About the Journal

Spatial Informatics Journal (SIJ), ISSN XXXX-XXXX (Print), ISSN XXXX-XXXX (Online), is an international, multidiscipline, open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal, published quarterly for researchers, developers, technical managers, and educators in the field of geospatial engineering and technology innovation. The officially abbreviated title is Spatial Inf. JIt is published by Institut Teknologi Nasional Malang.

All articles are published in full open access. An article processing charge (APC) of 0 IDR (0 USD) is applied to all accepted articles, and should be paid when an article is accepted. This APC is to cover the costs of copyediting, typesetting, and journal management. A paper will be online shortly once it has been accepted and typeset. You are invited to submit your work to the journal.

SIJ is indexed by:

 

Focus and Scope 

The SIJ journal focuses on the field of geospatial engineering and technology innovation. And it publishes original papers including but not limited to the following fields:  

    • Automation Engineering
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Big Data
    • Building Information Modelling
    • Civil Engineering
    • Control Engineering
    • Digital Twin
    • Electric Engineering
    • Electronic Engineering
    • Environmental, Food, Health Science & Technology
    • Geodesy Applications
    • Geomatics
    • Green Technology
    • Information Engineering
    • Mechanical Engineering
    • Material Engineering
    • Mechatronics and robotics Engineering
    • Nanotechnology
    • Optical Engineering
    • Sensors
    • Sustainable Development Goals
    • Innovation Management
    • Other Engineering and Technology related topics

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts will be assigned to at least two qualified reviewers through 5 steps. Decisions will be made as rapidly as possible. On receiving an article, the Editorial office will Pre-Screen your manuscript in 1 week. The editorial staff will check the originality and similarity of the manuscript using the IThenticate software. Manuscripts that are found to have been plagiarized from a manuscript by other authors, whether published or unpublished, will incur plagiarism sanctions. The staff will also check whether the manuscript is valid, its language is fluent, and all necessary factors are included. What follows is a formal and single-blind peer-review process. It is decided by the Editor-in-Chief or one of the Associate Editors whether your manuscript is accepted or not.

Conditions of Acceptance  

Each article submitted to IJETI will be accepted or rejected according to the originality, significance for theory and practice, quality of content, and presentation of the submitted paper.  

Publication Frequency

Spatial Informatics Journal (SIJ) publishes each issue quarterly.  

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. 

Publication Ethics and Malpractice

Digital Preservation Policy

 Spatial Informatics Journal (SIJ) is an international, multidiscipline, peer-reviewed, open access, scholarly journal, published quarterly for researchers, developers, technical managers, and educators in the field of geospatial engineering and technology innovation. SIJ will do its best to abide by the Code of Conduct of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and aims to adhere to its Best Practice Guidelines. The following statements describe the ethical, behavior of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article for SIJ, i.e.: the author, the peer reviewer, the editor, and the publisher.

Duties of Authors

Originality and Plagiarism
    Authors must ensure that their work is completely original and not a reproduction of previously published works or an AI-generated work. If authors have used any pre-existing work or words, they must appropriately cite or quote them.

When authors use generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process, they should ensure that these technologies are used only to improve the readability and language of the work.

Multiple and Concurrent Publications
    In general, authors should not publish manuscripts that describe the same research in more than one journal or primary publication, either in different languages. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently is considered unethical publishing behavior and is not acceptable.

Authorship of the Paper
    Authorship should be restricted to individuals who have made a substantial contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions must be acknowledged as co-authors. In cases where others have participated in specific substantive aspects of the research project, they should be recognized and listed as contributors.

Authors should not include AI or AI-assisted technologies as authors or co-authors in their manuscripts, nor should they cite AI as an author. Authorship carries with it certain responsibilities and tasks that are unique to human beings.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
    All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or substantive conflict 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.

Reporting standards
    The authors must provide an accurate and truthful account of the work conducted, along with an impartial discussion of its importance. They should represent the underlying data accurately in the manuscript which includes sufficient details and references to enable others to replicate the study.

Data Access and Retention
    The authors may be requested to provide the raw data regarding their manuscript for editorial review, and must be willing to allow public access to it if feasible, and must keep the data available for a reasonable period after publication.

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.

Fundamental errors in published works
    If an author finds a significant error or inaccuracy in their published work, he/her must immediately inform the journal editorial office or editor, and collaborate with them to correct or retract the paper.

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to editorial decision
    Peer review helps the Editor in Chief and the editorial board in making informed decisions to the manuscript. Additionally, it provides a platform for constructive editorial communications between the author and reviewers that may lead to an improvement in the quality of the paper.

Standards of Objectivity
    Reviews must be conducted in an objective manner, without resorting to personal criticism of the author. Reviewers should clearly express their comments by providing supporting arguments to back up their claims.

Confidentiality
    Received manuscripts for review are confidential. They should not be shared or discussed with anyone else unless authorized by the Editor in Chief. Any privileged information or ideas obtained during the peer review process must be kept confidential and should not be used for personal gain.

