About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Jurnal Profesi Medika : Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan is a reviewer-based medical or related journal. This journal accepts scientific articles in medicine and health with the form of basic research articles, clinical research articles, meta-analysis articles, literature reviews, and case reports. Themes included in this journal scientific publications include the following:

• Medical microbiology

• Public health science

• Pulmonology

• Radiology

• Orthopedic and urology surgery

• Maternal and child health

• Anesthesiology

• Cancer and stem cells

• Allergy and immunology

• Histopathology

• Internal disease

• Neuro-psychiatric health

• Physical medicine and rehabilitation

• Cardiovascular

• Cell and molecular biology

• Geriatric

• Clinical Medicine

• Pharmacology

Peer Review Process

Jurnal Profesi Medika : Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan uses Blind Review. The article sent by the writer will be reviewed by the editor previously. The article will be reviewed whether it is within our focus and scope, or has any major methodological weaknesses. All submitted texts that pass this stage will be examined using Turnitin to identify plagiarism before being reviewed by the reviewer. The article will then be sent anonymously to reviewers, Reviewers' comments are also sent to the author to take any necessary actions and responses. The revised manuscript will be decided and later evaluated in the editorial board meeting. the final decision will be sent to the associated writer afterward. An article is reviewed based on this assessment whether or not it is suitable for publication.

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 and Malpractice Statement

Publication Ethics

This statement clarifies ethical behavior by parties involved in the act of manuscript publication in Jurnal Profesi Medika : Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan, which is managed by the Faculty of Medicine UPN Veteran Jakarta in collaboration with the National Commission on Tobacco Control, including writers, editors, and reviewers.

This statement is based on COPE’s Best Practice standard.

1. Ethical Guidance for Journal Publication

The publication of a manuscript requires consideration related to its ethics. This is also applied in Jurnal Profesi Medika : Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan. Jurnal Profesi Medika : Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan publishes articles that are studied both theoretically and empirically from accountable resources. This matter is important for the development of knowledge to be implemented in developing the economy of a country. Thus, a coherent and valued network of knowledge needs to be carried out in the Ethics Guidelines for Journal publications. This thing reflects on the work by authors and supporting institutions.

Articles in Jurnal Profesi Medika : Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan is peer-reviewed to support and achieve scientific method. It is important to agree on expected standards of ethical behavior by parties involved in the act of manuscript publication, including writers, editors, reviewers, publishers, and the public.

The Faculty of Medicine UPN Veteran Jakarta as Publisher of Jurnal Profesi Medika : Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan takes its trusteeship beyond all the publishing stages very seriously and carry it out with ethics and other responsibilities. Faculty of Medicine UPN Veteran Jakarta commits to ensure that broadcasting, reprinting or other commercial income does not have an impact or influence on editorial decisions.

2. Publication Decisions

Before publishing Jurnal Profesi Medika : Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan both online or printed, the Chief Editor in charge of publishing requests input from other editors as well as support from the reviewer. It also based the steps of journal publications, which start from the submission of the manuscript to editor review, checking by the reviewer, layout checking, plagiarism, and copyright checking. This process is under the supervision of the Chief Editor and other editors with authority that a publication decision arises for the articles in Jurnal Profesi Medika : Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan.

3. Non-discrimination

In each publication of Jurnal Profesi Medika : Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan, the editors and reviewers evaluate the manuscript for its scientific content alone without relating to race, sex, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the author. This matter is for the sake of upholding the ethics of publishing the Jurnal Profesi Medika : Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan that is non-discrimination.

4. Confidentiality

Every article published in Jurnal Profesi Medika : Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan is secured for its valuable information. Thus, editors and reviewers are not permitted to disclose much information related to the journal to anybody. It is including the authors, reviewers, editorial teams, and publishers. They are only allowed to disclose what is relevant and appropriate.

5. Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Any unpublished material will be disclosed under a submitted manuscript and are not to be used by the editorial boards and reviewer in their research

Duty and Obligation of the Reviewer

1. Contribution to editorial decisions

Publication of manuscripts in Jurnal Profesi Medika : Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan involves reviewer in the associated field. Decisions of the reviewer contribute to the editor’s decision for every manuscript. This journal uses the blind-review process. The result of the review is sent back to the author by the editor. This point is done to improve the author’s quality of writing.

2. Promptness

Jurnal Profesi Medika : Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan values punctuality of the publication and information delivery to authors. Every submitted manuscript in PJurnal Profesi Medika : Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan will be informed to the author and reviewer to be processed based on the basic provisions. If the reviewer is unable to submit on-time, the editor will decide to replace them with another reviewer that is more qualified. This is to ensure that the publication time is consistent with the decided schedule.

3. Privacy and Confidentiality

Jurnal Profesi Medika : Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan is managed by the Faculty of Medicine UPN Veteran Jakarta with support of the editor and expert reviewer. Every manuscript submitted is secured confidentially by the editors, reviewer, and publisher. By the fact that it is blind reviewd, every manuscript can only be discussed for its content by editor and writer.

4. Objectivity Standard

Every submitted manuscript submitted to Jurnal Profesi Medika : Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan is obligated to be evaluated by the editors and reviewers based on the established standard. Nevertheless, commentary and review by the editor and reviewer must be respectful towards the author. Every reviewer is required to be consistent with the decision and recommendation for the editors and writer

5. Reference Citation / Acknowledgment

The reviewers are obligated to make point of reference used in the manuscript submitted by the authors through the editor. Every source must be checked for its validity and novelty, and is obtained from trusted journal site.

6. Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Any specific information or ideas obtained through peer-review process must be kept confidential not used for personal gain. Reviewers should not any consider texts containing conflicts of interest which from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or also connections with writers, companies or other institutions associated with the research.

Duties and Obligation of the Author

1. Reporting Standard

All authors are obligated to serve accountable relevant information in works submitted to Jurnal Profesi Medika : Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan. Presented data ought to be cited from liable sources. The references must be written in the article. Any form of fraud or inacurrate statement made on purpose is an unethical doing therefore unacceptable.

2. Data Access and Retention

The Authors might be asked for explanation related to data and information written in the script. Thus they are obligated to provide data and information to the editor and the reviewer punctually. This is due to simplify the correction process of submitted article bassed on the guideline by PJurnal Profesi Medika : Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan.

3. Originality and Plagiarism

Authors must ensure that the work is original. They must make proper citations whenever using other's word or work. If any sort of plagiarism or problems with the citation is discovered in the author's work, the manuscript will be automatically rejected. Complete policies related to plagiarism can be seen in the Plagiarism Policy

4. Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication

Whenever an author submits a manuscript to be published in the Jurnal Profesi Medika : Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan, one is not allowed to send the manuscript to another publisher simultaneously. This act is considered unethical. Thus the manuscript would not be accepted.

5. Acknowledgment of Sources.

Every manuscript sent by the author to Jurnal Profesi Medika : Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan ought to give proper acknowledgment and credits to cited authors. All of the acknowledgment must be written clearly in the Reference List.

6. Authorship of the Paper.

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the research reported in the submitted manuscript. The authors listed in the manuscript have a responsibility to keep the co-authors posted with the review process. If the manuscript is accepted, all authors are required to provide and sign a statement that the research is their original work

7. Hazards and human or animal subjects

If the research use of chemicals, procedure or tools which may contain hazard that normally does not inherent in the usage, the author must clearly identify all these things in the text

8. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest.

All writers should express in their manuscript everything that supports them to complete the research. All financial supports for the research should be disclosed.

9. Fundamental errors in published works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his published work, the author is obligated to immediately notify the editor or publisher of the journal and work with the editor to withdraw or improve the research.

