Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

International Journal of Communication and Society (IJCS) invites original articles that have not been simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The journal welcomes a broad spectrum of research in communication science and society.

IJCS publishes both practical outcomes and proposed methodologies addressing challenges in these areas, provided the work demonstrates evidence of usefulness and effectiveness. Application-focused papers are encouraged; however, they must present novel implementations or approaches that improve the performance and outcomes of the specific application domain compared to existing methods. Such papers should clearly articulate the uniqueness of the solution, provide robust evidence of its effectiveness, and include an in-depth analysis of the methods employed.

The journal accepts the following types of articles:

  • Original Research Articles: These include fundamental or applied research that provides compelling motivation, demonstrates relevance to communication science and society, and highlights what is novel and distinct about the work compared to prior research. Submissions should address the scientific impact of the work, include all necessary evidence (such as data and proofs), and discuss its connections to existing literature.
  • Review Articles: Review papers should offer a comprehensive and principled analysis of significant existing and emerging research areas. Submissions must clearly position the paper’s findings and articulate key scientific issues of interest to the research community in communication science and society studies.

IJCS follows a double-blind peer review policy to ensure an unbiased and rigorous evaluation of all submissions.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Retraction Notice

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

The submitted manuscript is first reviewed by an editor. It will be evaluated in the office, whether it is suitable for International Journal of Communication and Society focus and scope or has a major methodological flaw and similiarity score by using iThenticate.

The manuscript will be sent to at least three anonymous reviewers (triple-blind review). Reviewers' comments are then sent to the corresponding author for necessary actions and responses.

The suggested decision will be evaluatd in an editorial board meeting. Afterwards, the editor will send the final decision to the corresponding author.

The peer review process for the International Journal of Communication and Society (IJCS) is designed to ensure the publication of high-quality research. The process includes the following steps:

  1. Initial Review by Editors
    Upon submission, the manuscript undergoes an initial review by the editorial team. This stage involves assessing the manuscript’s suitability for IJCS based on its focus and scope, similarity score (using Crosscheck-iThenticate), methodological rigor, readability, and adherence to the journal’s submission guidelines and template.

  2. Triple-Blind Review
    Manuscripts deemed suitable proceed to a triple-blind review process, where they are evaluated by at least three anonymous reviewers. This process ensures an unbiased and rigorous assessment, focusing on the manuscript's quality, originality, and contribution to the field of communication science and society.

  3. Reviewer Feedback
    The reviewers' comments and suggestions are sent to the corresponding author for necessary revisions and responses. Authors are required to address all feedback comprehensively to ensure the manuscript meets the required standards.

  4. Editorial Decision
    After the revised manuscript is submitted, the editorial team reviews the updates and makes a final decision. The possible outcomes include acceptance, further revisions, or rejection.

  5. Copyediting and Layout Editing
    Accepted manuscripts undergo copyediting and layout editing to prepare the final camera-ready version for publication.

  6. Final Notification
    The Editor sends the final decision to the corresponding author and, if accepted, provides details on the next steps in the publication process.

IJCS is committed to maintaining the highest standards of peer review to ensure the integrity and quality of the research published in the journal.

 

Publication Frequency

This journal is published two times a year (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.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Description

International Journal of Communication and Society  (hereinafter, “IJCS”) is a peer-reviewed journal published by the Association for Scientific Computing Electronics and Engineering (ASCEE). This journal is available in print and online and highly respects the publication ethic, and avoids any type of plagiarism. This statement explains the ethical behaviour of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal, including the author, the editor-in-chief, the editorial board, the peer-reviewers­­­­­ and the publisher (ASCEE). This statement is based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication

The publication of an article in IJCS 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.

ASCEE as the publisher of IJCS takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing seriously and we recognize our ethical behaviour 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, the ASCEE and Editorial Board will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful and necessary.

Publication decisions

The editor of the IJCS 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

The editor at any time evaluates manuscripts for their intellectual content without considering 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 information revealed in a submitted manuscript will not be used by the editorial board for their own research purposes without the express written permission of the author(s). As a result of handling the manuscript, privileged information or suggestions received by editors would be kept confidential and not used for their personal interests and advantages. Editors will not accept manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest arising from competitive, collaborative, and any other relationship with other persons, institutions, and companies connected to the manuscript.

Management of unethical behaviour(s)

The editors, along with the publisher(s), should follow rationally sensitive steps when ethical concerns have been made about the submitted manuscript or the published paper. Any recorded act of unethical publishing activity would be prosecuted, even if it is discovered years after publication. For this reason, IJCS has legal experts in the area of Intellectual Property as the Ethics Advisory Board based on the Decree of the Rector of Universitas Ahmad Dahlan.

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.

Acknowledgement 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 behaviour 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 behaviour and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgement of Sources. Proper acknowledgement 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 of the Paper. 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 there are others who 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 in 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.

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.

 

Retraction

The papers published in the International Journal of Communication and Society will be consider to retract in the publication if :

  1. They have clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct (e.g. data fabri-cation) or honest error (e.g. miscalculation or experimental error)
  2. the findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper crossreferencing, permission orjustification (i.e. cases of redundant publication)
  3. it constitutes plagiarism
  4. it reports unethical research

The mechanism of retraction follow the Retraction Guidelines of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) which can be accessed at https://publicationethics.org/files/retraction%20guidelines.pdf.