Promptness
    If a chosen reviewer feels unqualified to assess the assigned manuscript or cannot provide a timely review, they should inform the editor and decline to participate in the review process.

Acknowledgment of Sources
    Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that had been previously reported elsewhere should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the Editor in Chief/Editorial Board member'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 Conflicts of Interest
    Reviewers must not evaluate manuscripts in cases where they have conflicts of interest resulting from collaborative, competitive, or any other relationships or affiliations with the authors, companies, or institutions associated with the papers.

Duties of Editors

Decision on the Publication of Articles
    The Editor in Chief of AITI is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The Editor in Chief is guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and subjected to legal requirements regarding copyright and plagiarism. The Editor in Chief may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this final decision.

Confidentiality
    The Editor in Chief 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.

Fair play
    Manuscripts should be assessed based solely on their intellectual worth, without any consideration given to the author's ethnicity, citizenship, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, gender, or any other personal characteristics.

Plagiarism
    The Editor in Chief or authorized editorial staff must check the originality and similarity of all the submitted manuscripts with adequate software or tools. Manuscripts that are found to have been plagiarized from a manuscript by other authors, whether published or unpublished, will incur plagiarism sanctions.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest
    Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used by anyone who has a view of the manuscript (while handling it) in his or her own research without the express written consent of the author.

Duties of Publishers

    A publisher has a responsibility to establish journal policies and ensure they are followed, particularly with regard to editorial independence, research ethics, authorship, transparency, integrity, and peer review. The publisher should review these policies periodically, particularly in light of new recommendations from organizations such as the COPE, and ensure that journal content is published in a timely manner.

Handling of unethical publishing behavior

    If an article is suspected of academic misconduct, fraudulent publication, or plagiarism, the publishers, in collaboration with the editors, should take corrective action to investigate and address the issue. This may include clarifying or amending the article, issuing a correction or retraction, or taking further disciplinary action as necessary.

Access to journal content

    The publisher has a responsibility to ensure that scholarly research is permanently available and preserved, including through the use of digital archiving systems. They should also partner with organizations that specialize in maintaining digital records and certify that the research is accessible to the public.

Confidentiality
    The publisher must respect the privacy of authors and peer reviewers.

Digital Preservation Policy

Digital preservation can be seen as the set of processes and activities that ensure information which now exists in digital formats is backed up and distributed to guarantee continued access for the long term. The digital content of the journal is extremely valuable and measures are in place to ensure both its current accessibility and long-term preservation. The preservation policy includes the following measures:

Website archiving

   All of our electronic content (website, manuscripts, etc.) is stored in three different sources. Content on one server is online and accessible to the readers. The copy of the same content is kept as a backup on two other sources. In case of failure of one server, any one of the other sources can be made online and the website is expected to be accessible within less than 12-48 hours.

Abstracting/Indexing services

   Our journal’s Abstracting/Indexing services store much essential information about the articles. Additionally, all of our journal’s Abstracting/Indexing services archive not only the metadata about the article, but the electronic versions of the articles, as well. Therefore, copies of the articles are available to the scientific community through their systems as an alternative to the journal's own.

Self-archiving

   Authors may archive the final published version of their articles in personal or institutional repositories immediately after publication.

If journals stop publishing

    We intend and expect to continue to publish our journals for a very long time. If, due to some rare, unfortunate circumstances, we are forced to stop publishing the journals, the manuscripts published in the journal will be kept online and accessible to the readers for at least 10 more years. When required under specific conditions, such as discontinuation of the collection or catastrophic failure of the website, the content will be accessible through PKP PN to ensure that these resources are preserved in the long term.

Advertising policy

  1. All advertisements should be approved by the publisher or the editor-in-chief.
  2. Advertisements are a separate section from the content. Editors should not shape the content to accommodate advertising.
  3. All advertisements are independent of editorial decisions. The Editorial Board does not endorse any product or service marked as an advertisement or promoted by a sponsor in the journal.
  4. Advertising is clearly distinguished from the editorial content.
  5. Editorial content is not compromised by commercial or financial interests, or by any specific arrangements with advertising clients or sponsors.
  6. Advertisers have no control or influence over the results of searches a user may conduct on the publisher's journal.
  7. All advertisements must be non-discriminatory in terms of sex, age, race, religion, marital status, or physical handicap, and comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
  8. All advertisements should identify the advertiser by trademark or signature.
  9. The publisher does not release personally identifiable data on the users of our websites.
  10. Advertisements should clearly identify the advertiser and the product or service being offered. Exaggerated or extravagantly worded copies will not be allowed.
  11. Once an advertisement has been deployed online, it will be withdrawn from the journal site at any time if the Editor(s)-in-Chief or Publisher requests its removal.
  12. The SIJ journal will not allow any treatment-specific or drug-specific campaign to be targeted to a specific article(s) or on any page where content relates to the product(s) being advertised.

Sponsors

  • Institut Teknologi Nasional Malang

Journal History

SIJ was lunched on Oct. 01, 2023. It has been indexed by , respectively, since 2023.

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