal, post-publication changes, correction, replacement, or other administrative services must be governed by a current and formally published JPEKA policy, if one applies. This draft does not establish or imply the existence of any such charge.

Such charges must not influence editorial decisions or limit the journal’s responsibility to protect the scholarly record. Actions required because of ethical, legal, scientific, research-integrity, or scholarly-record concerns should be handled according to applicable policy regardless of payment status.

8.    Relationship with Other JPEKA Policies

This proposed policy provides a framework for communicating significant post-publication updates and does not replace JPEKA’s existing Publication Ethics statement, submission guidelines, or any formally adopted policy concerning research misconduct, corrections, retractions, authorship, conflicts of interest, research ethics, data availability, publication fees, or other editorial matters.

Questions, Comments and Criticism, or concerns about a specific article should be directed to the JPEKA Editorial Team through the journal’s official website: https://journal.unesa.ac.id/index.php/jpeka/

9.    Policy Review

The Editorial Team should periodically review this policy in light of developments in publication ethics, Crossref/Crossmark requirements where applicable, relevant laws and regulations, scholarly publishing technology, and the journal’s operational needs. Until a revised version is formally approved, the journal’s currently applicable policies remain in effect.

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