 

CrossMark policy

CrossMark 

CrossMark is a multi-publisher initiative from Crossref to provide a standard way for readers to locate the current version of a piece of content.

By applying the Crossmark logo, International Journal of Communication and Society is committing to maintaining the content it publishes and to alerting readers to changes if and when they occur. 

Clicking on the Crossmark logo on a document will tell you the current status of a document and may also give you additional publication record information about the document.

For more information on CrossMark, please visit the CrossMark site.

The International Journal ofCommunication and society content that will have the CrossMark logo is restricted to current and future journal content and is limited to specific publication types. Articles in Press will not have the CrossMark icon for the present.

For general author guidelines and information, please see: http://pubs2.ascee.org/index.php/sitech/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

Correction and Retraction Policies

The International Journal of Communication and Society is committed to upholding the integrity of the literature and publishes Errata, Expressions of Concerns or Retraction Notices dependent on the situation and in accordance with the COPE Retraction Guidelines. More information about the publication of ethics International Journal of Communication and Society can be found on Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement and information about COPE retraction guidelines can be accessed at Retraction page.

 

Policy of Screening for Plagiarism

Papers submitted to International Journal of Communication and Society will be screened for plagiarism using CrossCheck/iThenticate plagiarism detection tools. International Journal of Communication and Society will immediately reject papers leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism.

Before submitting articles to reviewers, those are first checked for similarity/plagiarism tool, by a member of the editorial team. The papers submitted to International Journal of Communication and Society must have similarity level less than 15%.

Plagiarism is the exposing of another person’s thoughts or words as though they were your own, without without permission, credit, or acknowledgment, or because of failing to cite the sources properly. Plagiarism can take diverse forms, from literal copying to paraphrasing the work of another. In order to properly judge whether an author has plagiarized, we emphasize the following possible situations:

  • An author can literally copy another author’s work- by copying word by word, in whole or in part, without permission, acknowledge or citing the original source. This practice can be identified through comparing the original source and the manuscript/work who is suspected of plagiarism.
  • Substantial copying implies for an author to reproduce a substantial part of another author, without permission, acknowledge or citation. The substantial term can be understood both in terms of quality as quantity, being often used in the context of Intellectual property. Quality refers to the relative value of the copied text in proportion to the work as a whole.
  • Paraphrasing involves taking ideas, words or phrases from a source and crafting them into new sentences within the writing. This practice becomes unethical when the author does not properly cite or does not acknowledge the original work/author. This form of plagiarism is the more difficult form to be identified.

 

Withdrawal of Manuscripts

Author is not allowed to withdraw submitted manuscripts, because the withdrawal is waste of valuable resources that editors and referees spent a great deal of time processing submitted manuscript, and works invested by the publisher.

If author still requests withdrawal of his/her manuscript when the manuscript is still in the peer-reviewing process, author will be punished with paying $200 per manuscript, as withdrawal penalty to the publisher. However, it is unethical to withdraw a submitted manuscript from one journal if accepted by another journal.

The withdrawal of manuscript after the manuscript is accepted for publication, author will be punished by paying US$400 per manuscript. Withdrawal of manuscript is only allowed after withdrawal penalty has been fully paid to the Publisher. If author don't agree to pay the penalty, the author and his/her affiliation will be blacklisted for publication in this journal. Even, his/her previously published articles will be removed from our online system.

 

Posting Your Article Policy

Understand International Journal of Communication and Society (IJCS)'s article sharing and posting policies for each stage of the article life cycle.

Prior to submission to IJCS
Authors may post their article anywhere at any time, including on preprint servers such as arXiv.org. This does not count as a prior publication.

Upon submission to IJCS
Authors may share or post their submitted version of the article (also known as the preprint) in the following ways:

  1. On the author’s personal website or their employer’s website
  2. On institutional or funder websites if required
  3. In the author’s own classroom use
  4. On Scholarly Collaboration Networks (SCNs) that are signatories to the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers’ Sharing Principles (https://www.stm-assoc.org/stm-consultations/scn-consultation-2015/)
The following text should be included on the first page of the submitted article when it first is posted in any of the above outlets: “This work has been submitted to the International Journal of Communication and Society, http://pubs2.ascee.org/index.php/sitech/about/submissions#authorGuidelines".

Upon acceptance to IJCS
If an author previously posted their submitted version of the article in any of the following locations, he or she will need to replace the submitted version with the accepted version of IJCS. No other changes may be made to the accepted article.
  1. Author’s personal website
  2. Author’s employer’s website
  3. arXiv.org
  4. Funder’s repository*
Final published article
  1. When the article is published, the posted version should be updated with a full citation to the original of International Journal of Communication and Society, including DOI. He or she will need to replace the accepted version with the published article version of IJCS.
  2. The article will be followed statements on the ICS's copyright notice at http://pubs2.ascee.org/index.php/sitech/about/submissions#authorGuidelines.