Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Journal of Governance and Public Policy is a leading national and international open-access journal dedicated to publishing peer-reviewed research articles on critical issues in governance and public policy theory and practice. The journal aims to contribute a comprehensive understanding of policies and their impacts within the diverse realms of governance and public affairs. The journal scope is examining the origin, mechanisms, and implications of policies within program development and resource management in the public sector. It encompasses research related to government, public affairs, public policy, and addresses broader political, social, and economic contexts at the local, national, and international levels.

 

Section Policies

Articles

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Peer Review Process

For manuscript publication consideration, the Journal of Governance and Public Policy employs a rigorous double-blind peer-review process. Both reviewer and author identities are concealed throughout the review to uphold standards of academic rigor. This process typically takes 15 weeks, with final publication timelines dependent on the review duration by the designated editors.

Manuscript Review Process:

The Journal of Governance and Public Policy employs a rigorous, multi-stage peer-review process outlined below:

  1. Submission: Manuscripts should be submitted electronically through the journal website: https://journal.umy.ac.id/index.php/GPP/index.
  2. Initial screening: Editors conduct an initial screening to ensure manuscripts comply with author guidelines, formatting requirements, and scope suitability. Manuscripts meeting these criteria proceed to the next stage; those not compliant may be returned for revisions or recommended for submission to other journals. Additionally, all manuscripts undergo a plagiarism check using Turnitin. Manuscripts exceeding a 15% similarity index are subject to rejection.
  3. Peer Review: Qualified manuscripts are assigned to subject-matter experts for double-blind peer review. Authors receive notification of the review outcome ("Accepted," "Revision Required," "Re-submit for Review," or "Rejected") alongside reviewer comments.
  4. Revision and Resubmission: Authors have three weeks to address reviewer feedback and resubmit revised manuscripts. Requests for additional revision time can be made to the editors via email.
  5. Final Review and Acceptance: Revised manuscripts are re-evaluated by reviewers. Upon reviewer satisfaction, authors receive notification of final acceptance.
  6. Publishing Process: Accepted manuscripts undergo layout formatting by the section editor within 30 days. Authors are granted three days to confirm the layout and request minor adjustments.
  7. Publication: Following final author confirmation, the article is scheduled for publication.

There are four types of editorial decisions during the peer review process, which are:
Decline submission I Resubmit for review I Revision Required I Accepted

Decline submission

Manuscripts found to not meet the journal's editorial standards after peer review will not be eligible for further consideration.

Resubmit for Review

While the current manuscript requires significant revision and does not currently meet the publication standards of the Journal of Governance and Public Policy, the reviewers recognize potential in the work. Therefore, authors are invited to submit a revised manuscript as a new submission. However, concerns regarding the manuscript's suitability for publication will remain until the editors are satisfied that the revised version aligns with the scope and rigor expected by the journal. Where possible, the resubmitted manuscript will be assigned to the original associate editor.

Revision Required

Following peer review and editorial assessment, the manuscript requires substantial revisions before a final publication decision can be made. Authors are invited to carefully consider the reviewers' and editors' comments and submit a revised manuscript for further consideration within two weeks of receiving the review notification. A detailed point-by-point response addressing each comment must accompany the revised manuscript. The revised version may be subject to further peer review, and additional rounds of revision may be requested. Ultimately, the final acceptance decision rests with the editors, and manuscripts deemed not sufficiently improved through revision will not be considered for publication in the Journal of Governance and Public Policy.

Accepted

Following review and editorial evaluation, the manuscript has been accepted for publication contingent upon the successful completion of minor revisions. These revisions may encompass copyediting adjustments and specific amendments to ensure the manuscript aligns seamlessly with the journal's established criteria. Upon satisfactory completion of these revisions and final verification by the editorial office, formal acceptance will be confirmed, and the manuscript will be progressed to the publishers for inclusion in a forthcoming issue.

 

Publication Frequency

Journal of Governance and Public Policy will publish three times (in three issues) a year: February, June and October.

