Focus and Scope

Jurnal Agrotek Lestari (JAL) merupakan media  publikasi  ilmiah  yang  membahas  isu  aktual di bidang agroteknologi mengenai permasalahan yang berkaitan dengan Ilmu Agronomi dan Produksi Tanaman, Ilmu Tanah, dan Proteksi Tanaman. Jurnal Agrotek Lestari terbit dua kali dalam setahun, yaitu pada bulan April dan Oktober mulai tahun 2015.

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

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.

Publication Ethics

The publication of Jurnal Agrotek Lestari involves conscientious, systematic and comprehensive processes by publishers and editors which require to be dealt with efficiently and competently. To maintain high ethical standards of publication of quality science the publisher strives to work closely at all times with journal editors, authors and peer-reviewers. The ethics statement for Jurnal Agrotek Lestari is based on those by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Code of Conduct guidelines available at www.publicationethics.org.

The essentials of Jurnal Agrotek Lestari publishing ethics for all groups involved in the publishing process are as follows:

Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication
The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed Jurnal Agrotek Lestari is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles help and embody the scientific method. It is therefore essential to agree upon standards of expected ethical behaviour for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher and the society.

Jurusan Ilmu Administrasi Negara Universitas Teuku Umar as the publisher of Jurnal Agrotek Lestari takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing extremely seriously, and we recognise our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or additional commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. Editorial Board will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful and necessary.

Allegations of Research Misconduct

Research misconduct means fabrication, falsification, citation manipulation, or plagiarism in producing, performing, or reviewing research and writing an article by authors, or in reporting research results. When authors are found to have been involved with research misconduct or other serious irregularities involving articles that have been published in scientific journals, Editors have a responsibility to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the scientific record.

In cases of suspected misconduct, the Editors and Editorial Board will use the best practices of COPE to assist them to resolve the complaint and address the misconduct fairly. This will include an investigation of the allegation by the Editors. A submitted manuscript that is found to contain such misconduct will be rejected. In cases where a published paper is found to contain such misconduct, a retraction can be published and will be linked to the original article.

The first step involves determining the validity of the allegation and an assessment of whether the allegation is consistent with the definition of research misconduct. This initial step also involves determining whether the individuals alleging misconduct have relevant conflicts of interest.

If scientific misconduct or the presence of other substantial research irregularities is a possibility, the allegations are shared with the corresponding author, who, on behalf of all of the coauthors, is requested to provide a detailed response. After the response is received and evaluated, additional review and involvement of experts (such as statistical reviewers) may be obtained. For cases in which it is unlikely that misconduct has occurred, clarifications, additional analyses, or both, published as letters to the editor, and often including a correction notice and correction to the published article are sufficient.

Institutions are expected to conduct an appropriate and thorough investigation of allegations of scientific misconduct. Ultimately, authors, journals, and institutions have an important obligation to ensure the accuracy of the scientific record. By responding appropriately to concerns about scientific misconduct, and taking necessary actions based on evaluation of these concerns, such as corrections, retractions with replacement, and retractions, Jurnal Agrotek Lestari will continue to fulfill the responsibilities of ensuring the validity and integrity of the scientific record.

Publication decisions
The editor of Jurnal Agrotek Lestari is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Fair play
An editor at any time evaluates manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality
The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's research without the express written consent of the author.

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions
Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Promptness
Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Confidentiality
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorised by the editor.

Standards of Objectivity
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgement of Sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. The proper citation should accompany any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider 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.

Duties of Authors

Reporting standards
Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.

Originality and Plagiarism
The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication
An author should not, in general, publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgement of Sources
Proper acknowledgement of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Authorship of the Paper
Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where others have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the article and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or another substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published works
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her published work, the author should promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

Author Fees

Author Fee

This journal charges the following author fees.

Article Submission: 0.00 (IDR)
Authors are NOT required to pay an Article Submission Fee.

Article processing charges (APC): 400.000 (IDR)

This article processing charge (APC) to support the broad open-access dissemination of research findings, to cover the operational costs associated with the management, peer review, and editorial handling of submitted manuscripts, and to sustain the overall publication process. Accordingly, authors or their affiliated institutions are required to pay a publication fee for each accepted manuscript. The fee includes Plagiarism Check, layout editing and DOI registration for each paper

Copy Right

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 acknowledgement 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 acknowledgement 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).

Publication Frequency

Since 2015, Jurnal Agrotek Lestari was published twice a year in April and October. Every issue consisted of 5-10 articles.

Plagiarism and Retraction Policy

Jurnal Agrotek Lestari Editorial Board recognizes that plagiarism is not acceptable and therefore establishes the following policy stating specific actions (penalties) upon identification of plagiarism/similarities in articles submitted for publication in Jurnal Agrotek Lestari. Jurnal Agrotek Lestari will use Turnitin's originality checking software as the tool in detecting similarities of texts in article manuscripts and the final version of articles ready for publication. A maximum of 25% of similarity is allowed for the submitted papers. Should we find more than 25% of the similarity index, the article will be returned to the author for correction and resubmission.

