Editorial Policies

Publication Frequency

Jurnal Inovasi dan Pembelajaran Fisika (JIPF) - Journal of Physics Innovation and Learning a peer-reviewed journal that is published by Program Studi Pendidikan Fisika FKIP Universitas Sriwijaya or Sriwijaya University in collaboration with Physical Society Indonesia (PSI). JIPF is published periodically (twice a year) in Mei and November.

JIPF provides immediate open access to its content to all readers. The articles in JIPFinclude developments and researches in Physics Education, Classical Physics, and Modern Physics (theoretical studies, experiments, and its applications), with a particular emphasis on the Indonesian context and global perspective. More details about Focus and Scope, please check this link.

JIPF also carries a Comments and Criticism section, which provides a forum for expressing different viewpoints, comments, clarification, correction of misunderstanding, and reporting research misconduct regarding topics in published papers. Readers of the journal are earnestly invited to contribute their ideas to this forum. Contributions for the Comments and Criticism section should be relatively brief, normally one to four manuscript pages, written in Indonesian and English, and will be published as rapidly as possible.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal 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. All articles published on JIPF are open access by following the Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. Full license can be found here.

 

Anti-plagiarism Policy

All articles submitted to JIPF must be the original work of the author (free of plagiarism). The submitted article has never existed in any media and/or is not being or will be submitted in any media. The author is responsible for the authenticity of the submitted manuscript. All incoming manuscript will be checked for authenticity to prevent plagiarism by using Turnitin and/or iThenticate, anti-plagiarism software. Any forms of high-level plagiarism will be banned (temporary up to permanent banned).

 

Article in Press

Articles in Press on JIPF are articles that have been accepted for publication in JIPF but have not yet been assigned to specific issues (volume and number).  Articles in Press can also be the articles that have been assigned to specific issues but the issue has not been published yet. They provide possible chance to read about the latest developments in a certain research area before articles are officially published. 

There are three types of Articles in Press on JIPF:

1. Accepted manuscripts (AM) - Accepted manuscripts are articles that have been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication by JIPF Editorial Board, but have not yet been copyedited or formatted in JIPF style.
2. Uncorrected proofs (UP) - Uncorrected proofs have been copyedited and formatted according to JIPF Scientific Research Guidelines, but are not finalized and may still be corrected by the authors, so the text could change before final publication.
3. Corrected proofs (CP) - Corrected proofs contain authors’ and proofreaders’ corrections and may or may not have a specific issue and page numbers assigned.

Articles in Press that include errors, or are discovered to be accidental duplicates of other published article(s), or are determined to violate JIPF publishing ethics guidelines in the view of the editors (such as multiple submission, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or the like), may be “Withdrawn” from JIPF. Withdrawn means that the article content (HTML and PDF) is removed and replaced with a HTML page and PDF simply stating that the article has been withdrawn according to the JIPF Policy on Article in Press Withdrawal with a link to the current policy document. Articles that are "withdrawn" in Articles in Press will not be published in JIPF.

 

Internal Policy

Editors, Peer-reviewers, and Proofreaders of JIPF are permitted to submit an article in this journal with the following conditions:

1. Editors and Peer-reviewers of JIPF who submit an article to this journal will be released temporarily from the editorial processes (especially in their manuscript) starting from the time of submitting the article. This policy goes into the publication decision of the article (received without revision, received with minor revision, received with major revision, or rejected) at least 1 issue/number.
2. Editors and Peer-reviewers of JIPF who submit an article are not allowed to intervene the editorial process on editions/numbers when the article is sent to JIPF.
3. Any editorial process will be performed by other Editors, Peer-reviewers so that the process continues without any problems.
4. There is no special treatment for Editors and Peer-reviewers of JIPF who submit an article to JIPF.

 

Journal Scientific Statement

The articles published in Jurnal Inovasi dan Pembelajaran Fisika (JIPF) are scientifically proved the following the ethics code of scientific publication. The ethics code itself upholds three values of ethics in publications, namely, (1) Neutrality (free from conflicts of interest in the management of publications); (2) Justice (giving the right of authorship to the beneficiary as the author); and (3) Honesty (free from duplication, fabrication, falsification and plagiarism) in the publication. The articles published also follow the certain procedures or orders, such as double blind review and revision process that consistent with the journal’s regular review, to ensure that the quality is maintained properly.

 

Reference Management Software

All articles submitted to Jurnal Inovasi dan Pembelajaran Fisika should use the reference management software (e.g., Mendeley, EndNote, and Zotero) with Elsevier Vancouver citation style.

 

Archiving

JIPF is deposited in multiple digital archives to guarantee long­-term digital preservation.