Abdimas: Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat Universitas Merdeka Malang requires all authors, reviewers, and editors to declare any potential conflicts of interest that could inappropriately influence or bias the peer-review process, editorial decisions, or the reporting of community service activities and research outcomes. Transparency is vital to ensure public trust in the published community engagement results.
A conflict of interest exists when professional judgment regarding a primary interest (such as the validity of community service findings, objectivity of reporting, or academic integrity) may be influenced by a secondary interest (such as financial gain, personal relationships, institutional affiliations, or academic competition).
Disclosure Statement: Authors must disclose all financial and non-financial relationships that could be perceived as biasing their work during the manuscript submission process.
Funding and Support: Authors must explicitly state all sources of funding, grants, corporate sponsorships, or institutional support received for the community service project, including the role of the sponsor in project design, data collection, or manuscript preparation.
Community and Institutional Ties: Any commercial affiliations, consulting roles, or personal connections with partner communities, NGOs, local governments, or private enterprises involved in the program must be fully disclosed.
No Conflict Declaration: If no conflict of interest exists, authors must include the following statement in the manuscript: "The authors declare no potential conflict of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article."
Objectivity and Impartiality: Reviewers must decline to review a manuscript if they have a known conflict of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, financial, or other relationships with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the submission.
Personal or Professional Conflicts: Reviewers should notify the Editor-in-Chief if they have recently collaborated on projects, published together with the authors, or if they are from the same department/institution.
Confidentiality: Reviewers must not use undisclosed information, ideas, or data obtained through the peer-review process for their own personal or academic advantage.
Editorial Recusal: Editors and Editorial Board members must recuse themselves from handling manuscripts in which they have a conflict of interest (e.g., being an author/co-author, having financial ties, or sharing an institutional affiliation with the submitting author).
Editor Submissions: If an Editor or Editorial Board member submits a manuscript to Abdimas: Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat Universitas Merdeka Malang, the peer-review process will be managed independently by an alternative editor. The submitting editor will have no access to the review progress or decision-making tools for that manuscript.
If an undisclosed conflict of interest is discovered pre- or post-publication, the journal will follow standard COPE flowcharts to address the issue. Actions may include issuing a correction statement, expressing concern, or, in severe cases of compromised integrity, retracting the published article.
For any inquiries or to report potential conflicts of interest, please contact the Editorial Office via email at [email protected].
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Mailing AddressInstitute for Research and Community Services Terusan Dieng Street 62, Malang City, East Java, Indonesia, 65146, Indonesia. |
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Abdimas: Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat | Print ISSN 2721-138X | Online ISSN 2548-7159 | DOI 10.26905 | This work is licensed underCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International 
