About the Journal

Focus and Scope

JURNAL ILMIAH PENJAS (Penelitian, Pendidikan dan Pengajaran) is a national scientific journal that welcomes innovation, creativity, and scholarly novelty. The journal publishes research articles, review articles, research notes, short communications, and supplementary articles in the field of Physical Education and Sport Science.

The journal aims to advance state-of-the-art developments in both theoretical and practical applications within Physical Education and Sport Science. It provides a platform for scientists, researchers, teachers, and academics across Indonesia to promote, disseminate, and discuss emerging issues and recent developments in the field.

The scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to:

Physical Education Pedagogy
Sport Coaching and Training Science
Sport Psychology
Sport Biomechanics
Sport Physiology
Sport Management
Adapted Physical Education
Health and Recreation Education
Sports Performance Analysis.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content based on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Publication Ethics

JURNAL ILMIAH PENJAS is fully committed to upholding publication ethics throughout the entire publication process and for all submitted manuscripts. The journal ensures professionalism and integrity among editors, authors, reviewers, and the publisher by adhering to the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and international standards of publication ethics:

Duties of Editors

Editors evaluate manuscripts solely based on academic merit (originality, significance, methodological soundness, clarity, and relevance to the journal’s scope).
The Editor-in-Chief has full authority over editorial decisions and publication timing.
Editors and editorial staff maintain strict confidentiality regarding submitted manuscripts.
All submissions undergo a double-blind peer review process by at least two qualified reviewers.

Duties of Reviewers

Reviewers assist editors in making editorial decisions and help authors improve their manuscripts.
Reviews must be conducted objectively, fairly, and professionally.
Reviewers must maintain confidentiality of the manuscript.
Reviewers should identify uncited relevant work and notify editors of any similarity or overlap.
Reviewers must declare any conflicts of interest and decline review if necessary.
Unpublished materials disclosed in manuscripts must not be used for personal research without written consent from the author.

Duties of Authors

Authors must present accurate, original research and properly cite all sources.
Manuscripts must not be submitted simultaneously to other journals.
Only individuals who have made significant contributions should be listed as authors.
Authors must disclose conflicts of interest.
If significant errors are discovered after publication, authors must promptly notify the editor for correction or retraction.
Authors publishing in this journal agree to retain copyright and grant the journal first publication rights under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Duties of the Publisher

The publisher, in collaboration with the editors, ensures that research misconduct is prevented. The publisher does not tolerate plagiarism, falsification, or unethical research practices.
All accepted manuscripts undergo language checking before publication. The journal encourages authors to use reference management software such as Mendeley.
The journal supports digital archiving systems to ensure long-term preservation of published articles.

Authors Ethics

1) Reporting; the author must provide information about the process and results of his research to the editor in an honest, clear, and comprehensive manner, and keep the research data well and safe.

2) Originality and plagiarism; the author must ensure that the script that has been sent / submitted to the editor is the original text, written by him/herself, sourced from his own ideas and thinking, and not plagiarizing the writing or ideas of others. The author is strictly forbidden to rename the reference sources quoted into the names of others.

3) Repetition of submission; the author must inform that the script submitted to the editor is a text that has never been sent/submitted to the publisher of another journal/publication. If there is a "redundancy" of sending the script to another publisher, the editor will reject the submission.

4) Author status; the author must inform the editor that the author has competence or qualifications in the field of expertise that is in accordance with the field of publication, namely librarianship. The author who submits the script to the editor is the first author (co-author) so that if a problem is found in the process of publishing the script, it can immediately proceed.

5) Error writing script; the author must immediately inform the editor if errors are found in the writing of the script, both the results of the review and the revision. Writing errors include the names, affiliations/agencies, citations, and other writings that can reduce the meaning and substance of the text. If that happens, the author must propose an amendment immediately.

6) Disclosure of conflicts of interest; The author must understand the ethics of scientific publications above to avoid conflicts of interest with other parties so that the script can be processed facile and safely.

Editors Ethics

1) Publication decision; The editor must ensure a thorough, transparent, objective, fair and wise process of reviewing the script. This is the basis of the editor in making decisions on a text, rejected or accepted. In this case, the editorial board acts as the script selection team.

2) publication information; The editor must ensure that the guidelines for writing the script for the author and other interested parties can be accessed clearly, both print and electronic versions.

3) Distribution of peer-reviewed manuscripts; The editor must ensure the reviewer and script material for the review, as well as inform the provisions and review process of the text clearly to the reviewer.

4) Objectivity and neutrality; The editor must be objective, neutral and honest in editing the manuscript, regardless of gender, the business side, ethnicity, religion, race, class, and citizenship of the author.

5) Confidentiality; The editor must maintain every piece of information properly, especially with regard to the privacy of the author and the distribution of the script.

6) Disclosure of conflicts of interest; The editor must understand the ethics of scientific publications above to avoid conflicts of interest with other parties so that the script can be processed facile and safely.

Reviewers Ethics

1) Objectivity and neutrality; reviewers must be honest, objective, unbiased, independent, and only side with scientific truth. The process of reviewing the script is done professionally without distinguishing gender, the business side, ethnicity, religion, race, class, and citizenship of the author.

2) Clarity of reference sources; reviewers must ensure that the source of references/citations of the script are appropriate and credible (accountable). If errors or irregularities are found in writing the source of the reference/quotation, reviewers must immediately inform the editor to be corrected by the author according to the reviewer's records.

3) Effectiveness of peer-review; reviewers must respond to the script that has been sent by the editor and work according to the specified peer-review time (maximum 2 weeks). If you need additional time in reviewing the text, you should immediately confirm it to the editorial secretariat.

4) Disclosure of conflicts of interest; reviewers must understand the ethics of scientific publications above to avoid conflicts of interest with other parties so that the script can be processed facile and safely.

Journal Manager Ethics

1) Decision making; The journal manager / editorial board must describe the mission and objectives of the organization, especially those relating to the determination of policy and journal publishing decisions without any specific interests.

2) Freedom; The journal manager must give freedom to reviewers and editors to create a comfortable working atmosphere and respect the privacy of the author.

3) Guarantees and promotions; Journal managers must guarantee and protect intellectual property rights (copyrights), and be transparent in managing funds received by third parties. In addition, journal managers must publish and promote the results of publications to the public by providing benefits in the use of texts.

4) Disclosure of conflicts of interest; Journal managers must understand the ethics of scientific publications above to avoid conflicts of interest with other parties, so that the script can be processed facile and safely.

Screening for Plagiarism

JURNAL ILMIAH PENJAS will not tolerate for any plagiarism. Therefore, Author should check their article through plagiarism checker application. For instance, turnitin.com application or other applications. If an article is indicated as a plagiary, it will be rejected and will not be reviewed.

Journal History

Jurnal Ilmiah Penjas was first published in January 2015. The journal publishes scholarly articles in the fields of Physical Education, Health, and Recreation.