About the Journal

GOTAVA: Jurnal Penelitian dan Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by Yayasan Sumber Daya Manusia Cerdas. The journal advances applied scientific knowledge and evidence-based community service that contribute to health and well-being, resilient livelihoods, and sustainable local development.

GOTAVA is positioned at the intersection of three interconnected domains:

  1. Public Health, Medical and Biomedical Sciences, and Community Well-Being, including public health, epidemiology, preventive and clinical medicine, biomedical and experimental research, pharmacology, physiology, nutrition, health services, and related health sciences
  2. Sustainable Agri-Food and Livelihood Systems, including agriculture, fisheries, livestock, food production and processing, food security, and related value chains
  3. Local Economic Development, MSMEs, and Supply Chain and Logistics Management

These domains are united by a systems-oriented commitment to advancing health and well-being, strengthening food and livelihood security, supporting local enterprises, and enhancing the movement of goods, services, and resources essential to resilient and sustainable communities. Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches are welcomed when they are clearly anchored in at least one of the journal’s principal domains and contribute to its overarching scholarly focus.

GOTAVA prioritizes manuscripts that address clearly defined scientific, societal, or community problems, apply rigorous and appropriate methods, and generate findings, interventions, models, or practices with demonstrable scientific and practical value. Although studies may be grounded in specific populations, experimental settings, institutions, communities, or local contexts, authors are expected to articulate their broader relevance, implications, or potential for adaptation, application, or replication in other settings.

The journal primarily publishes original research articles and community service articles. Original research articles should provide novel and methodologically sound evidence with clear scientific, clinical, practical, managerial, or policy implications. Community service articles should present evidence-informed and systematically designed interventions based on identified community needs, supported by measurable outcomes, critical evaluation, and a credible pathway toward sustainability, adaptation, or replication. Descriptive reports that merely document activities without sufficient analytical depth, evaluative evidence, or scholarly contribution are not within the journal’s editorial priorities.

GOTAVA may also consider review articles, case studies and best practices, technical notes or briefs, and short communications when they offer a substantial and clearly articulated contribution to the journal’s thematic domains.

All submissions undergo an initial editorial assessment for relevance, originality, methodological quality, ethical compliance, and conformity with the journal’s requirements. Manuscripts that satisfy the editorial criteria are evaluated by at least two independent external peer reviewers. Editorial decisions are based on reviewer recommendations and independent academic judgment in accordance with the journal’s peer-review policy.

The editorial and publication process generally includes an initial desk review, external peer review, author revision, copyediting, production, and online publication. Under normal circumstances and assuming one revision cycle, the overall process may take approximately two to five months from submission to online publication. Actual processing times may vary depending on manuscript quality, reviewer availability, the extent and number of revisions required, and the authors’ responsiveness. These estimated timelines do not constitute a guarantee of acceptance or publication within a specified period.

GOTAVA operates two issue cycles each year, normally completed in June and December, and follows a continuous article publication model within each issue.

Once an article has completed peer review, received final acceptance, and completed copyediting and production, the final Version of Record is published online as soon as it is ready and assigned to the relevant issue. Articles therefore do not need to wait until the issue-completion month to become publicly available.

While an issue remains In Progress, fully completed articles may be published progressively within that issue. Each published article constitutes the final Version of Record and is released with complete bibliographic metadata, including its volume, issue, DOI, page range, license, and actual online publication date. Articles published within an issue in progress are not provisional, accepted-manuscript, or pre-publication versions.

The June and December schedule refers to the completion of each issue cycle. An issue may therefore accumulate fully published articles before it is formally completed. Once all planned articles have been published, the issue is closed and retained as the final archival record.

The primary readership of GOTAVA includes researchers, academics, clinicians, health professionals, practitioners, professionals, policymakers, and other stakeholders working within the journal’s principal scholarly domains.