Direct Marketing and Sponsorships

Kasuari: Physics Education Journal (KPEJ) is committed to promoting its publications and scholarly activities through transparent, ethical, and responsible communication practices. This policy establishes the principles governing direct marketing, advertising, sponsorship, and institutional collaboration to ensure that all promotional activities are accurate, professional, and consistent with the journal’s commitment to academic integrity and editorial independence.

Direct Marketing

KPEJ promotes its publications and invites scholarly contributions through appropriate, transparent, and targeted communication channels. These activities may include announcements on the journal’s official website and social media platforms, calls for papers, academic mailing lists, and other relevant scholarly networks. Direct marketing activities aim to increase the journal’s visibility, encourage high-quality submissions, and disseminate research in physics education and related fields to the national and international academic communities.

All promotional communications must be accurate, professional, and consistent with the journal’s aims and scope, editorial policies, and publication standards. Calls for papers and other announcements must provide clear and factual information about the journal, topics of interest, submission requirements, peer review procedures, publication schedules, applicable publication charges, and relevant deadlines, where applicable. KPEJ does not make misleading claims regarding its reputation, indexing status, publication timelines, acceptance rates, or the likelihood of manuscript acceptance.

The journal’s promotional activities must be conducted responsibly and must not involve excessive solicitation, misleading statements, or undue pressure on prospective authors. Communications should be directed to relevant academic audiences and respect applicable data protection requirements and recipients’ communication preferences. Invitations to submit manuscripts do not guarantee acceptance or preferential treatment. All submissions are evaluated in accordance with the journal’s editorial policies, scholarly standards, and established peer review procedures.

KPEJ is committed to transparency, integrity, and responsible scholarly communication in all direct marketing activities. Promotional practices must not compromise the journal’s credibility, the independence of editorial decisions, or the trust of authors, reviewers, readers, and the wider research community.

Advertising

Any advertising associated with KPEJ must be appropriate to the journal’s academic mission and must not undermine its scholarly integrity or editorial independence. Advertisements, if accepted, must be clearly distinguishable from editorial content and must not influence the selection, evaluation, acceptance, or publication of manuscripts.

Advertising arrangements must be managed transparently and responsibly. Advertisers must not receive preferential treatment in editorial decisions or gain access to confidential manuscript information, reviewer reports, or editorial deliberations. The acceptance or rejection of advertisements must not affect the journal’s peer review process, editorial policies, or publication standards.

KPEJ reserves the right to reject or remove advertising that is misleading, inappropriate, inconsistent with the journal’s academic objectives, or potentially damaging to its reputation and credibility. Advertising must comply with applicable regulations and relevant ethical standards.

Sponsorship and Editorial Independence

Kasuari: Physics Education Journal is published by Universitas Papua. The journal recognizes that institutional collaboration and other forms of appropriate support may contribute to the sustainability of scholarly publishing and the dissemination of physics and physics education research.

Any financial, technical, organizational, or other material support received by KPEJ must be managed transparently and in a manner that safeguards editorial independence. Sponsors, supporting institutions, and collaborating organizations must not influence manuscript selection, reviewer assignment, peer review outcomes, editorial decisions, publication timing, or the interpretation and presentation of research findings.

Editorial decisions are made by the Editor-in-Chief or an editor authorized to make the decision, based on the manuscript’s scholarly merit, relevance to the journal’s aims and scope, methodological rigour, originality, and compliance with publication ethics. Sponsorship or institutional support does not confer preferential treatment on authors, institutions, or research projects associated with a supporting organization.

Sponsors must not receive access to confidential submissions, reviewer reports, or editorial deliberations unless disclosure is expressly authorized under the journal’s applicable policies and confidentiality requirements. Any potential conflicts of interest arising from sponsorship, funding, or institutional relationships must be disclosed and managed appropriately.

KPEJ will disclose relevant sponsorship and funding arrangements where appropriate, including the identity of supporting organizations and the nature of their contributions. Where a sponsor has a role in a specific activity or publication, that role must be described transparently. The absence of sponsor involvement in editorial decision-making must remain a governing principle of the journal’s editorial policy.

Through these provisions, KPEJ seeks to ensure that direct marketing, advertising, institutional collaboration, and sponsorship support the dissemination of high-quality physics education research without compromising editorial autonomy, scholarly integrity, or public trust.