 

Open Access Policy

Journal of  Governance and Public Policy 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 open access journal which means that 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

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Budapest Open Access Initiative

An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good. The old tradition is the willingness of scientists and scholars to publish the fruits of their research in scholarly journals without payment, for the sake of inquiry and knowledge. The new technology is the internet. The public good they make possible is the world-wide electronic distribution of the peer-reviewed journal literature and completely free and unrestricted access to it by all scientists, scholars, teachers, students, and other curious minds. Removing access barriers to this literature will accelerate research, enrich education, share the learning of the rich with the poor and the poor with the rich, make this literature as useful as it can be, and lay the foundation for uniting humanity in a common intellectual conversation and quest for knowledge.

For various reasons, this kind of free and unrestricted online availability, which we will call open access, has so far been limited to small portions of the journal literature. But even in these limited collections, many different initiatives have shown that open access is economically feasible, that it gives readers extraordinary power to find and make use of relevant literature, and that it gives authors and their works vast and measurable new visibility, readership, and impact. To secure these benefits for all, we call on all interested institutions and individuals to help open up access to the rest of this literature and remove the barriers, especially the price barriers, that stand in the way. The more who join the effort to advance this cause, the sooner we will all enjoy the benefits of open access.

The literature that should be freely accessible online is that which scholars give to the world without expectation of payment. Primarily, this category encompasses their peer-reviewed journal articles, but it also includes any unreviewed preprints that they might wish to put online for comment or to alert colleagues to important research findings. There are many degrees and kinds of wider and easier access to this literature. 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.

While  the peer-reviewed journal literature should be accessible online without cost to readers, it is not costless to produce. However, experiments show that the overall costs of providing open access to this literature are far lower than the costs of traditional forms of dissemination. With such an opportunity to save money and expand the scope of dissemination at the same time, there is today a strong incentive for professional associations, universities, libraries, foundations, and others to embrace open access as a means of advancing their missions. Achieving open access will require new cost recovery models and financing mechanisms, but the significantly lower overall cost of dissemination is a reason to be confident that the goal is attainable and not merely preferable or utopian.

To achieve open access to scholarly journal literature, we recommend two complementary strategies. 

I.  Self-Archiving: First, scholars need the tools and assistance to deposit their refereed journal articles in open electronic archives, a practice commonly called, self-archiving. When these archives conform to standards created by the Open Archives Initiative, then search engines and other tools can treat the separate archives as one. Users then need not know which archives exist or where they are located in order to find and make use of their contents.

II. Open-access Journals: Second, scholars need the means to launch a new generation of journals committed to open access, and to help existing journals that elect to make the transition to open access. Because journal articles should be disseminated as widely as possible, these new journals will no longer invoke copyright to restrict access to and use of the material they publish. Instead they will use copyright and other tools to ensure permanent open access to all the articles they publish. Because price is a barrier to access, these new journals will not charge subscription or access fees, and will turn to other methods for covering their expenses. There are many alternative sources of funds for this purpose, including the foundations and governments that fund research, the universities and laboratories that employ researchers, endowments set up by discipline or institution, friends of the cause of open access, profits from the sale of add-ons to the basic texts, funds freed up by the demise or cancellation of journals charging traditional subscription or access fees, or even contributions from the researchers themselves. There is no need to favor one of these solutions over the others for all disciplines or nations, and no need to stop looking for other, creative alternatives.


Open access to peer-reviewed journal literature is the goal. Self-archiving (I.) and a new generation of open-access journals (II.) are the ways to attain this goal. They are not only direct and effective means to this end, they are within the reach of scholars themselves, immediately, and need not wait on changes brought about by markets or legislation. While we endorse the two strategies just outlined, we also encourage experimentation with further ways to make the transition from the present methods of dissemination to open access. Flexibility, experimentation, and adaptation to local circumstances are the best ways to assure that progress in diverse settings will be rapid, secure, and long-lived.

The Open Society Institute, the foundation network founded by philanthropist George Soros, is committed to providing initial help and funding to realize this goal. It will use its resources and influence to extend and promote institutional self-archiving, to launch new open-access journals, and to help an open-access journal system become economically self-sustaining. While the Open Society Institute's commitment and resources are substantial, this initiative is very much in need of other organizations to lend their effort and resources.

