Journal of Indonesian Agribusiness is a periodical scientific journals of agribusiness in Indonesia. This journal is media of information dissemination which is the thinking results and research of lecturers, researchers and practitioners who are interested in agribusiness development. This journal is expected to help the agribusiness practitioners, policy makers, lecturer, students, and other people to get better understanding of the situation and condition of Indonesian agribusiness. Especially, benefit for the Indonesian agribusiness development and generally for improving the welfare of the Indonesian people. This journal is published twice a year (June and December Edition) by the Department of Agribusiness, Faculty of Economics and Management, Institut Pertanian Bogor.

Journal of Indonesian Agribusiness has been indexed and abstracted in Dimensions-Digital Science, CABI, Science and Technology Index (SINTA 3) Certificate of accreditation which is valid for 5 (five) years, Google Scholar, Crossref, Garuda, Microsoft Academic and other scientific databases.

p-ISSN 2354-5690 e-ISSN 2579-3594

Focus and Scope

The scope of the articles in this journal focuses on the study of agribusiness from a macroeconomic approach covering social and economic aspects of agriculture which is a system of comprehensive and integrated from studies up-stream, on-farm, down-stream and supporting subsystems, and the impact of their interrelationships with policy governments, international economy and capitalization of land resource, farmers, and communities. The microeconomic approach includes the study of business development in the field of agribusiness (financial, business policy, and functional technical aspects). Jurnal Agribisnis Indonesia publishes articles in related to the agribusiness system or it's agribusiness sub-system which consists of research related to input, farming, processing, marketing and supporting system of agricultural products.

Peer Review Process

The manuscripts for publication in Jurnal Agribisnis Indonesia is judged by peer reviewers. The review process are conducted in blind review. Chief Editor makes the final decision as to whether the paper is recommended for needs to be returned to the author for revision, acceptance, or rejection.

Chief Editor will evaluate submitted papers for suitability of further review process. The manuscripts will be evaluated by one or two peer reviewers selected by Chief Editor. The peer reviewers should examine the manuscript and return it with their recommendation to the Chief Editor, usually within 2  weeks. 

Paper needing revision will be returned to the author, and the author must return the revised manuscript to the Chief Editor via OJS of Jurnal Agribisnis Indonesia. Chief Editor will check whether the manuscript is revised as suggested by peer reviewers. Chief Editor could give recommendation to the manuscript should return to authors, accept, or reject. After acceptance process, manuscript is forwarded to technical editor to be layout. Chief Editor would send an acceptance letter announcing the publication issue attached with manuscript reprint to authors.

The revision manuscript to accomodate peer reviewer suggestions within 2-4 weeks; Manuscripts that exceed the revision deadline will be withdrawn. Authors may request for extension to Chief Editor before the revision expires. The time interval from the date the manuscript is submitted to the acceptance for publication varies, depending on the time required for review and revision.

Manuscripts are rejected usually for 3 general reasons: 1) The topic of manuscript does not fit in the journal scope. 2) The substance of the manuscripts does not meet Jurnal Agribisnis Indonesia standards; the data may be incomplete; the methodology used is not appropriate; or there are no consistency among objectives, research design/method, evidence, and conclusion. 3) Manuscript are not written following Jurnal Agribisnis Indonesia guidelines in instruction. The manuscripts may be rejected without review process or the manuscripts could also be rejected in the review process if authors do not revise the manuscripts as suggested by reviewers.

Publication Frequency

This journal is published twice a year (June and December Edition) by the Department of Agribusiness, Faculty of Economics and Management, Institut Pertanian Bogor.

How To Register

1. Author should register through the following address:  http://journal.ipb.ac.id/index.php/jagbi/user/register
2. Author should fulfill the form On the Confirmation Register section, please give your selection as author, reviewer, or both of them. After all the form was filled, click on "Register" to process the registration.
3. Go to User Home and select your role as Author. Click on "Click here: to go to step one of the five-step submission process" in Active Submission.
4. These are the five-step submission process:

• Step 1. Starting the Submission On the Journal Section, select the appropriate section of journal, i.e. Articles. Author has to check-mark on the submission checklists. Please click on the "Save and continue" button to go to the further step.
• Step 2. Entering the Submission's Metadata.
  Author should enter metadata of all authors engaged in the writing process. The information of manuscript title, abstract, and keywords must be filled in the textbox.
• Step 3. Uploading the Submission
  Author should click Browse to find the manuscript file on the hard drive. Choose the file and click Upload button. Once the submission is uploaded, click Save and Continue on the bottom of this page.
• Step 4. Uploading Supplementary Files
  The supplementary file should be uploaded is Form Pernyataan, consisting of Statement of Originality and Copyright Release Form. Therefore, click on Browse button, choose the file, click on Upload button, and click on Save and Continue.
• Step 5. Confirming the Submission
  Author has to check that all documents are complete. To submit the manuscript to JURNAL AGRIBISNIS INDONESIA, click Finish Submission button. The corresponding author or the principal contact will receive an acknowledgement by email. Author will and will be able to view the submission's progress through the editorial process by logging in to the journal web address site.

Ethics Statement

Our ethic statements are based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Publication decisions
The editor is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published.
The editor 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 editor may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Fair play
An editor at any time evaluate 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 own 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 authorized 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. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. 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 behavior 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 acknowledgment 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 there are others who 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 paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other 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 own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

Open Access Policy

Journal of Indonesian Agribusiness 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

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

Copyright Notice

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 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).

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...