Policies and Privacy

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Peer Review

All submissions undergo editorial screening and peer review to ensure scholarly quality and relevance to the journal’s scope. The journal follows a fair and confidential review process.

Publication Ethics

The journal is committed to publication ethics and expects authors, reviewers, and editors to adhere to standards regarding authorship, originality, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, and corrections/retractions where necessary.

Editorial Board Policy

The Editorial Board provides academic guidance to the journal by advising on editorial policies, ensuring the journal’s scope and quality standards, supporting the peer-review process through reviewer recommendations and subject-matter input, and promoting the journal to the scholarly community. Board members may be invited to review manuscripts, advise on special issues, and contribute to the journal’s strategic development and research integrity practices.

Publication Fees

The journal charges an Article Processing Charge (APC) of IDR 500,000 per accepted article. This fee is payable only upon acceptance. The journal does not impose submission fees, editorial processing charges, page charges, or colour charges at any stage from submission to publication.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy

Lontar Physics Today acknowledges the increasing use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in scholarly work. It supports their responsible use to assist authors in idea development, language improvement, literature exploration, and technical support. Authors remain fully responsible for the originality, accuracy, and integrity of their submissions and must transparently disclose any use of AI tools within the manuscript. Generative AI tools may not be listed as authors and must not replace core scholarly responsibilities, including the creation or manipulation of images, figures, or original research data. Editors and peer reviewers are required to maintain confidentiality and must not upload unpublished manuscripts or review materials into AI systems.

Preprint Policy

This journal accepts manuscripts that have been previously made available as preprints (e.g., on OSF Preprints, arXiv, SSRN, Research Square, or other reputable preprint servers), provided that the work has not been formally published in a peer-reviewed journal. Authors must disclose the preprint at submission by providing the platform name and the preprint link (URL) and/or DOI, if applicable. Posting a preprint is not considered prior publication; however, the submitted manuscript must comply with this journal’s publication ethics, originality requirements, and similarity screening policy. If the manuscript is accepted and published in this journal, authors are encouraged to update the preprint record by adding a full citation and a link/DOI to the final published version. Revisions between the preprint version and the submitted version are acceptable as long as the work remains original and does not infringe any third-party rights.

Similarity Check

Lontar Physics Today applies a similarity screening as part of the editorial quality control process. Similarity checking is conducted after the peer-review stage and before final acceptance. As a general guideline, manuscripts are expected to have an overall similarity index of no more than 20%, with a tolerance of up to 25% from a single source. These values are used as editorial references rather than automatic acceptance or rejection criteria.

Certain sections may be excluded from similarity consideration, including but not limited to reference lists, properly cited quotations, standard methodological descriptions, and commonly used technical terms.

Similarity reports are interpreted by the editorial team. If substantial or inappropriate overlap is identified, authors may be asked to revise the manuscript, provide clarification, or, where necessary, the manuscript may be rejected in accordance with the journal’s publication ethics and Author Guidelines.

Data Availability Policy

The journal recommends that authors deposit the data underlying their findings in a trusted public repository (e.g., Zenodo, OSF, Dataverse, or other discipline-appropriate repositories) whenever possible. Authors should include a Data Availability Statement in the manuscript describing where and how the data can be accessed, including persistent identifiers (e.g., DOI) and any access restrictions.

When data cannot be shared publicly due to ethical, legal, privacy, confidentiality, or third-party restrictions, authors must clearly state the reason. In such cases, authors should indicate whether the data are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request, subject to any applicable approvals or restrictions.

For studies that do not involve data (e.g., purely theoretical work) or where no new data were generated or analyzed, authors should state: “Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analyzed.”

Copyright & Licensing

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication. All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, provided appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and the source, a link to the license is provided, and any changes made are indicated.

Third-party Material

If third-party material is included in an article (e.g., figures, tables, or datasets not created by the authors), authors must obtain permission where required and provide proper attribution. Third-party material may be excluded from the Creative Commons license if indicated in a credit line.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party. The journal uses this information to manage the editorial and peer-review process, communicate with authors and reviewers, and publish accepted articles. Access to personal data is restricted to authorized editorial staff and the publisher/hosting institution. Where relevant, limited information may be shared with service providers that support journal operations (e.g., website hosting, DOI registration, indexing/archiving services) strictly for publishing and dissemination purposes. The journal does not sell personal data.

For privacy-related requests (access, correction, or deletion of personal data), please contact Lontar Physics Today (Physics Education, Universitas PGRI Semarang) at [email protected].

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