Editorial Policies

Jurnal Penelitian Pengelolaan Daerah Aliran Sungai (Journal of Watershed Management Research) or JPPDAS is an official publication that publishes scientific papers in the field of watershed management.

Aim:
The journal aims to publish articles that contribute to supporting sustainable watershed management practices.

Scope:
- Land and vegetation management
- Soil and water conservation
- Land rehabilitation
- Hydrology
- Social
- Economic
- Institutional
- Remote sensing
- Geographic Information System (GIS)

Research article is writen based on scientific research. The article should present the novelty, originality and contribution in developing knowledge. The lenght of these articles are typically from 5000 to 7000 words including the reference list. This should contain: abstract, introduction, research methods, results and discussion, and conclusions

Please submit new article to: https://ejournal.aptklhi.org/index.php/JPPDAS

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

THESIS

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

 General rules:

1. The journal adopts a double-blind review process. Both authors and reviewers will be given no access to identify of the reviewers (for authors) or authors (for reviewers). Detailed information on the peer review process is shown here
2. Articles will be assessed by reviewer(s) who have relevant expertise and field of research with manuscript
3. The final decision (acceptance or rejection) will be determined by the editorial boards considering the results of reviews
4. There are no correspondences between authors and editors regarding the manuscript rejection. Review results and reason for rejection will be informed to authors.

 Peer Review Process:

1. The authors submit a manuscript.
2. The editor in chief assigns a section editor to handle the manuscript.
3. The section editor checks whether the manuscript fulfills the minimum criteria of the journal requirements in terms of the topic (suitable to the scope of the journal), word length, plagiarism, references, format, and language.
4. If the minimum criteria are fulfilled, the section editor will assign a minimum of two relevant reviewers to review the article.
5. The reviewers submit the report to the editor.
6. The section editor notifies the authors about the review results.
7. If any revision, the authors do the correction and resubmit to the journal.
8. The section editor assigns the same (or can be different) reviewers to re-check whether the revision has been done in accordance with the reviewers’ comments. The journal allows up to 2 rounds of reviews.
9. The editor in chief makes the final decision after review and revision have been done.
10. Manuscript is sent to the production processes.

 Decisions:

 The journal editor considers the comments from reviewers for the final decision. The decision of the manuscript is grouped as follows:

• Accept submission: if the manuscript will be accepted without revisions
• Revision required: if the manuscript will be accepted after minor changes according to reviews
• Resubmit for review: If significant changes are required in the manuscript. The second round of reviews are needed for possible acceptance
• Decline submission: if the submitted manuscript will not be published in the journal

Jurnal Penelitian Pengelolaan Daerah Aliran Sungai (Journal of Watershed Management Research)/ JPPDAS is published twice in one volume annually (April and October).

Jurnal Penelitian Pengelolaan Daerah Aliran Sungai (Journal of Watershed Management Research)/ JPPDAS provides open access to its content on the principle of making research available freely to the public to support the exchange of information or knowledge globally.).

Manuscript submitted to Jurnal Penelitian Pengelolaan Daerah Aliran Sungai (Journal of Watershed Management Research) or JPPDAS must use software management reference e.g. EndNote, Mendeley, or Zotero.

JPPDAS implements a policy to deal with plagiarism in submitted articles. Plagiarism is the use of another author's words and ideas and acknowledged as one's own without citing the source. Papers to be published are original papers that have never been published. Quotation marks are needed when making a direct quote accompanied by a mention of the source. Text longer than two or three sentences or graphic material copied from other sources requires permission from the copyright holder and, if applicable, the original author. We use Turnitin to check all manuscripts to avoid plagiarism. Plagiarism should not exceed 10% and the value is distributed in the manuscript. The main editor will pay close attention and will take action based on the level of plagiarism.