Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

ACI (Acta Cardiologia Indonesiana) is published twice a year (biannually) by the Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
ACI (Acta Cardiologia Indonesiana) publishes original articles, reviews and case reports on the field of cardiology and vascular medicine. ACI (Acta Cardiologia Indonesiana) is a forum for articles that present the results of research, innovative ideas and new hypotheses that
stimulate the original thinking in the field of cardiovascular medicine. ACI (Acta Cardiologia Indonesiana) accepts articles of original research, review articles, case reports and case series that represent the advancement in cardiovascular science and practice. Basic medical research, translational research, clinical research and epidemiology/community research are welcomed to be submitted.  
Published articles are the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Editor and Staff of ACI (Acta Cardiologia Indonesiana).

All rights reserved by statute. 

Address: Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine,Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada
Radiopoetro Building, 2nd Floor, West Wing, Farmako Street, Sekip, Yogyakarta 55281 Indonesia. Phone & Fax: 0274-631011. Email:kardiologi_fkugm@yahoo.co.id

Annual subscription fee of IDR 200.000, - can delivered via transfer to
the account number 137-00-0791222-9 Bank Mandiri RSUP Dr.
Sardjito on behalf of dr. Budi Yuli Setianto.
Authors and customers are expected to give a clear address. Change of address notified to the secretariat of the ACI  (Acta Cardiologia Indonesiana) stating the old address and new address.

 

Section Policies

Cover Page

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Research Articles

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Clinical Practice

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Review Article

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Case Report

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Instruction for Author

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Foreword

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Committee of The 3rd InaPRevent 2017

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Speaker Lists

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Committee of JINCARTOS 2017

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Plennary Lecture

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Symposium

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Poster

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Committee of The 2nd JINCARTOS 2018

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Peer Review Process

Every article that goes to the ACI (Acta Cardiologia Indonesiana) editorial office will be selected through initial review processes by Managing Editor. Then, the articles will be sent to the reviewers and will go to the next selection by blind review process. The author(s) have the right to choose their own peer reviewer, however the decision to assign to peer reviewer is in the ACI (Acta Cardiologia Indonesiana) editor. 

After that, the articles will be returned to the authors to revise based on peer review process. These processes usually take a month (4 weeks), according to reviewers availability. However, ACI (Acta Cardiologia Indonesiana) editor tries to give the peer review process as soon as possible. In the each manuscript, peer reviewer will be rated from the substantial and technical aspects. 

Revised articles will be delivered again to the peer reviewer for final decision to be published. Upon acceptance, the ACI (Acta Cardiologia Indonesiana) editor will send the notification to authors. Rejected article will be returned to the authors. 

 

 

Publication Frequency

ACI (Acta Cardiologia Indonesiana) publishes twice a year (biannually). Two issues per volume with Number 1 and 2 are scheduled for publication: March and September each year.

 

Open Access Policy

ACI (Acta Cardiologia Indonesiana) 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 in cardiology and vascular medicine.

 

Archiving

Acta Cardiologia Indonesiana utilizes the LOCKSS (PKP Private LOCKSS Network) 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

Authors published in ACI (Acta Cardiologia Indonesiana) must follow the ethical rules: 

  1. Reporting Standars: 
    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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Acknowledgement of Citation: 
    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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
Editor of ACI (Acta Cardiologia Indonesiana) must follow the ethical rules: 
  1. 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.

  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Publication Decisions
    The editor board journal are 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.
  5. Review of Manuscripts: 
    Editor must ensure that each manuscript is initially evaluated by the editor for originality. The editor should organize and use peer review fairly and wisely. Editors should explain their peer review processes in the information for authors and also indicate which parts of the journal are peer reviewed. Editor should use appropriate peer reviewers for papers that are considered for publication by selecting people with sufficient expertise and avoiding those with conflicts of interest.

Reviewers of ACI (Acta Cardiologia Indonesiana) must follow the ethical rules:

  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. Standards of Objectivity: 
    Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.

 

Screening for Plagiarism

The manuscript that submitted into this journal will be screened for plagiarism using Aimos 2 or other plagiarism checker tools.

 

Digital Archiving

ACI (Acta Cardiologia Indonesiana) utilizes the Indonesia One Search (IOS), Indonesian Scientific Journal Database (ISJD), and Indonesian Publication Index (IPI) 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.

 

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