1. Journal Ownership and Institutional Affiliation

Indonesian Journal of Community Empowerment (IJCE) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal institutionally affiliated with Universitas Garut, Indonesia. The journal is published and managed by the Faculty of Entrepreneurship, Universitas Garut, as part of the university’s commitment to advancing scientific knowledge, academic research, and scholarly communication.

IJCE provides an academic platform for researchers, lecturers, practitioners, and scholars to disseminate documented community service initiatives, evidence-based empowerment practices and scholarly evaluations of community engagement and contribute to the development of knowledge in community empowerment, entrepreneurship, education, health, technology, social development, environmental initiatives, and other community service disciplines.

The journal operates within the academic and institutional framework of Universitas Garut, and the Faculty of Entrepreneurship administers its publication activities. IJCE is issued four times yearly—in February, May, August and November—and has ISSN 2745-6951.

Information regarding the journal’s institutional affiliation, publisher, and management is made publicly available to ensure transparency and accountability to authors, reviewers, readers, and the wider scholarly community.

2. Publisher and Management Responsibilities

The Faculty of Entrepreneurship, Universitas Garut, is identified on the journal website as the publisher and managing unit of IJCE.

The publisher supports the journal’s continuity, institutional administration, editorial infrastructure, and sustainable publication operations.

Its responsibilities include facilitating:

• The administrative and technical infrastructure required for journal publication.
• The operation and maintenance of the journal’s online publishing platform.
• The implementation of institutional policies relevant to scholarly publishing.
• The preservation, accessibility, and dissemination of published scholarly content.
• The provision of appropriate administrative support to the editorial team.
• The development and periodic evaluation of the journal’s quality assurance and publication management procedures.

These responsibilities are carried out in coordination with the editorial leadership while respecting the journal’s editorial independence.

3. Editorial Governance and Management Structure

IJCE is governed through an editorial structure consisting of the Editor-in-Chief, editorial team, peer reviewers, and supporting journal personnel.

The Editor-in-Chief provides academic and editorial leadership and holds primary responsibility for overseeing the integrity, quality, and consistency of the journal’s editorial processes.

The editorial team is responsible for coordinating manuscript evaluation, selecting qualified peer reviewers, assessing research quality, ensuring compliance with publication ethics, and maintaining the academic standards of published articles.

Peer reviewers contribute independent scholarly assessments based on their areas of expertise, while manuscript editors and administrative personnel support editorial preparation, publication quality, and journal operations.

The names, academic affiliations, and editorial responsibilities of the individuals serving on the journal’s editorial team are provided on the journal’s official Editorial Team page.

IJCE is committed to maintaining an editorial structure composed of individuals with relevant academic expertise, professional integrity, and appropriate qualifications.

4. Editorial Independence

IJCE upholds the principle of editorial independence as a fundamental requirement of credible scholarly publishing.

Although the journal operates under the institutional administration of Universitas Garut through the Faculty of Entrepreneurship, editorial decisions are made independently based on academic considerations.

The acceptance, revision, or rejection of manuscripts must be determined by their originality, scholarly contribution, methodological rigor, relevance to the journal’s aims and scope, and compliance with ethical standards.

The publisher, institutional administrators, financial supporters, sponsors, and other external parties must not improperly influence editorial decisions.

Editorial decisions must not be affected by the authors’ institutional affiliations, academic positions, personal relationships, nationality, or other considerations unrelated to scholarly merit.

Any actual, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest involving editors or other individuals participating in manuscript evaluation must be disclosed and managed in accordance with IJCE’s Conflict of Interest Policy.

5. Financial and Administrative Transparency

IJCE recognizes that transparent financial and administrative management contributes to the credibility and sustainability of scholarly publishing.

The publisher and journal management are responsible for ensuring that information concerning applicable publication fees, financial support, sponsorship arrangements, and other relevant sources of publication revenue is disclosed through the journal’s official website.

Any financial or institutional support must not compromise editorial independence or the integrity of the peer-review process.

The journal’s publication fees, if applicable, are governed by its publicly available author-fee policies. Financial considerations must not determine the academic acceptance or rejection of manuscripts.

The institutional ownership and management of IJCE do not supersede the intellectual property rights of authors. Copyright ownership and permitted reuse of published works are governed by the journal’s applicable Copyright and Licensing Policy.

6. Accountability and Publication Ethics

IJCE is committed to responsible editorial governance, transparent publishing practices, and continuous improvement of its journal management.

The publisher and editorial team share institutional responsibilities for maintaining an environment that supports research integrity, objective peer review, ethical publishing, and reliable scholarly communication.

Editorial concerns involving research misconduct, conflicts of interest, post-publication discussion, corrections, or retractions are addressed through the journal’s established editorial policies.

IJCE follows internationally recognized principles of publication transparency and research integrity, particularly the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing developed by COPE, DOAJ, OASPA, and WAME.

Reference to these principles expresses the journal’s commitment to responsible publishing practices and does not imply formal membership in these organizations.

7. Official Publisher and Editorial Contact Information

IJCE is committed to keeping its institutional, managerial, and editorial information accurate, accessible, and updated to maintain transparency and public confidence in the journal’s governance.

Journal-specific contact and scope information

IJCE publishes community engagement and empowerment work across entrepreneurship, education, information technology, health, social and human sciences, agriculture, pharmacy, biology, law, environmental studies and engineering. The journal is published in February, May, August and November (ISSN 2745-6951).

Editorial correspondence: Dr. Galih Abdul Fatah Maulani, Editor-in-Chief, galihafm@uniga.ac.id. Support correspondence: Anggun Oktavia Herlianti, anggun@uniga.ac.id. Editorial Office: Kampus 4, Fakultas Kewirausahaan Universitas Garut, Jalan Terusan Pahlawan, Desa Sukagalih, Kecamatan Tarogong, Kabupaten Garut, Jawa Barat 44151, Indonesia.