Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Industria is focusing, but not limited, to the articles in the scope of technology and management in agro-industry (an industry with the raw material of agricultural, fishery, forestry, and livestock products from their post-harvesting activities to being consumed by the consumers). Therefore, Industria will only process and publish submitted research articles or review articles in the following area:

Technology of Agro-industry

Processing technology of agricultural, fishery, forestry, and livestock products; Food and postharvest technology; Biophysics engineering of the agricultural, fishery, forestry, and livestock material; Biotechnology.

Management of Agro-industry

Strategic management; Logistics and supply chain management; Knowledge management and learning organization; Management of product development; Human resource management; Waste management.

System Engineering of Agro-industry

Production system; Man-machine system; Innovation of product development; Information system management; Halal food business and industry; Environmental engineering; Energy and agro-industrial machinery; Decision support system; Computer-aided control engineering; Business intelligence system.

 

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Research Articles

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Review Articles

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Peer Review Process

To ensure good quality articles published in Industria, all manuscripts that submitted to Industria will go through an initial review process by the editor, particularly in the feasibility of manuscript publication related to the scope and focus of Industria. A manuscript can be rejected for further processing if it does not match the template. Once reviewed by the editor, the manuscript will go through a double-blind review process by reviewers who provide recommendations on the manuscript. The author may recommend two reviewers, but the editor will choose the reviewer. The review process is conducted in a double-blind review process so that the authors and reviewers do not know the identity of each other to the objectivity and quality of the review results. Based on the recommendation of reviewers, the editor will make decisions on a manuscript whether it will be accepted without revision, with minor revision, with major revision, or rejected.

The review process will mainly be conducted with the Open Journal System (OJS), so authors are encouraged to check their account regularly. A typical review process for one article will take at least four weeks.

 

Publication Frequency

Industria will be published two times a year, in July and December.

 

Open Access Policy

Industria provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

All content is freely available without charge to users or / institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full-text articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or author. This is in accordance with Budapest Open Access Initiative

 

Archiving

Industria utilizes the LOCKSS system and digital reference database which is called Garba Rujukan Digital (Garuda) to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. 

 

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Industria: Jurnal Teknologi dan Manajemen Agroindustri is a peer-reviewed open-access journal. This statement clarifies the ethical behavior of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal, including the author, the chief editor, the Editorial Board, the peer-reviewer­ and the publisher (Department of Agro-Industrial Technology, Faculty of Agricultural Technology, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia). This statement is based on the previous COPE’s Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and the current COPE's Core Practices.

 Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed Industria: Jurnal Teknologi dan Manajemen Agroindustri is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is, therefore, important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher and the society.

Publisher and Editor

Department of Agro-Industrial Technology, Faculty of Agricultural Technology, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia as publisher of Industria: Jurnal Teknologi dan Manajemen Agroindustri takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing extremely seriously and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. In addition, Department of Agro-Industrial Technology, Faculty of Agricultural Technology, Universitas Brawijaya and Editorial Board will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful and necessary.

Publication Decisions: The editor of Industria: Jurnal Teknologi dan Manajemen Agroindustri is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Fair Play: Editors should strive to ensure that peer review at their journal is fair, unbiased, and timely.

Confidentiality: Editors should have systems to ensure that material submitted to their journal remains confidential while under review.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

1. Editors should have systems for managing their own conflicts of interest as well as those of their staff, authors, reviewers, and editorial board members.
2. Journals should have a declared process for handling submissions from the editors, employees, or members of the editorial board to ensure unbiased review.

(based on Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE) Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors)

Duties of Authors

  1. Reporting Standards: 
    Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.
  2. Data Access and Retention: 
    Authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review and should be prepared to provide public access to such data (consistent with the ALPSP-STM Statement on Data and Databases), if practicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.
  3. Originality and Plagiarism: The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
  4. Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication: 
    An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.
  5. Acknowledgment of Sources: 
    Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.
  6. Authorship of the Paper: 
    Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
  7. Fundamental errors in published works: 
    When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper. If the editor or the publisher learn from a third party that a published work contains an error, it is the obligation of the author to cooperate with the editor, including providing evidence to the editor where requested.
  8. Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects: 
    1. If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript.
    2. If the work involves the use of animal or human subjects, the author should ensure that the manuscript contains a statement that all procedures were performed in compliance with relevant laws and institutional guidelines and that the appropriate institutional committee(s) have approved them. Authors should include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human subjects. The privacy rights of human subjects must always be observed and the confidential of human participants’ data is considered the norm for the conduct of research, both institutions and individual participants. This could involve employing ‘fictionalising’ approaches when reporting, and where using such approaches researchers should fully explain how and why they have done so. However, in some circumstances individual participants, or their guardians or responsible others, may want to specifically and willingly waive their right to confidentiality and anonymity: researchers should recognise participants’ rights to be identified in any publication of their original works or other inputs if they so wish. This statement based on the ethical guidance of the privacy and data storage from BERA Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research (4th ed.).

