Ownership and Management

Ownership and Management

The Journal of Tropical Resources and Sustainable Science (JTRSS) is owned, funded, and published by Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (UMK), Malaysia, through UMK Press. The journal is managed by the Faculty of Agro-Based Industry (FIAT), Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, with its editorial office located at the Jeli Campus.

Ownership

Universiti Malaysia Kelantan is the owner and publisher of JTRSS. The journal operates under the institutional framework of UMK, while UMK Press holds the copyright to the journal's published content, subject to the applicable publication and licensing terms.

Management and Editorial Governance

The overall management of JTRSS is supported by the Faculty of Agro-Based Industry and the journal's editorial team. The Editor-in-Chief, editors, and Editorial Board are responsible for overseeing the journal's editorial policies, manuscript evaluation, peer-review process, and publication quality.

Editorial decisions are made based on the scholarly merit, originality, relevance, and quality of submitted manuscripts. Manuscripts are evaluated through the journal's established peer-review process, with appropriate safeguards for confidentiality, impartiality, and the management of conflicts of interest.

Editorial Independence

JTRSS is committed to maintaining editorial independence and academic integrity. Ownership, institutional affiliation, funding arrangements, and other commercial considerations do not determine the acceptance or rejection of manuscripts. Editorial decisions are made independently according to the journal's editorial policies, publication ethics, and scholarly standards.

Through this governance structure, JTRSS aims to uphold transparency, accountability, and high standards of academic publishing while advancing research on tropical resources and sustainable science.

The draft reflects the ownership and management information currently published on the official JTRSS website.