Ownership and Management Information

Ownership and Management Information

Scientific Journal of Nursing Research (SJNR) · Journal Information

Scientific Journal of Nursing Research (SJNR) is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal owned and published by Poltekkes Kemenkes Pontianak (Pontianak Health Polytechnic), Indonesia, and managed through its Department of Nursing.

The journal is dedicated to advancing nursing knowledge, evidence-based practice, nursing education, clinical research, and healthcare services by disseminating original scholarly contributions to national and international audiences.

SJNR operates within the institutional framework of Poltekkes Kemenkes Pontianak while maintaining the academic integrity, professional accountability, and editorial independence necessary for credible scholarly publishing.

The journal's institutional ownership, publishing responsibilities, editorial governance, administrative operations, and principles of independent management are outlined below.

On This Page

  1. Institutional Responsibility and Publisher

  2. Editorial Management

  3. Administrative and Technical Management

  4. Editorial Independence

  5. Accountability and Contact

1. Institutional Responsibility and Publisher

Institutional and Publishing InformationDetails
Journal Title Scientific Journal of Nursing Research
Journal Abbreviation SJNR
Institutional Owner Poltekkes Kemenkes Pontianak, Indonesia
Responsible Publisher Poltekkes Kemenkes Pontianak (Pontianak Health Polytechnic)
Publishing and Managing Unit Department of Nursing, Poltekkes Kemenkes Pontianak
Editorial Governance Editorial Team of Scientific Journal of Nursing Research
Print ISSN (P-ISSN) 2655-0024
Electronic ISSN (E-ISSN) 2655-6731
Publication Frequency Biannual (April and October)
Publication Model Open Access
Peer Review System Double-Blind Peer Review
Country of Publication Indonesia
Official Website https://ejournal.poltekkes-pontianak.ac.id/index.php/SJNR/index

Institutional Ownership and Publishing Responsibility

Scientific Journal of Nursing Research is institutionally owned by Poltekkes Kemenkes Pontianak and operates under the academic and administrative management of its Department of Nursing.

As the responsible publishing institution, Poltekkes Kemenkes Pontianak provides the institutional framework necessary to support the journal's continuity, operational sustainability, academic credibility, and responsible dissemination of scholarly research.

Institutional responsibilities include supporting the following:

  • The continuity and sustainability of journal publication and management.

  • The provision of appropriate administrative, technological, and institutional resources.

  • The establishment and maintenance of transparent scholarly publishing policies.

  • The appointment and professional development of qualified editorial personnel.

  • Compliance with applicable publication ethics, institutional regulations, and scholarly publishing standards.

  • The maintenance of a secure and reliable online journal publishing environment.

  • The responsible management of journal records, publication metadata, and published scholarly content.

  • The development of academic quality, editorial accountability, and international scholarly visibility.

The Department of Nursing serves as the journal's managing academic unit and supports the coordination of editorial and operational activities in accordance with the journal's established policies.

Institutional ownership does not confer unrestricted authority over individual manuscript decisions. Such decisions remain the responsibility of authorized editors and must be based on independent scholarly assessment.

Institutional ownership of SJNR is also distinct from copyright ownership of individual published articles. Copyright, licensing, distribution, and permitted reuse of published works are governed by the journal's applicable Copyright Notice and Licensing Policy.

2. Editorial Management

Editorial management of Scientific Journal of Nursing Research is conducted by the journal's appointed editorial personnel, including the Editor-in-Chief, editors responsible for manuscript handling, and editorial board members.

The composition of the editorial team, including the names and institutional affiliations of its members, is publicly available on the Editorial Team page.

The editorial structure is intended to ensure scholarly competence, transparent decision-making, ethical manuscript handling, and the maintenance of publication quality.

Editor-in-Chief

The Editor-in-Chief has overall responsibility for the journal's scholarly direction, editorial integrity, academic standards, and implementation of established editorial policies.

The responsibilities of the Editor-in-Chief include:

  • Providing academic leadership and strategic direction for the journal.

  • Ensuring that submitted manuscripts are evaluated according to scholarly merit, originality, methodological rigor, and relevance to the journal's scope.

  • Overseeing the integrity and consistency of the editorial and peer review processes.

  • Supervising editors and ensuring the appropriate assignment of manuscripts.

  • Making or authorizing final editorial decisions in accordance with the journal's established procedures.

  • Ensuring appropriate management of potential conflicts of interest.

