Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

KLOROFIL: Jurnal Ilmu Biologi dan Terapan is a journal that published by Major of biology and applied sciences, Department of Biology, Fakultas Sains dan Teknologi, Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera Utara Medan,Indonesia. KLOROFIL: JIBT invite and welcomes for academic people,pratitioners and scientific work of biology and applied to published the original and relevant research articlein biology.

The scope of KLOROFIL:JIBT’s Journal are: 

  • microbiology; 
  • biotechnology; 
  • ethnobotany; 
  • zoology and entomology; 
  • ecology and environment; 
  • physiology; 
  • genetic and molecular; 
  • biochemical;
  • biomedicine; 
  • tissue culture; 
  • Applied biology.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Manuscript will reviewed by reviewers members based on their expertise and provide considerations relating to compability between the title, abstract, introduction, result conclusion, and references used.

Each manuscript received by KLOROFIL: JIBT  will following steps of the review process:

  1. The manuscript is first evaluated by the Editor in Chief which can be declined if it lacks strong scientific merit and does not fit into the scope of the journal KLOROFIL: JIBT. It will rejected if not fit into the scope.
  2. Editor in Chief will check by using Turnitin and Plagiarism Checker X to check the originality of the manuscript submission. It will be rejected if not the original manuscript.
  3. Manuscripts with original research will sent for blinded review by at least two reviewers members based on their expertise (double-blind peer review).
  4. The result may accepted with no correction, accepted with little correction, accepted with many corrections, or refused the manuscript based on his/her expertise and recommendations from reviewers. It will send the result to the author’s email.
  5. The sending authors are given the opportunity to correct the manuscript and send it back in a good manuscript.

 

Publication Frequency

KLOROFIL: JIBT journal will published twice in a year which it published on January until June and July until December.

 

Open Access Policy

KLOROFIL:JIBT 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.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Publication Ethics

PUBLICATION ETHICS

KLOROFIL: Jurnal Ilmu Biologi dan Terapan is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles in the field of Biology and Applied Sciences. We publish original research papers, review articles, and case studies which have not been published anywhere. Klorofil is committed to the ethical standards set for all entities involved in the publication of the article. This statement clarifies the ethical behavior of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal, including the author, the chief editor, the editorial board, the peer-reviewer­­­­­ and the publisher (Departemen Biologi, Fakultas Sains dan Teknologi Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera Utara, Medan). This statement is based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors. https://publicationethics.org/files/retraction%20guidelines.pdf

Authors

  1. Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
  2. Authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data (consistent with the ALPSP-STM Statement on Data and Databases), if practicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.
  3. The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works (no pagiarism) and should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
  4. Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
  5. When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.
  6. The KLOROFIL: JIBT and its editors endorse the compliance of authors to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki of the World Medical Association, which relate to the conduct of ethical research on human beings, and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the Institute for Laboratory Animal Research of the National Research Council, which relate to the conduct of ethical research on laboratory and other animals. 

Editor in Chief

  1. An editor-in-chief at any time evaluates manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
  2. The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
  3. Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.
  4. The editor board journal is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.
  5. The editor must ensure that each manuscript is initially evaluated by the editor for originality. The editor should organize and use peer review fairly and wisely. Editors should explain their peer review processes in the information for authors and also indicate which parts of the journal are peer-reviewed. Editors should use appropriate peer reviewers for papers that are considered for publication by selecting people with sufficient expertise and avoiding those with conflicts of interest.
  6. The editor must give information to the author that their manuscript was rejected or published after the peer reviewer process.

Reviewers

  1. Peer reviewers assist the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.
  2. Reviewers should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
  3. Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.
  4. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers. Manuscript-privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.
  5. Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.