About the Journal
Jurnal Optimasi Sistem Industri (JOSI) with ISSN: 2442-8795 (online medium) and 2088-4842 (print medium), translated as Journal on Optimization of Systems in Industries, is a distinguished peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly periodical. Since its inception in 2001, JOSI has been dedicated to publishing high-quality research papers, technical papers, conceptual papers, and case study reports that undergo a rigorous peer-review process, ensuring the highest standards of scholarly integrity.
Published by the Industrial Engineering Department at Universitas Andalas, Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, JOSI focuses on optimising soft systems aspects of industrial operations and engineering. While we welcome discussions on hard systems, these must optimise soft system aspects as outlined in our focus and scope. Our commitment to interdisciplinary approaches is aligned with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, particularly in quality education, decent work and economic growth, industry innovation, and responsible consumption and production.
JOSI ensures unrestricted access to all articles under open licenses, promoting the free dissemination of knowledge without charging any publication fees. This approach supports the global academic community by making research accessible to everyone. We accept manuscripts in English and facilitate the translation of articles submitted in other languages, subject to a translation fee before publication acceptance, ensuring inclusivity and accessibility for authors worldwide.
JOSI is indexed by Scopus, Q3 in Scimago Journal Rank, the DOAJ, and Sinta, attesting to our quality and impact in industrial engineering. We maintain strong collaborations with The Institution of Engineers Indonesia (Persatuan Insinyur Indonesia) and BKSTI (Badan Kerjasama Penyelenggara Pendidikan Tinggi Teknik Industri), which provide editorial members, peer reviewers, and authors who support the journal’s aims and scope.
JOSI meets all essential criteria for high-standard open-access journals. We have a valid and confirmed ISSN, ensuring persistent identification. Our rigorous evaluation process guarantees that we publish scholarly articles of the highest quality. All journal outputs are freely accessible and carry open licenses in the article-level metadata. We do not charge publication fees, making our journal accessible to all authors. Submissions are welcome from authors of all affiliations, provided their research aligns with our journal's aims and scope. Furthermore, JOSI is owned by a public, non-profit organisation that promotes research and scholarship.
Focus
Jurnal Optimasi Sistem Industri (JOSI) publishes research in industrial engineering and operations with a distinctive emphasis on decision-centric optimization of socio-technical (“soft”) systems, the human, organizational, and managerial dimensions that shape system performance. We also consider hard-systems studies (models, algorithms, technologies) when they directly support soft-systems optimization and demonstrably improve operational decisions.
Scope
- Decision and optimization in socio-technical systems: Soft Systems Methodology and other problem-structuring methods, system dynamics for policy design, multi-criteria decision making, and robust/stochastic/multiobjective optimization.
- Human factors and ergonomics in operations include work design, safety climate and culture, risk assessment, ergonomics evaluation, and human-automation teaming.
- Operations & supply chains: production planning and scheduling; logistics/last-mile; network design; sustainable/circular supply chains; inventory and demand forecasting; quality and reliability engineering.
- Data-driven operations research and analytics include discrete-event simulation, agent-based modeling, system dynamics simulation, heuristics and metaheuristics, artificial intelligence and machine learning applied to operations, and digital twins.
- Design & assets for operations: product/service and facility design when tied to measurable operations outcomes; maintenance; and asset management with reliability/optimization models.
- In the contexts of Industry 4.0 and 5.0, which include IoT, automation, and cyber-physical systems, the contribution is an operations and industrial engineering decision model.
Methods we prioritize
We use various methods such as optimization (exact/heuristic/metaheuristic), simulation (discrete-event, agent-based, system dynamics), MCDM, experiments/quasi-experiments, ergonomic field studies, survey-based structural models, and mixed methods to deliver actionable decision insights.