  • Overseeing the investigation and resolution of publication ethics concerns, complaints, appeals, and post-publication issues.

  • Coordinating editorial policy development and continuous quality improvement.

The Editor-in-Chief exercises editorial authority independently of institutional, financial, personal, or other inappropriate external influences.

Handling Editors

Handling editors are responsible for coordinating the scholarly assessment of manuscripts assigned to them.

Their responsibilities include:

  • Conducting preliminary manuscript assessments for suitability, completeness, and relevance.

  • Identifying qualified reviewers with appropriate subject expertise.

  • Managing the double-blind peer review process.

  • Evaluating reviewer reports and author responses.

  • Monitoring manuscript revisions and ensuring that substantive concerns are adequately addressed.

  • Making editorial recommendations or decisions within their delegated authority.

  • Identifying and managing potential conflicts of interest throughout the editorial process.

Handling editors must ensure that all manuscripts receive fair, impartial, confidential, and professionally responsible treatment.

Editorial Board

Editorial board members support the journal's academic development and contribute expertise in nursing research, clinical practice, nursing education, healthcare systems, and related disciplines.

Their responsibilities may include advising on editorial policies, assessing manuscripts within their areas of expertise, recommending suitable reviewers, supporting ethical publishing practices, and contributing to the journal's continuous quality improvement.

Editorial board membership does not automatically confer authority to accept or reject manuscripts. Decision-making responsibilities must be explicitly assigned in accordance with the journal's governance arrangements.

Independent Peer Reviewers

SJNR applies a double-blind peer review process, in which manuscripts are evaluated by at least two appropriately qualified reviewers.

Reviewers provide independent scholarly assessments of manuscript originality, methodological quality, scientific validity, ethical considerations, interpretation of findings, and contribution to nursing knowledge.

Reviewers are expected to maintain confidentiality, declare competing interests, provide constructive and evidence-based feedback, and evaluate manuscripts objectively.

Reviewer recommendations inform editorial decisions but do not replace the responsibility of the authorized editor.

The review and decision-making procedures are described in the journal's Peer Review Process.

3. Administrative and Technical Management

The editorial office of Scientific Journal of Nursing Research coordinates the administrative, production, communication, and technical activities required for the journal's effective operation.

Administrative and technical responsibilities are performed under the institutional support of Poltekkes Kemenkes Pontianak and the coordination of the journal's editorial management.

These responsibilities include:

  • Submission administration: Maintaining manuscript submission records, correspondence, editorial documentation, and submission status information.

  • Editorial coordination: Facilitating communication among authors, editors, reviewers, and relevant publishing personnel.

  • Publication production: Coordinating copyediting, proofreading, manuscript formatting, layout preparation, author proof verification, and publication scheduling.

  • Metadata management: Maintaining accurate article titles, author information, institutional affiliations, abstracts, keywords, references, identifiers, and publication metadata.

  • Website administration: Supporting the operation, maintenance, access control, and technical reliability of the journal's online publishing system.

  • Digital preservation: Supporting appropriate backup, archiving, preservation arrangements, and long-term accessibility of published scholarly content.

  • Policy documentation: Maintaining journal information, operational procedures, editorial records, and policy updates.

  • Publication monitoring: Supporting publication timeliness, issue completeness, metadata accuracy, and the continuous improvement of journal operations.

Administrative and technical personnel must protect confidential manuscripts, unpublished research findings, reviewer identities, editorial correspondence, and other restricted information.

Access to confidential records is granted only to authorized individuals according to their assigned responsibilities and legitimate operational requirements.

Administrative privileges or technical access to the journal's publishing platform do not confer authority to influence scholarly assessments or make editorial acceptance and rejection decisions.

Any external technical assistance, institutional support, or service arrangement must respect the confidentiality of editorial records and the independence of editorial decision-making.

4. Editorial Independence

Scientific Journal of Nursing Research is committed to safeguarding editorial independence as a fundamental principle of credible and ethical scholarly publishing.

Although SJNR is institutionally owned and published by Poltekkes Kemenkes Pontianak, editorial decisions must remain independent of inappropriate institutional, administrative, political, financial, commercial, and personal influence.

All manuscripts must be evaluated according to their scientific quality, relevance to the journal's aims and scope, originality, methodological soundness, research integrity, ethical compliance, and contribution to nursing science and practice.

Independence in Editorial Decisions

The acceptance, revision, or rejection of a manuscript must not be determined by:

  • The author's institutional affiliation, academic position, professional seniority, or personal relationship with editorial personnel.

