• Originality and Plagiarism: Authors must submit original scholarly work and appropriately acknowledge ideas, text, data, figures, methods, and other materials derived from previous sources. Plagiarism, unattributed copying, inappropriate text recycling, redundant publication, and other forms of academic misappropriation are unacceptable.
• Research Integrity: Fabrication, falsification, manipulation, selective reporting, citation manipulation, or deliberate misrepresentation of research data, methods, findings, images, or references constitutes serious research misconduct.
• Authorship and Contributorship: Authorship should be restricted to individuals who have made substantial scholarly contributions to the work, participated sufficiently to take responsibility for appropriate portions of its content, and approved the final version submitted for publication.
• Contributors: Individuals who contributed to the research but do not meet the journal's authorship criteria should be appropriately acknowledged, subject to their permission. Technical assistance, language editing, administrative support, and similar contributions do not automatically qualify an individual for authorship.
• Changes in Authorship: Requests to add, remove, or rearrange authors after submission must be accompanied by an explanation and written agreement from all affected authors. Authorship disputes may be referred to the relevant institution when they cannot be resolved by the journal.
• Multiple and Concurrent Submissions: Authors must not submit substantially the same manuscript simultaneously to more than one journal. Previously published work should not be submitted as original research except where legitimate secondary publication is clearly identified and permitted.
• Acknowledgment of Sources: Authors must appropriately cite publications and other scholarly materials that have influenced the research. References must accurately represent the sources used and must not be fabricated or included solely to manipulate citation indicators.
• Funding Disclosure: All sources of financial support, grants, sponsorship, institutional funding, or other relevant assistance must be disclosed accurately in the manuscript.
• Conflicts of Interest: Authors must disclose financial, institutional, professional, personal, or other competing interests that could reasonably be perceived as influencing the research or interpretation of its findings.
• Human Participants and Informed Consent: Research involving human participants must comply with applicable institutional, national, and international ethical requirements. Ethics committee or institutional review approval must be obtained where required, and informed consent must be secured when applicable.
• Privacy and Confidentiality: Personally identifiable or sensitive participant information must not be published without appropriate consent or another valid ethical and legal basis. Authors are responsible for protecting participant confidentiality and anonymizing data where appropriate.
• Health-Related Research: Where applicable to health or medical research involving human participants, authors should conduct and report the research consistently with internationally recognized ethical principles, including the Declaration of Helsinki where relevant.
• Animal Research: Where research involves animals, authors must comply with applicable institutional and national standards for animal welfare and obtain relevant ethical approval where required.
• Data Availability and Retention: Authors must preserve research records in accordance with relevant institutional and disciplinary requirements. Authors may be requested to provide underlying data to the editorial team when necessary to evaluate questions about the reliability or integrity of the research.
• Use of Artificial Intelligence and Automated Tools: Authors must follow the journal's policy concerning generative artificial intelligence and automated tools. AI systems cannot be listed as authors. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, references, analysis, and integrity of all submitted content.
• Notification of Significant Errors: Authors who discover a significant error or inaccuracy in submitted or published work must promptly inform the journal and cooperate with the editorial team in issuing an appropriate correction, clarification, retraction, or other post-publication notice when necessary.

• Editorial Independence: Editorial decisions must be based on scholarly merit, relevance to the journal's scope, originality, methodological or theoretical quality, research integrity, and contribution to knowledge. Commercial, financial, political, or personal interests must not improperly influence editorial decisions.
• Peer Review Management: Research manuscripts are evaluated through the journal's stated double-blind peer-review process and are ordinarily assessed by at least two independent reviewers with relevant subject expertise.
• Fair and Impartial Evaluation: Editors must evaluate submissions without discrimination based on nationality, ethnicity, race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, institutional affiliation, political belief, or other characteristics unrelated to scholarly merit.
• Confidentiality: Editors and editorial personnel must protect confidential information concerning submitted manuscripts, authors, and peer reviewers. Unpublished material must not be used for personal advantage or research without appropriate authorization.
• Competing Interests: Editors must disclose relevant competing interests and must not make editorial decisions on manuscripts where relationships or circumstances could compromise their impartiality. Such manuscripts must be reassigned to an independent qualified editor.
• Submissions from Editors or Editorial Board Members: Manuscripts authored by members of the journal's editorial team must undergo the same standards of independent review as other submissions. Authors who hold editorial roles must not participate in the review or decision-making process for their own manuscripts.
• Research Misconduct: Editors must respond appropriately to credible concerns involving plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, authorship disputes, unethical research, citation manipulation, peer-review manipulation, undisclosed competing interests, or other forms of misconduct.
• Artificial Intelligence and Confidentiality: Editors must not upload confidential manuscript content into generative AI systems for the purpose of producing editorial assessments or decisions. Any journal-approved automated integrity tools must be subject to appropriate human oversight.
• Integrity of the Scholarly Record: Editors must take reasonable steps to correct the scholarly record when reliable evidence indicates that published material contains significant errors or misconduct.

