Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Jurnal Ilmu Kehutanan (JIK) welcomes articles reporting original fundamental and applied research focusing on tropical forestry and environment, which cover topics on forest management, silviculture, biodiversity conservation, forest products technology, and sustainable development. Additionally, the journal emphasizes the importance of climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies in promoting sustainable development practices that protect and enhance forest ecosystems.

The Journal intended as a medium for communicating and motivating research activities through scientific papers, including research articles, short communications, and reviews. The Journal uses international editorial conventions to consider publication suitability and conducts a double-blind peer-review selection process.

 

Section Policies

Articles

  1. Articles should be concise, preferably written in English, focused on new results and data, max 8000 words, and contain 10 - 30 references (approx.).
  2. The author lists 2-3 names of proposed reviewer candidates in the Comments for the Editor column.

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Editorial

Editorials should be concise, max 1000 words, contain 3 -10 references (approx.), and can only be submitted by Editors and Section Editors.

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Reviews

Reviews should be overview articles of recent advances in the research of selected topics. The structure of review papers should follow the instructions below, except that there is no need to have “Methods,” “Results,” and discussion” sections. The length of review papers may vary according to the importance of the material. They should contain more than 20 references (approx.).

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Short Communications

Short Communications should be short reports of original studies of limited scope, max 3000 words, and contain 10 - 20 references (approx.). 

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Front Matters

Front matters of the journal

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Back Matters

Back matters of the journal

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Peer Review Process

Jurnal Ilmu Kehutanan is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal.

All manuscripts submitted to this journal must follow the JIK’s focus and scope, and author guidelines. The submitted manuscripts must address scientific merit or novelty appropriate to the focus and scope. All manuscripts must be free from plagiarism contents. All authors are suggested to use plagiarism detection software for the similarity checking. Editors check the plagiarism detection of articles in this journal using iThenticate software.

All manuscript submitted to this journal will be reviewed by at least 2 (two) or more expert reviewers. The reviewers' valuable scientific comments will be forwarded to the authors to improve valuable scientific comments. While submitting the revised manuscript, the authors should explain how the reviewers' comments have been addressed. If the authors disagree with the reviewers' comments, the reason(s) should be explained.

The Editors will make the final decision on article acceptance. The Editors use the following criteria in evaluating the papers: the novelty and interest for a broad audience, the quality of the paper, the adequate methodology, and interpretation of the results provided by the authors. Publication of accepted manuscripts will consider the sequence of accepted date.

The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for the overall editorial process and coordination, assisted by Associate Editors who will coordinate the review process of manuscripts dealing with subjects of their expertise. The final decision on whether to accept or reject a paper rests with them. The Editor reserves the right to make some corrections (without altering the essence of the work) to style, phraseology, arrangement of figures, etc., without communicating with the author. If the Editor decides that the manuscript requires essential changes, the author will be asked to accept those changes. The overall editorial process takes 27 weeks in average. 

 

Open Access Policy

Articles published under Jurnal Ilmu Kehutanan (JIK) are made freely available online immediately upon publication, without subscription barriers to access. In addition, it will allow readers to reuse, republish or distribute the article in various ways or use them for any other lawful purpose. Articles are published under the terms of a Creative Common license which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. More

 

Archiving

This Journal utilizes the PKP PN system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries. It permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the Journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.

 

Copyright and License

Authors who publish with this journal (from Vol 16 No 2 onwards) agree to the following terms:

  1. The Journal allows the authors to hold the copyright without restrictions and allow the authors to retain publishing rights without restrictions. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this Journal.
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the Journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

By submitting the manuscript, authors give up all publishing rights to the publisher of the Jurnal Ilmu Kehutanan (JIK) including online (Internet) publishing rights. Parts of the journal’s content, such as figures and tables, may be reproduced without prior permission, provided reference is made to their source.

Authors have the right to share their article for personal use, internal instittional use and scholarly sharing purposes. Further, to retain patent, trademark and other intellectual property rights (including raw research data) as well as proper attribution and credit for the published work.

 

Publication Ethics

As a peer-reviewed journal, this policy explains the ethical guideline for publishing to all parties involved in manuscript publication Jurnal Ilmu Kehutanan (JIK), including the author(s), editors (editor-in chief and associate editor), and the peer-reviewers. All manuscripts submitted to this journal must follow the JIK’s focus and scope and author guidelines. The submitted manuscripts must address scientific merit or novelty appropriate to the focus and scope. The following statement is relied on Practice Guidelines for publication as in Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE’s Best). 

In general, all parties should:

  1. Promote fairness and equality and oppose discrimination;
  2. Promote the transparency of and respect for the academic record;
  3. Respect the confidentiality of others;
  4. Be transparent about real or apparent competing interests.

