Focus and Scope

Aims and scope

Journal of Public Health for Tropical and Coastal Region (JPHTCR) is an open access journal on public health as discipline and practices related to preventive and promoting measures to enhance health of the public in tropical and coastal regions. This focus includes area and scope such as biostatistics, epidemiology, health education and promotion, health policy and administration, environmental health, public health nutrition, sexual and reproductive health, and occupational health and safety. The journal employs peer-review mechanism where each submitted article should be anonymously reviewed by expert peers appointed by the editor. Articles published in this journal could be in form of original article.

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process / Policy

JPHTCR; Journal of Public Health for Tropical and Coastal Region is an e-journal published by The Faculty of Public Health, Diponegoro University. The research article submitted will be peer-reviewed (single-blind). The first decision by handling editor(s) provided to authors approximately 60-90 days after submission. The Final decision will be provided by the Editor in Chief. Manuscripts submitted to Journal of Public Health for Tropical and Coastal Region will be screened for plagiarism and self-plagiarism using TURNITIN and Google-based search engines. Depending on the level of originality and similarities with other documents, the managing editor will decide on whether to immediately reject the manuscripts, contact authors for further clarifications or to proceed to the peer-review process.

Publication Frequency

This journal was published twice a year (April and October) from 2018 until 2020 (Volume 1 - 3). Since 2021 (Volume 4), this journal has been published thrice a year (April, August, and December).

Open Access Policy

Journal of Public Health for Tropical and Coastal Region (e-ISSN: 2597-4378) 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. The published articles will be available in JPHTCR website and their full text can be download freely. This policy outlines the repository archiving permissions for pre-print, post-print, and publisher's version/PDF of manuscripts and published articles under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. JPHTCS is following Sherpa/Romeo's policy.

Archiving

The journal uses the archiver services to create distributed filing systems among participating libraries and enables them to create journal archives for conservation and restoration purposes. 

• PKP Publication Network (PKP PN). See info.
• Portico archive

Article Processing Charge

Journal of Public Health for Tropical and Coastal Region (JPHTCR, e-ISSN: 2597-4378) is a free and open-access journal. Authors should not pay some processing fees (free charges) for article processing and publishing once their articles have been accepted. Readers can also read and download any full-text articles for free charges.

Publication Ethics

JPHTCR adapts COPE to meet high quality standard of ethics for publisher, editors, authors, and reviewers. As an essential issue, publication ethics needs to be explained clearly to improve the quality of the research worldwide. In this part, we explain the standard for editors, authors, and reviewers. Publisher don’t have right to interfere with the integrity of the contents and only support to publish in timely manner.

 

Standard of publication ethics exist to ensure high-quality scientific publications. It is important to avoid:

Data fabrication and falsification:

Data fabrication means the researcher did not actually do the study and data falsification means the researcher did the experiment, but then changed some of the data.

Plagiarism:

Taking the ideas from other scientists and publication without giving them credit or citatation is unfair and dishonest and considered plagiarms, so use your own word instead.

Multiple submissions:

It is unethical to submit the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time. Doing this wastes the time of editors and peer reviewers, and can damage the reputation of the authors and the journals if published in more than one journal as the later publication will have to be retracted.

Redundant publications:

This means the author publishing many very similar manuscripts based on the same experiment. Editors are likely to reject a weak paper that they suspect is a result of redundant publication.

Abstract and Indexing

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

Content License

 Creative Common Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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.

Under the following terms:

• Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
• ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
• No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Notices:

• You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation.
• No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material.

Plagiarism Screening

Manuscripts submitted to Journal of Public Health for Tropical and Coastal Region will be screened for plagiarism and self-plagiarism using TURNITIN and Google-based search engines. Depending on the level of originality and similarities with other documents, the managing editor will decide on whether to immediately reject the manuscripts, contact authors for further clarifications, or to proceed to the peer-review process.

Generative AI Policy

The following guidance refers only to the writing process and not to the use of AI tools to analyse and draw insights from data as part of the research process:

• Generative AI and AI-assisted technologies should only be used in the writing process to improve the readability and language of the manuscript.
• The use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in scientific writing must be declared by adding a statement at the end of the manuscript when the paper is firstly submitted.
• We do not permit the use of Generative AI or AI-assisted tools to create or alter images in submitted manuscripts.
• The use of generative AI or AI-assisted tools in the production of artwork such as graphical abstracts is not permitted. The use of generative AI in the production of cover art may in some cases be allowed if the author obtains prior permission from the journal editor and publisher, can demonstrate that all necessary rights have been cleared for the use of the relevant material, and ensures that there is a correct content attribution.