Ownership and Management

1. Journal Ownership and Publisher

Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan (JIK) is a national, peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal published by the Akademi Keperawatan Dharma Husada Kediri in collaboration with the Indonesian National Nurses Association, Kediri City Chapter (DPD PPNI Kota Kediri).

As the institutional publisher, the Akademi Keperawatan Dharma Husada Kediri is responsible for supporting the journal's organizational administration, publishing infrastructure, operational sustainability, and institutional development.

2. Institutional and Administrative Management

The institutional and administrative management of Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan (JIK) is supported by the Akademi Keperawatan Dharma Husada Kediri.

Institutional management responsibilities include:

  • Providing organizational and administrative support for the journal's publication activities.
  • Supporting the operation and maintenance of the journal's electronic publishing platform.
  • Facilitating coordination between the publisher and the editorial management team.
  • Supporting the accessibility, dissemination, and continuity of scholarly publications.
  • Encouraging the continuous development of the journal's publishing standards and academic quality.

Institutional oversight concerns administrative and organizational responsibilities and must remain separate from independent scientific evaluation and manuscript-level editorial decisions.

3. Editorial Management and Responsibilities

The academic and editorial management of Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan (JIK) is led by the Editor-in-Chief, supported by the Editorial Board, Section Editors, peer reviewers, and editorial staff.

The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for overseeing the journal's academic direction, maintaining editorial standards, and ensuring that manuscript evaluation and publication decisions are conducted fairly, consistently, and independently.

The editorial management team is responsible for:

  • Assessing manuscripts for relevance, originality, scientific quality, and alignment with the journal's aims and scope.
  • Managing the peer-review process and selecting appropriately qualified reviewers.
  • Ensuring that editorial decisions are based on scientific merit, methodological rigor, research integrity, and scholarly contribution.
  • Maintaining compliance with the journal's publication ethics and editorial policies.
  • Addressing concerns involving research misconduct, conflicts of interest, complaints, appeals, corrections, and retractions.
  • Supporting the continuous improvement of the journal's academic quality and international scholarly visibility.

The current composition of the editorial management team is publicly available on the Editorial Team page.

4. Peer Review and Editorial Independence

Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan (JIK) is committed to maintaining an independent, transparent, and academically rigorous editorial decision-making process.

The journal implements a double-blind peer-review process in which manuscripts are evaluated by at least two anonymous reviewers with relevant subject expertise.

Submitted manuscripts undergo an initial editorial assessment to determine their relevance to the journal's scope and compliance with scientific and methodological standards.

Manuscripts considered suitable for further evaluation are assigned to independent reviewers. Reviewers provide recommendations concerning originality, methodology, scientific relevance, interpretation of findings, and overall scholarly quality.

The final publication decision is made by the responsible editor in accordance with the journal's established editorial procedures.

The Akademi Keperawatan Dharma Husada Kediri, as the institutional publisher, respects the academic independence of the Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board.

Neither institutional authorities nor external stakeholders may improperly influence reviewer selection, peer-review recommendations, manuscript acceptance, rejection, or other scientific editorial decisions.

Manuscripts must be evaluated on the basis of scientific merit, originality, methodological quality, ethical compliance, and relevance to the journal, regardless of the authors' institutional affiliations, nationality, academic positions, or professional standing.

Further information is available in the Peer Review Process .

5. Publication Ethics and Accountability

Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan (JIK) is committed to responsible scholarly publishing and upholding the principles of transparency, integrity, fairness, and accountability throughout the publication process.

The publisher and editorial management team share responsibility for maintaining appropriate policies and procedures concerning research integrity and publication ethics.

Authors, editors, reviewers, and journal staff are expected to disclose any actual, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest that could compromise their professional judgment or responsibilities.

Editors with significant conflicts of interest concerning a manuscript must withdraw from its evaluation and decision-making process. Such manuscripts should be assigned to an independent editor without relevant competing interests.

Manuscripts submitted by editors, editorial board members, or individuals affiliated with the publisher must undergo independent editorial handling and peer review under the same scientific and ethical standards applied to other submissions.

Allegations of research misconduct, ethical concerns, and post-publication issues must be assessed fairly and addressed through appropriate editorial procedures.

The journal's ethical responsibilities are further described in its Publication Ethics policy.

6. Financial Management and Publishing Support

JIK is an open-access scholarly publication supported by the institutional publishing arrangements of the Akademi Keperawatan Dharma Husada Kediri.

In accordance with the journal's published author fee policy. A publication fee of IDR 500,000 applies to all accepted manuscripts, regardless of the authors' country of origin or institutional affiliation.

Detailed information is available in the Author Fee Policy .

7. Copyright and Open Access Responsibilities

The institutional management and publication of JOPI are distinct from the ownership of copyright in individual scholarly works.

Authors publishing in Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan (JIK) retain copyright to their articles and grant the journal the right of first publication.

Published articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0), which permits sharing and adaptation of published materials under the applicable license conditions.

The publisher and editorial team support the accessibility, dissemination, and integrity of published scholarly works while respecting authors' intellectual property rights.

The views, findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in published articles are those of the respective authors and do not necessarily represent the official views or policies of the Ministry of Youth and Sports of the Republic of Indonesia or the JIK Editorial Board.

Further information is provided in the Copyright Notice .

8. Publisher Contact Information

Journal:
Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan (JIK)

Institutional Publisher:
Akademi Keperawatan Dharma Husada Kediri in collaboration with the Indonesian National Nurses Association, Kediri City Chapter (DPD PPNI Kota Kediri).

Address:
Jl. Penanggungan 41 A, Kediri 64114, Kediri, East Java Province, Indonesia

E-mail: jik.admin@ejurnaladhkdr.com