Authors should ensure that:

  1. Their work is original and written by them;
  2. Authorship of the paper is accurately represented, including ensuring that all individuals credited as authors participated in the actual authorship of the work and that all who participated are credited and have given consent for publication. 
  3. Their work has not been previously published and has been submitted only to the journal where material is taken from other sources (including their own published writing); the source is clearly cited and that where appropriate permission is obtained;
  4. Any real or apparent conflicting or competing interest is clearly stated on submission of their paper (this would include funding assistance);
  5. Their data is true and not manipulated;
  6. Their data is their own or that they have permission to use data reproduced in their paper;
  7. They adhere to all research ethics guidelines of their discipline, particularly where human or animal subjects are involved;
  8. Their work does not infringe on any rights of others, including privacy rights and intellectual property rights;
  9. They contact the Editor to identify and correct any material error upon discovery, whether it is prior or subsequent to publication of their work;

Reviewers must:

  1. Maintain the confidentiality of the review process;
  2. Immediately alert their journal editor of any actual or potential competing interest that could affect the impartiality of their reviewing and decline to review where appropriate;
  3. Conduct themselves fairly and impartially.

Reviewer Guidelines is available here

Editors should:

  1. Maintain and promote consistent ethical policies for their journals.
  2. Oversee and act to enforce those policies as needed fairly and consistently.
  3. Ensure the confidentiality of the review process.
  4. Exercise the highest standards of personality integrity in their work as Editor of the journal, recognizing and planning, for instances, where they could have a competing interest or the appearance of a competing interest.
  5. 5. Work with authors, reviewers, and Editorial Board members as necessary to ensure they are sufficiently advised regarding their journals’ ethics and publishing policies and that the Journal’s stewardship on ethical matters is fair, unbiased, and timely.

Generally, where there is a suspected conflict of interest for an article, JIK will find new reviewers, even if this happens after publication. An editorial board member can submit a manuscript to this journal, and a different Section Editor will manage the handling of the manuscript professionally. Conflicts of interest will be stated when an editorial board member publishes in their own journal, so that readers are aware that they recused themselves from the regular editorial and peer review process.

If corrections are needed, JIK will publish errata or erratum to correct errors that occurred during the publishing process (errata) or errors made by the author (corrigendum). Authors may request retraction, or withdraw their manuscript for consideration, for any reason, and at any time before they assign copyright or signing the licence agreement. JIK may also notify retraction for a significant error, ethical violations such as plagiarism, duplicate publication, authorship dispute or other ethical allegations, or other legal issue. However, it would be unethical for authors to use this option to help with submitting their work to multiple journals or to get feedback that could be used to submit the article to a higher-ranked journal.

Are you interested in submitting to this Journal? We recommend you review the About the journal page for the Journal's section policies and the Author Guidelines. Authors need to register with the Journal before submitting or, if already registered, can log in and begin the five-step process. The manuscript template is available here.

 

Publication Misconduct Statement

This statement accounts for identification of and dealing with allegations of research misconduct, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data fabrication or falsification. In handling the allegation, Jurnal Ilmu Kehutanan (JIK) follows practice guidelines for publication as in COPE’s Best (or equivalent).

All manuscripts submitted to JIK must be free from plagiarism contents. All authors are suggested to use plagiarism detection software for the similarity checking. Editors check the plagiarism detection of articles in this journal using iThenticate software. The acceptable maximum similarity index is 25% in total, with a maximum of 3% from each source, excluding quotes and bibliography. During submission, authors are also required to submit a statement of plagiarism-free using this form.

In a manuscript, citing article(s) should have scientific merit. Self-citation and request for citations can be acceptable, for example, when reviewing the literature in small field of study. Manipulative citation, such as excessive self-citation of an authors’ own work, excessive citation between journals in a coordinated manner, should be avoided. JIK’s publisher might notify the author’s institution of this violation in publication ethics.

If data fabrication of falsification is identified, JIK will investigate suspected fraud by writing to the authors for clarification. Authors who use artificial intelligence (AI) must disclose the use of AI tools in the Methods of the manuscript in detail. AI tools cannot be listed as an author. Furthermore, the ethical use of AI in research publications should refer to the comprehensive guidelines provided by The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

 

Publishing Schedule

Since 2021, JIK has implemented full online submission and online first publication to increase credibility in managing manuscripts. The printed edition of the journal is published every March and September of the current year.

 

Revenue Sources

The operation of Jurnal Ilmu Kehutanan is entirely supported by the Faculty of Forestry, Universitas Gadjah Mada. There is no revenue from publication fees, subscription services, or advertisements on the website.

 

Direct Marketing

Jurnal Ilmu Kehutanan (JIK) does not use direct marketing to promote its journal. Call for paper announcements are shared through the websites of JIK and the Faculty of Forestry, Universitas Gadjah Mada.

 

Advertising Policy

Jurnal Ilmu Kehutanan (JIK) does not endorse any product or service marked as an advertisement or promoted by a sponsor in publications. Editorial content is not compromised by commercial or financial interests, or by any specific arrangements with advertising clients or sponsors. The editorial board of the journal does not accept for consideration and does not print advertising articles (both on a reimbursable and free basis). Authors of the scientific articles cannot link to ads using keywords.