Peer Review Process

The suitability of manuscripts for publication in Jurnal Agroecotania is judged by peer reviewers and editorial board. All the review process are conducted in blind review. The Technical Editor handles all correspondence with the author. The Chief Editor and Section Editors makes the final decision as to whether the paper is recommended for acceptance, rejection, or needs to be returned to the author for revision. Chief Editor and Technical Editors will evaluate the submitted papers on prequalification step for suitability of further review process. The manuscripts will be evaluated by one or two reviewers selected by Chief Editor and Technical Editors. The peer reviewers should examine the manuscript and return it with their recommendation to the Chief Editor or Technical Editors as soon as possible, usually within 3 weeks. If one of peer reviewers recommend rejection, the Chief Editor will ask a third reviewer or Technical Editors to decide the acceptance or rejection of the paper.

Papers needing revision will be returned to the authors, and the author must return the revised manuscript to the Technical Editor via OJS of Jurnal Agroecotania. Technical Editors check whether the manuscript is revised as suggested by peer reviewers. Technical Editors could give recommendation to Chief Editor that the manuscript should return to authors, accept, or reject within 2 weeks. After acceptance by Technical Editors, manuscript is forwarded to the layout editor to be layout for editorial board meeting. Chief Editor would send an acceptance letter announcing the publication issue attached with manuscript reprint to authors.

 There are three steps of revision process by authors: 1) revision manuscript to accomodate peer reviewer suggestions within 2-4 weeks; 2) revision to accomodate Technical Editors suggestions within 2-4 weeks (if any); and 3) revision to accomodate editorial meeting suggestions within 1 weeks (if any). Manuscripts that exceed the revision deadline will be withdrawn. Authors may request for extension to Chief Editor before the revision expires. The time interval from the date the manuscript is submitted to the acceptance for publication varies, depending on the time required for review and revision.

Manuscripts are rejected usually for 3 general reasons: 1) The topic of manuscript does not fit in the journal scope and may be better suited for publication elsewhere. 2) The substance of the manuscripts does not meet Jurnal Agroecotania standards; the data may be incomplete; the methodology used is not appropriate; lack of novelties and no advancement of the existing knowledge; or there are no consistency among objectives, research design/method, evidence, and conclusion. 3) Manuscript are not written following Jurnal Agroecotania guidelines in Instruction to Authors. These manuscripts may be rejected without review process. Manuscripts could also be rejected in the review process if Authors do not revise the manuscripts as suggested by reviewers and editorial board, also do not give response/rebuttal against the suggestions.

 If manuscript is rejected, the author will be notified by Chief Editor with a statement of reasons for rejection. The author may appeal to Chief Editor if he or she believes an unfair judgement has been made which enclose the author’s reasons. Chief Editor will review and discuss the reasons with Technical Editors responsible for the manuscript, and later decide whether to accept or deny the appeal.

Reprints of all manuscripts will be provided to the corresponding author. The reprints should be read carefully, checked against the typed manuscript, and the corrections may be returned soon. Authors submitting manuscripts should understand and agree that copyright of manuscripts published are held by Jurnal Agroecotania. The statement to release the copyright to Jurnal Jurnal Agroecotania is stated in Form A. Copyright encompass exclusive rights to reproduce, to distribute, and to sell any part of the journal articles in all form and media.  The reproduction of any part of this journal, its storage in databases and its transmission by any form or media will be allowed only with a written permission from Jurnal Agroecotania.