SENSISTEK: Riset Sains dan Teknologi Kelautan is committed to maintaining high standards of publication ethics, research integrity, editorial independence, transparency, and responsible scholarly communication.

The journal follows internationally recognized principles of responsible scholarly publishing and publication-ethics practices informed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Authors, editors, reviewers, and publishers are expected to uphold ethical standards throughout the publication process.

1. Editorial Responsibility

Editors evaluate manuscripts based on scholarly merit, originality, methodological rigor, technical validity, relevance to the journal scope, clarity of presentation, and ethical compliance.

Editorial decisions must not be influenced by authors' nationality, institutional affiliation, gender, ethnicity, religion, political views, commercial interests, or personal relationships.

2. Responsibilities of Authors

Authors are responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and completeness of their submitted work.

Authors should ensure that:

• The manuscript presents original scholarly work;
• Methods and results are reported accurately;
• Data have not been fabricated or falsified;
• Sources are properly acknowledged and cited;
• Relevant limitations are transparently reported;
• All authors approve the submitted version;
• Funding and conflicts of interest are disclosed where applicable.

3. Authorship and Contributions

Authorship should be limited to individuals who have made substantial scholarly contributions to the conception, design, data acquisition, analysis, interpretation, drafting, or critical revision of the manuscript.

Guest authorship, honorary authorship, ghost authorship, and inappropriate exclusion of qualified contributors are not acceptable.

4. Responsibilities of Reviewers

Reviewers should provide objective, constructive, evidence-based, and professionally expressed evaluations of submitted manuscripts.

Reviewers must maintain confidentiality and should not use unpublished information, data, methods, figures, or ideas obtained through peer review for personal advantage or research activity.

Reviewers should decline assignments when they lack appropriate expertise or have conflicts of interest that may compromise impartial evaluation.

5. Originality and Plagiarism

Manuscripts must represent original work. Plagiarism, unattributed copying, inappropriate paraphrasing, and presentation of another person's data, figures, ideas, or results as one's own are unacceptable.

Similarity-detection software may be used during editorial assessment. Similarity reports are interpreted contextually and are not evaluated solely on the basis of a numerical percentage.

6. Duplicate and Redundant Publication

Manuscripts submitted to SENSISTEK should not be simultaneously under consideration by another journal or publisher.

Substantial reuse of previously published data, text, figures, analyses, or conclusions without appropriate disclosure and citation may constitute redundant publication.

7. Research Data and Technical Integrity

Authors should preserve the integrity of experimental, numerical, observational, field, survey, environmental, and engineering data used in their research.

Fabrication, falsification, selective manipulation, or intentional misrepresentation of research data is considered serious misconduct.

8. Conflicts of Interest

Authors, reviewers, and editors should disclose financial, professional, institutional, commercial, or personal relationships that could reasonably influence or appear to influence the research, review, or editorial decision.

When an editor has a significant conflict involving a submitted manuscript, editorial responsibility should be transferred to another appropriate editor.

9. Artificial Intelligence Use

Artificial intelligence systems, generative AI tools, and large language models cannot be listed as authors because they cannot assume responsibility for scholarly content, ethical compliance, originality, or accountability.

Substantive use of AI in writing, coding, numerical analysis, image processing, simulation, optimization, prediction, classification, data processing, or literature synthesis should be disclosed where relevant.

Editors and reviewers should not upload confidential manuscripts, unpublished data, reviewer reports, proprietary engineering information, or editorial correspondence to public AI platforms where confidentiality cannot be assured.

10. Research Ethics and Permissions

Research involving human participants, personal information, interviews, questionnaires, or identifiable community data should comply with applicable ethical and institutional requirements.

Studies involving protected marine environments, biological resources, restricted coastal areas, industrial facilities, ships, ports, offshore installations, or proprietary datasets should obtain appropriate permissions where required.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that publication of maps, photographs, engineering drawings, commercial information, operational data, and other restricted material does not violate applicable rights, confidentiality agreements, or legal requirements.

11. Corrections, Retractions and Misconduct

SENSISTEK is committed to maintaining the integrity of the published scholarly record. When significant errors or ethical concerns are identified after publication, appropriate editorial action may be taken.

Corrections may be issued when an error affects the accuracy or interpretation of a published article without invalidating its principal findings.

Retractions may be considered when findings are unreliable because of fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, serious methodological error, duplicate publication, unethical research, or other major integrity violations.

An Expression of Concern may be issued when significant questions remain unresolved while an investigation is ongoing.