Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Focus
Jurnal Agritrop the official journal of the Indonesian Society for Agronomy, publishes primary research paper, review article, policy analysis and research notes and preliminary results in all areas of agronomy. Manuscripts could be written either in English or in Indonesia.

Scope
Jurnal Agritrop covers agronomy in broad sense including plant production, genetic and plant breeding, plant physiology, plant ecology, plant biotechnology, seed science and technology, horticulture, and soil science.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

The review process conducted double blind, where the identity of authors and reviewers are concealed. Information on their identity can only be granted with the consent of both sides. Authors should propose a list of 2-4 names of prospective reviewers. Management may choose to invite them or not. Reviewers should have the Scopus-ID or Researcher-ID (Thomson Reuters) or recorded as a corresponding author in this journal. Reviewers may also be invited from journals published by major publishers. They must come from different institutions with authors. List of the reviewer updated on every edition.

 

Publication Frequency

This journal is published onces a year; June and December

 

Open Access Policy

This journal 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.

By "open access" to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

 

Author Fee

General Information on AGRITROP Article Processing Charges (APC)

AGRITROP publishes all its journals in full open access, meaning unlimited use and reuse of articles, in addition to giving credit to the authors. All our articles are published under a Creative Commons (CC BY SA) license.

This journal charges the following author fees.

Article Submission: 0.00 (IDR)
Authors are NOT required to pay an Article Processing Charge (Article Submission Fee) as part of the submission process to contribute to review costs.

 

Article Publication: 500.000.00 (IDR)
If this paper is accepted for publication, you will be asked to pay an Article Publication Fee to cover publication costs.

 

Publications Ethics

Ethics of Scientific Publications

Scientific Publication Ethics Agritrop Journal of Agricultural Sciences

Agritrop Journal of Agricultural Sciences, began to be published since 2003 offline and began to put online since 2015, with a frequency of 2 (two) times a year, in June and December.,Agritrop Journal of Agricultural Sciences is a scientific journal published on-line and publish articles or research papers in the fields of agriculture such as Agronomy, biotechnology directly related to the science of agricultural science.

Statement scientific code of conduct is a statement of the code of conduct of all parties involved in the process of scientific journal publications, namely managers, editors, bestari partners, and author (author). Scientific Publication Ethics Code in essence upholding ethics in the publication of the three values, namely (i) Neutrality, which is free from conflicts of interest in the management of the publication; (Ii) Justice, which gives the right of authorship to the beneficiary as a writer; and (iii) Honesty, which is free of duplication, fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism in publication.

Responsibility Publisher

  1. Publisher Agritrop Journal of Agricultural Sciences (University of Muhammadiyah Jember) responsible for publishing manuscripts that after going through the process of editing, reviewing, and publishing layouts in accordance with the rules of scientific journals.
  2. Publisher Agritrop Journal of Agricultural Sciences is responsible for the guarantee of academic freedom and Mitrabestari editor in carrying out their respective duties.
  3. Publisher Agritrop Journal of Agricultural Sciences is responsible to maintain the privacy and protection of intellectual property and copyright, and editorial freedom.

Responsibility Editor

  1. Editor Agritrop Journal of Agricultural Sciences is responsible for deciding decent script editor published through board meetings which refers to the requirements of applicable laws regarding defamation, copyright infringement, duplication, fabrication of data, falsification of data and plagiarism.
  2. In the process of the review and acceptance of the manuscript, the editorial team Agritrop Journal of Agricultural Sciences are basically the principle of similarity of treatment in the decision to publish the text, with no distinction as to race, sex, religion, ethnicity, nationality, or political ideology writer.
  3. Editors and editorial team Agritrop Journal of Agricultural Sciences will not disclose any information about the script or scripts that go except by permission of the author.
  4. Unpublished manuscripts will not be used by research editor Agritrop Journal of Agricultural Sciences for its own interests and will be returned directly to the author.

Responsibility Mitrabestari

Mitrabestari Agritrop Journal of Agricultural Sciences assist the editor in making editorial decisions on manuscripts / manuscripts incoming

  1. Mitrabestari Agritrop Journal of Agricultural Sciences is responsible for the script ditelaahnya recommendations.
  2. The study manuscript is done objectively, and be supported by clear arguments.
  3. Mitrabestari Agritrop Journal of Agricultural Sciences is responsible for quotations, references, duplication, fabrication of data, falsification of data and plagiarism on manuscript ditelaahnya.
  4. Mitrabestari Agritrop Journal of Agricultural Sciences must always maintain the confidentiality of information and use information from texts ditelaahnya for profit / private interests.

