Editorial Policies

Plagiarism Policy

Editors will utilize Turnitin's web-based software to assess the similarity index with a quality criterion of 20% to ensure that submitted and published papers are free of plagiarism. This procedure is followed when the author submits the paper for the first time (submission) and again (revision/after being amended based on reviewer feedback).

If the article passes the criteria, it can proceed to the next level (review or publication). Otherwise, the author will be prompted to make the necessary changes.

Aside from Turnitin, the editor will also scan Google Scholar and other sources. This stage is designed to guarantee that papers are not the product of plagiarism or that they have already been submitted/published to other journals (double submission).

Peer Review Process 

Each article submitted to the editorial staff will be selected through a Preliminary Review process by the Editorial Board. All journal manuscripts that meet these two prerequisites will be checked for plagiarism checker process through Turnitin. Manuscripts with a plagiarism rate of more than 20% will be rejected automatically.

The article will be sent to at least two peer reviewers and will proceed to further selection through the Double Blind Peer Review Process. It will be returned to the author for revision. In each manuscript, Partner Bestari / peer reviewer will be assessed from a substantial and technical aspect. Bestari partners / peer reviewers who work closely with experts in the field of Communication Science and the issues around it.

Publishing Frequency

The system that will be used in this journal is through a peer review process and the frequency of publication is 3 times a year, namely in January, May, September.

Authors' manuscript submission will remain at least six weeks (after submitting) for reviewing process.

Open Access Policy

This journal is an open access publication that provides readers and their institutions with immediate, worldwide, barrier-free access to the full text of all published papers. Every article in the Journal may be read, downloaded, copied, distributed, printed, searched, or linked to by readers.

This publication allows direct access to its content on the premise that making research freely available to the public would improve global knowledge exchange.

Publication Fee

Costs in process - publication of the Journal article IDR 1.000.000,-