About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Journal The Winners is a semiannual journal published in June and December. Our journal focus and scope is to publish research in Digital Transformation in developing countries. The coverage of Digital Transformation includes:

a. Digital Transformation from a Strategic Perspective in Developing Countries
b. Digital Transformation from Leadership and Organization Perspective in Developing Countries
c. Digital Transformation from Marketing Perspective in Developing Countries
d. Digital Transformation from Entrepreneurship and Innovation Perspective in Developing Countries
e. Digital Transformation from Supply Chain and Operation Perspective in Developing Countries
f. Case Study

The first publication is in 2000. The journal contents are managed by the Binus Business School under the coordination of The Research and Technology Transfer Office (RTTO), Bina Nusantara University. Our journal collaborates with Forum Manajemen Indonesia (FMI). The university partially supports the operation of the journal. Thus, all articles in the journal are available to the public for free. However, all submitted articles will be subjected to the standard peer-reviewing process by experts.

The objective of the journal is to provide a forum for lecturers, researchers, students, and practitioners to present their research in the field of Digital Transformation. Our journal has been accredited by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology under the decree number 10/C/C3/DT.05.00/2025 (SINTA 2), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Academic Research Index (Research BIB), Indonesia OneSearch, Garda Rujukan Digital (Garuda), Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE), World Catalogue (WorldCat) and Google Scholar, and Indonesian Research Repository (Neliti).

Peer Review Process

To maintain high standards of quality in its publication, each manuscript of our journal received by the secretariat will undergo the following process:

Desk review by the chief editor or section editor to determine whether the manuscripts comply with the focus scope, and novelty in one month.
The secretariat will comply with the manuscripts with the writing guidelines, and then a plagiarism check will be undertaken in one month. We use Turnitin as the plagiarism-checking software. The maximum similarity index is 15%.
Authors for whom English is not their native language are encouraged to have their papers checked before submission for grammar and clarity. We use Grammarly to help us eliminate language errors. Make sure that the manuscript does not have errors for writing issues more than 150, critical issues more than 50, and overall scores more than 85.
After passing the second step, the manuscripts are reviewed by three reviewers (double-blind peer review). During this process, the reviewers do not know the authors' names or identities, nor do the authors know the reviewers' identities. Reviewers may be Editorial Board members or invited Guest Reviewers.
Most submissions receive an editorial decision within 12 weeks until 20 weeks.
The service level agreement for reviewing the paper is 1 month. If the reviewer fails to submit the recommendation, the editor will reassign a new reviewer to review the paper.
The chief editor or section editor will decide on the article's acceptance based on the reviewer's recommendation.
There are 4 types of article decisions, as follows: 1.) accepted; 2.) accepted with minor revision; 3.) accepted with major revision; 4.) rejected.
Journal The Winners allows for the limited use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, provided that such tools contribute no more than 20% to the development of any manuscript

Publication Frequency

Journal The Winners is an international journal published in June and December.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Abstracting and Indexing

Journal The Winners have been indexing and abstracting by:

1. SINTA (S2)
2. Google Scholar
3. Indonesia OneSearch
4. GARUDA
5. DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
6. Dimensions
8. Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
9. WorldCat
10. ISJD Neo

Archiving Policy

Our journal adopted the concept of LOCKSS and CLOCKSS archives, in which the softcopy of our journal will be sent to Garuda and Indonesia OneSearch

Periodical Journal the Winners' archiving and Preservation Policy encompasses:

1. University Archiving
2. Self-archiving
3. Indexing (such as Garuda and the IndonesiaOneSearch)
4. If the journal stops publishing
5. In the event of Notice of Possible Litigation

Article Processing Charge

The article processing charge is Rp2.000.000 for all accepted papers, and will be freely available to all readers with worldwide visibility and coverage. The payment information is as follows:
Bank Name: Bank Central Asia, cabang Bina Nusantara
Account Name: Univ Bina Nusantara
Account No: 5271706678
Please email your wire transfer receipt to thewinners@binus.edu

The Article Processing Charge (APC) covers the costs of peer review administration, DOI number, professional production of articles in PDF and printed version, as well as dissemination of published papers. There are no charges for rejected articles, no submission charges. The APC will not be charged to the corresponding authors from outside Indonesia (international authors). APC will not be returned for retracted articles due to misconduct.

