Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Focuses on the Study of Business Administration, Management and Business Finance.

Interest topics include but are not limited to: 

  • Marketing
  • Human resources
  • Strategic Management
  • Finance, Information management systems
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Operational management
  • Consumer behavior, Marketing
  • Corporate governance services
  • Business ethics, Leadership
  • Knowledge Management
  • Taxation
  • Local Wisdom-Based Business

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

The publication of articles in the SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen depends solely on scientific validity and coherence as assessed by our editors and/or peer reviewers, who will also assess whether the writing is understandable and whether the work is a beneficial contribution to the field. SYNERGY: Journal of Business and Management recognizes the efforts 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 SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen. Those that meet the minimum criteria are passed on to expert reviewers for review. It usually took up to 8.

Type of peer review

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 blind peer review. 

 

Review reports 

Reviewers are asked to evaluate whether the manuscript:

  • Is original by stating the objectives and gap clearly
  • Is methodologically sound
  • Follows appropriate ethical guidelines
  • Has results/findings which are clearly presented and support the conclusions
  • Correctly references previous relevant work
  • 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 currently a reviewer for SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen but would like to be added to the list of reviewers, please contact us. The benefits of reviewing for SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen 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 SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen as part of your professional development requirements. SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen reviewers are volunteers who contribute their expertise to the science, thus no financial payments are made.

 

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.

 

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

SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen is a peer-reviewed journal. 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 (Universitas Riau). This statement is based on the previous the current COPE's Core Practices.

Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is, therefore, important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher and the society.  

Publisher and Editor

Pelantar Press as publisher of SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing extremely seriously and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. In addition, the Pelantar Press and Editorial Board will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful and necessary.

Publication decisions: The editor of the SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen 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.

Fair play: An editor 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.

Confidentiality: 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.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest: 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.

Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions: Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Promptness: Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Confidentiality: 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.

Standards of Objectivity: Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgment of Sources: 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.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest: Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. 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.

Authors

Reporting standards: 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.

Data Access and Retention: 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, if practicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

Originality and Plagiarism: The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication: An author 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.

Acknowledgment of Sources: Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Authorship of the Paper: 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.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published works: 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.

Referensi

Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). (2011, March 7). Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors. Retrieved from http://publicationethics.org/

 

Plagiarism and Retraction Policy

The Editorial Board of the SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen recognizes that plagiarism is unacceptable and therefore establishes the following policy stating specific actions (penalties) when plagiarism is identified in articles submitted for publication in the SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen. 

SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen will use Turnitin authenticity checking software as our tool in detecting text similarities in articles. A maximum of 25% similarity is allowed.


Definition:
Plagiarism involves the "use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work."


Policy:
Papers must be original, unpublished, and not pending publication elsewhere. Any material taken verbatim from another source needs to be clearly identified as different from the present original text by (1) indentation, (2) use of quotation marks, and (3) identification of the source.


Any text of an amount exceeding fair use standards (herein defined as more than two or three sentences or the equivalent thereof) or any graphic material reproduced from another source requires permission from the copyright holder and, if feasible, the original author(s) and also requires identification of the source; e.g., previous publication.


When plagiarism is identified, the Editor in Chief responsible for the review of this paper and will agree on measures according to the extent of plagiarism detected in the paper in agreement with the following guidelines:


Level of Plagiarism


Minor:
A short section of another article is plagiarized without any significant data or idea taken from the other paper


Action: A warning is given to the authors and a request to change the text and properly cite the original article is made


Intermediate: A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized without proper citation to the original paper


Action: The submitted article is rejected and the authors are forbidden to submit further articles for one year


Severe: A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized that involves reproducing original results or ideas presented in another publication


Action: The paper is rejected and the authors are forbidden to submit further articles for five years.


It is understood that all authors are responsible for the content of their submitted paper as they all read and understand SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen Copyright and Licensing Terms. If a penalty is imposed for plagiarism, all authors will be subject to the same penalty.


If the second case of plagiarism by the same author(s) is identified, a decision on the measures to be enforced will be made by the Editorial board (Editor-in-Chief, and Editorial members) with the Chair of the Editor in Chief. The author(s) might be forbidden to submit further articles forever.


This policy applies also to material reproduced from another publication by the same author(s). If an author uses text or figures that have previously been published, the corresponding paragraphs or figures should be identified and the previous publication referenced. It is understood that in the case of a review paper or a paper of a tutorial nature much of the material was previously published.