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
3. Identification of the source

Any text 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 the paper will agree on measures according to the extent of plagiarism, based on the following guidelines:

Level of Plagiarism

Minor:
A short section of another article is plagiarized without any significant data or idea taken from the original paper.

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

Intermediate:
A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized without proper citation.
Action: The submitted article is rejected, and the authors are prohibited from submitting further articles for one year.

Severe:
A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized that involves reproducing original results or ideas.

Action: The paper is rejected, and the authors are prohibited from submitting articles for five years.

It is understood that all authors are responsible for the content of their submitted paper as they all read and understand Jurnal Agrotek Lestari’s Copyright and Licensing Terms. If a penalty is imposed for plagiarism, all authors will be subject to the same penalty.

In the event of a second plagiarism case by the same author(s), the Editorial Board (Editor-in-Chief and Editorial members) together with the Chair of the Editorial Board may decide to ban the author(s) permanently.

This policy also applies to material reused from the same author's previous publications. Authors must properly cite previously published material and obtain permission when necessary.

If an author submits a manuscript to Jurnal Agrotek Lestari that overlaps significantly with one submitted elsewhere, and this is discovered during review or post-publication, the editor of the other journal will be notified. The case will be treated as severe plagiarism if:

• There is identical or slightly modified content constituting over 50% of the paper.

Cases where 10–50% overlap occurs will be treated as intermediate plagiarism, unless limited to the methods section, in which case it will be considered minor.

In all cases where previously published material is used to clarify new results, it must be properly cited and distinguished from new content.

For manuscripts originally published in conference proceedings and submitted  Jurnal Agrotek Lestari in identical or expanded form, the original conference must be identified and permission to republish obtained.

Translations of previously published material must identify the original publication and obtain copyright permissions.

The Jurnal Agrotek Lestari Editorial Board may republish selected articles (e.g., historic papers) for academic purposes, with proper acknowledgment and permission.

Jurnal Agrotek Lestari Layout Editor is responsible for maintaining and checking the list of penalized authors. Any attempt to submit by a banned author will be flagged, and the Editor-in-Chief will be notified for appropriate action.

This policy will be posted on Jurnal Agrotek Lestari website along with submission instructions and will be sent to authors upon receipt of their manuscript.

Retraction and/or Corrections

Authors are discouraged from withdrawing manuscripts once they are in the publication process. If withdrawal is still requested, the author(s) must email Jurnal Agrotek Lestari Editor using the same address used in prior correspondence.

Jurnal Agrotek Lestari editors shall consider retraction if:

• Findings are proven unreliable (e.g., major errors, data fabrication or falsification)
• Plagiarism is confirmed
• The article duplicates previously published work without proper attribution
• Use of unauthorized material or data
• Copyright infringement or legal issues arise
• The article is the result of unethical research
• Peer review was compromised
• Conflict of interest was undisclosed and would have affected editorial decisions

Retraction Notices Will:

• Be linked to the article
• Clearly identify the retracted article
• Be labeled clearly as a retraction
• Be published promptly and freely accessible
• State the reason and who is retracting
• Be factual and neutral

Retraction is not usually appropriate if:

• Authorship is disputed, but the work is valid
• Findings are valid and a correction can resolve the issue
• The case is inconclusive or under investigation
• Conflicts of interest are minor or discovered post-publication

Expressions of Concern may be issued when:

• Evidence of misconduct is inconclusive
• Institutions refuse to investigate suspected issues
• An investigation is expected to be prolonged
• The review process is unfair or biased

Corrections will be issued if:

• A small portion of the article is misleading
• The author list is incorrect

Jurnal Agrotek Lestari follows the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

AI policy

General Rules for Using AI

• Supporting Tools: AI may only be used to assist the writing process, such as checking grammar, improving sentence structure, assisting with literature searches, or performing light paraphrasing.
• Not a Data or Citation Creator: AI may not be used to generate research data, primary analysis, or create citations/references (due to the risk of hallucinations or fictitious references).
• Original Ideas from Authors: The main ideas, critical thinking, and scientific substance must originate entirely from the human authors.

Authorship

• AI Is Not an Author: AI systems, chatbots, or LLMs cannot be listed as authors, co-authors, or corresponding authors.
• Full Author Responsibility: Human authors bear full responsibility for the accuracy, originality, and integrity of the manuscript, including any AI-assisted sections.

Transparency and Disclosure

• Mandatory Declaration: Authors must transparently disclose the use of AI in their manuscripts (usually in the Methods section, Acknowledgments, or a special statement).
• Information Included: State the name of the AI tool used (e.g., ChatGPT or Gemini), its version, and the purpose of its use.
• Note: Very minor grammatical corrections generally do not require a special statement, unless they affect the substance of the manuscript.

Editor and Reviewer Policies

• Human Judgment: Editors and reviewers are required to exercise independent scientific judgment and must not substitute the peer-review process for the pure judgment of AI.
• Data Confidentiality: Submission of peer-reviewed manuscripts or confidential data into public AI systems that could compromise intellectual property rights is prohibited.