Ethics and Malpractice Statement

POLIGOV: Malaysian Journal of Policy, Leadership, International & Government Affairs is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics, academic integrity, transparency, and responsible scholarly practice. The journal follows the principles and recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), which guide the responsibilities and conduct of editors, peer reviewers, and authors.

POLIGOV is committed to fairness, objectivity, confidentiality, independence, and integrity throughout the editorial and peer-review process. Authors are expected to ensure the originality, accuracy, transparency, and ethical integrity of their submissions and to avoid plagiarism, data fabrication or falsification, duplicate publication, inappropriate authorship, citation manipulation, undisclosed conflicts of interest, and other forms of research or publication misconduct.

These principles underpin the journal’s commitment to publishing original, rigorous, and high-quality scholarship in public policy, governance, leadership, international relations, political science, public administration, and government affairs.