Journal Ownership
DEVELOPMENT: Journal of Community Engagement is a scholarly journal published by Institut Ahmad Dahlan (IAD) Probolinggo, Indonesia. The journal is dedicated to disseminating scientific research, community engagement practices, and scholarly contributions in the fields of community service, community empowerment, community development, and related multidisciplinary areas.
The journal serves as an academic platform for researchers, lecturers, practitioners, students, community organizations, and other stakeholders to publish and exchange knowledge derived from community-based research, service-learning activities, empowerment programs, applied interventions, and other forms of community engagement.
Journal Management
The journal is managed by an editorial team responsible for coordinating the editorial process, managing manuscript submissions, facilitating peer review, maintaining publication quality, and ensuring compliance with academic, ethical, and publication standards.
The editorial team works with the Editor-in-Chief, editors, reviewers, copyeditors, and other relevant parties to ensure that editorial decisions are made independently and based on the scholarly quality, originality, relevance, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, and contribution of submitted manuscripts.
Journal management also includes maintaining the continuity of publication, improving editorial services, strengthening reviewer quality, ensuring proper manuscript documentation, and supporting the visibility and accessibility of published articles.
Editorial Independence
Although DEVELOPMENT: Journal of Community Engagement is institutionally affiliated with Institut Ahmad Dahlan (IAD) Probolinggo, editorial decisions are based on academic merit, the results of peer review, the journal's focus and scope, methodological and ethical considerations, and applicable publication ethics principles.
Ownership, institutional affiliation, funding arrangements, or administrative interests do not determine the acceptance or rejection of individual manuscripts.
The Editor-in-Chief and editorial team have responsibility for making editorial decisions independently and are expected to protect the integrity of the peer-review and publication process from inappropriate institutional, personal, commercial, financial, or other forms of influence.
Roles and Responsibilities
The journal's ownership and management responsibilities include:
- Maintaining the journal's academic direction, focus, and scope.
- Managing manuscript submission, editorial screening, peer review, revision, and publication processes.
- Ensuring the implementation of publication ethics and editorial policies.
- Maintaining editorial independence and the integrity of editorial decision-making.
- Ensuring the accuracy, reliability, integrity, and accessibility of published content.
- Maintaining appropriate records relating to manuscript processing and editorial decisions.
- Supporting authors, editors, and reviewers in fulfilling their respective academic and ethical responsibilities.
- Promoting transparency in authorship, peer review, conflicts of interest, funding, and other relevant publication matters.
- Supporting the preservation and accessibility of the journal's scholarly record.
- Supporting the continuous improvement of journal quality, visibility, academic reputation, and scholarly impact.
Transparency and Accountability
DEVELOPMENT: Journal of Community Engagement is committed to transparent journal governance, responsible editorial management, accountability, and good practices in scholarly publishing.
Information concerning the journal's publisher, editorial team, focus and scope, peer-review process, publication ethics, author guidelines, copyright and licensing policies, and other relevant publication procedures is made available through the journal's official website.
The journal seeks to ensure that its governance and editorial practices can be clearly understood by authors, reviewers, readers, institutions, and other stakeholders.
Commitment to Responsible Journal Governance
Through responsible ownership and journal management, DEVELOPMENT: Journal of Community Engagement seeks to maintain a credible, independent, transparent, and academically rigorous publication environment.
The journal is committed to ensuring that institutional ownership supports the sustainability and development of the journal without compromising editorial independence, scholarly integrity, or the fairness of publication decisions.
