Journal of Korean and Asian Arts

Chapter 1 General Provisions

Article 1 (Purpose)

The purpose of these regulations is to ensure the research ethics of the KRECA to prevent research misconduct and also to suggest standards to equitably verify whether research misconduct has been committed.

Article 2 (Subjects of Application)

These regulations apply to anyone submitting papers or contributing to The Journal of Korean and Asian Arts published by the KRECA

Chapter 2 Research Misconduct and Unethical Research

Article 3 (Definitions of Research Misconduct)

“Research misconduct” refers to fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, unreasonable indication of paper authors and redundant publication, etc., found in all research processes:

1. “Fabrication” refers to falsely producing data or research results, etc., which do not exist.
2. “Falsification” refers to distorting contents or results of research by manipulating research materials or processes, or arbitrarily transforming or deleting data.
3. “Plagiarism” refers to using the writing, research notion, idea, hypothesis or theory of others without justifiable approval or quotation.
4. “Unreasonable indication of paper authors” refers to a failure to include as authors persons who have made academic contribution to research progress or results without any justifiable ground, or including as authors persons who have no academic contribution as paper authors.
5. “Redundant publication” refers to submitting and publishing papers, the text of which is identical to or almost the same as one’s own papers already published in other academic journals, without letting editors or readers know of the existence of one’s previously published papers.

Article 4 (Unethical Research)

The following activities constitute unethical research:

1. Intentionally including irrelevant literature in references, with the purpose of manipulating the citation index of journals or papers, or increasing the possibility of publishing papers.
2. Disproportionately including only literature favorable to one’s own data or theory in references.
3. Dividing research results, to be published in a paper, and publishing them in several papers, with an intention to overstate research achievements.

Chapter 3 Organization and Operation of Research Ethics Committee 

Article 5 (Committee Structure)

The Research Ethics Committee shall be organized in the following manner:

1. The Committee shall be comprised of more or less than five members, including a chairperson.
2. The chairperson shall be appointed by the President of the KRECA.
3. Members shall be appointed by the chairperson at the recommendation of directors of the KRECA as well as experts in relevant areas.
4. No person who has direct interest in informants or respondents shall be a member of the committee.

Article 6 (Requests for Deliberation)

1. Individuals, college departments or academic societies, etc. may request the committee to judge whether specific activities of persons, who have contributed papers to or published papers in The Journal of Korean and Asian Arts, correspond to research misconduct or unethical research in documents.
2. The chairperson shall convoke the committee as soon as possible, when he/she receives request for deliberation under paragraph (1).

Article 7 (Meetings of Committee)

Meetings of the Committee shall be held in accordance with the following procedures:

1. The chairperson shall convoke meetings of the committee and become the chair of meetings.
2. The chair shall notify each member of meeting agendas and necessary matters written in documents at least one week before the date meetings are held.
3. Normally, contents of meetings of the committee shall not be disclosed. Contents may be disclosed, depending on determination of the committee, when necessary.

Article 8 (Investigation Procedures, Deliberation Results, etc.)

Meetings of the Committee shall be held in accordance with the following procedures:

1. If deemed necessary, the committee shall promptly commence an investigation into a case of Article 6 (1) for which deliberation is requested.
2. In the investigation process of paragraph (1), the committee shall provide respondents with the opportunity to give an explanation.
3. The committee may request submission of information or attendance from informants, respondents, and related persons in order to hear their opinions.
4. When the investigation is completed, the committee shall provide informants with written notification of deliberation results within ten days, and may take appropriate actions against respondents such as written recommendations, request for corrective actions, arbitration, and sanctions.

Article 9 (Duty of Confidentiality)

The committee shall have a duty of confidentiality as follows:

1. All the matters including the investigation procedure shall be held in confidence.
2. Persons involved in the investigation shall not leak personal information that is obtained from the investigation or in carrying out their duties. This duty of confidentiality continues to apply after termination of employment.

Chapter 4 Protection of the Rights of Informants and Respondents

Article 10 (Protection of the Rights of Informants and Respondents)

The committee shall protect the rights of informants and respondents as follows:

1. The committee shall protect the identity of informants in order to safeguard them against employment disadvantage, discrimination related to working conditions, unfair pressure, harm, etc. that may be caused as a result of their allegations of research misconduct.
2. The committee shall not unreasonably infringe on respondents’ rights or offend their honor in the process of investigation and deliberation.
3. The identity of the respondent shall not be provided to the outside until research misconduct is confirmed.
4. If there are reasonable causes such as direct conflicts of interests, informants and respondents may request a change of committee members according to appropriate procedures.

Chapter 5 Sanctions against Research Misconduct, False Reports, and Obstruction of Investigation

Article 11 (Sanctions against Research Misconduct)

The committee shall impose sanctions on research misconduct as follows:

1. Articles for which research misconduct is confirmed shall be retracted and removed.
2. Publication of articles in The Journal of Korean and Asian Arts, shall be prohibited.
• Authors engaged in plagiarism shall be permanently prohibited from publishing in this journal.
• Authors engaged in fabrication or falsification shall be prohibited from publishing in this journal for five years.
• Authors engaged in unreasonable indication of authors or redundant publication shall be prohibited from publishing in this journal for three years.
3. Research misconduct shall be noted in print in the first academic journal issued after confirmation of the act.
4. The misconduct will be announced on the KRECA website.
5. Written notification of research misconduct shall be given to the home institution of those engaged in research misconduct within 30 days of confirmation of misconduct.

Article 12 (Sanctions against False Reports)

The committee shall impose the following sanctions on those who deliberately file false reports:

1. Publication of articles in The Journal of Korean and Asian Arts shall be prohibited for five years.
2. Filing false reports shall be noted in print in the first academic journal published after confirmation of the act.
3. Written notification of false reports shall be submitted to the home institution of those who filed false reports within 30 days of confirmation of the act.

Article 13 (Sanctions against Obstruction of Investigation)

The committee shall impose the following sanctions on those who deliberately obstruct the investigation into their or others’ allegations of misconduct or those who harm informants:

1. Publication of articles in The Journal of Korean and Asian Arts shall be prohibited for five years.
2. Obstruction of the investigation shall be noted in print in the first academic journal published after confirmation of the act.
3. Written notification of obstruction of the investigation shall be given to the home institution of those who obstructed the investigation within 30 days of confirmation of obstruction.