Journal Information

The URL of official journal web site is https://www.journalmpci.com/index.php/jhnr/index. The JHNR team endeavors to make a good website. The JHNR website demonstrates that care has been taken to ensure high ethical and professional standards. It does not contain any misleading information, including any attempt to mimic another journal/publisher’s site.

The Journal name is Journal of Health and Nutrition Research. The abbreviation of ISO is J. Health Nutr. Res.

The JHNR has an online submission and peer review system at https://www.journalmpci.com/index.php/jhnr/login

All papers, including those invited by the Editor, are subject to peer review. A manuscript is first reviewed for its format and adherence to the aims and scope of the journal. If the manuscript does not fit the aims and scope of the Journal or does not adhere to the Instructions for Authors, it may be returned to the author immediately after receipt and without a review. Before reviewing, all submitted manuscripts are inspected by Similarity Check powered by Turnitin, a plagiarism-screening tool.

The journal uses a double-blind peer-review process: the reviewers do not know the identity of the authors, and the authors do not know the identity of the reviewers. Manuscripts are reviewed by at least 2 external experts and editors. JHNR’s average turnaround time from submission to decision is 3 to 5 weeks. The editor is responsible for the final decision whether the manuscript is accepted or rejected."

Journal of Health and Nutrition Research (ISSN: 2829-9760) is an open access journal which means that all contents is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution.

All published articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This permits anyone to copy, redistribute, remix, transmit and adapt the work provided the original work and source is appropriately cited. The citation should include the article’s DOI. The article license is displayed both on the abstract page and the full-text PDF of each article.

 
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This journal charges the following author fees.

Article Submission: Rp. 0.00 
Article Accepted. Publication fees are charged for each article accepted in the Journal of Health and Nutrition Research (JHNR).

As an Open Access title, publishing an article in this journal requires an Article Processing Charge (APC) that will be billed to the submitting author following acceptance.

Please Note: Accepting without reviewing and going through the exact admission process is not possible.

If you've ever submitted an article in our journals, you've certainly experienced these steps with us. The minimum time required to accept an article will be 1-2 months and the maximum will be 4 months.

Refund policy

After the manuscript is accepted for publication, the processing fee is paid. The submitting author assumes responsibility for the Article Processing Charge, and CV Media Publikasi Cendekia Indonesia will not issue refunds of any kind.

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If either animal studies or human studies are to be described in manuscript, following information should be addressed by the authors: In case of animal studies, the permission/ approval of institutional or national authorities on the care and use of animals must be stated by the authors. In addition, all the experimental procedure using animals should be approved by authorizing body (the authors could provide a specific approval/ethics number). In human studies, the approval of local/national ethical committee should be stated with the specific name of the approving authorities. All the participating subjects should provide the informed consent form and this should be stated in the manuscript. Any inhumane procedures in submitted papers will definitely result in disapproval of the paper with no exceptions.

For the policies on research and publication ethics not stated in these instructions, 'Guidelines on Good Publication’ (http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines, Committee on Publication Ethics) can be applied..

Manuscripts submitted to JHNR will be screened for plagiarism using TURNITIN: Plagiarism Detection Software. JHNR will immediately reject papers leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism. Every article that will be published is checked for similarity at a level of no more than 25%.

Journal of Health and Nutrition Research, has periodical publications three times a year, in April, August, and December.

Journal of Health and Nutrition Research (JHNR) refers to Elsevier's Generative AI policies for journals. These policies aim to provide greater transparency and guidance to authors, reviewers, editors, readers, and contributors.

For authors

The use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in manuscript preparation - an overview JHNR recognizes the potential of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies (“AI Tools”), when used responsibly, to help researchers work efficiently, gain critical insights fast, and achieve better outcomes. Increasingly, these tools, including AI agents and deep research tools, are helping researchers to synthesize complex literature, provide an overview of a field or research question, identify research gaps, generate ideas, and provide tailored support for tasks such as content organization and improving language and readability. Authors preparing a manuscript for an JHNR journal can use AI Tools to support them. However, these tools must never be used as a substitute for human critical thinking, expertise and evaluation. AI Tools should always be applied with human oversight and control. Ultimately, authors are responsible and accountable for the contents of their work. This includes accountability for:

• Carefully reviewing and verifying the accuracy, comprehensiveness, and impartiality of all AI-generated output (including checking the sources, as AI-generated references can be incorrect or fabricated).

• Editing and adapting all material thoroughly to ensure the manuscript represents the author’s authentic and original contribution and reflects their own analysis, interpretation, insights and ideas.

• Ensuring the use of any tools or sources, AI-based or otherwise, is made clear and transparent to readers — for the use of AI Tools we require a disclosure statement upon submission.

• Ensuring the manuscript is developed in a way that safeguards data privacy, intellectual property and other rights, by checking the terms and conditions of any AI Tool that is used.

Responsible use of AI Tools Authors must check the terms and conditions of any AI Tool that they use to ensure that the privacy and confidentiality of their data and inputs, including their unpublished manuscripts, is maintained. Particular care should be taken with any personally identifiable data. Images that duplicate or refer to existing copyrighted images, real people, or others’ identifiable products or brands must not be generated, nor any likeness of an individual’s voice. Authors should check for factual errors and for any potential bias.

