Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

International Activa-Passiva Journal (IAPJ) is a peer-reviewed journal published four (4) times a year (March, June, September and December) by Master of Management, Faculty of Economic, Universitas Islam Sultan Agung (UNISSULA). International Activa-Passiva Journal (IAPJ) is intended to be the journal for publishing articles reporting management research results. IAPJ invites manuscripts on various topics related to management with the following focus and scope:

  • Basic Management
  • Finance and Banking
  • Econometric Applications
  • Financial Econometrics
  • International Trade and Development
  • Tourism Economics
  • Business Economics
  • Micro Finance
  • International Finance
  • Economics, Finance, and Management of Education
  • Management, Marketing, Human Resources, Organizations, Management Information Systems, etc.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Publication of articles in International Activa-Passiva Journal (IAPJ) is dependent solely on scientific validity and coherence as judged by our editors and/or peer reviewers, who will also assess whether the writing is comprehensible and whether the work represents a useful contribution to the field. International Activa-Passiva Journal (IAPJ) acknowledged the effort and suggestions made by its reviewers. 

Initial evaluation of manuscripts

The Editor will first evaluate all manuscripts submitted at a maximum of 3 weeks' time. Although rare, it is entirely feasible for an exceptional manuscript to be accepted at this stage. Those rejected at this stage are insufficiently original, have serious scientific flaws, or are outside the aims and scope of the International Activa-Passiva Journal (IAPJ). Those that meet the minimum criteria are passed on to expert reviewers for review. It usually took up to 8 weeks.

Type of peer review

Submitted manuscripts will generally be reviewed by two to three experts who will be asked to evaluate whether the manuscript is scientifically sound and coherent, whether it duplicates the already published works, and whether or not the manuscript is sufficiently clear for publication. The method is double-blind peer review. Other rounds of review processes would be done should the first round is inadequate.

Review reports

Reviewers are asked to evaluate whether the manuscript:

  1. It is original by stating the objectives and gaps clearly
  2. Is methodologically sound
  3. Follows appropriate ethical guidelines
  4. Have results/findings which are clearly presented and support the conclusions
  5. Correctly references previous relevant work
  6. Reviewers are not expected to correct or copyedit manuscripts. Language correction is not part of the peer-review process.

Decision

Reviewers advise the editor, who is responsible for the final decision to accept or reject the article. The Editors will reach a decision based on these reports and, where necessary, they will consult with members of the Editorial Board. The editor’s decision is final.

Becoming a Reviewer

If you are not a reviewer for International Activa-Passiva Journal (IAPJ) but would like to be added to the list of reviewers, please get in touch with us via email iapj@unissula.ac.id to obtain the reviewer's form. This form should you entirely and then resend via email. The benefits of reviewing for International Activa-Passiva Journal (IAPJ) include the opportunity to see and evaluate the latest work in the related research areas at an early stage and to be acknowledged in our list of reviewers. You may also be able to cite your work for International Activa-Passiva Journal (IAPJ) as part of your professional development requirements. IAPJ's reviewers are volunteers who contribute their expertise to the science; thus, no financial payments are made.

 

 

Publication Frequency

This journal published four (4) times a year (March, June, September and December)

 

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.

This journal is open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to users or / institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full text articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or author. This is in accordance with Budapest Open Access Initiative.

 

APC

APC: An article publication charge (APC) is a fee charged to authors to make their work available as open access (OA). This fee may be paid by the author, the author’s institution, or their research funder. Our open access journals charge an APC to cover the costs involved in the publication process, from administrating peer-review to copy editing and hosting the final article on dedicated servers. APCs vary by journal. To see a full list of APC prices for our fully open access journals and subscription journals which offer open access.

 

Plagiarism Policy


This Editorial board recognizes that plagiarism is not acceptable and therefore establishes the following policy stating specific actions (penalties) upon identification of plagiarism/similarities in articles submitted for publication.
This Journal will use Turnitin's originality checking software as the tool in detecting similarities of texts in article manuscripts and the final version of articles ready for publication. A maximum of 25 % of similarities is allowed for the submitted papers. Should we find more than 25 % of the similarity index, the article will be returned to the author for correction and re-submission.