Ownership and Management Information

Poltekita: Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan

Poltekita: Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan is a scholarly, peer-reviewed, open-access scientific journal published by Poltekkes Kemenkes Palu, Indonesia. The journal is dedicated to disseminating original research, review articles, case studies, perspective articles, and other scholarly contributions that advance scientific knowledge and evidence-based practices in health sciences.

The journal covers various disciplines, including nursing, health law, nutrition, midwifery, environmental health, public health, reproductive health, health education, health promotion, and related health sciences.

Poltekita: Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan aims to facilitate the exchange of scientific knowledge, promote research integrity, support academic collaboration, and contribute to the development of healthcare practices, health education, and public health at national and international levels.

The journal is committed to maintaining transparent information regarding its institutional ownership, publishing responsibilities, editorial management, organizational structure, and institutional affiliations.

Its publication activities are conducted in accordance with established editorial policies, publication ethics standards, and internationally recognized principles of responsible scholarly publishing.

1. Journal Information

Journal Title: Poltekita: Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan

Full Journal Title: Poltekita: Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan

Journal Type: Scholarly, peer-reviewed scientific journal

Subject Area: Health Sciences and Related Disciplines

Focus and Scope: Nursing, Health Law, Nutrition, Midwifery, Environmental Health, Public Health, Reproductive Health, Health Education, Health Promotion, and related Health Sciences

Publication Model: Open Access

Peer-Review Model: Single-Blind Peer Review

Publication Frequency: Quarterly (February, May, August, and November)

Publishing Platform: Open Journal Systems (OJS)

Publisher: Poltekkes Kemenkes Palu, Indonesia

Online ISSN (e-ISSN): 2527-7170

Print ISSN (p-ISSN): 1907-459X

Official Website: https://ojs.polkespalupress.id/index.php/JIK/

Previous Journal Website: https://jurnal.poltekkespalu.ac.id/index.php/JIK/

Institutional Affiliation: Poltekkes Kemenkes Palu, Ministry of Health, Republic of Indonesia

The journal operates under the institutional publishing responsibility of Poltekkes Kemenkes Palu and maintains an editorial management system designed to support the quality, independence, transparency, and integrity of scholarly publishing.

2. Ownership and Publishing Responsibility

Poltekita: Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan is institutionally administered and published by Poltekkes Kemenkes Palu, Indonesia.

The publishing institution is responsible for providing the organizational, administrative, technical, and operational framework necessary to support the journal's publication activities.

The institutional publishing responsibilities include:

Providing administrative and organizational support for journal operations.
Supporting the availability and maintenance of the journal's electronic publishing platform.
Facilitating the development and implementation of publication management procedures.
Supporting appropriate infrastructure for manuscript processing, editorial communication, peer review, and online publication.
Maintaining institutional accountability and continuity in journal management.
Supporting the implementation of responsible scholarly publishing practices.
Facilitating the sustainability and development of the journal in accordance with its scientific mission and publication policies.

The ownership and publishing arrangements are disclosed to ensure that authors, reviewers, readers, researchers, and other stakeholders can identify the institution responsible for the journal's publication activities.

The publishing institution supports the journal's academic mission, publication infrastructure, and long-term sustainability.

However, institutional ownership and administrative oversight do not automatically confer authority to influence individual editorial decisions based on institutional interests, professional relationships, financial considerations, or other factors unrelated to the scientific merit and ethical acceptability of a manuscript.

Editorial decisions must remain independent and be based on established scientific and publication ethics standards.

Any formal changes to the publishing institution, ownership arrangements, or management structure will be reflected in the journal's official information when appropriate.

3. Editorial Management

Poltekita: Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan is managed by an Editorial Team responsible for overseeing manuscript evaluation, peer review, editorial decisions, publication preparation, and compliance with the journal's editorial and publication ethics policies.

The editorial management structure includes appointed academic and editorial personnel with relevant qualifications and expertise in health sciences and related disciplines.

The journal's editorial structure may include the following positions, according to officially appointed personnel:

Editor-in-Chief: Provides overall academic leadership, oversees the implementation of editorial policies, maintains scientific and ethical standards, and holds final responsibility for editorial decisions.
Managing Editor: Coordinates daily editorial operations, monitors manuscript progress, manages editorial workflows, and facilitates communication among authors, editors, reviewers, and the publishing institution.
Editors and Section Editors: Manage manuscript submissions in relevant subject areas, coordinate peer review, evaluate reviewer recommendations, and support editorial decision-making within their assigned responsibilities.
Editorial Board Members: Provide academic guidance, support the development of editorial policies, contribute to scientific quality assurance, and promote the journal's academic reputation and strategic development.
Peer Reviewers: Conduct independent scientific assessments of submitted manuscripts and provide constructive, evidence-based recommendations to support editorial decisions.
Editorial Support Personnel: Assist with manuscript administration, copyediting, proofreading, layout preparation, article metadata management, technical publication procedures, and other editorial activities.