Authors should also check the terms and conditions of any AI Tool they wish to use to ensure that, they only grant to the AI Tool the right to use their materials to provide the service to them and that they do not grant to the AI Tool any other rights to the materials that they input into the AI Tool (including without limitation the right to train the AI Tool on those materials). They must also ensure that the AI Tool does not impose constraints on the use of outputs from the AI Tool in a way that could restrict the subsequent publication of the relevant article.

Disclosure Authors should disclose the use of AI Tools for manuscript preparation in a separate AI declaration statement in their manuscript upon submission and a statement will appear in the published work. Authors should document their use of AI, including the name of the AI Tool used, the purpose of the use, and the extent of their oversight. Declaring the use of AI Tools supports transparency and trust between authors, readers, reviewers, editors and contributors and facilitates compliance with the terms of use of the relevant AI Tool. Basic checks of grammar, spelling and punctuation need no declaration. AI use in the research process should be declared and described in detail in the methods section.

Authorship Authors should not list AI Tools as an author or co-author, nor cite AI Tools as an author. Authorship implies responsibilities and tasks that can only be attributed to and performed by humans. Each (co-) author is accountable for ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved and authorship requires the ability to approve the final version of the work and agree to its submission. Authors are also responsible for ensuring that the work is original and has not been previously published, that the stated authors qualify for authorship, and that the work does not infringe third-party rights, and should familiarize themselves with JHNR’s Ethics in Publishing policy before they submit.

The use of generative AI and AI-assisted tools in figures, images and artwork We do not permit the use of Generative AI or AI-assisted tools to create or alter scientific images or research data in submitted manuscripts. This may include enhancing, obscuring, moving, removing, or introducing a specific feature within an image or figure representing research results. Adjustments of brightness, contrast, or color balance are acceptable if and as long as they do not obscure or eliminate any information present in the original. Image forensics tools or specialized software might be applied to submitted manuscripts to identify suspected image irregularities.

The only exception for scientific figures is if the use of AI or AI-assisted tools is part of the research design or research methods (such as in AI-assisted imaging approaches to generate or interpret the underlying research data, for example in the field of biomedical imaging). If this is done, such use must be described in a reproducible manner in the methods section, including an explanation of how the AI tools were used, the name of the model or tool, version, and manufacturer.

However, the use of generative AI or AI-assisted tools is permitted in the production of non-data artwork, specifically for graphical abstracts and cover art. If authors utilize AI tools for this purpose, they must ensure the generated artwork accurately reflects the scientific content of their manuscript without introducing factual errors. Authors must also ensure that the generated images do not infringe upon existing copyrights, trademarks, or the likeness of real individuals. Any use of AI tools to generate graphical abstracts or cover art must be explicitly disclosed in the manuscript's AI declaration statement, including the specific name and version of the AI Tool used.

For reviewers

The use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the journal peer review process When a researcher is invited to review another researcher’s paper, the manuscript must be treated as a confidential document. Reviewers should not upload a submitted manuscript or any part of it into a generative AI tool as this may violate the authors’ confidentiality and proprietary rights and, where the paper contains personally identifiable information, may breach data privacy rights.

This confidentiality requirement extends to the peer review report, as it may contain confidential information about the manuscript and/or the authors. For this reason, reviewers should not upload their peer review report into an AI tool, even if it is just for the purpose of improving language and readability.

Peer review is at the heart of the scientific ecosystem and JHNR abides by the highest standards of integrity in this process. Reviewing a scientific manuscript implies responsibilities that can only be attributed to humans. Generative AI or AI-assisted technologies should not be used by reviewers to assist in the scientific review of a paper as the critical thinking and original assessment needed for peer review is outside of the scope of this technology and there is a risk that the technology will generate incorrect, incomplete or biased conclusions about the manuscript. The reviewer is responsible and accountable for the content of the review report.

For editors

The use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the journal editorial process A submitted manuscript must be treated as a confidential document. Editors should not upload a submitted manuscript or any part of it into a generative AI tool as this may violate the authors’ confidentiality and proprietary rights and, where the paper contains personally identifiable information, may breach data privacy rights.

This confidentiality requirement extends to all communication about the manuscript including any notification or decision letters as they may contain confidential information about the manuscript and/or the authors. For this reason, editors should not upload their letters into an AI tool, even if it is just for the purpose of improving language and readability.

Peer review is at the heart of the scientific ecosystem and JHNR abides by the highest standards of integrity in this process. Managing the editorial evaluation of a scientific manuscript implies responsibilities that can only be attributed to humans. Generative AI or AI-assisted technologies should not be used by editors to assist in the evaluation or decision-making process of a manuscript as the critical thinking and original assessment needed for this work is outside of the scope of this technology and there is a risk that the technology will generate incorrect, incomplete or biased conclusions about the manuscript. The editor is responsible and accountable for the editorial process, the final decision, and the communication thereof to the authors.

JHNR states that authors are allowed to use generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the manuscript preparation process before submission, but only with appropriate oversight and disclosure, as per our instructions. Editors can find such disclosure at the bottom of the paper in a separate section before the list of references. If an editor suspects that an author or a reviewer has violated our AI policies, they should inform the publisher.