Waiver Policy
At Academic Journals, we understand that some institutions may have limited funding for their research activities. Thus, we have instituted a generous waiver system that may ease the payment of the manuscript handling fee when their researchers choose to publish their manuscripts in any of our journals. Our primary goal, as stated in our mission, is to accelerate the dissemination of knowledge through the publication of high-quality research articles. We continually pursue this goal without putting an undue financial burden on researchers or their institutions.

To request a waiver, kindly send an application to thewinners@binus.edu and gendis.kinasih@binus.edu. The waiver application should contain the manuscript number and state the reason for requesting a waiver.

Journal Licensing Term

You are free to:

Share - copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Adapt - remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

Under the following terms:

ShareAlike - If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

No additional restrictions - You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Publication Ethics

Journal The Winners is a peer-reviewed national and international journal. This statement clarifies the ethical behavior of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal, including the author, the chief editor, the Editorial Board, the peer-reviewer, and the publisher (Bina Nusantara University). This ethics statement is based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Core Practices and the COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors. For more information, visit COPE’s website.

Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication.

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed Journal The Winners journal is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behaviour for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher, and the society.

Bina Nusantara University as the publisher of Journal The Winners, takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing extremely seriously, and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. In addition, Bina Nusantara University and the Editorial Board will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful and necessary.

Publication Decisions
The editor of Journal The Winners is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Fair Play
An editor at any time evaluates manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality
The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.

Duties of Reviewers
Contribution to Editorial Decisions
Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author, may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Promptness
Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Confidentiality
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

Standards of Objectivity
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgment of Sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Duties of Authors
Reporting Standards
Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

Data Access and Retention
Authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review and should be prepared to provide public access to such data (consistent with the ALPSP-STM Statement on Data and Databases), if practicable, and should, in any event, be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

Originality and Plagiarism
The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication
An author should not, in general, publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgment of Sources
Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Authorship and Contributorship
Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where others have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects
If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published works
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author's obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

Complaint & Appeals

This journal has a well-defined process for managing grievances lodged against the journal, Editorial Staff, Editorial Board, or Publisher. The complaints will be thoroughly explained to the concerned individual regarding the nature of the complaint. The scope of complaints covers any issue related to the journal's operational procedures, such as the editorial process, unethical citation practices, biased editors/reviewers, peer-review tampering, and so on. The complaint cases will be handled in compliance with COPE's guidelines.

Discussions & Corrections

This journal welcomes post-publication discussions and corrections from readers regarding published articles. If a reader wishes to provide discussions and corrections, they can contact the Editor in Chief via email and explain their feedback. If the Editor in Chief accepts the discussions and corrections. The authors of the original article are allowed to reply to the discussions and corrections by sending their response to the Editor in Chief and inform the response of the readers.

Advertising & Marketing Policy

Advertising Policy. At present, Journal The Winners does not publish any commercial advertisements for revenue.

Marketing Policy. Any direct marketing activities, including solicitation of manuscripts conducted on behalf of the publisher and journal, shall be appropriate, well-targeted, and unobtrusive. Information provided about the publisher or journal is expected to be truthful and not misleading for readers or authors.

Journal History

History of Journal The Winners

2000

The Winners was established in 2000 as a local scholarly journal intended primarily for the dissemination of research conducted by BINUS University lecturers. Initially, the journal was published biannually, with issues released in March and September.

2014

Beginning with Volume 15, Number 2 (2014), The Winners was transformed into an international journal and adopted English as the sole language of publication, accepting only full-length manuscripts written in English.

2015

By 2015, The Winners had been indexed in several scholarly databases and search engines, including ResearchBib (Academic Resource Index), Microsoft Academic Search, Indonesian Publication Index (IPI), Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE), WorldCat, Google Scholar, and Neliti (Indonesia Research Repository).

2018

In December 2018, The Winners received national accreditation from the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education of the Republic of Indonesia under Decree No. 34/E/KPT/2018, earning a SINTA 3 accreditation.

2019

Since 2019, The Winners has been indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

2021

In December 2021, The Winners achieved an improved national accreditation, receiving SINTA 2 status under Decree No. 158/E/KPT/2021 issued by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology.

2023

Effective January 2023, The Winners revised its aims and scope to focus on Digital Transformation. The publication schedule was also changed from March and September to June and December, with each issue publishing seven articles.