Out-of-scope (desk reject)
- General management/finance/industrial policy/HR topics without an operations/IE decision model or measurable system-performance link
- Purely descriptive case reports without method or validation
- Computer-science-centric papers (e.g., generic ML architectures) without a concrete operations application
Alignment with All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) System:
| Field | Subject Area | ASJC Code |
|---|---|---|
| Business, Management, and Accounting | Management of Technology and Innovation | 1405 |
| Decision Sciences | Management Science and Operations Research | 1803 |
| Information Systems and Management | 1802 | |
| Engineering | Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 2212 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 2205 | |
| Safety, Risk, Reliability, and Quality | 2216 |
Alignment with the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals
| UN SDG Number | Sustainable Development Goal | Relation to Jurnal Optimasi Sistem Industri (JOSI) |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | Quality Education | JOSI promotes open access, supporting quality education for all. |
| 8 | Decent Work and Economic Growth | Focuses on soft system optimizations related to employment and economic growth. |
| 9 | Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure | Highlights industrial optimization, supply chain innovations, and emerging technologies. |
| 12 | Responsible Consumption and Production | Addresses sustainable production and consumption patterns through topics like inventory control. |
Commitment to Interdisciplinary Research
These carefully curated areas signify the journal's dedication to fostering interdisciplinary scholarship that bridges management science, decision-making, and engineering domains, all central to the nuanced field of soft systems optimization in industrial engineering.
Collaboration and Innovation
Jurnal Optimasi Sistem Industri strives to be a nexus for collaboration, innovation, and knowledge exchange among researchers, academics, and professionals. By maintaining rigorous peer review, adhering to COPE's ethical guidelines, and upholding the highest standards of scholarly integrity, the journal serves as a respected and valuable resource within the global academic community.
Journal History
Below is the history of Jurnal Optimasi Sistem Industri:
- JOSI applied for the Scopus index on the 5th of August, 2023. We got notified of acceptance in Scopus on the 1st of October 2023. A swift and heartwarming process.
- On January 20th, 2022, the journal upgraded and migrated its content management systems from Open Journal Systems version 2 to version 3.
- JOSI renewed its agreement with the Institution of Engineers Indonesia. The latest agreement number as of 22nd January 2018 is 02/JOSI-Unand/I/2018 and 08-02/MOU/BKTI-PII/I/2018.
- On the 10th of January 2018, JOSI signed an agreement with BKSTI (Badan Kerjasama Penyelenggara Pendidikan Tinggi Teknik Industri), a community of industrial engineering departments in Indonesia, concerning the management and collaboration of journal publications. The collaboration was bound in a document numbered 01/JOSI-Unand/I/2018 and 001/KM-BKSTI/I/2018.
- December 1st, 2017. We changed our email address's domain. The previous email address domain was @ft.unand.ac.id. The new domain for the email address is @eng.unand.ac.id. The current email for contact is editor_josi@eng.unand.ac.id.
- Peer reviewers were amended for volume 16, no. 2, 2017. New peer reviewers joined JOSI in June 2017.
- JOSI changed its logo on 11th May 2017.
- The new article template was introduced and used on 10th May 2017.
- JOSI became a fully online business process since volume 16, no. 1, 2017, and a new online review form was introduced.
- JOSI used a semi-online business process (email-based communication) up to its 2016 volume.
- JOSI amended its editorial team on 27th April 2016.
- Jurnal Optimasi Sistem Industri is registered in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), validated on 3rd August 2015.
- JOSI and the Institution of Engineers Indonesia agreed on journal publication cooperation in 2011.
- ISSN 2442-8795 (online) is the serial number Jurnal Optimasi Sistem Industri has used since 2015.
- ISSN 1412-4769 was the serial number of Jurnal Ilmiah Teknik Industri. Jurnal Ilmiah Teknik Industri and Jurnal Optimasi Sistem Industri are the same journal.
- The first editor-in-chief is Mr. Insannul Kamil.
- In 2005, it changed its title to Jurnal Optimasi Sistem Industri (JOSI).
- The journal started its publication in 2001 as a printed version under Jurnal Ilmiah Teknik Industri.