  • Employment or organizational connections with the publishing institution.

  • Financial support, sponsorship, publication fees, or other financial considerations.

  • Political, religious, commercial, or institutional preferences unrelated to scientific merit.

  • Personal interests, professional competition, or other circumstances that may compromise impartiality.

The publisher and managing institution must respect the authority of the editorial team to conduct independent scholarly evaluations and make decisions in accordance with established editorial policies.

Conflict of Interest Management

Editors, reviewers, and other individuals involved in manuscript assessment must disclose relevant financial, professional, institutional, academic, or personal interests that could reasonably affect their impartiality.

Editors with relevant competing interests must withdraw from the handling and decision-making process for the affected manuscript.

Manuscripts submitted by editorial board members, editors, or individuals with close institutional or personal relationships to editorial personnel must undergo independent assessment by appropriately appointed editors and reviewers who have no relevant conflicts of interest.

Such submissions must be subject to the same scientific standards, ethical requirements, and peer review criteria as all other submissions.

Scholarly Integrity and Editorial Accountability

Editorial decisions must be supported by documented scholarly assessment and applied consistently, transparently, and fairly.

The journal must have appropriate procedures for addressing allegations of research misconduct, plagiarism, duplicate publication, data manipulation, undisclosed conflicts of interest, and other violations of publication ethics.

Where justified, concerns relating to published articles must be addressed through appropriate editorial notices, corrections, expressions of concern, or retractions, consistent with the journal's publication ethics policies and recognized scholarly publishing standards.

Authors retain responsibility for the accuracy of their research findings, the integrity of their data, the validity of their interpretations, and the conclusions presented in their publications.

Publication in Scientific Journal of Nursing Research does not imply that Poltekkes Kemenkes Pontianak, the Department of Nursing, or the journal's editorial board institutionally endorses every opinion, interpretation, or conclusion expressed by an author.

5. Accountability and Contact

Scientific Journal of Nursing Research is committed to transparency, professional accountability, responsible editorial governance, and effective communication with authors, reviewers, readers, and other stakeholders.

Questions or concerns regarding institutional ownership, journal management, editorial procedures, publication policies, manuscript handling, or publication ethics may be submitted to the journal's editorial office.

Editorial Office

Scientific Journal of Nursing Research (SJNR)

Department of Nursing
Poltekkes Kemenkes Pontianak
Jl. 28 Oktober, Siantan Hulu, Pontianak Utara
Pontianak, West Kalimantan 78124, Indonesia

Principal Contact: Alvi Roelanda
Email: ejournalpoltekkespnt@gmail.com
Telephone: +62 831-8866-5170

Support Contact: Erni Juniartati
Email: ernijuniartati@gmail.com

Journal Website:
https://ejournal.poltekkes-pontianak.ac.id/index.php/SJNR/index

Official Contact Page:
https://ejournal.poltekkes-pontianak.ac.id/index.php/SJNR/about/contact

Complaints, Appeals, and Ethical Concerns

The editorial office serves as the initial point of contact for inquiries, complaints, appeals, and concerns regarding journal management or editorial procedures.

Concerns relating to manuscript handling should be examined by an editor who is not directly involved in the disputed decision, where practicable.

Complaints involving a particular editor should be referred to another qualified and independent editor or designated responsible authority.

Matters involving the Editor-in-Chief should be referred to the responsible publishing unit of Poltekkes Kemenkes Pontianak for consideration through an appropriately independent and impartial process.

All complaints and appeals must be handled professionally, confidentially, fairly, and without retaliation against individuals who raise concerns in good faith.

Relevant decisions and corrective actions should be documented to support transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Changes in Ownership and Editorial Management

Any material changes to the journal's institutional ownership, responsible publisher, managing unit, editorial leadership, or publishing arrangements must be accurately and promptly reflected on the journal's official website.

Changes in editorial appointments or management responsibilities must preserve the confidentiality of editorial records, continuity of manuscript processing, integrity of published content, and appropriate transfer of operational responsibilities.

The responsible publishing institution and editorial management shall work together to ensure that organizational changes do not compromise the journal's editorial independence, scholarly integrity, or continuity of publication.

Scientific Journal of Nursing Research (SJNR)
Published by Poltekkes Kemenkes Pontianak, Indonesia
Managed by the Department of Nursing

P-ISSN: 2655-0024 | E-ISSN: 2655-6731