About Jurnal Ilmu dan Teknologi Hasil Ternak

Jurnal Ilmu dan Teknologi Hasil Ternak

Jurnal Ilmu dan Teknologi Hasil Ternak, widely shortened to JITEK and also rendered in English contexts as the Journal of Animal Products Science and Technology, is an Indonesian peer-reviewed journal devoted to what happens after animals are raised: the science, safety, quality and technology of animal products themselves. That focus sets it apart from broader animal-science titles that centre on breeding, feeding or live-animal production. Here the product is the subject — meat, milk and dairy foods, poultry products, eggs, honey and other foods and materials derived from animals, together with the processing, preservation, microbiology and functional-food questions that surround them.

The journal is published by the Department of Animal Products Technology in the Faculty of Animal Science at Universitas Brawijaya in Malang, Indonesia, in collaboration with the Indonesian Association of Food Technologists, known in Indonesian as Perhimpunan Ahli Teknologi Pangan Indonesia (PATPI). The JournalsWorld record for this title lists the same ISSN pair and the same publisher, University of Brawijaya, so the directory record and the journal's own site agree on identity. Readers who know Indonesian university publishing will recognise the pattern: a faculty department acts as the scholarly home, a national professional association adds a wider community, and an open university journal platform carries the issues to readers at no paywall barrier.

For prospective authors, the practical attraction is clarity of fit. A manuscript about a processing method, a product formulation, a microbiological safety question, a functional ingredient derived from an animal source, or the quality changes that occur during storage belongs here in a way that a purely live-animal trial may not. For readers — food technologists, animal-product researchers, students and industry practitioners in Indonesia and beyond — the journal offers a concentrated, triannual view of applied research that is often locally grounded: Indonesian raw materials, Indonesian production conditions and Indonesian food preferences appear alongside methods that travel well to other tropical and emerging-market settings.

Quick facts

History, home and institutional setting

Universitas Brawijaya is one of Indonesia's large public universities, based in Malang in East Java, and its Faculty of Animal Science is a long-standing centre for livestock teaching and research. Placing JITEK inside the Department of Animal Products Technology matters, because that department's teaching and laboratory work is precisely about turning raw animal materials into safe, stable and acceptable foods. A departmental journal therefore has a natural supply of specialist reviewers, a natural readership among its own graduates and partner institutions, and a natural responsibility to publish work that practitioners can actually use.

The collaboration with the Indonesian Association of Food Technologists broadens that base beyond a single faculty. Food technology in Indonesia spans universities, government research bodies and a large food-processing industry, from small producers of fermented milk and dried meat to national dairy and meat companies. An association link helps explain why the journal welcomes submissions from all over the world while retaining a strong Indonesian core: the questions are shared, even when the raw materials and market conditions are local.

The ISSN record adds useful continuity. The online ISSN 2338-1620 is registered with the print ISSN 1978-0303 as its ISSN-L, with earlier title variants recorded in the ISSN Portal, and the record describes the title as a periodical published three times a year from Indonesia in Indonesian. Directory listings also show articles in the journal from well over a decade ago, and the journal's own site showed a current issue at Volume 21, Number 2 in 2026 when this profile was prepared. That long run matters for authors weighing where to place work: a journal that has kept a regular volume sequence is easier for readers, indexers and tenure reviewers to trace than a title with an interrupted archive.

Aims and scope in detail

The journal describes itself, in its own about text, as a peer-reviewed triannual journal for mediating the dissemination of researchers in several named areas. Summarised in plain language, those areas are: food science as it applies to animal products; microbiology of animal products; biotechnology of animal products; functional food derived from animal products; and current findings in processing technology for animal products. It defines animal products broadly to include meat, dairy, poultry, insects and their by-products. Each of those phrases deserves unpacking, because together they draw the boundary that editors will use when deciding whether a submission is in scope.

Food science of animal products covers composition, physicochemical properties, sensory quality and nutritional value. Typical work measures protein, fat, moisture and acidity, tests texture and colour, and asks trained or consumer panels how a product tastes, smells and feels. Microbiology covers the organisms that spoil animal foods and the organisms that make them: starter cultures for fermentation, pathogens that must be controlled, and the hygiene of processing environments. Biotechnology covers enzymes, fermentation cultures, probiotics and other biological tools applied to animal-derived foods. Functional food work asks whether an animal product, or an ingredient taken from one, can carry a health-related function beyond basic nutrition — for example a fermented milk developed with a natural sweetener, or a product formulated to add a bioactive component. Processing technology covers everything that changes a raw material into a finished product: grinding, curing, drying, smoking, freezing, packaging, and the use of binders, starches, powders and plant ingredients to improve yield and quality.

