Focus and Scope

Indonesian Journal of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (IJAR) aims to contribute to the development of knowledge in the field of Anesthesia and Intensive Therapy by connecting doctors, medical personnel, and researchers. IJAR publishes original research, reviews (systematic review, meta-analysis, literature review, and article review), and case reports/case studies in the field of Anesthesia and Intensive Therapy. The scope of the Anesthesia and Intensive Therapy field includes:

1. anesthesiology
2. pain management
3. intensive care
4. emergency medicine 
5. pharmacology of anesthesia drugs

Section Policies

Original Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Review Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Case Report

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to the Indonesian Journal of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (IJAR) will go through the following processes:

1. Editorial Review

All manuscripts received by the Indonesian Journal of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (IJAR) will be screened by the Managing Editors to ensure their accordance with the Aim and scope, journal template, completeness of Ethics and Patient consent for publication, and pass the plagiarism check for less than 20%. The managing editors decide whether the manuscript will be continued to the review process, returned to the authors for revision, or rejected. Authors may expect the decision of the Editorial review from this stage of the review process within 1-2 weeks of submission.

2. Review Process

After passing the editorial review process, the Section editor assigns the manuscript to blind review process. The manuscript will be peer reviewed by at least two reviewers within the framework of a double-blind review. If they do not meet the conditions, the author will be given the opportunity to revise their manuscript until they complete the revision. One month is the maximum time for a round of review. This process can be done in one or more rounds.

3. Review Decision

The reviewer's decision will be considered by the Editors to determine the subsequent processing of the manuscript. The following recommendations will be provided by the reviewers:

• Accept submission; means that the manuscript is acceptable for publication without any revisions or changes
• Revision required; means that the manuscript is acceptable for publication after being revised in response to the reviewers' comments
• Resubmit for review; means that substantive inadequacies in the manuscript, such as data analysis or research variable, type of research, the main theory used and rewriting of paragraphs so need to be revised and resubmit
• Decline submission; means that the manuscript cannot be accepted for publication because it is not within the scope of the required research or the review provided is related to a very basic problem

4. Final Decision

The final decision on the acceptability, or otherwise, of manuscripts will be taken by the editor-in-chief based on reviewers' recommendation. The decision can be accepted, re-submit for review, or rejected. The editor will give Letter of Acceptance (LoA) after the editorial team decides to accept the manuscript.

5. Copyediting and Proofreading

The accepted manuscript is finalized and edited by the copyeditor. The manuscript will be copy-edited and typeset into pages. Authors may be asked to correct the manuscript according to the results of copy-editing. After copyediting process, the manuscript is proofread by professional proofreader(s) and then sent back to the author for revision.

6. Layout and Publish

After proofreading process, the manuscript will go through layout process based on IJAR's publication standard, undergo galley changes to PDF file, and link the references in content PDF. The author can revise any typos found in the final manuscript. After confirmation from the author is given, the Editor will process the manuscript for online publication on the website as well as print publication.

Publication Frequency

Indonesian Journal of Anesthesiology and Reanimation is published twice a year, in January and July. Each issue published seven articles in each volume year

Open Access Policy

Indonesian Journal of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (IJAR) provides immediate open access to its contents on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. This journal is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 

Archiving

This journal utilizes CLOCKSS 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.

References Management

Every article submitted to IJAR shall use the Vancouver style and reference manager e.g. EndNote®  or Mendeley.

Publication Ethics

Indonesian Journal of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (IJAR) have aim to be a leading peer-reviewed platform and an authoritative source of information. The following statement clarifies the ethical behavior of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal, including the author, the editor, the reviewer, and the publisher (Universitas Airlangga). this statement is following the Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE). We manage to perform a righteous peer-review with strict policies to assure a high standard of quality scientific studies published in this journal.

Duties of Authors:

1. Reporting  Standards: Authors should present an accurate account of the original research performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Researchers should present their results honestly and without fabrication, falsification, or inappropriate data manipulation. A manuscript should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable. Manuscripts should follow the submission guidelines of the journal.
2. Originality and Plagiarism: Authors must ensure that they have written entirely original work. The manuscript should not be submitted concurrently to more than one publication unless the editors have agreed to co-publication. Relevant previous work and publications, both by other researchers and the authors' own, should be properly acknowledged and referenced. The primary literature should be cited where possible. Original wording taken directly from publications by other researchers should appear in quotation marks with the appropriate citations.
3. Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publications: The author should not in general submit the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently. It is also expected that the author will not publish redundant manuscripts or manuscripts describing the same research in more than one journal. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. Multiple publications arising from a single research project should be clearly identified as such and the primary publication should be referenced
4. Acknowledgment of Sources: Authors should acknowledge all sources of data used in the research and cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work. Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given.
5. Authorship of the  Paper: The authorship of research publications should accurately reflect individuals' contributions to the work and its reporting. Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. Others who have made significant contributions must be listed as co-authors. In cases where major contributors are listed as authors while those who made less substantial, or purely technical, contributions to the research or to the publication are listed in an acknowledgment section. Authors also ensure that all the authors have seen and agreed to the submitted version of the manuscript and their inclusion of names as co-authors.
6. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: All authors should clearly disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript.  All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
7. Fundamental Errors in Published Works: If the author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in the submitted manuscript, then the author should promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.
8. Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects: The research being reported should have been conducted ethically and responsibly and should comply with all relevant legislation. The author should clearly identify in the manuscript if the work involves chemicals, procedures, or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use. All work must be conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki for Human experiments. Research involving animals should be conducted with the same rigor as research on humans. Authors should implement the 3Rs principles (Replacement, Reduction, Refinement). Authors must describe the details journals regarding study design and statistical analysis, experimental procedures, experimental animals, housing, and husbandry. 
9. Registration of Clinical Research: Clinical registration of the trial in a public registry is required. Registration of a trial must be at or before the enrollment of participants. This policy is in concert with that of the ICMJE.
10. Data access and retention: Authors may be asked to provide the raw data of their study together with the manuscript for editorial review and should be prepared to make the data publicly available if practicable.
11. Subject consent forms: Subjects have a right to privacy that should not be infringed without informed consent. Identifying details (written or photographic) should be omitted if they are not essential, but subject data should never be altered or falsified in an attempt to attain anonymity. Complete anonymity is difficult to achieve, and a consent form should be obtained if there is any doubt. For example, masking the eye region in photographs of subjects is inadequate protection of anonymity. When informed consent has been obtained, it should be indicated in the published article.
12. Ethics committee approval: Authors must sign a declaration that the research was conducted within the guidelines below and under the terms of all relevant local legislation. The Editors reserve the right to judge the appropriateness of the use and treatment of humans or animals in experiments for publication in the journal.
13. The Use of Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies: Authors are not allowed to use AI tools for content creation or research design, but are permitted to enhance the language and readability of manuscripts. Authors must notify and declare in their manuscript the use of AI tools. The declaration must be detailed with a statement about how the AI tool was used and which tool was used.

