Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Pena Dimas is a peer-reviewed academic journal in economics and business focusing on Enterprise-Driven Impact Economic Transformation, defined as empirically validated structural economic change generated through enterprise development, market systems, financial architecture, and institutional innovation. The journal prioritizes analytically rigorous and theoretically grounded studies that demonstrate measurable socioeconomic outcomes, including productivity growth, income expansion, employment quality, financial inclusion, competitiveness, and long-term economic resilience. By positioning enterprise as the primary engine of transformation, the journal advances scholarship aligned with the principles of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), emphasizing inclusive growth, responsible economic governance, and sustainable value creation. Manuscripts must articulate clear research gaps, demonstrate conceptual novelty, and apply robust impact evaluation frameworks; descriptive or non-analytical submissions will not be considered.

 Scope of the Journal

Pena Dimas invites contributions in, but not limited to, the following thematic areas, which contribute to the achievement of the SDGs and community resilience:

  1. Enterprise Upgrading and Productivity Dynamics
    MSME transformation, cooperative restructuring, entrepreneurial capability formation, value chain integration, performance analytics, and competitiveness strategies.

  2. Impact-Oriented Financial and Business Ecosystems
    Financial inclusion models, development and SME finance, impact investment mechanisms, enterprise financing architecture, and ecosystem governance generating measurable economic outcomes.

  3. Institutional Innovation and Economic Governance
    Regulatory design, institutional capacity strengthening, economic policy reform, and governance frameworks that reinforce inclusive and sustainable enterprise systems.

  4. Digital Transformation and Market Systems Development
    Digital entrepreneurship, fintech integration, platform economies, technological adoption, and strategic market expansion enhancing enterprise performance.

  5. Sustainable Enterprise and Responsible Economic Practices
    Green and circular business models, ethical and halal enterprise systems, resource efficiency, and sustainable production-consumption frameworks contributing to resilient economic structures.

 Pena Dimas publishes original research articles, theoretical explorations, critical policy analyses, systematic reviews, case studies, and practice-based reflections. Submissions should demonstrate methodological rigor, conceptual clarity, and relevance to contemporary community development challenges.

 

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

All submissions to Pena Dimas may be submitted through the online journal system or sent directly via email to the editorial team. Each manuscript received undergoes an initial assessment by the editor to determine whether it aligns with the journal’s aims, scope, and submission requirements. Manuscripts that do not comply with these criteria may be rejected at this stage without being sent for review.

Manuscripts that pass the initial screening will be checked for plagiarism. Only those that meet the journal’s originality and similarity standards will move forward to the peer review stage. Pena Dimas implements a double-blind peer review process, ensuring that both authors and reviewers remain anonymous throughout the evaluation. Each eligible manuscript is assigned to two (2) independent reviewers.

All manuscripts are evaluated through a rigorous blind review process. Reviewers assess the scholarly merit, relevance, and overall contribution of the manuscript using the journal’s standardized review form. They provide detailed comments, scores, and a recommendation regarding publication. Authors will be informed whether their manuscript is accepted, requires revision, or is rejected.

If revisions are required, the journal will provide the author with the review form outlining specific comments and indicating whether the revisions needed are minor or major. Authors must submit the revised manuscript within the deadline given by the editor. Revised manuscripts may be re-evaluated by the reviewers or editor to ensure that all requested improvements have been addressed satisfactorily. All submitted manuscripts must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration by any other journal.

Final editorial decisions are based on the reviewers’ recommendations, using the following categories:

  1. Accepted without revisions
  2. Accepted with minor revisions (to be checked by the editor)
  3. Accepted with major revisions (requiring substantial changes as recommended by reviewers)
  4. Rejected

In the review process, reviewers evaluate manuscripts according to the following criteria:

  • Relevance and originality of the theme
  • Clarity, coherence, and quality of argumentation
  • Methodological rigor and integrity, including appropriate use of data (when applicable)
  • Depth of engagement with literature and theoretical frameworks
  • Quality of language and effectiveness of scholarly communication

Reviewers provide a score for each evaluation category, an overall recommendation, and constructive comments intended to improve the manuscript.

Additionally, we encourage all authors to review our AI and Research Integrity, which outlines appropriate use and disclosure of AI-assisted tools in manuscript preparation. Transparency in this area is crucial to maintaining scholarly standards and ethical publishing practices.

We appreciate your attention to these matters and look forward to reviewing your work.

 

Publication Frequency

Pena Dimas, published by the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Islam Malang (FEB UNISMA), is an open-access journal issued biannually in April and October. It is a peer-reviewed academic journal in economics and business focusing on Enterprise-Driven Impact Economic Transformation, defined as empirically validated structural economic change generated through enterprise development, market systems, financial architecture, and institutional innovation. The journal prioritizes analytically rigorous and theoretically grounded studies that demonstrate measurable socioeconomic outcomes, including productivity growth, income expansion, employment quality, financial inclusion, competitiveness, and long-term economic resilience. By positioning enterprise as the primary engine of transformation, the journal advances scholarship aligned with the principles of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), emphasizing inclusive growth, responsible economic governance, and sustainable value creation. Manuscripts must articulate clear research gaps, demonstrate conceptual novelty, and apply robust impact evaluation frameworks; descriptive or non-analytical submissions will not be considered.

 

Open Access Policy

Pena Dimas provides immediate open access to its content based on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. All articles published in this journal are accessible online to all users immediately upon publication, without requiring any subscription or payment.

The journal publishes fully open access content, ensuring that every article can be read, downloaded, copied, distributed, remixed, adapted, and built upon by users, as long as appropriate credit is given to the original work. All published articles undergo a rigorous blind peer-review and editorial evaluation to maintain high academic quality and integrity.

Articles in Pena Dimas are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license, which permits users to share and adapt the material for any purpose, even commercially, provided that appropriate credit is given and any derivative works are distributed under the same license.

Through this open access commitment, Pena Dimas supports broader scientific communication, inclusive knowledge dissemination, and the advancement of research in community development and community empowerment worldwide.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS 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. More...

 

Article Withdrawal

Authors are not allowed to withdraw the submitted manuscripts which have been in the review process until a decision is made by the Editor, because withdrawals are a waste of valuable resources so that editors and reviewers spend a lot of time processing submitted manuscripts, money and work invested by publishers.

If the author still asks for the withdrawal of the manuscript while the manuscript is still in the peer review process, the writer will be subject to a withdrawal sanction of IDR 1,000,000 per manuscript as a withdrawal penalty to the publisher. However, it is unethical to withdraw manuscripts that have been entered from one journal if they are accepted by another journal. Withdrawal of manuscripts after the manuscript is accepted for publication, the author will be subject to a penalty in the form of payment of Rp. 2,000,000 per manuscript. Manuscript withdrawal is only allowed after the withdrawal penalty has been paid to the Issuer.

If the author does not agree to pay the fine, the author and its affiliates will be blacklisted for publication in this journal.

 

Publication Fees

This journal charges the following fees.

Article Submission: 0.00 (IDR)
Authors are not required to pay an Article Submission Fee.

Article Publication: 

a. FREE OF CHARGE will be available for paper submission of authors outside the country of Indonesia

b. Indonesian Author(s) in collaboration with Author(s) from other country: IDR 150,000

c. All Indonesian Authors: IDR 300,000

The fee covers DOI registration for each paper.

Waiver Policy
If you do not have funds to pay such fees, you will have an opportunity to waive each fee. We do not want fees to prevent the publication of worthy work.
The author should declare that he/she asks for a waiver in the comments to the Editor box during their submission.

Refund Policy
The article publication fee is not refundable under any circumstance