1. Journal Ownership and Publisher

Dentaphora: Journal of Dental Perspectives and Oral Health (Dentaphora JDPOH) is a peer-reviewed, fully open-access scholarly journal published by the Faculty of Dentistry, Universitas Hang Tuah, Surabaya, Indonesia. The Faculty serves as the institutional publisher and provides the organizational framework for the journal’s publication activities.

The journal disseminates original research, scholarly reviews, clinical case reports, and other eligible scientific contributions in dentistry and oral health. Its subject areas encompass general and clinical dentistry, preventive and restorative dentistry, endodontics, periodontics, prosthodontics, orthodontics, pediatric dentistry, oral and maxillofacial surgery, oral medicine, oral biology, dental materials, public oral health, evidence-based dentistry, and related research and innovation.

As the institutional publisher, the Faculty of Dentistry supports the journal’s administration, publishing platform, scholarly dissemination, and long-term development. Institutional publishing responsibilities are separate from independent editorial judgments concerning individual manuscripts.

2. Institutional and Administrative Management

Institutional and administrative support for Dentaphora JDPOH is coordinated through the Faculty of Dentistry, Universitas Hang Tuah, in collaboration with the journal’s editorial management team.

Institutional management responsibilities include:

• Providing administrative and organizational support for the journal’s publishing activities;
• Supporting the operation, security, accessibility, and maintenance of the electronic journal publishing platform;
• Facilitating coordination between the institutional publisher and editorial team;
• Supporting the publication schedule, digital dissemination, archiving arrangements, and continuity of journal operations; and
• Encouraging continuous improvement in publication quality, transparency, accessibility, and research integrity.

3. Editorial Management and Responsibilities

The academic management of Dentaphora JDPOH is entrusted to the Editor-in-Chief and the journal’s editorial team, supported by qualified editorial board members, editors, peer reviewers, and editorial staff, as appointed by the journal.

The Editor-in-Chief oversees the journal’s academic direction, editorial quality, and consistent implementation of publication policies. Editorial decisions must be fair, independent, and based on the scientific merits of the submitted work.

Editorial management responsibilities include:

• Assessing submitted manuscripts for relevance, originality, scientific quality, and alignment with the journal’s aims and scope;
• Coordinating manuscript screening, peer-review assignment, revision assessment, and editorial decisions;
• Appointing reviewers with appropriate expertise in dentistry, oral health, and relevant research methods;
• Ensuring appropriate consideration of ethical approval, participant or patient consent, data integrity, transparency, and reporting standards;
• Managing conflicts of interest, complaints, appeals, suspected misconduct, corrections, and retractions in accordance with journal policies; and
• Continuously strengthening the journal’s scientific standards and academic visibility.

Current information about journal management and editorial appointments is made available through the official Dentaphora website.

4. Peer Review and Editorial Independence

Dentaphora JDPOH is committed to a peer-reviewed publication process that is academically rigorous, fair, and transparent. Submitted manuscripts receive an initial editorial assessment for scope, completeness, methodological appropriateness, ethical compliance, and scholarly contribution.

Manuscripts considered suitable for review are evaluated by appropriately qualified reviewers. Reviewer recommendations inform the editorial assessment, while the final decision is made by the responsible editor according to the journal’s published editorial procedures and the quality of the evidence presented.

Manuscripts must be judged on scientific merit, methodological rigor, originality, research integrity, ethical compliance, and relevance to dentistry and oral health, irrespective of author affiliation, nationality, academic position, or professional standing.

The journal’s specific reviewer-anonymity model and reviewer-number requirements are governed by its separately published Peer Review Process policy.

5. Publication Ethics and Accountability

Dentaphora JDPOH promotes transparency, scientific integrity, fairness, accountability, and responsible reporting throughout submission, review, publication, and post-publication processes.

Authors, reviewers, editors, and journal staff are expected to disclose actual, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest. Editors with relevant competing interests must withdraw from handling the affected manuscript, and an independent editor should be assigned.

Studies involving human participants or identifiable patient information must comply with applicable research-ethics requirements. Authors must provide appropriate ethical approval or a justified exemption, informed consent when required, and specific consent for publishing identifiable clinical photographs or information, as applicable.

Submissions by editors, editorial board members, or individuals associated with the publisher must undergo independent editorial handling and assessment under standards equivalent to those applied to other authors.

Allegations of plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, redundant publication, inappropriate authorship, undisclosed conflicts, or other misconduct are assessed through established editorial procedures. Post-publication action may include a correction, expression of concern, or retraction, as justified by the evidence and circumstances.

6. Financial Management and Publishing Support

Dentaphora JDPOH operates under a fully open-access publishing model supported by the institutional publication arrangements of the Faculty of Dentistry, Universitas Hang Tuah.

Authors are not charged to submit or publish eligible manuscripts, whether they are based in Indonesia or abroad. Readers may access the journal’s published content freely without paying subscription or access fees.

Funding arrangements and institutional relationships must not influence the selection of reviewers, peer-review recommendations, acceptance or rejection decisions, or any other scientific judgment. All manuscripts are evaluated according to the same editorial and ethical standards.

7. Copyright and Open Access Responsibilities

The institutional management of Dentaphora JDPOH is distinct from the copyright and intellectual-property rights associated with individual scholarly articles.

The applicable terms of authors’ rights, first publication, copyright notices, and permission to share, reproduce, or adapt published works are determined by the journal’s publicly available Copyright Notice and License Statement. Authors and readers should consult those policies for the precise reuse conditions.

The publisher and editorial team support the free accessibility, preservation, responsible dissemination, and integrity of published scientific works while respecting intellectual-property rights and appropriate attribution.

8. Publisher Contact Information

The telephone number and email address above are the Faculty’s general institutional contacts; they are not presented as a dedicated Dentaphora editorial-office contact.

9. Commitment to Responsible Journal Management

Dentaphora JDPOH is committed to transparent, accountable, ethical, and sustainable scholarly journal management in the fields of dentistry and oral health.

With institutional support from the Faculty of Dentistry, Universitas Hang Tuah, and independent academic assessment by its editorial team, the journal aims to maintain rigorous publication standards, protect scientific integrity, and strengthen the dissemination of clinically relevant and evidence-based dental knowledge.

The journal is scheduled for publication twice yearly, in May and November. Its governance and editorial policies are intended to support continuity, accessibility, international scholarly communication, and responsible contributions to dental research, professional education, clinical practice, and public oral health.