Duties of Editor 

1. Publication Decisions: Based on the review report of the editorial board, the editor can accept, reject, or request modifications to the manuscript. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision. Editors have to take responsibility for everything they publish and should have procedures and policies in place to ensure the quality of the material they publish and maintain the integrity of the published record.
2. Review of Manuscripts: Editor must ensure that each manuscript is initially evaluated by the editor for originality. The editor should organize and use peer review fairly and wisely. Editors should explain their peer review processes in the information for authors and also indicate which parts of the journal are peer-reviewed. Editors should use appropriate peer reviewers for papers that are considered for publication by selecting people with sufficient expertise and avoiding those with conflicts of interest.
3. Fair Play: The editor must ensure that each manuscript received by the journal is reviewed for its intellectual content without regard to the sex, gender, race, religion, citizenship, etc. of the authors. An important part of the responsibility to make fair and unbiased decisions is the upholding of the principle of editorial independence and integrity. Editors are in a powerful position by making decisions on publications, which makes it very important that this process is as fair and unbiased as possible.
4. Confidentiality: The editor must ensure that information regarding manuscripts submitted by the authors is kept confidential. Editors should critically assess any potential breaches of data protection and patient confidentiality. This includes requiring properly informed consent for the actual research presented, and consent for publication where applicable.
5. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: The editor of the Journal will not use unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript for his own research without the written consent of the author. Editors should not be involved in decisions about papers in which they have a conflict of interest.

Duties of Reviewers 

1. Confidentiality: Information regarding manuscripts submitted by authors should be kept confidential and treated as privileged information. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.
2. Acknowledgment of  Sources: Reviewers must ensure that authors have acknowledged all sources of data used in the research. Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. The reviewers should notify the journal immediately if they come across any irregularities, have concerns about ethical aspects of the work, are aware of substantial similarity between the manuscript and a concurrent submission to another journal or a published article, or suspect that misconduct may have occurred during either the research or the writing and submission of the manuscript; reviewers should, however, keep their concerns confidential and not personally investigate further unless the journal asks for further information or advice.
3. Standards of Objectivity: The review of submitted manuscripts must be done objectively and the reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments. The reviewers should follow journals' instructions on the specific feedback that is required of them unless there are good reasons not to. The reviewers should be constructive in their reviews and provide feedback that will help the authors to improve their manuscript. The reviewer should make clear which suggested additional investigations are essential to support claims made in the manuscript under consideration and which will just strengthen or extend the work.
4. Disclosure and Conflict of Interest: Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers. In the case of double-blind review, if they suspect the identity of the author(s) notify the journal if this knowledge raises any potential conflict of interest.
5. Promptness: The reviewers should respond in a reasonable time frame. The reviewers only agree to review a manuscript if they are fairly confident they can return a review within the proposed or mutually agreed time frame, informing the journal promptly if they require an extension. In the event that a reviewer feels it is not possible for him/her to complete a review of the manuscript within the stipulated time then this information must be communicated to the editor so that the manuscript could be sent to another reviewer.
6. Contribution to editorial decisions: Peer review assists editors in making editorial decisions and, through editorial communications with authors, may assist authors in improving the manuscripts. Peer review is a heart of a scientific endeavor.

Article Processing Charges

Article Submission: 0.00 (IDR)

Article Processing and Publication: 0.00 (IDR)

Plagiarism Check

This journal does not accept any plagiarism in any manuscript or it will be rejected immediately. Plagiarism screening will be conducted by IJAR Editorial Board using Turnitin Plagiarism Checker. The manuscript is passed if the similarity is less than 20%. Any manuscript that does not meet this requirement must be revised by its authors prior to re-submission. The plagiarism check is continued until the manuscript passed the requirement.

ORCID ID Policy

Starting from Volume 3, Number 2, 2021, the Indonesian Journal of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (IJAR) requires all authors to have an ORCID ID upon submission. To register on ORCID ID, visit the webpage: https://orcid.org/register.