Insects in the scope list is a detail worth noticing. Edible insects and insect ingredients are a growing research topic in sustainable protein, and their explicit inclusion signals that the editors do not limit animal products to the classic cattle, poultry and fish categories. By-products are equally important: gelatine from hides and bones, whey from cheese making, blood and offal products, and materials that might otherwise be treated as waste all raise scientific questions about safety, functionality and value. A strong JITEK paper often sits at the meeting point of two of these areas — for instance, a microbiology study of a fermented product that also reports sensory scores, or a processing study that measures both chemical composition and consumer acceptance.

What the published archive shows

Titles and abstracts visible through the Directory of Open Access Journals and the journal archive illustrate the scope in practice, and they are summarised here only by topic. Work has appeared on kefir sweetened with stevia leaf flour, measuring total sugar, acidity, total solids and syneresis; on chicken meatballs made with durian seed starch, reporting chemical qualities and organoleptic properties; on honey harvested at different ages from calliandra planting areas, measuring diastase activity, hydroxymethylfurfural and acidity; on frozen yoghurt made with beef gelatine, reporting water-holding capacity, melting time and hedonic scores; and on broiler meat quality when fermented feed by-products replaced part of the diet. Those examples, spread across dairy, meat, honey and poultry products, show a consistent editorial taste: controlled experiments, clearly described treatments and replications, standard laboratory measures, and a conclusion that tells a producer or a fellow researcher what level or method worked best.

That pattern is instructive for new authors. The journal favours papers in which the treatment is unambiguous — a percentage of an ingredient, a harvesting age, a processing time — the variables are measured with recognised methods, the statistics match the experimental design, and the discussion compares the result with earlier work rather than simply repeating the numbers. Review papers and symposium papers are also named as welcome formats, which gives senior researchers a route to synthesise a topic, but the centre of gravity of the archive is original experimental work on a defined animal product.

Geography is part of the value. Many experiments use Indonesian breeds, Indonesian plant ingredients and Indonesian processing traditions, such as dendeng, the spiced dried meat examined in work on ginger extract, tenderness, pH and water activity. Research of that kind is difficult to place in journals edited for North American or European product markets, yet it is exactly the evidence Indonesian producers, regulators and students need. Publishing it in an accredited Indonesian journal, indexed in national systems such as Garuda and SINTA as well as DOAJ and Dimensions, makes it findable both at home and internationally.

Peer review, originality and editorial expectations

The journal states that it accepts submissions from all over the world and that submitted articles must not have been published elsewhere, must be original and must not be under consideration for another publication. Those are standard scholarly conditions, but they carry practical consequences: do not submit the same manuscript in parallel, disclose related conference or thesis work where the submission system asks, and make sure figures and tables are your own or properly licensed. Because the readership includes practitioners, authors should write methods in enough detail for a laboratory in another university to repeat the work — ingredient sources, concentrations, temperatures, times, replication numbers and statistical tests all belong in the text, not in the reader's imagination.

Peer review in a specialist departmental journal has a particular strength: reviewers are likely to know the product, the standard methods and the Indonesian national standards (SNI) that many papers compare their results against. That also raises the bar on local referencing. A manuscript that ignores earlier JITEK work on the same product, or that compares its results only with distant literature, will look thin to such reviewers. A short, honest engagement with the journal's own archive is therefore both good scholarship and good strategy.

Language deserves a candid note. Directory listings describe the journal's language as Indonesian, while many articles carry English titles, abstracts and keywords, and some are published with substantial English text. Authors writing in English should still provide the bilingual elements the submission system requires, and authors writing in Indonesian should make sure the English abstract is a faithful, well-edited version rather than a machine-produced afterthought, because for many international readers that abstract is the whole first impression of the paper.

Accreditation, indexing and how to read them

Indonesian authors work inside a national accreditation system, SINTA, in which journals are graded and the grade affects how publications count for academic credit. JITEK's own site states that it has been accredited as Sinta 3 for five years, from 1 March 2023 to 1 November 2027, by the Indonesian ministry responsible for research, technology and higher education, under a named decree. That is a verifiable, dated claim of a kind authors should prefer: it names the grade, the period and the instrument. When the period ends, re-accreditation will determine the next grade, so authors planning submissions near the end of 2027 should check the journal site and the SINTA system for the updated status rather than assuming the grade continues unchanged.