• Contribution to Editorial Decisions: Reviewers assist editors in evaluating the scholarly quality, validity, originality, relevance, and clarity of manuscripts and should provide constructive feedback that can assist authors in improving their work.
• Objectivity and Professional Conduct: Reviews must be evidence-based, constructive, respectful, and focused on the manuscript. Personal criticism, discriminatory remarks, hostility, and unsupported allegations are unacceptable.
• Confidentiality: Manuscripts received for review are confidential documents. Reviewers must not share, distribute, discuss, reproduce, or use manuscript content without authorization from the journal.
• Conflicts of Interest: Reviewers must disclose relationships or interests that could compromise—or reasonably appear to compromise—their objectivity and should decline the review when appropriate.
• Recognition of Relevant Work: Reviewers should identify important published research that authors may have overlooked when it is directly relevant to evaluating the manuscript. Reviewers must not request unnecessary citations for personal benefit or citation manipulation.
• Use of Artificial Intelligence: Reviewers must not upload confidential manuscript material into generative AI systems or rely on generative AI to produce the substantive peer-review assessment. Reviewers remain personally responsible for the content, accuracy, and integrity of their reports.
• Promptness: Reviewers who lack the necessary expertise or cannot complete a review within the requested period should promptly inform the editor and decline the invitation.

• Editorial Independence: CV. Media Digital Publikasi Indonesia respects the editorial independence of Athena and does not interfere improperly with decisions concerning the acceptance or rejection of individual manuscripts.
• Publication Integrity: The publisher supports editors in investigating credible allegations of misconduct and in implementing appropriate corrections, retractions, expressions of concern, or other measures necessary to preserve the scholarly record.
• Transparency: The publisher is responsible for ensuring that journal ownership, publisher identity, contact information, author charges, copyright, licensing, peer review, and other important publication policies are presented transparently on the journal website.
• Digital Preservation: The publisher is responsible for supporting continued access to the journal's scholarly record and implementing the preservation arrangements described in the journal's Digital Archiving and Preservation Policy.
• Commercial Independence: Advertising, sponsorship, institutional relationships, or other commercial considerations must not determine editorial decisions.

Allegations of research or publication misconduct will be treated seriously, regardless of whether they arise before or after publication. The journal will evaluate concerns fairly and, where appropriate, seek clarification and supporting evidence from the relevant parties.

Depending on the nature and reliability of the evidence, Athena may communicate with authors, reviewers, institutions, research ethics committees, publishers, or other appropriate bodies. The journal may follow relevant COPE guidance and flowcharts when considering complex ethical cases.

Editorial action may include rejection of a manuscript, correction of the published record, publication of an expression of concern, retraction, removal in exceptional circumstances, or other appropriate action. Decisions will be proportionate to the evidence and circumstances of each case rather than imposed automatically before appropriate assessment.

Athena is committed to maintaining an accurate and reliable scholarly record. When significant errors or concerns are identified after publication, the journal will determine the appropriate corrective action based on the nature and severity of the issue.

• Minor errors that do not affect the reliability of the article may be addressed through appropriate corrections.
• Significant but correctable errors may require a formal correction or corrigendum.
• Serious unresolved concerns may lead to an expression of concern.
• Articles whose findings are substantially unreliable because of major error or misconduct may be retracted following appropriate editorial assessment.
• Readers and researchers may raise scholarly concerns regarding published material through the journal's official contact channel.

Authors, reviewers, readers, and other stakeholders may submit complaints concerning editorial procedures, publication ethics, peer review, journal policies, editorial conduct, or published material through the journal's official communication channel.

Authors may also appeal an editorial decision when they believe a material error occurred during the editorial or peer-review process. An appeal should provide a clear scholarly or procedural justification rather than merely express disagreement with the outcome.

Complaints and appeals will be considered objectively and, where necessary, assigned to an editor or responsible person who was not directly involved in the matter being challenged.

Athena recognizes that artificial intelligence and automated tools may be used responsibly in scholarly research and manuscript preparation. Such tools, however, cannot assume responsibility for scholarly work and therefore cannot be credited as authors.

• Authors must disclose substantive use of generative AI in manuscript preparation beyond routine spelling, grammar, formatting, or language correction.
• Authors remain responsible for verifying all AI-generated or AI-assisted content, including facts, interpretations, references, statistics, and conclusions.
• Generative AI systems must not be listed as authors and should not be treated as authoritative scholarly sources.
• Reviewers and editors must protect manuscript confidentiality and must not use external generative AI systems to generate substantive peer-review reports or editorial decisions from confidential manuscripts.
• Where the journal uses automated tools for similarity detection, integrity screening, reference checking, or related editorial functions, final judgments remain under human editorial oversight.