Authorship Criteria

INSIGHT: Jurnal Pemikiran dan Penelitian Psikologi requires all authors to adhere to the highest ethical standards regarding authorship attribution. To maintain transparency and academic integrity, our authorship criteria are strictly guided by the Core Practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

1. Criteria for Authorship

  • Substantial Contribution: To be listed as an author, an individual must have made significant intellectual contributions to the conception, design, execution, data analysis, or interpretation of the psychological research, strictly following the COPE Core Practices for authorship and contributorship.

  • Accountability: Every designated author must be able to take public responsibility for the content of their paper and agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work's accuracy and integrity, as mandated by COPE's principles on authorship.

2. Prohibited Authorship Practices

  • Ghost, Guest, and Gift Authorship: The journal strictly prohibits unacceptable authorship practices, meaning no individual should be excluded if they deserve authorship (ghost authorship), nor should anyone be included solely based on seniority, reputation, or personal affiliation without contributing significantly (guest or gift authorship), aligning with COPE’s directives against unethical authorship attribution.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) as Authors: Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, Large Language Models (LLMs), or chatbots cannot be listed as authors because they cannot hold legal or ethical responsibility for the submitted work, completely conforming to the COPE position statement on AI tools in research publications.

3. Non-Author Contributors

  • Acknowledgments: Individuals who contributed to the study (such as providing general supervision, acquiring funding, collecting data, or offering language editing) but do not meet the full criteria for authorship should not be listed as authors; instead, their contributions must be properly recognized in the Acknowledgments section, as recommended by the COPE guidelines on contributorship.

4. Changes in Authorship

  • Modifying Author Lists: Any request to add, remove, or rearrange author names after the initial submission must be formally requested by the corresponding author and requires written consent from all originally listed authors, strictly guided by the COPE flowcharts for changes in authorship.

  • Editorial Action on Changes: The Editor-in-Chief will halt the review or publication process until a valid, transparent justification for the authorship change is provided and agreed upon by all parties, following the COPE protocols for managing authorship alterations.

5. Resolving Authorship Disputes

  • Dispute Management: In the event of a disagreement regarding authorship roles, credit, or order, the journal editorial team will not act as adjudicators; rather, the authors' respective institutions will be expected to resolve the conflict, while the journal follows the COPE procedures for handling authorship disputes.