Malpractice Statement

In any form of established ethical publications, malpractice will lead to the application of sanctions and other actions needed to ensure all articles published by Jurnal Profesi Medika : Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan. In cases of suspected misconduct, the Editors and the Editorial Board will use the best practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) to assist them in resolving the complaint and dealing fairly with the misconduct. This will include an investigation of the Editors' allegation. A submitted manuscript that is found to contain such misconduct will be rejected. In cases where the published paper has been found to contain such misconduct, the retraction may be published and linked to the original article. Complete policies related to malpractice management can be seen in the Retraction, Withdrawal, and Correction (R-W-C) Policy.

Retraction, Withdrawal and Correction Policy

Retraction

The papers published in the Jurnal Profesi Medika : Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan will be consider to retract in the publication if :

They have clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct (e.g. data fabri-cation) or honest error (e.g. miscalculation or experimental error)
the findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper crossreferencing, permission orjustification (i.e. cases of redundant publication)
it constitutes plagiarism
it reports unethical research

The mechanism of retraction follow the Retraction Guidelines of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) which can be accessed at https://publicationethics.org/files/retraction%20guidelines.pdf.

Withdrawal

Author is not allowed to withdraw submitted manuscripts, because the withdrawal is waste of valuable resources that editors and referees spent a great deal of time processing submitted manuscript, and works invested by the publisher.

If author still requests withdrawal of his/her manuscript when the manuscript is still in the peer-reviewing process, author will be confirmed for our editor and send your information about withdrawal.

Email for requsting of withdrawal : profesimedika@upnvj.ac.id

Correction

Jurnal Profesi Medika : Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan should consider issuing a correction if:

A small part of an otherwise reliable publication reports flawed data or proves to be misleading, especially if this is the result of honest error.
The Authors list is incorrect (e.g., a contributor has been omitted or someone who does not meet authorship criteria has been included).

Corrections to peer-reviewed content fall into one of three categories:

Publisher correction (erratum): to notify readers of a critical error made by journal staff (usually a production error) that negatively impacts the publication record or the scientific integrity of the article, or the reputation of the authors of the journal.
Author correction (corrigendum): to notify readers of a critical error made by the authors, which has a negative impact on the publication record or the scientific integrity of the article, or on the reputation of the authors or the journal.
Addendum: an addition to the article by its authors to explain inconsistencies, expand the existing work, or otherwise explain or update the information in the main work.

The Editor-in-Chief decides whether a correction should be issued, sometimes with advice from reviewers or editorial board members. Handling editors will contact the authors of the paper concerned with a request for clarification, but the final decision about whether a correction is required and which type rests with the Editor-in-Chief.

Plagiarism Policy

Papers submitted to Jurnal Profesi Medika : Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan will be screened for plagiarism using Turnitin plagiarism detection tools. Jurnal Profesi Medika : Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan will immediately reject papers leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism.

Before submitting articles to reviewers, those are first checked for similarity/plagiarism tool, by a member of the editorial team. The papers submitted to Jurnal Profesi Medika : Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan must have similarity level less than 25%.

Plagiarism is the exposing of another person’s thoughts or words as though they were your own, without without permission, credit, or acknowledgment, or because of failing to cite the sources properly. Plagiarism can take diverse forms, from literal copying to paraphrasing the work of another. In order to properly judge whether an author has plagiarized, we emphasize the following possible situations:

An author can literally copy another author’s work- by copying word by word, in whole or in part, without permission, acknowledge or citing the original source. This practice can be identified through comparing the original source and the manuscript/work who is suspected of plagiarism.
Substantial copying implies for an author to reproduce a substantial part of another author, without permission, acknowledge or citation. The substantial term can be understood both in terms of quality as quantity, being often used in the context of Intellectual property. Quality refers to the relative value of the copied text in proportion to the work as a whole.
Paraphrasing involves taking ideas, words or phrases from a source and crafting them into new sentences within the writing. This practice becomes unethical when the author does not properly cite or does not acknowledge the original work/author. This form of plagiarism is the more difficult form to be identified.