GOTAVA: Jurnal Penelitian dan Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat focuses on applied scientific research and evidence-based community service that contribute to health and well-being, resilient livelihoods, and sustainable local development.

The journal provides a scholarly platform for original research, applied studies, and systematically designed community-based interventions that generate applicable knowledge, address scientific and real-world problems, evaluate programs and interventions, develop practical solutions, and strengthen health, livelihoods, local enterprises, and community resilience.

Research Articles and Community Service Articles share the same broad thematic orientation while serving different scholarly purposes. Research Articles are expected to generate original and methodologically sound evidence, while Community Service Articles should present systematically designed, evidence-informed interventions with measurable outcomes and clear potential for sustainability, adaptation, or replication.

1. Public Health, Medical and Biomedical Sciences, and Community Well-Being

This area covers research and community service related to human health, biomedical sciences, clinical and population health, and community well-being, including:

• Public health and population health
• Epidemiology and health assessment
• Health promotion and disease prevention
• Preventive and clinical medicine
• Biomedical and experimental research
• Pharmacology and therapeutic sciences
• Human and experimental physiology
• Community and clinical nutrition
• Maternal, child, adolescent, adult, and older-person health
• Environmental and occupational health
• Health behavior and risk-factor prevention
• Health services, health systems, and community-based health programs
• Health literacy and health communication
• Digital and appropriate technologies for health
• Evaluation of health policies, programs, services, and interventions
• Experimental, laboratory, or animal-model studies with a clear contribution to medical, biomedical, physiological, pharmacological, nutritional, or other health-related knowledge.

Clinical, biomedical, and experimental studies are welcome when they demonstrate a clear scientific or clinical contribution and are relevant to health, disease, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, physiological mechanisms, biomedical knowledge, or human well-being.

2. Sustainable Agri-Food and Livelihood Systems

This area addresses sustainable production, utilization, processing, and development of food and natural-resource-based livelihoods, including:

• Agriculture and crop-based production
• Fisheries and aquaculture
• Livestock and animal-based production
• Food production, processing, and post-harvest systems
• Food security, food safety, and community nutrition linkages
• Agribusiness and agricultural value chains
• Local food-resource development
• Appropriate technology for agriculture, fisheries, livestock, and food processing
• Sustainable resource utilization
• Producer and community livelihood development
• Interventions that strengthen the resilience and sustainability of agri-food systems.

Studies focused solely on basic agricultural, fisheries, livestock, or biological processes should demonstrate a clear contribution to agri-food systems, food production, food security, livelihoods, value chains, sustainability, or other areas within the journal’s scope.

3. Local Economic Development, MSMEs, and Supply Chain and Logistics Management

This area focuses on applied economic and management issues that strengthen local enterprises, market systems, and the movement of goods, services, and resources, including:

• Local economic development
• MSME development and empowerment
• Entrepreneurship and community-based enterprises
• Business development and digitalization of MSMEs
• Marketing and market access for local products
• Operations management
• Supply chain management
• Logistics and distribution management
• Procurement and inventory management
• Value-chain development
• Supply chain resilience and sustainability
• Logistics technology and digital transformation
• Managerial, business, and policy interventions that improve the resilience and competitiveness of local economic systems.

Studies in finance, human resource management, organizational behavior, marketing, or business administration are considered when they are substantively connected to MSMEs, local economic development, supply chains, logistics, agri-food systems, health-related systems, or community well-being.

4. Cross-Disciplinary and Applied Contributions

GOTAVA welcomes multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches when they are clearly anchored in at least one of the journal’s three principal domains.

Studies conducted in specific populations, experimental settings, institutions, communities, or local contexts are welcome. However, manuscripts should move beyond the description of a particular location, case, or activity. Authors are expected to articulate the broader scientific, clinical, practical, managerial, policy, or societal relevance of their findings and, where appropriate, their potential for application, adaptation, transferability, or replication in other contexts.

Community Service Articles must demonstrate more than the implementation of an activity. Manuscripts should identify a clear community or partner need, describe an evidence-informed intervention, apply an appropriate evaluation approach, report measurable outcomes, and discuss practical implications, sustainability, and opportunities for adaptation or replication.

5. Out of Scope

GOTAVA does not prioritize manuscripts that:

• Fall outside the journal’s three principal thematic domains
• Report purely theoretical work without a clear scientific, clinical, applied, or societal contribution
• Present clinical, biomedical, laboratory, or experimental work without a clearly articulated contribution to medical, biomedical, physiological, pharmacological, nutritional, or other health-related knowledge
• Focus on agricultural, fisheries, livestock, or biological topics without clear relevance to agri-food systems, food production, livelihoods, sustainability, or another principal domain of the journal
• Address general education, law, governance, politics, engineering, or information technology without substantive connection to the journal’s principal domains
• Examine general business or management topics without relevance to local economies, MSMEs, supply chains, logistics, agri-food systems, health-related systems, or community well-being
• Merely document training, socialization, counseling, outreach, or other community activities without systematic evaluation and measurable outcomes
• Lack a clear scientific, clinical, practical, managerial, policy, or community contribution.