Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Journal of Community Empowerment for Health is a national, open access, multidisciplinary, and peer-reviewed journal. We aim to publish research articles and reviews on educative, promotive, preventive and community empowerment activities in the health sector, especially rural areas.

Published twice a year on research topics about community empowerment, service, and community health services as its main scope. This includes:

  • Medicine and rural community health which includes: health care, social medicine, epidemiology, medical anthropology, occupational medicine
  • Community-based education
  • Community service
  • Disaster response

 

Section Policies

Editorial

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Original Research Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Case Study Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Review Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Journal of Community Empowerment for Health undergo a double blind review. After a manuscript is submitted and accepted, it is reviewed by the editor. If the manuscript goes in accordance with the JCOEMPH’s scope, it is sent to 2 reviewers. Reviewers will conduct a review process for a maximum of 2 weeks.

Reviewers have the right to decline a submitted manuscript (decline submission). If both of reviewers reject, then the manuscript will be rejected (rejected submission). If one of the reviewers rejects, the editor will add one more reviewer. If the additional reviewer accept it, then the manuscript will be accepted, but if it still rejected, then the manuscript will be a rejected submission.

After reviewing process is done, the manuscript that is received will be returned to the author for revision and the author can send the revised manuscript back. Editors will perform the last review before the layout process. Before being published, the author will receive a ready-to-be-issued manuscript for approval.

 

Publication Frequency

Journal of Community Empowerment for Health published three times a year (April, August, and December).

 

Open Access Policy

Journal of Community Empowerment for Health 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 PKP PN 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.