The author should identify the source of the previously published material and obtain permission from the original author and the publisher. If an author submits a manuscript to SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen with significant overlap with a manuscript submitted to another journal simultaneously, and this overlap is discovered during the review process or after the publications of both papers, the editor of the other journal is notified and the case is treated as a severe plagiarism case. Significant overlap means the use of identical or almost identical figures and identical or slightly modified text for one-half or more of the paper. For self-plagiarism of less than one-half of the paper but more than one-tenth of the paper, the case shall be treated as intermediate plagiarism. If self-plagiarism is confined to the methods section, the case shall be considered as minor plagiarism.


If an author uses some of his previously published material to clarify the presentation of new results, the previously published material shall be identified and the difference to the present publication shall be mentioned. Permission to republish must be obtained from the copyright holder. In the case of a manuscript that was originally published in conference proceedings and then is submitted for publication in SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen either in identical or in expanded form, the authors must identify the name of the conference proceedings and the date of the publication and obtain permission to republish from the copyright holder. The editor may decide not to accept this paper for publication.


However, an author shall be permitted to use material from an unpublished presentation, including visual displays, in a subsequent journal publication. In the case of a publication being submitted, that was originally published in another language, the title, date, and journal of the original publication must be identified by the authors, and the copyright must be obtained. The editor may accept such a translated publication to bring it to the attention of a wider audience. The editor

 

Author Fees

This journal charges the following author fees.

Article Submission (FREE): 0,00 (IDR)
Authors free to pay an Article Submission Fee as part of the submission process to contribute to review costs.

 

Article Publication: 500.000,00 (IDR)
If this paper is accepted for publication, you must to pay an Article Publication Fee to cover publications costs.

 

Publisher

SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen is published by the Pelantar Press

 

Repository Policy

Please also read our Copyright and Licensing and the Archiving notice. SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen is following Sherpa/Romeo's policy. The pre-print, post-print and publisher's version/PDF can be archived under the following conditions.

As soon as SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen has published an article, the version of the article that has been submitted, accepted for publication, subject to full attributionunder the Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)

For any specific queries in relation to repositories, please contact editor: jurnalsynergy.pupress@gmail.com Please make sure that you consult our policies recorded on Sherpa Romeo's website to prevent any disputes or doubts.

 

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.

Benefits of open access for the author, include:

Works/articles in this journal are bound to Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). License.

 

Rights and Licences

Please find the rights and licenses in SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen. By submitting the article/manuscript of the article, the author(s) agree with this policy. No specific document sign-off is required.

1. License

Use of articles contained in the journal will be governed by the Creative Commons Attribution license as currently shown under Attribution

 

2. Author(s)' Warranties

The author warrants that the article is original, written by the stated author(s), has not been published before, contains no unlawful statements, does not infringe the rights of others, is subject to copyright that is vested exclusively in the author, and free of any third party rights, and that any necessary written permissions to quote from other sources have been obtained by the author(s).

 

3. User/Public Rights

SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen  is to disseminate published articles as freely as possible. Under a Creative Commons license, SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen allows users to copy, distribute, display, and perform work. Users also need to link authors and the SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen in distributing works in journals and other publication media.

 

4. Rights of Authors

Authors retain all their rights to the published works, such as (but not limited to) the following rights;

  • Reproduce the work
  • Prepare derivative works based upon the work
  • Distribute copies of the work
  • Perform the work publicly
  • Display the work publicly
  • Copyright and other proprietary rights relating to the article, such as patent rights,
  • The right to self-archive the article (please read our repository policy)
  • The right to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the article's published version (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen .

 5. Co-Authorship

If the article was jointly prepared by more than one author, any author submitting the manuscript warrants that he/she has been authorized by all co-authors to be agreed on this copyright and license notice (agreement) on their behalf, and agrees to inform his/her co-authors of the terms of this policy. SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen will not be held liable for anything that may arise due to the author's internal dispute. SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen will only communicate with the corresponding author.

6. Miscellaneous

SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen will publish the article (or have it published) in the journal if the article’s editorial process is successfully completed. SYNERGY: Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen editors may modify the article to a style of punctuation, spelling, capitalization, referencing, and usage that deems appropriate. The author acknowledges that the article may be published so that it will be publicly accessible and such access will be free of charge for the readers as mentioned in point 3.