Responsibility Writer

  1. Authors must present the manuscript of thought or research results clearly, honestly, and without duplication, fabrication of data, falsification of data and plagiarism.
  2. The author is responsible for the confirmation submitted to the text that has been written.
  3. Authors should indicate the reference of the opinions and work of others cited
  4. Writers must write a script ethically, honestly and responsibly, in accordance with the applicable rules of scientific writing.

The author does not mind if his manuscript editing experience on the review process and layout without changing the substance or the main idea of the article.

 

Screening Plagiarism

The Agritrop Journal of Agricultural Sciences The editorial board recognizes that plagiarism cannot be calculated and is therefore the only part needed for publication in the Agribest Journal.

 

Definition:

Plagiarism involves the "use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work."

Policy:

Papers must be original, unpublished, and not pending publication elsewhere. Any material taken verbatim from another source needs to be clearly identified as different from the present original text by (1) indentation, (2) use of quotation marks, and (3) identification of the source.

Any text of an amount exceeding fair use standards (herein defined as more than two or three sentences or the equivalent thereof) or any graphic material reproduced from another source requires permission from the copyright holder and, if feasible, the original author(s) and also requires identification of the source; e.g., previous publication.

When plagiarism is identified, the Editor in Chief responsible for the review of this paper and will agree on measures according to the extent of plagiarism detected in the paper in agreement with the following guidelines:

Level of Plagiaris

 1.Minor :

A short section of another article is plagiarized without any significant data or      idea taken from the other paper

Action : A warning is given to the authors and a request to change the text and properly cite the original article is made

2.Intermediate: A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized without proper citation to the original paper

Action: The submitted article is rejected and the authors are forbidden to submit further articles for one year

3. Severe : A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized that involves reproducing original results or ideas presented in another publication

Action: The paper is rejected and the authors are forbidden to submit further articles for five years.

 

It is understood that all authors are responsible for the content of their submitted paper as they all sign the AGRITROP JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES Copyright Transfer Form. If a penalty is imposed for plagiarism, all authors will be subject to the same penalty.

If a second case of plagiarism by the same author(s) is identified, a decision on the measures to be enforced will be made by the Editorial board (Editor-in-Chief, and Editorial members) with the Chair of the Editor in Chief. The author(s) might be forbidden to submit further articles forever.

This policy applies also to material reproduced from another publication by the same author(s). If an author uses text or figures that have previously been published, the corresponding paragraphs or figures should be identified and the previous publication referenced. It is understood that in case of a review paper or a paper of a tutorial nature much of the material was previously published.

The author should identify the source of the previously published material and obtain permission from the original author and the publisher. If an author submits a manuscript to Agritrop Journal of Agricultural Sciences with significant overlap with a manuscript submitted to another journal simultaneously, and this overlap is discovered during the review process or after the publications of both papers, the editor of the other journal is notified and the case is treated as a severe plagiarism case. Significant overlap means use of identical or almost identical figures and identical or slightly modified text for one half or more of the paper. For self plagiarism of less than one half of the paper but more than one tenth of the paper, the case shall be treated as intermediate plagiarism. If self plagiarism is confined to the methods section, the case shall be considered as minor plagiarism.

 If an author uses some of his previously published material to clarify the presentation of new results, the previously published material shall be identified and the difference to the present publication shall be mentioned. Permission to republish must be obtained from the copyright holder. In the case of a manuscript that was originally published in conference proceedings and then is submitted for publication in Agritrop Journal of Agricultural Sciences either in identical or in expanded form, the authors must identify the name of the conference proceedings and the date of the publication and obtain permission to republish from the copyright holder. The editor may decide not to accept this paper for publication.

However, an author shall be permitted to use material from an unpublished presentation, including visual displays, in a subsequent journal publication. In the case of a publication being submitted that was originally published in another language, the title, date and journal of the original publication must be identified by the authors, and the copyright must be obtained. The editor may accept such a translated publication to bring it to the attention of a wider audience. The editor may select a specific paper that had been published (e.g. a “historic” paper) for republication in order to provide a better perspective of a series of papers published in one issue of Agribest Journal. This republication shall be clearly identified as such and the date and journal of the original publication shall be given, and the permission of the author(s) and the publisher shall be obtained.