The Editorial Team includes academic professionals and researchers with expertise relevant to the journal's focus and scope.

The journal is committed to maintaining an editorial structure that supports professional competence, scholarly independence, fairness, and accountability.

The current names, institutional affiliations, and academic qualifications of appointed editorial personnel are available through the journal's official Editorial Team or Editorial Masthead page.

Changes in editorial appointments or management responsibilities will be reflected in the journal's official information as appropriate.

4. Roles and Responsibilities

The Editorial Team of Poltekita: Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan is responsible for ensuring that all submitted manuscripts are handled fairly, consistently, transparently, and in accordance with the journal's established policies.

Its responsibilities include:

Manuscript Management: Managing submissions through the journal's Online Journal Systems (OJS) platform and conducting initial editorial screening to assess relevance, completeness, originality, and compliance with author guidelines.
Reviewer Selection: Selecting qualified and independent reviewers with appropriate expertise in the subject matter and research methodology of submitted manuscripts.
Peer-Review Coordination: Implementing the journal's single-blind peer-review process, coordinating reviewer assignments, maintaining reviewer confidentiality, and evaluating reviewer recommendations.
Editorial Decision-Making: Making editorial decisions based on scientific merit, originality, methodological quality, relevance to the journal's focus and scope, research integrity, and ethical acceptability.
Publication Ethics Compliance: Ensuring compliance with applicable policies concerning research ethics, authorship, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, artificial intelligence usage, data integrity, and other ethical requirements.
Manuscript Revision and Quality Assurance: Coordinating author revisions, assessing responses to reviewer comments, and ensuring that accepted manuscripts meet established scientific and editorial standards.
Post-Publication Responsibilities: Managing corrections, retractions, expressions of concern, authorship disputes, and other post-publication matters when necessary to preserve the integrity of the scholarly record.
Confidentiality Protection: Maintaining appropriate confidentiality throughout manuscript evaluation, peer review, editorial communication, and publication preparation.
Publication Metadata and Documentation: Supporting accurate article metadata, author information, references, Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), and other relevant bibliographic records.
Editorial Policy Development: Reviewing and improving editorial procedures, publication policies, and quality assurance practices to maintain appropriate scholarly publishing standards.

Each editorial role operates within the responsibilities assigned by the journal.

Final editorial authority rests with the Editor-in-Chief or the editor formally authorized to make the relevant decision, in accordance with the journal's established editorial policies.

The Editorial Team is expected to exercise independent scientific judgment, avoid inappropriate conflicts of interest, and ensure that publication decisions are based on the quality and integrity of submitted research.

5. Editorial Independence

Poltekita: Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan is committed to maintaining editorial independence from its publishing institution, sponsors, funding organizations, institutional partners, and other external parties.

Editorial decisions are based on the scientific quality, originality, relevance, methodological rigor, ethical acceptability, and scholarly contribution of submitted manuscripts.

Decisions must not be improperly influenced by the authors' nationality, gender, religion, institutional affiliation, academic position, professional relationships, funding sources, personal interests, or other irrelevant considerations.

Poltekkes Kemenkes Palu, as the publishing institution, may provide administrative, organizational, financial, and technical support for the journal's operations.

However, such support must not compromise the independent evaluation of manuscripts or interfere with the professional judgment of editors and reviewers.

The Editor-in-Chief and authorized editors retain responsibility for editorial decisions concerning manuscript acceptance, revision, or rejection.

Editors are expected to disclose relevant conflicts of interest and withdraw from handling manuscripts when their impartiality may reasonably be questioned.

When necessary, another qualified and independent editor will be assigned to ensure fair and objective assessment.

The journal applies its editorial and peer-review policies consistently to manuscripts submitted by internal and external authors, including researchers affiliated with the publishing institution.

Institutional affiliation with Poltekkes Kemenkes Palu does not provide preferential treatment or exemption from the journal's established editorial, scientific, and ethical requirements.

The journal is committed to maintaining an editorial environment that promotes academic freedom, impartiality, professional integrity, and responsible scientific communication.

6. Relationship Between Ownership and Editorial Governance

Poltekita: Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan distinguishes the institutional responsibilities of the publishing organization from the academic and scientific responsibilities of editorial governance.

The publishing institution, Poltekkes Kemenkes Palu, is responsible for providing the organizational framework, administrative support, and publication infrastructure necessary for the journal's operation.

The Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Team are responsible for implementing editorial policies, evaluating manuscripts, coordinating peer review, maintaining scientific standards, and making publication decisions.

This separation of responsibilities is intended to protect academic independence, prevent inappropriate institutional interference, and ensure that editorial decisions remain consistent with recognized principles of research integrity and publication ethics.

The journal's editorial governance is based on the following principles:

Clear Institutional Responsibility: The publishing institution provides organizational oversight and operational support without improperly influencing individual manuscript decisions.
Independent Editorial Authority: Editorial decisions are made by authorized editors based on scientific merit, methodological quality, and ethical standards.
Professional Accountability: Editors, reviewers, and editorial personnel are accountable for fulfilling their assigned responsibilities in accordance with established journal policies.
Conflict-of-Interest Management: Potential financial, institutional, professional, or personal conflicts of interest must be disclosed and managed appropriately.
Transparent Governance: Relevant information concerning institutional publishing responsibilities, editorial appointments, and management procedures should be publicly accessible.
Protection of Research Integrity: Publishing and editorial arrangements must support the impartial evaluation of manuscripts and the responsible dissemination of scientific findings.

Any formal institutional or organizational arrangements affecting editorial authority should be documented and communicated transparently where relevant.

The journal remains committed to maintaining an appropriate balance between institutional support and independent academic decision-making.

7. Financial and Operational Transparency

Poltekita: Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan is committed to maintaining transparency in its financial arrangements, publication operations, and administrative procedures.

Information about applicable article processing charges (APCs), submission fees, funding arrangements, sponsorships, and other relevant financial relationships is disclosed through the journal's official website, as applicable.

The journal's publication fee policies are intended to support editorial processing, peer-review administration, manuscript preparation, online publication, and the maintenance of scholarly publishing infrastructure.

The journal publishes its applicable submission fee and Article Processing Charge (APC) requirements on its official Article Processing Charge page.

Any applicable publication charges must be communicated transparently to authors before the relevant payment stage.

Financial considerations must not determine the scientific assessment or editorial outcome of a submitted manuscript.

Payment of an article processing charge does not guarantee manuscript acceptance or publication.

All manuscripts remain subject to the journal's established editorial screening, peer-review procedures, scientific quality requirements, and publication ethics standards.

Where applicable, information concerning payment procedures, fee adjustments, exemptions, waivers, and refund conditions should be disclosed through the journal's official publication fee policy.

The publishing institution and Editorial Team are responsible for supporting responsible financial and operational management while preserving editorial independence.

The journal will manage its resources in a manner that supports publication sustainability, transparency, accountability, and the integrity of the scholarly publishing process.

8. Transparency and Accountability

Poltekita: Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan recognizes the importance of providing accurate, complete, transparent, and publicly accessible information about its publishing institution, ownership arrangements, editorial leadership, management structure, and publication procedures.

The journal makes relevant information available through its official website, including:

Journal Profile and Publication Information: The journal's title, scientific scope, publication frequency, ISSN identifiers, and general publication model.
Ownership and Publishing Institution: Information identifying Poltekkes Kemenkes Palu as the institution responsible for publishing the journal.
Editorial Leadership: Information about the Editor-in-Chief, Managing Editor, and other officially appointed editorial personnel.
Editorial Board and Affiliations: Names, institutional affiliations, academic backgrounds, and relevant information concerning Editorial Board members.
Peer-Review Procedures: Information about the journal's single-blind peer-review process, reviewer responsibilities, confidentiality requirements, and editorial decision-making procedures.
Publication Ethics Policies: Policies concerning plagiarism, research misconduct, authorship, conflicts of interest, artificial intelligence usage, corrections, retractions, and other ethical considerations.
Open Access and Copyright Policies: Information about open access publishing, copyright arrangements, licensing conditions, and permitted use of published articles.
Publication Fees: Information about applicable submission fees, Article Processing Charges (APCs), payment procedures, and other relevant financial arrangements.
Official Editorial Contact Information: Contact details and communication channels for inquiries concerning manuscript submission, editorial processing, publication policies, and other journal-related matters.
Publication Records and Archiving: Information about published issues, article metadata, bibliographic records, digital identification, and long-term access to scholarly content.

Poltekita: Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan aims to keep this information accurate, accessible, and up to date.

Changes to editorial appointments, publishing arrangements, ownership information, publication fees, or relevant governance procedures will be reflected in the appropriate sections of the journal's official website.

The Editorial Board and publishing institution share responsibility for supporting transparency, accountability, responsible administration, and the integrity of the journal's publication activities.

Through these commitments, Poltekita: Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan seeks to strengthen public trust, promote responsible scholarly communication, and maintain the credibility of scientific publishing in health sciences at national and international levels.