Reviewer Guidelines

Jurnal Lentera Kesehatan Masyarakat (JLKM) uses double-blind peer review. Reviewers must provide independent, objective, constructive, and timely assessments.

Before Accepting a Review

• Accept only manuscripts within your expertise and available time.
• Disclose financial, personal, professional, institutional, or other conflicts of interest; decline the review when independence could be affected.
• Notify the editor if an author's identity is apparent. Do not attempt to identify or contact authors.

Confidentiality and Artificial Intelligence

Manuscripts, supplementary files, review reports, and editorial correspondence are confidential. Reviewers must not share or use unpublished material. Manuscripts must not be uploaded to public or external generative-AI systems where confidentiality, privacy, or intellectual property could be compromised. Any permitted technical assistance must not replace the reviewer's own judgment, and the reviewer remains accountable for the report.

Assessment Criteria

• Evaluate originality, relevance, methods, research ethics, analysis, reporting, interpretation, limitations, references, and conclusions.
• Check whether the title, abstract, tables, figures, and conclusions accurately reflect the work.
• Distinguish essential corrections from optional suggestions and give clear, evidence-based reasons.
• Use respectful, specific, and non-discriminatory language.
• Do not request irrelevant citations, including self-citations, or changes intended to advance personal interests.

Research Integrity Concerns

Confidentially alert the editor to suspected plagiarism, duplicate publication, fabricated or falsified data, unethical research, image manipulation, inappropriate citation practices, or substantial overlap. Reviewers must not conduct an independent investigation or contact third parties.

Recommendation and Revision

Select the recommendation supported by the report: accept, minor revision, major revision, or reject. The editor makes the final decision. When invited to assess a revision, reviewers should focus on whether the authors have addressed the substantive concerns and whether any new issues affect the reliability of the work.