We invite governments, universities, libraries, journal editors, publishers, foundations, learned societies, professional associations, and individual scholars who share our vision to join us in the task of removing the barriers to open access and building a future in which research and education in every part of the world are that much more free to flourish.

February 14, 2002
Budapest, Hungary

Leslie Chan: Bioline International
Darius Cuplinskas: Director, Information Program, Open Society Institute
Michael Eisen: Public Library of Science
Fred Friend: Director Scholarly Communication, University College London
Yana Genova: Next Page Foundation
Jean-Claude Guédon: University of Montreal
Melissa Hagemann: Program Officer, Information Program, Open Society Institute
Stevan Harnad: Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Southampton, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Rick Johnson: Director, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
Rima Kupryte: Open Society Institute
Manfredi La Manna: Electronic Society for Social Scientists 
István Rév: Open Society Institute, Open Society Archives
Monika Segbert: eIFL Project consultant 
Sidnei de Souza: Informatics Director at CRIA, Bioline International
Peter Suber: Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College & The Free Online Scholarship Newsletter
Jan Velterop: Publisher, BioMed Central

 

Publication Fee

Journal of Governance and Public Policy is a journal publication that is not oriented to profit. Therefore, for the publication process, JGPP regarding certain costs, namely:

  1. The cost of article submission IDR 0, - (USD 0.-)
  2. Processing Fees for the publication of articles received IDR 2.500.000,- (USD 170.-)

 

Publication Ethics

Ethical standards for publication exist to ensure high-quality research publications, public trust in research findings, and that people receive credit for their ideas.

Plagiarism

All journals published by JGPP (Journal of Governance and Public Policy) are committed to publishing only original material, i.e. material that has neither been published elsewhere, nor is under review elsewhere. Manuscripts that are found to have been plagiarized from a manuscript by other authors, whether published or unpublished, will incur plagiarism sanctions.

Duplicate Submission

Manuscripts that are found to have been published elsewhere, or to be under review elsewhere, will incur duplicate submission/publication sanctions. If authors have used their own previously published work, or work that is currently under review, as the basis for a submitted manuscript, they are required to cite the previous work and indicate how their submitted manuscript offers novel contributions beyond those of the previous work.

Citation Manipulation

Submitted manuscripts that are found to include citations whose primary purpose is to increase the number of citations to a given author’s work, or to articles published in a particular journal, will incur citation manipulation sanctions.

Data Fabrication and Falsification

Submitted manuscripts that are found to have either fabricated or falsified experimental results, including the manipulation of images, will incur data fabrication and falsification sanctions.

Improper Author Contribution or Attribution

All listed authors must have made a significant research contribution to the research in the manuscript and approved all its claims. It is important to list everyone who made a significant research contribution, including students and laboratory technicians.

Redundant Publications

Redundant publications involve the inappropriate division of study outcomes into several articles.

Sanctions

In the event that there are documented violations of any of the above mentioned policies in any journal, regardless of whether or not the violations occurred in a journal published by Journal of Governance and Public Policy, the following sanctions will be applied:

Immediate rejection of the infringing manuscript.

That any information that may be the reason for the rejection of publication of a manuscript must be communicated to the Editor.

Plagiarism Policy

Regarding plagiarism all the authors submitting paper to Journal of Governance and Public Policy should ensure that their paper is free from PLAGIARISM. The publisher and journal have a policy of “Zero Tolerance on the Plagiarism”. We check the plagiarism issue through two methods: reviewer check and plagiarism prevention tool. All submissions will be checked by TURNITIN before being sent to reviewers.Editor will check all paper by using plagiarism tool http://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker.

Copyright Form

Submission of a paper in any journal of JGPP will be taken to imply that it presents original unpublished work, not under consideration elsewhere. A copyright assignment form will be sent to the authors of accepted papers. This publishing agreement should be completed and returned to the editorial office.

 

R-W-C-R-R Policy

ARTICLE RETRACTION

Journal of Governance and Public Policy, we have a commitment to maintaining the integrity of the academic record, so there are times when there is a need to retract articles. An article would be retracted for the following reasons:

  • If there are major scientific errors, that will invalidate the article conclusion. An example is when there is evidence that that the findings in the article is unreliable either due to an honest error – a miscalculation or experimental error or as a result of misconduct – data fabrication.
  • If the research and resulting findings have already been posted elsewhere without appropriate cross-referencing, justification, or permission – the case of a redundant publication.
  • If there are plagiarism issues – the use of the words used in another publication without giving credit – or inappropriate authorship.

