Revenue Sources
Justitia Nova: Indonesian Journal of Modern Law is committed to financial transparency, editorial independence, research integrity, and responsible scholarly publishing. The journal maintains a clear separation between financial considerations and editorial decision-making to ensure that manuscripts are evaluated and published solely on the basis of academic quality, originality, methodological rigor, scholarly contribution, legal significance, and relevance to the journal's aims and scope. Information concerning the journal's financial support and publication model is made publicly available to promote accountability and maintain the confidence of authors, reviewers, readers, and the wider scholarly community.
The publication and operational activities of Justitia Nova are supported through institutional funding provided by Institut Miftahul Huda Al Azhar (IMA) Kota Banjar, Indonesia, as the publisher of the journal. Institutional support is intended to sustain the journal's scholarly and technical infrastructure, including editorial management, administration of the peer-review process, maintenance of the Online Journal System (OJS), website and digital platform management, DOI registration and metadata administration, copyediting, publication production, digital preservation, and long-term archiving. Such institutional support is provided to facilitate the journal's publishing activities and does not confer any authority over individual editorial decisions or the evaluation of submitted manuscripts.
Justitia Nova: Indonesian Journal of Modern Law operates under a zero-fee publishing model. The journal does not charge authors for manuscript submission, initial editorial screening, peer review, Article Processing Charges (APCs), publication, or access to published articles. Accordingly, the submission fee, editorial processing fee, peer-review fee, APC, publication fee, and access fee are all USD 0. The absence of author-facing publication charges is intended to reduce financial barriers to scholarly communication and enable researchers to disseminate their work regardless of institutional or personal financial capacity.
The journal's zero-APC model does not affect the standards or rigor of its editorial and peer-review processes. All submitted manuscripts remain subject to the journal's established editorial assessment, similarity screening, and Double-Blind Peer Review procedures, where applicable. Editorial decisions are made independently by the editors and are not influenced by an author's ability or inability to provide financial support. Payment, institutional status, personal relationships, or other financial considerations shall not constitute grounds for acceptance, rejection, expedited processing, or preferential publication.
The journal does not currently rely on commercial advertising, commercial sponsorship, paid placement, or other revenue-generating arrangements that could compromise editorial independence. The journal shall not accept financial arrangements that provide external parties with influence over manuscript assessment, peer-review outcomes, editorial decisions, publication priority, research interpretation, or published content. Financial support, whether institutional or otherwise, shall remain structurally and functionally separate from the editorial evaluation of scholarly work.
Any future modification to the journal's financial structure, including the introduction of publication fees, APCs, institutional funding arrangements, sponsorship, or other sources of revenue, shall be disclosed publicly through the official journal website before implementation. Any newly introduced fees or financial obligations shall be communicated clearly and shall not be applied retrospectively to manuscripts that were already submitted or under editorial consideration before the effective date of the change, unless otherwise required by a clearly stated journal policy and communicated transparently to affected authors.
The Editorial Board periodically reviews the journal's financial arrangements to ensure that its revenue sources remain transparent, sustainable, and compatible with editorial independence and publication ethics. Where a potential financial conflict of interest is identified, appropriate measures shall be taken to prevent financial considerations from influencing scholarly judgment or editorial outcomes.
Through this policy, Justitia Nova: Indonesian Journal of Modern Law affirms that financial sustainability and scholarly integrity are complementary but institutionally separate objectives. The journal's financial arrangements are designed to support the infrastructure necessary for high-quality academic publishing while preserving the independence, fairness, transparency, and integrity of the editorial and peer-review processes. No financial consideration shall determine the academic fate of a manuscript.