Withdrawal Policy

Withdrawal of Manuscripts

The editorial team of Jurnal Inovasi Komputer (INOKOM) is committed to maintaining an efficient, fair, and professional editorial process. Authors are therefore expected to submit manuscripts only after ensuring that they are ready for peer review and that they are not under consideration by another journal.

1. Withdrawal Before Peer Review

Authors may request to withdraw their manuscript without any administrative charge before the manuscript is assigned to reviewers or enters the peer-review process. The withdrawal request must be submitted in writing by the corresponding author, stating the reason for the withdrawal.

2. Withdrawal During or After Peer Review

Once a manuscript has entered the peer-review process, significant editorial resources have been invested, including manuscript screening, editor assignment, reviewer invitation, peer review, and editorial management.

Therefore, if the corresponding author requests to withdraw the manuscript after it has entered the peer-review stage, an administrative withdrawal fee of IDR 500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand Indonesian Rupiah) will be charged to compensate for the editorial and peer-review management costs that have already been incurred.

The manuscript withdrawal process will only be completed after the withdrawal fee has been paid.

3. Withdrawal Request Procedure

Authors wishing to withdraw a manuscript must:

  • Submit a formal withdrawal request by email to the Editorial Office.

  • Include the manuscript title, manuscript ID, corresponding author information, and the reason for withdrawal.

  • Await written confirmation from the Editorial Office before considering the manuscript officially withdrawn.

4. Ethical Considerations

Authors are strongly discouraged from withdrawing manuscripts without valid academic or ethical reasons after the peer-review process has begun. Unethical practices, including simultaneous submission to multiple journals or withdrawal solely to submit the same manuscript elsewhere after receiving reviewer comments, are considered inconsistent with good publication ethics.

5. Editorial Rights

The Editorial Board reserves the right to reject future submissions from authors who repeatedly engage in unethical manuscript withdrawal practices or violate the journal's publication ethics.