Focus and Scope

Tropical forests have unique features. Its biological and ecological diversity relies on a very complex and interrelated system. Managing the forest sustainably required a wide application of multiple scientific disciplines.

Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika (JMHT) is a periodic scientific article and conceptual thinking of tropical forest management covering all aspects of forest planning, forest policy, forest resource utilization, forest ergonomics, forest ecology, forest inventory, silviculture, and management of regional ecosystems. JMHT is published by the Department of Forest Management (IPB University) associated with Rumah Akademisi Kehutanan Indonesia.

JMHT also welcomes the topics that directly or indirectly support tropical forest management, e.g., economics, anthropology, social, and environmental.

 

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts are subject to peer review and are expected to meet standards of academic excellence. Submissions will be considered by an editor and, “if not rejected right away,” by peer reviewers, whose identities will remain anonymous to the authors.

The suitability of manuscripts for publication in Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika (JMHT) is judged by peer reviewers and the JMHT Editorial Board. All the review processes are conducted in a double-blind review. The Chief Editor handles all correspondence with the author and makes the final decision as to whether the paper is recommended for acceptance or rejection or needs to be returned to the author for revision.

 

Publication Frequency

Published 4 times a year: January, April, July, and October.

 

Open Access Policy

Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika 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.

 

Revenue Sources

Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika is funded by the author-paid Article Processing Charge (APC).

 

Advertising and Direct Marketing Policy

We are committed to ensuring that no advertising, reprint, or other commercial revenue influences editorial decisions. In addition, we help with communications with other journals and/or publishers where it is beneficial and essential. Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika conducts direct marketing initiatives. The price for each copy is IDR50,000~IDR150,000 (excluding delivery costs).

 

Author Fees

Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika charges the following author fees:

Article publication fees: IDR4,000,000 or USD275 per printed article. 

If this paper is accepted for publication, you will be asked to pay an article publication fee to cover publication costs.

Within the process of scientific journal publication, rigorous editing is conducted, encompassing the refinement of the writing format, language, and graphical abstract presentation. JMHT provides subsidies to support the expenses associated with these services.

 

Ethics in Publishing

PUBLICATION ETHICS

Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika (JMHT) is an international journal that is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and taking all possible measures against any publication malpractice. This publication ethics is developed to avoid misconduct in research and publishing.  This publication ethics clarifies the ethical behavior of all parties involved in publishing a scientific article in JMHT.  This publication ethics is based on COPE’s Core Practices and Elsevier Publishing Ethics.

EDITORS

Review Process

Editors will evaluate the submitted papers to determine their suitability for further review based on a prequalification assessment. A manuscript could be rejected without a review process due to four general reasons:

- The manuscript does not pass the plagiarism examination.

- The topic of the manuscript does not fit in the JMHT scope and may be better suited for publication elsewhere.

- The manuscripts' substance falls short of JMHT standards due to potentially incomplete data, inappropriate methodology, lack of novelties, failure to advance existing knowledge, or inconsistency among objectives, research design/method, evidence, and conclusion.

- The manuscripts are not written following JMHT guidelines mentioned in Author Guidelines.

- JMHT is committed to objective and fair double-blind peer review of the submitted works for publication and to preventing any actual or potential conflict of interests between the editorial and review personnel and the reviewed material.  JMHT chooses reviewers based on their expertise, which most closely matches the topic of the paper.  At least 2 reviewers are invited to evaluate a manuscript. In cases of controversy or disagreement regarding the merits of the work, an additional review will be solicited. The JMHT editor mediates all interaction between authors and reviewers, and the review is owned by JMHT. 

Publication Decisions

We take reviewers' comments and suggestions seriously, weighing them according to their expertise. However, the JMHT editor reserves the final decision.  The editor JMHT is responsible for the final decision on article acceptance based on reviewers' opinions, suggestions, and comments. 

Fair Play

JMHT evaluates manuscripts only based on the intellectual content.  The evaluation process does not consider the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophies.

Plagiarism Check

JMHT checked all of the submitted works with anti-plagiarism software (Plagiarism Checker X, Grammarly, and TurnItIn). Plagiarism-detected works will be banned for further publication procedures.

Confidentiality

JMHT assures the confidentiality of the manuscripts, actors, and other related information on the publishing process.  The information is only accessible to the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in the JMHT editor's own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. JMHT editors should recuse themselves (i.e., should ask a co-editor, associate editor, or other member of the editorial board instead to review and consider) from considering manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or (possibly) institutions connected to the papers. Editors should require all contributors to disclose relevant competing interests and publish corrections if they are revealed after publication. Editors should take appropriate action, such as publishing a retraction or expressing concern, if necessary.

Post-publication, Discussion, and Correction

JMHT presents space for debate post-publication due to disputes arising from peer review of rejected comments and published corrections.  JMHT also allows correcting, revising, or retracting articles after publication.  The retracting mechanism follows the Cope Retraction Guideline.

AUTHORS

Authorship and Contributorship

The author is defined as an individual who has made a significant contribution to the study.  The author should (1) have a substantial contribution to the conception or design of the work and the analysis and interpretation of data for the work; (2) be actively involved in the writing process in terms of intellectual content; (3) be actively involved in the correction of mistakes or content upgrading based on reviewers' suggestions; and (4) approve the final version to be published.  All contributors that meet all the criteria should be listed as authors. 

All authors whose names are written in the manuscript should submit their approval of the version prior to the publication process (during the initial review). 

JMHT follows the COPE guidelines for changes in authorship (COPE Guidelines for Changes in Authorship: Authorship A, Authorship B, Authorship C, Authorship D).

Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. 

Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects

If the work involves procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must identify these in the manuscript. If the work involves the use of animal or human subjects, the author should ensure that the manuscript contains a statement that all procedures were performed in compliance with relevant laws and institutional guidelines and that the appropriate institutional committee(s) has approved them. Authors should include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human subjects. The privacy rights of human subjects must always be observed.

Data Retention

Authors also should ensure that the research is original, analyzes only underlying data, and is able to retain data for at least 5 years after publication to comply with the open data requirements of the JMHT. 

Acknowledgment of Sources

Authors should provide proper acknowledgment of the work of others. Authors should properly cite publications that significantly influence the nature of the reported work. Information obtained privately, as in conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, must seek explicit or written permission from the source.

Originality of the Articles

Authors submitting original articles certify that their works are their own and not plagiarized.  Authors who have been determined to have committed plagiarism will be banned from publishing in JMHT.

Multiple, redundant, or concurrent publications 

The author should not publish manuscripts describing high similarity in substances, the sentences used, or the content in more than one journal or primary publication. JMHT thinks that submitting the same manuscript to multiple journals is unethical and unacceptable.  

REVIEWERS

Contributions to the Editors’ Decision

The editor relies heavily on clear comments and opinions from reviewers when making publication decisions. This means that the JMHT editor is responsible for the final decision on article acceptance based on the reviewer's comments and opinions. 

Contributions to the Authors’ Work

Reviewers should provide clear and constructive comments and suggestions to the authors in the form of written and unbiased feedback, indicating whether the writing is clear, concise, and relevant. Reviewers should evaluate the scientific accuracy to improve the quality of the paper.  Reviewers should also provide relevant published work that is valuable to elevating the quality of the manuscript.

Confidentiality

In accordance with the double-blind peer-review process, the reviewer would not be informed of the name of the reviewed manuscript.  In terms of substance, reviewers should treat the manuscript as confidential documents; thus, editors should maintain the confidentiality of the review process. 

Objectivity

Reviewers should ensure fair play by avoiding personal comments or criticism.  Reviewers should avoid reviewing manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest.  Reviewers should avoid suggesting the author cite the reviewers’ publication/work, unless for genuine scientific reasons.

Unable reviewer

Unqualified reviewers, for the reason that (1) his/her scientific foundation does not match/meet up with the reviewed manuscript or (2) he/she is unable to catch up with the review timeline, thus reviewing will be impossible, should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process. 

 

Open Access and Copyright

Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika is an open-access journal, which means that all contents are freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

 

Indexing and Abstracting

Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika has been indexed/registered in Scopus, Clarivate Analytics: ESCI, DOAJ, CABI, EBSCO, Google Scholar, Sinta 1, and IPI.

 

Archiving Policy

The Indonesian Publication Index (IPI, formerly Portal Garuda Indonesian Publication Index) digitally preserves a full copy of the content of this journal. The digital archive is accessible through the Portal Garuda.

 

Sponsors

Rumah Akademisi Kehutanan Indonesia (RAKI)

 

Journal History

Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika is a periodic scientific journal that publishes articles and conceptual thinking on tropical forest management covering all aspects of forest planning, forest policy, forest resource utilization, forest ergonomics, forest ecology, forest inventory, silviculture, and management of regional ecosystems.  Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika also welcomes the topics that directly or indirectly support tropical forest management, e.g., economics, anthropology, social, and environment.  Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika is published in April, August, and December.

In January 1995, Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika was registered with the LIPI Scientific Information and Documentation Center (PDII) with ISSN number 0215-157X. In accordance with PDII LIPI rules, since June 2010, Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika has obtained a new ISSN number: 2087-0469. Subsequently, in November 2011, Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika received the number E-ISSN 2089-2063 and became a member of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) on June 8, 2015 (green thick).

The development of accreditation of the Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika from the Directorate General of Higher Education (DIKTI; Ministry of Research Technology and Higher Education of the Indonesian Republic) began in 2001 through Decree Number 134/DIKTI/Kep/2001. In 2004, Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika again obtained DIKTI’s accreditation through Decree Number 23a/DIKTI/Kep/2004. The status of accreditation of Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika was finally recoverable in September 2011 through Decree Number 66b/DIKTI/Kep./2011 dated September 9, 2011, with the value "B". The accreditation predicate is valid for 5 years until August 2016.  Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika is re-accredited by the Directorate General of Higher Education (DIKTI) through the Decree of the Directorate General of Higher Education Number 36a/E/KPT/2016 with the value "A,” which is valid until 2021. Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika is indexed in the Indonesian Science and Technology Index (Sinta) (Sinta S1 score). Since October 24, 2018, Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika has been accredited as PERINGKAT 1 from the Directorate General of Research and Development Strengthening of the Ministry of Research Technology and Higher Education of the Indonesian Republic through Decree Number 30/E/KPT/2018 (valid until 2021) and Decree Number 72/E/KPT/2024 (valid until 2027).  Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika has also been indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) since Volume 23, Number 1 (2017).

Since 2019, Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika has been indexed by SCOPUS with SJR 0.142 (Q4). The achievements of Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika continue to increase; in 2023, Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika is ranked Q3 (ranked 91 out of 153 forestry journals), with the number of citations in 2019-2022 reaching 149 (53% cited). Furthermore, Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika continues to strive to become a reputable journal. In 2021, the number of citations is 74 (excluding self-citation, which is only 8).

Since April 2024, Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika has achieved SCOPUS Quartile 2 (Q2) status for Forestry. Moving forward, Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika intends to continue disseminating research findings to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in the field of tropical forest management.