Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The aim of this journal publication is to disseminate the conceptual thoughts or ideas and research results that have been achieved in the area of community services.

Jurnal Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat (Indonesian Journal of Community Engagement), particularly focuses on the main problems in the development of the sciences of community services areas as follows:

  1. Community Services, People, Local Food Security;
  2. Training, Marketing, Appropriate Technology, Design;
  3. Community Empowerment, Social Access;
  4. Student Community Services;
  5. Border Region, Less Developed Region;
  6. Education for Sustainable Development.

 

Section Policies

Articles

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Peer Review Process

Every article that goes to the editorial staff will be selected through Desk Review and Initial Manuscript Evaluation processes by Editorial Board. Then, the articles will be sent to the Mitra Bebestari/ peer reviewer and will go to the next selection by Double-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. Mitra Bebestari/ peer reviewer that collaboration with Jurnal Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat (Indonesian Journal of Community Engagement) is the experts in the public administration area and issues around it. They were experienced in the prestigious journal management and publication that was spread around the national and abroad. Further details on reviewing policy and processes are available on submission guidelines.

 

Publication Frequency

Jurnal Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat (Indonesian Journal of Community Engagement) is published four times a year.

 

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...

 

Pulication Ethics

Jurnal Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat (Indonesian Journal of Community Engagement) is referring to Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Details of guideline and international standards could be found on COPE website.

Duties of Authors

  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. 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.
  3. Originality and Plagiaris: 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.

Duties of Editors

  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.

Duties of Reviewers

  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 Plagiarism

The manuscript that submitted into this journal will be screened for plagiarism using iThenticate. iThenticate provides tools to help originality checking to prevent plagiarism, checks writing for citation mistakes or inappropriate copying with personalized feedbacks.

 

Digital Archiving

This journal utilizes the Indonesia One Search (IOS), Indonesian Scientific Journal Database (ISJD), 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.

 

Statictic Download Article

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Generative AI Policy

Generative AI Policy

The Journal of Community Engagement is committed to upholding academic integrity, originality, and scholarly accountability throughout the publication process. In response to the development of generative artificial intelligence (Generative AI) technologies, the editorial board has established the following policy to guide authors, editors, and peer reviewers.

 

1. Use of Generative AI in Manuscript Preparation

The use of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, and similar technologies is permitted only as an assistive tool for the following purposes:

  • improving linguistic clarity without altering scientific content,
  • grammar checking and editing,
  • summarizing or organizing non-scientific text,
  • supporting technical translation tasks.

The use of Generative AI is not permitted for:

  • generating core scientific content, ideas, methodologies, analyses, or conclusions,
  • producing unverifiable data, findings, or citations,
  • writing substantive manuscript sections such as abstract, methodology, results, and discussion,
  • replacing the intellectual contribution of the authors in developing the manuscript.

2. Disclosure Requirement

If authors employ Generative AI during manuscript preparation, such use must be transparently disclosed in the Acknowledgements section, including:

  • the name of the AI tool used,
  • the type of assistance provided,
  • the scope and limitations of AI involvement.

Example disclosure statement:

“The authors used ChatGPT (OpenAI) to assist with grammatical editing in the Introduction section. The tool was not used to generate scientific content or research data.”

3. Ethical Responsibility and Accuracy

Authors retain full responsibility for:

  • the originality of the manuscript and authenticity of its content,
  • the accuracy of data and references,
  • avoidance of plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, or AI-generated manipulation.

Any manuscript found to include undisclosed AI-generated content, fabricated data or references, or manipulative AI usage will be rejected or retracted by the editorial board.

4. Use of AI in Data Processing and Visualization

  • AI-based visualization must originate from verifiable original data.
  • Images or illustrations generated entirely by AI without real data support are not permitted.
  • Authors must provide raw data for verification upon request.

5. Policy for Reviewers and Editors

  • Reviewers and editors are prohibited from using Generative AI to read, evaluate, or store unpublished manuscript content due to the risk of breaching scholarly confidentiality.
  • AI-assisted language checking may be used only after anonymization of the manuscript text.

6. Sanctions for Policy Violations

Violations of this policy may result in:

  • manuscript rejection during desk or peer review,
  • post-publication retraction if violations are discovered later,
  • notification to the authors’ affiliated institutions in accordance with COPE ethical standards.

 

Closing Statement

This policy ensures that the use of generative AI improves manuscript quality without compromising academic integrity or scientific values in community engagement scholarship. The policy will be periodically reviewed in alignment with technological developments and international publication standards.