The indexing list named by the journal — Garuda, Google Scholar, SINTA, Dimensions, DOAJ and EuroPub — mixes national and international services. Garuda is Indonesia's national reference portal, SINTA is the national science and technology index, Dimensions is a large international research database, and DOAJ is the Directory of Open Access Journals, whose listing signals that a journal has met DOAJ's open-access and publishing-practice criteria at the time of review. None of those listings, on its own, is a Journal Impact Factor, and this profile does not invent one. A quartile or impact figure for JITEK could not be verified from the journal's own pages consulted here, so it is recorded as not published there; anyone who needs a Scopus or Web of Science status for an appointment or promotion file should query those databases directly on the day the file is prepared.

For readers, indexing mainly answers a simpler question: can this article be found again? With DOIs in the form used by Universitas Brawijaya journals — article DOIs in the archive begin with the prefix 10.21776/ub.jitek — and listings in Google Scholar and Dimensions, the answer is yes. Cite the article with its DOI, volume, issue and page range as shown on the article page, and the reference will resolve even if the journal platform is reorganised in future.

How to prepare a submission that fits

Start with fit, not formatting. Write one sentence that names the animal product, the intervention or question, and the main measured outcome. If that sentence mentions meat, dairy, poultry, an insect product or a by-product, and a food-science, microbiology, biotechnology, functional-food or processing question, the manuscript is probably in scope. If the sentence is really about live-animal growth, reproduction or pasture management with no product measurement, a different animal-science journal will serve it better, and an early rejection on scope grounds helps nobody.

Design the experiment so the journal's typical reader can judge it. State the design — for example a completely randomised design with named treatments and replications — the materials and their sources, the laboratory methods with references, and the statistical analysis, including what was done when a treatment effect was significant. Report means with measures of variation, give exact significance levels where the journal style allows, and interpret organoleptic results alongside chemical and physical results rather than treating sensory scores as decoration. Photographs of products can help, but tables of measured values carry the argument.

Finally, write the conclusion as advice. JITEK's editorial goal, in its own words paraphrased here, is to provide a forum and an interface between academia, industry, government and society in animal-product fields. A conclusion that says which percentage, age, time or method performed best, under what conditions, and what should be tested next speaks to all four audiences. A conclusion that merely restates that a significant effect was found speaks to none of them. That difference, more than any formatting detail, is what separates the papers in this archive that get cited from those that are merely published.

Frequently asked questions

What does Jurnal Ilmu dan Teknologi Hasil Ternak publish?

Reviews, original papers, research notes and symposium papers on food science, microbiology, biotechnology and processing technology of animal products, and on functional food derived from animal products. Animal products in its scope include meat, dairy, poultry, insects and their by-products.

How often does JITEK appear?

Three times a year. The journal's own site names March, July and November as its publication months.

What are JITEK's ISSNs?

Print ISSN 1978-0303 and online ISSN 2338-1620, as shown on the journal site and in the ISSN Portal record, which lists 1978-0303 as the ISSN-L.

Who publishes JITEK?

The Department of Animal Products Technology, Faculty of Animal Science, Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia, in collaboration with the Indonesian Association of Food Technologists (PATPI). The JournalsWorld record lists University of Brawijaya as publisher, which is consistent with that fuller statement.

What is JITEK's SINTA status?

The journal site states Sinta 3 accreditation for 1 March 2023 to 1 November 2027 under decree SK Nomor 152/E/KPT/2023. Check the journal and SINTA again after that period for the renewed grade.

Can authors outside Indonesia submit?

Yes. The journal states that it accepts submissions from all over the world, provided the work is original, unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere.

Sources and verification

Official journal site at jitek.ub.ac.id (about page, ISSNs, frequency, indexing and Sinta 3 accreditation statement); ISSN Portal record for ISSN 2338-1620 (ISSN-L 1978-0303, Indonesia, three times a year); DOAJ article listings for the journal (product studies cited by topic); JournalsWorld live record for post 602777 (ISSN 1978-0303, 2338-1620; publisher University of Brawijaya).

This profile was prepared from the journal's own website, its publisher's pages and established directory listings consulted for this batch. Where a detail could not be verified from those sources, it is described as not published or not publicly disclosed rather than filled in by guesswork. Authors should always confirm the current submission rules, fees and editorial contacts on the journal's own site before submitting, because those details can change between issues.