Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Focus and Scope

Komunikologi: Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu Komunikasi focuses on writing that contains research and contemporary thinking in the field of Communication Studies Development. The area of  includes to:

  1. The Social Media and Subcultures
  2. Media, Popular Culture, and Society
  3. Strategic Communications Management
  4. Public Relation
  5. New Media and Contemparary Issues
  6. Health Communication
  7. Communication and Policies
  8. Politics, Hegemony, and the Media
  9. Media, Democracy and Integration
  10. Youth and Media Globalization
  11. Inter Culture Communication
  12. Information Communication Technology (ICT) and Power
  13. Social Marketing
  14. Media Law.
  15. Political Marketing
  16. Political Campaign
  17. Globalization and Social Impact
  18. Media Literacy and Media Education
  19. Media and Identity
  20. Gender and Sexuality in the Media
  21. Youth and Media Globalization
  22. Audience Analysis

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

PEER REVIEW PROCESS

Every article that goes to the editorial staff will be selected through Initial Review processes by Editorial Board. Then, the articles will be sent to the peer reviewer and will go to the next selection by Blind Peer Review Process. After that, the articles will be returned to the authors to revise. These processes take a month (four week) for a maximum time. In the each manuscript, Mitra Bebestari/ peer reviewer will be rated from the substantial and technical aspects.

These guidelines will help you understand your responsibilities as a reviewer, as well as your ethical obligations to both the journal and the authors. You will also be introduced to what you should be looking for in a manuscript, so that your review will be consistent with others requested by the journal.

Articles received will be examined for the existence of elements plagiarism by using Turnitin program

 

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 Ethics

Publication Ethics

Komunikologi: Jurnal Ilmiah Komunikasi  is a peer-reviewed journal published by Universitas Esa Unggul with e-ISSN 2528-3243 and p-ISSN 1907-8870. This statement clarifies  ethical behavior of all parties involved in the act of an article in this journal, including the auditor, the editor-in chief, the Editorial Board, the peer reviewer, and the publisher. This statement is based on Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE’s) Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed Komunikologi: Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu Komunikasi 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 behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher and the society.

Duty of Publisher

Lembaga Penerbitan Universitas Esa Unggul as publisher of Komunikologi: Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu Komunikasi  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, the Lembaga Penerbitan Universitas Esa Unggul  Editorial Board will assist in
communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful and
necessary.

Publication decisions

The editor of the of Komunikologi: Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu Komunikasi is responsible to decide 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 evaluate 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.

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 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 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 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.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict 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.

Plagiarism Screening

Every submitted paper to Komunikologi: Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu Komunikasi will be screened for plagiarism and self plagiarism by Turnitin in initial process of paper screening and before publishing it in an issue. It depends on the level of originality and similarities with other documents, the editor-in chief will decide on whether to immediately reject the manuscripts, contact authors for further clarifications, or to proceed to the peer-review process.

References Management

In writing Citation and Bibliography, editor Komunikologi: Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu Komunikasi suggests authors to use the Mendeley Reference Management Software.