Editorial Policies

Section Policies

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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.

 

Publication Fee

This journal charges the following author fees.

Article Submission: 1000000.00 (IDR)
Article submissions and reviews are free of charge. After the article is declared accepted, the Article Publication Fee of IDR 1,000,000 or USD 70,00 is charged to the author. A fee will be charged for articles submitted starting June 2023.

 

Copyright Transfer Agreement

Authors submitting a  manuscript do so on the understanding that if accepted for publication, copyright of the article shall be assigned to  Journal of Social Development as the publisher of this journal.

Journal of Social Development, Editorial Board make every effort to ensure that no wrong or misleading data, opinions or statements be published in the journal. In any way, the contents of the articles and advertisements published in Journal of Social Development,  are the sole and exclusive responsibility of their respective authors and advertisers.

 

Indexing and Abstracting

Journal of Social Development (JSD) has been indexed and abstracted by:

 

 

Peer Review Process

Journal of Social Development implement the peer review process. All articles submitted to J-SOD submissions will be closed (blind review) by the mitra bestari. In general, each article will be reviewed by one or two reviewers. Feedback from this reviewer would be the basis for journal editors to determine if an article can be received (accepted), accepted when revised (accepted with major/minor revision), or discarded (rejected). An article was rejected for publication due to various considerations, such articles are not within the scope of the field of journalism, mass media and media studies; writing scientific side was insufficient to be classed in a scientific paper; The fundamental methodological errors; or because the author refuses to make improvement suggestions given by the reviewer without a logical basis. All articles submitted will be examined the plagiarism elements using software anti-plagiarism is using Turnitin application.

 

Publication Ethics

The Publication Code of Ethics referred to by Journal of Social Development on Head of LIPI Regulation No. 5 of 2014 concerning the Code of Ethics for Scientific Publication, which refers to COPE. The Code of Ethics for Scientific Publication basically upholds the three ethical values in publication, namely Neutrality, Justice, and Honesty.

JOURNAL PUBLISHER CODE ETHICS

  1. Determining the name of the journal, the scope of science, the timeline, and the accreditation.
  2. Determining the membership of the editorial board.
  3. Defining the relationship between publishers, editors, peer review and other parties in the contract.
  4. Appreciating the confidentiality of the contributing researchers, author, editor, and peer review.
  5. Applying the norms and regulations regarding intellectual property rights especially on copyrights.
  6. Conducting the policy reviews on the journals and present it to the authors, editorial board, peer review, and readers.
  7. Making the behavior code guidelines for editor and peer review.
  8. Publishing journals on a regular basis.
  9. Ensuring the availability of resources for sustainability journal publishing.
  10. Establishing cooperation and marketing network.
  11. Preparing for the licensing and other legal aspects.

EDITOR CODE ETHICS

  1. Improving the quality of publications.
  2. Ensuring the process to maintain the quality of published papers.
  3. Leading the freedom in delivering an opinion.
  4. Maintaining the integrity of the author's academic track record.
  5. Conveying corrections, clarifications, withdrawal, and an apology if necessary.
  6. Owning the responsibility for styling and formatting the paper, while the contents and any statements in the paper are the responsibility of the authors.                                                          
  7. Assessing policies and attitudes of the published journal from the author and peer review to increase responsibility and minimize errors.
  8. Having an open-minded personality in accepting the new opinion or views of others who are different than their personal opinion.               
  9. Prohibiting in defending our own opinion, the author or third parties which may result in a false decision.
  10. Encouraging the author, in order to make improvements to the paper until it worth publishing.

PEER REVIEWER CODE ETHIC

  1. Receiving the task from the editors to review the papers and submit the review to the editor, as a matter of determining the feasibility of the paper for publication.
  2. Reviewing the papers in a timely manner (on time) in accordance with the style guide based on scientific principles (method of data collection, the legality of the author, conclusions, etc.).
  3. Reviewing the papers that have been corrected in accordance with the standards.
  4. Encouraging the author to make improvements in the papers by providing feedback, suggestions, feedback, and recommendations.
  5. Maintaining the author's privacy by covering the results of the corrections, suggestions, and recommendations received by the author.
  6. Reviewers must not review any papers that involve the reviewers in their work, directly or indirectly.
  7. Following the guidelines for peer review in reviewing papers and assessing the evaluation form paper given by the editors.
  8. Reviewing papers substantively by not correcting the grammar, punctuation and mistype.
  9. Ensuring the principles of truth, novelty, and originality; prioritize the benefit of the paper for the development of science, technology, and innovation; also comprehending the impact on the development of science writing. 
  10. Prohibiting in defending own opinion, the author or third parties which may result in decision reference becoming non-objective.                                                                       
  11. Upholding the value of objectivity and free from any influences.                                  
  12. Ensuring the confidentiality of findings in the paper until it is published.                                
  13. Having a broad understanding of the expertise and ability to provide a review of the paper appropriately and correctly.
  14. Refusing to do a review of the research is not from the field of expertise. Instead, the peer review should be giving the recommendation to the researcher if there is any other expert on the subjects.  
  15. Having an open-minded personality in accepting the new opinion or views of others who are different than their personal opinion.
  16. Refusing to do the review if the deadline given by the editor cannot be reached. If absent the peer review should notify the editor as early as possible.      
  17. The results of the review must be presented in an honest, objective, and supported by clear arguments. Some possible recommendations from the review are: (1) Accepted without repair; (2) Accepted with minor repairs (after repaired by the author, it is not necessary to go to peer review); (3) Accepted with major repairs (after repaired by the author, return to the peer review for re-review); (4) Rejected and recommended for other publication; and (5) Rejected and recommended not to publish to any publication because scientifically the paper is flawed for the community.
  18. Giving rejection for the last recommendation as to the last choice related to the feasibility of the papers or with an indication of severe violations of the code of ethics related to the author.
  19. Reviewed papers aren’t allowed to be used for personal or third-party interests. Moreover, The use of some of the contents of the reviewed papers must have received permission from the author.

AUTHOR/ARTICLE WRITER CODE ETHICS

  1. Author collectively responsible for the work and the content of the article which cover methods, analysis, calculation, and details.
  2. The author immediately responds to the comments made by the peer review professionally and timely.
  3. The author should inform the editor if they retract their paper.         
  4. The author describes the limitations of the study.                        
  5. The author respects the publishers if they demand not to publish the findings in the form of interviews or through any other media before the publication.
  6. The author informs the editor of (a) paper that is part of a phased research, multidisciplinary, and different perspectives.                                  
  7. The author makes a statement that the papers submitted for publication are original, have not been published anywhere in any language, and not in the process of submission to another publisher.
  8. If there is an error in the paper, the author should immediately notify the editor or publisher.                                        
  9. The use of materials from other publications that are copyrighted should be given written permission and gratitude.
  10. The author refers to the work of others as appropriate in citations and quotations used in the paper.                                           
  11. When delivering new discoveries or improving inventions the authors should mention the job previous researcher/writer/founder.                                    
  12. The author is not allowed to give a bibliography of the publications if they do not read the publication.                                 
  13. If requested, the authors prepared the proof that the research has already met the requirements of the research ethics including the field notes.
  14. The author adequately responds if there are any comments or feedback after the paper published.

 

The Policy of Screening for Plagiarsm

Articles submitted to Journal of Social Development will be checked for similarity using the Turnitin program. Articles that level of similarity to more than 20% will be rejected to publish in these journals.