Authorship Criteria

Jurnal Ilmu Komputer dan Informatika (JIKI) sets out authorship criteria to ensure that every person listed as an author has made a substantial scholarly contribution to the work and accepts responsibility for it. Authorship decisions must uphold academic integrity, transparency, accountability, and publication ethics. JIKI follows the guidelines of the COPE (Commitee on Publication Ethics) and aligns its criteria with widely accepted standards in computer science publishing.

1. Criteria for Authorship

An individual may be listed as an author of an article submitted to JIKI only if they meet all of the following criteria:

Substantial intellectual contribution. They made a significant contribution to the conception or design of the work, or to the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data. In computer science and informatics, this may include formulating the research problem, designing algorithms, models, or system architectures, developing software essential to the research, designing and conducting experiments, preparing or curating datasets, and analysing or interpreting results.
Drafting or critical revision. They drafted the manuscript or reviewed and revised it critically for important intellectual content.
Approval of the final version. They approved the final version of the manuscript to be submitted and published.
Accountability. They agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work and to ensure that questions about the accuracy, validity, originality, or integrity of any part of it are properly investigated and resolved.

Authorship must not be granted on the basis of position, academic rank, seniority, institutional affiliation, or administrative involvement alone.

2. Contributions That Do Not Qualify for Authorship

The following contributions, on their own, do not justify authorship:

Acquiring funding or providing general supervision of a research group.
Providing administrative, technical, or logistical support.
Providing computing infrastructure or facilities (e.g., servers, GPU clusters, laboratory equipment).
Supplying a dataset, data annotation or labelling services, or access to a system without further intellectual involvement in the study.
Routine programming or implementation carried out under direction, without contribution to the design or interpretation of the work.
Language editing, proofreading, translation, or formatting services.

Such contributors should be recognised in the Acknowledgements section, with their consent where appropriate.

3. Student-Derived and Thesis-Based Manuscripts

When a manuscript is substantially based on a student’s thesis, dissertation, or final project, the student should normally be listed as the first author. Supervisors and advisors may be listed as co-authors only if they meet all criteria in Section 1. Supervision alone does not qualify for authorship.

4. Artificial Intelligence Tools and Authorship

Generative AI tools and other AI-assisted technologies (such as large language models and chatbots) cannot be listed as authors or co-authors and must not be cited as authors. Authorship entails responsibility, accountability, and the ability to approve the final version and consent to submission, which only humans can do. Authors remain fully responsible for any content produced with the help of such tools and must disclose their use in accordance with JIKI’s Policy on the Use of Generative AI. This does not restrict the use of AI methods as part of the research design or methodology, which must be described in the Methods section.

5. Corresponding Author

The corresponding author is the main point of contact between all authors and the JIKI editorial team throughout submission, peer review, revision, and publication. The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that:

All listed authors meet the authorship criteria and have agreed to the submission.
The author list, author order, names, affiliations, and contact details are correct and agreed upon by all authors.
The manuscript is original and is not under consideration by another journal.
All co-authors are kept informed of the manuscript’s status, including reviewer comments, revision requests, and editorial decisions.
All authors have approved the final version before publication.
Post-publication enquiries, including requests for data, code, or corrections, are handled promptly.

The corresponding author is designated by agreement among all authors. This role does not imply a greater scientific contribution than that of the other authors. JIKI encourages all authors to provide an ORCID iD.

6. Order of Authors and Changes to Authorship

The order of authors should be agreed upon by all authors before submission, reflecting their relative contributions to the research and the manuscript.

Changes to the author list, author order, or corresponding author after submission are permitted only when:

A clear and academically justifiable reason is given.
Written consent is provided by all authors, including any author being added or removed.
The request is submitted to the JIKI editorial team and approved by the editor.

Changes after acceptance are considered only in exceptional circumstances. Changes after publication require a formal correction. Authorship cannot be changed unilaterally. The editor may request explanations or supporting documents and will follow the relevant COPE guidance when handling such requests.

7. Unacceptable Authorship Practices

JIKI does not tolerate authorship practices that violate academic integrity, including:

Gift authorship: listing an individual who has not made a sufficient scholarly contribution.
Guest authorship: listing an individual who does not meet the authorship criteria, for example because of their position, reputation, or seniority, or as an honour.
Ghost authorship: omitting an individual who made a substantial contribution to the research or writing without justification.
Unauthorised authorship: listing an individual without their knowledge or consent, or without their approval of the final manuscript.
Purchased or traded authorship: buying, selling, or exchanging authorship positions, including manuscripts originating from paper mills.

8. Author Contributions Statement (CRediT)

JIKI encourages authors to include an Author Contributions statement using the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy). The 14 roles are:

Conceptualization; Methodology; Software; Validation; Formal Analysis; Investigation; Resources; Data Curation; Writing – Original Draft; Writing – Review & Editing; Visualization; Supervision; Project Administration; Funding Acquisition.

Authors should list only the roles they actually performed. Not every role applies to every article, and one author may hold several roles.

Example:

Author A: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Writing – Original Draft. Author B: Data Curation, Validation, Formal Analysis, Visualization. Author C: Supervision, Writing – Review & Editing.

A contributions statement does not replace the requirement that every author meet all criteria in Section 1.

9. Responsibilities of All Authors

All authors share responsibility for ensuring that their submission meets research and publication ethics standards. In particular, authors must ensure that:

The work is original and free from plagiarism, data fabrication, data falsification, and other forms of research misconduct.
Data, methods, experimental settings, and results are reported honestly and accurately. Results must not be selectively reported, and comparisons with baseline or state-of-the-art methods must be fair.
Enough detail is provided for others to reproduce the work, such as dataset sources, preprocessing steps, model configurations, hyperparameters, evaluation metrics, and, where possible, links to source code and data.
Datasets, software, pre-trained models, and other third-party materials are used in line with their licences and are properly cited.
The manuscript is not simultaneously submitted to or under consideration by another journal.
Conflicts of interest and funding sources are fully disclosed.
Research involving human participants, personal data, or sensitive information has the necessary ethical approval and informed consent and complies with applicable data protection laws, including Indonesia’s Personal Data Protection Law (Law No. 27 of 2022).
The use of AI tools in preparing the manuscript is disclosed in line with journal policy.

All authors must cooperate fully when the editor requests clarification or supporting evidence about contributions, data, code, methods, or ethics.

10. Handling of Authorship Disputes and Misconduct

When there are signs of an authorship violation or a dispute among authors, JIKI may request clarification, supporting documents, or other relevant evidence. All cases are handled objectively, fairly, and confidentially, following COPE guidance.

JIKI does not adjudicate disputes among authors. When a dispute cannot be resolved by the authors themselves, the editor may refer the matter to the authors’ institution(s) for investigation.

If a violation is confirmed, JIKI may take action appropriate to the stage of publication and the seriousness of the violation. This may include requiring correction of the author list, suspending the editorial process, rejecting the manuscript, or issuing a correction or retraction of a published article.

11. Authorship Declaration

By submitting a manuscript to JIKI, the authors confirm that:

All authorship information is accurate.
All authors have approved the submission and the order of authorship.
Each author’s contribution has been stated honestly.
All authors accept responsibility for the integrity and scientific content of the article.

JIKI is committed to protecting the integrity of authorship, encouraging transparency in scholarly contributions, and ensuring that every published article meets high standards of ethics and accountability.