To make sure that retractions are handled to the best practice of publications, and also in accordance with COPE retraction guidelines, Journal of Governance and Public Policy make use of the following retraction process:

  • Any article which requires potential retraction should be brought to the notice of the journal editor.
  • Once this is done, the journal editor would follow the guidelines according to the COPE flow chat – this includes the evaluations of the answers given by the author of the article t certain questions.
  • The editor's findings are then sent over to the Ethics Advisory Board before any action can be taken. This step is put in place to ensure a consistent approach to these situations in accordance with the best practices of the industry.
  • The decision on whether or not the publication is going to be retracted or not is communicated to the author and other relevant bodies such as the Author's institution if necessary.
  • When all this is concluded, a retraction statement is posted online and then published in the next available issue of the journal – we are going to be giving detailed information on this step as we move on.

Note: if the author retains copyright for an article, this does not qualify them for the right to retract it after publication. The integrity of the public scientific record is important, and COPE's Retraction Guidelines still apply in such cases.

ARTICLE WITHDRAWAL

It is not in the jurisdiction of an author to withdraw a submitted manuscript. This is because referees, editors, and publishers have spent a lot of time editing and processing the submitted manuscript leaving the sudden retraction a waste of valuable resources. Before an author submits a manuscript, through our OJS, the author is required to provide the following checklist:

  • If the authors request the withdrawal of their manuscript when the manuscript is still in the peer-reviewing process, the authors would be banned to submit their manuscript to JGPP one year after the withdrawal date.
  • If the manuscript's withdrawal after the manuscript is accepted for publication, the authors would be banned to submit their manuscript to JGPP two years after the withdrawal date.
  • The authors who do not submit revised manuscripts after the manuscript is "accepted" to publish either with minor or major revision and does not make a confirmation for a long period of time, the editor may punish that the authors have made a withdrawal after the manuscript is accepted.

ARTICLE CORRECTION

Issuing a correction is considered by Journal of Governance and Public Policy if the following happens:

  • A small section of a reliable publication reports flawed data, which misleads due to an honest error.
  • The Contributor list or Author is incorrect (e.g., a deserving author has been omitted, and likewise, a person who is not worthy of authorship criteria has been included.

Corrections to peer-reviewed content fall into one of these three categories:

  • Publisher correction (erratum): this helps to notify readers of a major error made by a publishing staff that negatively impacts a publication record or the scientific veracity of the article, or the reputation of the Journal or authors.
  • Author correction (corrigendum): this also helps to notify a reader of an error made by an author, which negatively impacts the scientific integrity of a publication record or the reputation of the author of the journal.
  • Addendum: this is where there is an addition to the article by the author to explain inconsistencies and expand the existing work or explain or update the information in the main work.

Deciding whether a correction should be issued is made by the editor of a journal, and this sometimes comes with advice from Reviewers or Editorial Board Members. Handling Editors would contact the Authors of the concerned paper with a clarification request, but the final decision on a correction is required, and if so, which type rests on the editors.

ARTICLE REMOVAL

There might be a need to remove a published article from an online platform in a limited number of cases. This would only occur if an article is defamatory or infringes the legal rights of others, or we have good reason to believe that the publication would cause certain court orders. In such situations, while the metadata of the article will be retained, the text would be will be replaced with another screen, which points out that the article has been removed to prevent any legal complications.

ARTICLE REPLACEMENT

At a point, an author of an original paper may wish to remove or retract the flawed original and replace it with another corrected version. Under these circumstances, the retraction procedure would be followed, with the difference stating that the article retraction notice would contain a link to the – corrected – re-published article alongside the history of the document.

 

Plagiarism Notice

Every manuscript submitted into Journal of Governance and Public Policy is going to be scanned using Turnitin (similarity check). The score check result should be no more than 15%. In the case of a manuscript, the similarity is more than 15%, the manuscript would be rejected by Journal of Governance and Public Policy editor in chief in desk evaluation step.