Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL A THOUSAND RIVER (IJTR)  is a periodic scientific journal in the fields of Law, Social Sciences, Welfare, Environment and Natural Resources by the Institute for Research and Community Service at Lambung Mangkurat University which is published three times a year in March, July and November.

The journal is a blind peer-reviewed journal aiming to publish new work of the highest caliber across the full range of legal researchers, which includes but is not limited to works in: 

  • Environmental Law and Policy;
  • Social Sustainability And Community Developmen;
  • Environmental Conservation And Management;
  • Sustainable Economy And Green Business;
  • Gender And Environment;
  • Climate Change And Adaptation;
  • Development Of The New Capital City Of Indonesia (IKN);
  • Renewable Energy And Energy Transition;
  • Education And Awareness For Sustainable Developmen;
  • Stakeholder Engagement And Collaboration; and
  • Indigenous People, Religions, and Sustainability. 

All papers submitted to this journal must be written in English. In principle, the editorial policy of this journal is to support contributions that will be of interest to a wide range of readers – contributions that, if specialized, nevertheless serve to highlight matters of wider importance or significance within their specialism.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Overview

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL A THOUSAND RIVER (IJTR) has a high standard for publication. All the published papers should undergo the peer-review process by two experts in the field, following these indicators. Before the peer-review process starts, the Editorial Board will ensure that the manuscript has complied with sufficient academic writing and followed the author's instructions. This desk review stage verifies the title, abstract, introduction, analysis, conclusion, reference, and language quality of the manuscript. If the manuscript does not meet these criteria, the author(s) will get advice for the desk review revision(s). The Editorial Board may also directly reject the manuscript if it is below the threshold.

Prior to submitting the manuscript to this journal, all authors are advised to read and do a self-assessment by referring to the manuscript's preliminary selection criteria. The table below becomes a key instrument to help journal management in processing the manuscript.

Pre-Review

All manuscripts submitted to this journal undergo a selection and assessment process by the Editorial Board members. The journal applies this process as the preliminary selection to determine whether the manuscripts have conformed to the submission guidelines of the journal, including the submission guidelines, focus and scope, and whether they are of excellent academic quality.

At this stage, the language check also becomes an essential part of our screening. Authors must ensure that the journal editors and reviewers fully understand the academic content of their papers. Authors must ensure that the manuscript submitted to this journal has been proofread.

Please note that the Editorial Board will reject manuscripts submitted in languages other than English.

Desk Review

Manuscripts that have conformed to such mentioned criteria, and if they are judged suitable for this publication, will be forwarded to the desk review.

This step is optional. Typically, for submissions that undergo the desk review stage, the Editorial Board will provide common feedback to ensure submissions have conformed to the journal's standard to ease the peer-reviewer reviewing the manuscript. If authors do not meet these conditions, they will get feedback and will have an opportunity to revise their manuscript according to the given criteria. However, there is also the possibility that the Editorial Board will directly reject the manuscript.

Double-blind Peer Review

The review process applies the double-blind peer review method, in which case neither authors nor reviewers know each other’s identities. When the manuscript has passed the desk review stage, editors will deliver manuscripts to two reviewers who are experts in the field of the submitted manuscript. The task of reviewers is to assess originality, clarity of presentation, and contribution to the legal knowledge. Typically, reviewers will complete the review process within three weeks. Manuscripts that did not successfully pass the desk review process will not proceed to this stage and will be rejected.

Reviewer's Decision

The reviewers will provide the following recommendations:

  1. Accepted (the manuscript is acceptable for publication);
  2. Accepted with minor revisions (the manuscript is acceptable for publication after it undergoes a revision in response to the reviewers’ concerns);
  3. Accepted with major revisions (substantive inadequacies in the manuscript, such as data analysis, the main theory used, and rewriting of paragraphs, need to be revised); or
  4. Rejected (the manuscript is not acceptable for publication, or the given reviews relate to fundamental issues).

The final decision of manuscript acceptance is solely decided by the Editorial Board by taking into account reviewers' comments. However, the Editorial Board cannot unilaterally make a decision without the recommendation from reviewers.

Revisions

Once the manuscript has been received with notations of minor or major revisions, it will be returned to the author with a review summary form. For manuscripts accepted with major revisions, authors are allotted three weeks to revise. Whereas for manuscripts accepted with minor revisions, one week is allotted for revision. When returning the revised manuscript, the author is required to fill in and attach the review summary form. 

Similarity Check

Plagiarism and self-plagiarism are prohibited. Each author is responsible for ensuring that the manuscript submitted to this journal is original and plagiarism free. It is our routine procedure to run all submissions through plagiarism detection software. The result of manuscript screening should be 25% of the maximum similarity. Also, the Editorial Board has the right to decline the submission when it is found that the manuscript is detected with plagiarism.

Plagiarism includes:
(a) the word for word plagiarism (the author uses the words of other authors (exactly) without mentioning the source);
(b) plagiarism over the source (the author uses the idea of others without giving enough recognition (without mentioning the source expressly); and
(c) plagiarism of authorship (the author is acknowledged as the author of the paperwork of others).

Final Decision

At this stage, the manuscript will be re-evaluated by the Editorial Board to ensure that the author has revised it in response to the reviewers’ concerns. In this final decision, the manuscript may still be rejected if the author did not seriously conduct the revisions necessary.

Proofreading

Once the manuscript has been deemed acceptable by the Editorial Board, it will undergo a proofreading process to maintain linguistic quality.

Competing Interest

After the paper submission is accepted and is scheduled for publication, the corresponding author will be asked to attach the declaration of no conflict of interest.

Publication

At this stage, in a certain condition, the final layout of the manuscript will be resent to the author to ensure that the content follows the author’s writing. At this stage, the author may revise any typographical error found in the final manuscript. Once confirmation from the author is given, the Editorial Secretary will process the manuscript for online publication on the website as well as a print publication.

 

Publication Frequency

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL A THOUSAND RIVER publishes articles three times a year in March, July and November

 

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. This journal is an open-access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to users or institutions. 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.

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Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

You are free to:
Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

 

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

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL A THOUSAND RIVER (IJTR) is an important building block in the development of knowledge. The published articles are a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support it. We support double-blind peer-reviewed articles using scientific methods. Therefore, it is important to maintain the standards of ethical behavior for all parties involved in publications. While the statement of ethics for scientific publications in International Joural A Thousand River (IJTR) is based on COPE's Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

 

Similarity Check and Screening for Plagiarism

The manuscript entered in International Joural A Thousand River (IJTR) will be checked for the authenticity of each content of the manuscript through the process of plagiarism using iThenticate 

 

Copyright Licensing

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, which permits share, copying, and redistributing of the material in any medium or format as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license. If you remix, transform or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms. To view a copy of this license, visit this permalink.

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

You are free to:
Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

 

Payment Policy

For the authors who submit the manuscripts to the Badamai Law Journal, it is further processed in accordance with the applicable provisions of the journal manager's policy, then the manuscript is received, and published. The article processing charge in Badamai Law Journal  is currently free for Domestic and International authors

 

Repository Policy

Authors can enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) before and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.