Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Desa-Kota: Jurnal Perencanaan Wilayah, Kota, dan Permukiman is a journal of regional, urban, and settlement planning that has the main objective to deepen the understanding of urban, rural, and regional characteristics, as well as transformations and dynamics that occur in those areas, from an empirical, theoretical, and policy perspective.

Topics covered include, but not limited to:

  1. The governance of natural environment, community, and culture within built environment
  2. The provision of urban, rural and regional infrastructure and services including the process of policy formulation and its implementation.
  3. The resiliency of city and region to recover from disaster.
  4. Sustainable settlement planning  
  5. The social, economic, political and institutional dimensions of changes that occur at urban and regional scale.

Desa-Kota is an open access journal. All articles are freely available without subscription.

 

Section Policies

Front Matter

Editors
  • Almadea Anissa
Checked Open Submissions Unchecked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Back Matter

Editors
  • Almadea Anissa
Checked Open Submissions Unchecked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

All articles submitted to this journal will be initially assessed by the editor for suitability for the journal (format and theme). Papers considered suitable will be single-blind reviewed by one independent reviewer with related expertise to assess the scientific quality of the paper. The Editors are responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of articles. The Editors’ decision is final. Any such submission is subject to all the journal's usual procedures, with peer review handled independently of the relevant editor. 

Reviewer for Desa-Kota should conduct a thorough assessment for the manuscript. The reviewers will evaluate the manuscript by using the evaluation form that include the following aspects:

  1. Title, abstract, and keywords
  2. Literature review, adequate and relevance of reference, update reference
  3. Methodology, technique for data analysis, and scientific rigor
  4. Scientific writing and style
  5. Analysis and Interpretation of data
  6. Originality
  7. Elaborated discussion and conclusion.
  8. Overall evaluation of the manuscript 

 

 

Publication Frequency

Desa-Kota: Jurnal Perencanaan Wilayah, Kota, dan Permukiman is scheduled for publication in February and August (2 issue a year). Each published articles will be assigned with a DOI (digital object identifier).

 

Open Access Policy

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication.
Articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license.

This license allows others to copy, distribute, display, perform, and adapt the work, even for commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and source, a link to the license is provided, and any changes made are indicated. Derivative works must be distributed under the same license.

For more information, visit: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

 

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...