Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Agrologia : Jurnal Ilmu Budidaya Tanaman is a means of publicizing the results of research. The scope of the study published includes:

  • Agronomy
  • Plant diseases and pests
  • Soil science
  • Environment

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts are checked by qualified peer review and the authors are subject to blind-peer review whose identities will remain anonymous. The peer review process will be done after the initial screening by the consulting editors of the editorial board. The reviewers, who will perform the blind-peer reviews, comprise renowned national and international academicians and practitioners specializing in various Agronomy, Plant diseases and pests, Soil science, Environment fields.
  1. Editor receives manuscript
  2. Reviewers read and provide comments to the editor
  3. The decision is made by the reviewer: accept, minor revisions, major revisions, or reject
  4. Feedback sent to an author
  5. Revisions
  6. Final decision
  7. Article is published
Submitted papers are evaluated by at least two anonymous referees for contribution, originality, relevance, and presentation (blind-peer review). The Editor shall inform you of the results of the review as soon as possible, hopefully in 30 to 60 days. Plagiarism detection of articles in this journal is carried out by using iThenticate (Web Checker) with max score no more than 25% and Mendeley as a Tool Reference Manager. The language used in this journal is Bahasa or English.

 

Publication Frequency

Agrologia is published twice a year, in April and October by the Faculty of Agriculture, Pattimura University Ambon.

 

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.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system 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. More...

 

Publication Ethics

This statement clarifies the ethical behavior of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in our journals, including the authors, the editors, the peer-reviewers and the publisher, namely Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Pattimura.

Section A: Publication and authorship
  1. All submitted papers are subject to a strict peer-review process by at least two Nasional Reviewers that are experts in the area of the particular paper.
  2. Review processes are blind peer review.
  3. The factors taken into account in the review are relevance, soundness, significance, originality, readability, and language.
  4. The possible decisions include acceptance, acceptance with revisions, or rejection.
  5. If authors are encouraged to revise and resubmit a submission, there is no guarantee that the revised submission will be accepted.
  6. Rejected articles will not be re-reviewed.
  7. The paper acceptance is constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism.
  8. No research can be included in more than one publication.

Section B: Authors’ responsibilities

  1. Authors must certify that their manuscripts are their original work.
  2. Authors must certify that the manuscript has not previously been published elsewhere.
  3. Authors must certify that the manuscript is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere.
  4. Authors must participate in the peer review process.
  5. Authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.
  6. All Authors mentioned in the paper must have significantly contributed to the research.
  7. Authors must state that all data in the paper are real and authentic.
  8. Authors must notify the Editors of any conflicts of interest.
  9. Authors must identify all sources used in the creation of their manuscript.
  10. Authors must report any errors they discover in their published paper to the Editors.

Section C: Reviewers’ responsibilities

  1. Reviewers should keep all information regarding papers confidential and treat them as privileged information.
  2. Reviews should be conducted objectively, with no personal criticism of the author
  3. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments
  4. Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.
  5. Reviewers should also call to the Editor in Chief’s attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
  6. Reviewers should not review 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.

Section D: Editors’ responsibilities

  1. Editors have complete responsibility and authority to reject/accept an article.
  2. Editors are responsible for the contents and overall quality of the publication.
  3. Editors should always consider the needs of the authors and the readers when attempting to improve the publication.
  4. Editors should guarantee the quality of the papers and the integrity of the academic record.
  5. Editors should publish errata pages or make corrections when needed.
  6. Editors should have a clear picture of research’s funding sources.
  7. Editors should base their decisions solely on the papers’ importance, originality, clarity, and relevance to the publication’s scope.
  8. Editors should not reverse their decisions nor overturn the ones of previous editors without serious reason.
  9. Editors should preserve the anonymity of reviewers.
  10. Editors should ensure that all research material they publish conforms to internationally accepted ethical guidelines.
  11. Editors should only accept a paper when reasonably certain.
  12. Editors should act if they suspect misconduct, whether a paper is published or unpublished, and make all reasonable attempts to persist in obtaining a resolution to the problem.
  13. Editors should not reject papers based on suspicions; they should have proof of misconduct.
  14. Editors should not allow any conflicts of interest between staff, authors, reviewers, and board members.

 

Licensing (Creative Commons)

This journal allows share and adapts of its content, in accordance with a CC BY-NC-SA. This license lets others copy and redistributes the material in any medium or format, and also remix, transform, and build upon the material. Attribution means you must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. The journal may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NonCommercial means you may not use the material for commercial purposes. Lastly, ShareAlike means If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

 

Abstracting and Indexing

Agrologia : Jurnal Ilmu Budidaya Tanaman, ISSN (paper) 2301-7287 and ISSN (online) 2580-9636, is indexed and abstracted in:

  • Sinta
  • Garuda (Garba Rujukan Digital)
  • Google Scholar
  • Dimensions

 

Plagiarism Check

The editor will run a plagiarism check using ithenticate.com (Web Checker) for the submitted articles before sending it to the reviewers. We do not process any plagiarised contents. If an article has over 25% of plagiarism based on the result of the check, we will send back the article to the author to be revised for the plagiarised contents.