The Agritrop Journal of Agricultural Sciences layout editor for the Journal is responsible for maintaining the list of authors subjected to penalties and will check that no authors of a submitted paper are on this list. If a banned author is identified, the layout editor will inform the Editor-in-Chief who will take appropriate measures. This policy will be posted on the web site with the instructions for submitting a manuscript, and a copy will be sent to the authors with the confirmation email upon initial receipt of their original manuscript. A sentence shall be added to the copyright transfer form to indicate that the author(s) have read the Plagiarism Policy.

 

 

Article withdrawal

University Muhammadiyah of Jember recognizes the importance of the integrity and completeness of the scholarly record to researchers and librarians and attaches the highest importance to maintaining trust in the authority of its electronic archive.

University of Jember policy Referring to Elsevier's policy

It is a general principle of scholarly communication that the editor of a learned journal is solely and independently responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the journal shall be published. In making this decision the editor is guided by policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism.  An outcome of this principle is the importance of the scholarly archive as a permanent, historic record of the transactions of scholarship. Articles that have been published shall remain extant, exact and unaltered as far as is possible. However, very occasionally circumstances may arise where an article is published that must later be retracted or even removed. Such actions must not be undertaken lightly and can only occur under exceptional circumstances. In all cases, our official archives at the National Library of the Netherlands will retain all article versions, including retracted or otherwise removed articles.

This policy has been designed to address these concerns and to take into account current best practice in the scholarly and library communities.  As standards evolve and change, we will revisit this issue and welcome the input of scholarly and library communities. We believe these issues require international standards and we will be active in lobbying various information bodies to establish international standards and best practices that the publishing and information industries can adopt.  See also the National Library of Medicine's policy on retractions and the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) concerning corrections and retractions.

Article withdrawal

Only used for Articles in Press which represent early versions of articles and sometimes contain errors, or may have been accidentally submitted twice. Occasionally, but less frequently, the articles may represent infringements of professional ethical codes, such as multiple submission, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or the like. Articles in Press (articles that have been accepted for publication but which have not been formally published and will not yet have the complete volume/issue/page information) that include errors, or are discovered to be accidental duplicates of other published article(s), or are determined to violate our journal publishing ethics guidelines in the view of the editors (such as multiple submission, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or the like), may be “Withdrawn” from ScienceDirect. Withdrawn means that the article content (HTML and PDF) is removed and replaced with a HTML page and PDF simply stating that the article has been withdrawn according to the University Muhammadiyah of Jember Policy on Article in Press Withdrawal with a link to the current policy document.

Article retraction

Infringements of professional ethical codes, such as multiple submission, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or the like. Occasionally a retraction will be used to correct errors in submission or publication.The retraction of an article by its authors or the editor under the advice of members of the scholarly community has long been an occasional feature of the learned world. Standards for dealing with retractions have been developed by a number of library and scholarly bodies, and this best practice is adopted for article retraction by University Muhammadiyah of Jember:

  • A retraction note titled “Retraction: [article title]” signed by the authors and/or the editor is published in the paginated part of a subsequent issue of the journal and listed in the contents list.
  • In the electronic version, a link is made to the original article.
  • The online article is preceded by a screen containing the retraction note. It is to this screen that the link resolves; the reader can then proceed to the article itself.
  • The original article is retained unchanged save for a watermark on the .pdf indicating on each page that it is “retracted.”
  • The HTML version of the document is removed.

Article removal: legal limitations

In an extremely limited number of cases, it may be necessary to remove an article from the online database. This will only occur where the article is clearly defamatory, or infringes others’ legal rights, or where the article is, or we have good reason to expect it will be, the subject of a court order, or where the article, if acted upon, might pose a serious health risk. In these circumstances, while the metadata (Title and Authors) will be retained, the text will be replaced with a screen indicating the article has been removed for legal reasons.

Article replacement

In cases where the article, if acted upon, might pose a serious health risk, the authors of the original article may wish to retract the flawed original and replace it with a corrected version. In these circumstances the procedures for retraction will be followed with the difference that the database retraction notice will publish a link to the corrected re-published article and a history of the document.