Duties of Editors

  1. Fair Play: 
    An editor at any time evaluates manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
  2. Confidentiality: 
    The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
  3. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: 
    Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.
  4. Publication Decisions
    The editor board journal is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.
  5. Review of Manuscripts: 
    The editor must ensure that each manuscript is initially evaluated by the editor for originality. The editor should organize and use peer review fairly and wisely. Editors should explain their peer review processes in the information for authors and also indicate which parts of the journal are peer-reviewed. The editor should use appropriate peer reviewers for papers that are considered for publication by selecting people with sufficient expertise and avoiding those with conflicts of interest.

Duties of Reviewers

  1. Contribution to Editorial Decisions:
    Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.
  2. Promptness: 
    1. Only agree to review manuscripts for which they have the subject expertise required to carry out a proper assessment and which they can assess in a timely manner. Any selected reviewer who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process
    2. Acknowledge that peer review is largely a reciprocal endeavour and undertake to carry out their fair share of reviewing and in a timely manner
  3. Standards of Objectivity: 
    1. Reviews should be conducted objectively. Reviewers are not allow their reviews to be influenced by the origins of a manuscript, by the nationality, religious or political beliefs, gender or other characteristics of the authors, or by commercial considerations 
    2. Be objective and constructive in their reviews, refraining from being hostile or inflammatory and from making libellous or derogatory personal comments. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Reviewer should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
  4. Confidentiality: 
    Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. Respect the confidentiality of peer review and not reveal any details of a manuscript or its review, during or after the peer-review process, beyond those that are released by the journal, except as authorized by the editor.
  5. Disclosure and Conflict of Interest: 
    1. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not use the for their own or any other person’s or organization’s advantage, or to disadvantage or discredit others.
    2. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers, seeking advice from the journal if they are unsure whether something constitutes a relevant interest
  6. Acknowledgment of Sources: 
    Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Allegations of Research Misconduct
Research misconduct means fabrication, falsification, citation manipulation, or plagiarism in producing, performing, or reviewing research and writing an article by authors, or in reporting research results. When authors are found to have been involved with research misconduct or other serious irregularities involving articles that have been published in scientific journals, Editors have a responsibility to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the scientific record.

In cases of suspected misconduct, the Editors and Editorial Board will use the best practices of COPE to assist them to resolve the complaint and address the misconduct fairly. This will include an investigation of the allegation by the Editors. A submitted manuscript that is found to contain such misconduct will be rejected. In cases where a published paper is found to contain such misconduct, a retraction can be published and will be linked to the original article.

The first step involves determining the validity of the allegation and an assessment of whether the allegation is consistent with the definition of research misconduct. This initial step also involves determining whether the individuals alleging misconduct have relevant conflicts of interest.

If scientific misconduct or the presence of other substantial research irregularities is a possibility, the allegations are shared with the corresponding author, who, on behalf of all of the coauthors, is requested to provide a detailed response. After the response is received and evaluated, additional review and involvement of experts (such as statistical reviewers) may be obtained. For cases in which it is unlikely that misconduct has occurred, clarifications, additional analyses, or both, published as letters to the editor, and often including a correction notice and correction to the published article are sufficient.

Institutions are expected to conduct an appropriate and thorough investigation of allegations of scientific misconduct. Ultimately, authors, journals, and institutions have an important obligation to ensure the accuracy of the scientific record. By responding appropriately to concerns about scientific misconduct, and taking necessary actions based on evaluation of these concerns, such as corrections, retractions with replacement, and retractions, Industria will continue to fulfill the responsibilities of ensuring the validity and integrity of the scientific record.

 

Screening for Plagiarism

The manuscript that submitted into this journal will be screened for plagiarism using iThenticate with a maximum of 10% similarity index.

 

Article Submission Charges and Article Processing Charges (APCs)

All readers and authors of Industria can enjoy the benefits of free open access. We believe that free open access promotes accessibility and use throughout the world, serving the professional and scientific community, as well as the wider community. Because there are no fees charged for access, Industria offsets the cost of publication (including the costs of peer review management, journal production, and proofread) by charging article processing charges (APC) to authors, institutions, or funders for each published article.

Industria does not charge an article submission, but the Author will be charged for the article processing after the decision of review process.

If the manuscript is not rejected for the next processing after review, the author will be asked to pay an Article Processing Charge (IDR 500,000). A statement letter related to this fee will be sent to the Author before the manuscript is processed. If the Author does not agree to pay the Processing Charge then the manuscript will not be continued to be processed.

 

 

Content Licensing, Copyright, and Permissions

Industria has CC BY-SA or an equivalent license as the optimal license for the publication, distribution, use, and reuse of scholarly work.