Roles of the Editorial Team

The editorial team of Jurnal Kesehatan (Juke) consists of the Editor-in-Chief, Editor, and Layout Editor. Each editorial team member is responsible for maintaining the journal's scientific quality, publication integrity, and editorial standards in accordance with the principles of publication ethics and transparency.

1. Editor-in-Chief

The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for overseeing the overall editorial process and making the final decisions regarding manuscript publication. The responsibilities include:

a. Making final decisions on manuscript acceptance or rejection based on scientific quality, relevance to the journal's focus and scope, and peer review recommendations.
b. Ensuring that all manuscripts are handled fairly, objectively, and without discrimination.
c. Supervising the implementation of the journal's double-blind peer review process.
d. Maintaining editorial independence from personal, commercial, or other external interests.
e. Addressing suspected publication ethics violations, including plagiarism, duplicate publication, data fabrication or falsification, and undisclosed conflicts of interest.
f. Ensuring that corrections or retractions are issued when significant errors or serious publication ethics violations are identified.
g. Maintaining the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts and information obtained during the editorial process.

2. Editor

The Editor assists the Editor-in-Chief in managing manuscripts and coordinating the editorial process. The responsibilities include:

a. Conducting preliminary assessments to determine whether manuscripts align with the journal's focus and scope and comply with the author guidelines.
b. Checking manuscript completeness and compliance with publication ethics requirements.
c. Identifying and recommending qualified reviewers whose expertise matches the subject matter of the manuscript.
d. Managing communication with authors and reviewers throughout the peer review process.
e. Ensuring that reviewer comments are objective, constructive, and professional.
f. Monitoring the revision process and ensuring that authors' responses to reviewer comments are appropriately considered.
g. Maintaining manuscript confidentiality and disclosing any potential conflicts of interest.
h. Providing editorial recommendations to the Editor-in-Chief based on peer review results and the scientific quality of the manuscript.

3. Layout Editor

The Layout Editor is responsible for preparing accepted manuscripts for publication in accordance with the journal's formatting requirements and publication standards. The responsibilities include:

a. Formatting articles according to the journal's template and style guidelines.
b. Ensuring consistency in the formatting of titles, author names, affiliations, abstracts, keywords, tables, figures, references, and other article elements.
c. Checking readability, page numbering, image quality, and the overall consistency of article presentation.
d. Verifying that article metadata, including titles, author names, affiliations, abstracts, and references, are consistent with the final approved manuscript.
e. Coordinating with the editor and authors to resolve technical or formatting issues before publication.
f. Maintaining the confidentiality of manuscripts that have not yet been published.
g. Ensuring that final article files are prepared in the appropriate formats for publication.

Editorial Team Commitment

All members of the editorial team of Jurnal Kesehatan (Juke) are expected to perform their duties professionally, maintain manuscript confidentiality, disclose and manage conflicts of interest, and uphold publication ethics and academic integrity. All editorial decisions and actions must prioritize scientific quality, fairness, transparency, and responsible scholarly publishing.