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Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Interaksi journal focuses on writings that contains research and contemporary thinking in the field of Communication Studies in various angles/perspectives. include:

  1. Media, Culture and Society: Journalism, Media Studies, Media Policy, Media Literacy, New Media Studies, Economy Political Media, Media Ethics.
  2. Strategic Communications: Strategic Communications Management, Social Marketing, Digital Marketing, Political Marketing, Political Campaign, Public Relation.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Editors
  • Nurul Hasfi, Indonesia
  • Hapsari Sulistyani, Indonesia
Checked Open Submissions
Checked Indexed
Checked Peer Reviewed

 

Peer Review Process / Policy

Interaksi: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi maintains the standards of peer review while increasing the efficiency of the process. Every manuscript that goes to the chief editor will be sent to the section editor through the Initial Review process to check the technical aspects. Then, the manuscript will be sent to at least two peer reviewers to undergo the Double-Blind Peer Review Process. The peer reviewers will rate each manuscript on the substantial aspects. Each reviewer is required to make an initial decision by selecting the option below:

  • Accept Submission: The manuscript meets the standard and is ready for further processing for publication.
  • Revisions Required: Minor revision (can be re-reviewed by the referee or accepted by the editor).
  • Resubmit for Review: Major revision (need more rounds of peer review process)
  • Resubmit Elsewhere: It doesn’t seem like a fit for the focus and journal scope.
  • Decline or Reject Submission: Reject the submission due to many weaknesses and out-of-journal standards.

Then, if there are revisions, the manuscript will be returned to the author for revision. All these processes take at least three to six months, hopefully. It depends on the queue caused by the load of submissions. The peer reviewers have expertise in communication studies. They were also experienced in prestigious journal management, and publication spread nationally and abroad. All publication decisions are made by the journals’ Editors-in-Chief based on the reviews and peer reviewers' recommendations provided. 

 

Publication Frequency

Published twice a year, every June and December

 

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 knowledge exchange. The published articles will be available on Interaksi: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi's website, and their full text can be downloaded freely.

 

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. It can be seen in the Publisher Manifest (LOCKSS), https://ejournal.undip.ac.id/index.php/interaksi/gateway/lockss

 

Publication Ethics

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Interaksi: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi (p-ISSN 2301-6051, e-ISSN 2548-4907) is a peer-reviewed journal published by Departemen Ilmu Komunikasi, FISIP, Diponegoro University. This statement clarifies ethical behaviour of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal, including the author, the chief editor, the Editorial Board, the peer-reviewer­­­­­ and the publisher. This statement is based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed INTERAKSI : Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi journal is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher and the society.

Departemen Ilmu Komunikasi FISIP, Diponegoro University as publisher of INTERAKSI : Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi journal takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing extremely seriously and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue
has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. In addition, the Departemen Ilmu Komunikasi FISIP Diponegoro University and Editorial Board will assist in
communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful and
necessary.

Publication decisions

The editor of the INTERAKSI : Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi journal is 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.

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.

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.

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.

Duties of Reviewers

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.

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.

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.

Standards of Objectivity

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

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.

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.

Duties of Authors

Reporting standards

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

 

Allegations of Misconduct

Research misconduct includes fabrication, falsification, citation manipulation, or plagiarism when conducting, performing, or reviewing research, writing an article by authors, or reporting research results. When authors are determined to have engaged in research misconduct or other significant irregularities regarding articles published in scientific journals, editors must maintain the scientific record's accuracy and integrity.

In cases of suspected misconduct, the editors and editorial board will resolve the complaint and address the misconduct fairly. It will include an investigation of the allegation by the editors. A submitted manuscript that is found to contain such misconduct will be rejected. In cases where a published paper contains such misconduct, a retraction can be published and linked to the original article.

The first step involves determining the allegation's validity and assessing whether the allegation is consistent with the definition of research misconduct. This initial step also involves determining whether the individuals alleging misconduct have relevant conflicts of interest.

Suppose scientific misconduct or other substantial research irregularities are possible. In that case, the allegations are shared with the corresponding author, who is requested to provide a detailed response on behalf of all co-authors. After the response is received and evaluated, additional review and involvement of experts (such as statistical reviewers) may be obtained. For cases in which it is unlikely that misconduct has occurred, clarifications, additional analyses, or both, published as letters to the editor, and often including a correction notice and correction to the published article, are sufficient.

Institutions are expected to conduct an appropriate and thorough investigation of allegations of scientific misconduct. Ultimately, authors, journals, and institutions have an essential obligation to ensure the accuracy of the scientific record. By responding appropriately to concerns about scientific misconduct and taking necessary actions based on evaluating these concerns, such as corrections, retractions with replacement, and retractions, Interaksi: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi will continue to fulfil the responsibilities of ensuring the validity and integrity of the scientific record.

 

Author Contributions

For transparency, we encourage authors to write an author statement file outlining their individual contributions to the paper using the relevant CRediT roles: Conceptualization; Data curation; Formal analysis; Funding acquisition; Investigation; Methodology; Project administration; Resources; Software; Supervision; Validation; Visualization; Roles/Writing - original draft; Writing - review & editing. Please turn to the CRediT taxonomy for the term explanation. Authorship must be limited to those who have contributed substantially to the work reported. Authorship statements should be formatted with the CRediT role(s) first and the initial of authors following.

Sample CRedit Author statement:

The following statements should be used Conceptualization, X.X. and Y.Y.; methodology, X.X.; software, X.X.; validation, X.X., Y.Y. and Z.Z.; formal analysis, X.X.; investigation, X.X.; resources, X.X.; data curation, X.X.; writing—original draft preparation, X.X.; writing—review and editing, X.X.; visualization, X.X.; supervision, X.X.; project administration, X.X.; funding acquisition, Y.Y. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.”

 

Appeals and Complaint

This procedure applies to complaints about the policies, procedures, or actions of the Interaksi: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi editorial board. We welcome complaints as they provide an opportunity and a spur for improvement, and we aim to respond quickly, courteously, and constructively. The complaint must be about something within the responsibility of the Interaksi: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi editorial board—i.e., content or process. The procedure outlined below aims to be fair to both those making complaints and those complained about.

Policy and Process

The procedure below applies to appeals to editorial decisions, complaints about the failure of processes, such as long delays in handling papers, and complaints about publication ethics. In the first instance, the complaint should be handled by the Editor-in-Chief(s) responsible for the journal and/or the editor who handled the paper. If they are the subject of the complaint, please contact the in-house publishing contact. (Please check the contacts page on the journal homepage. If no publishing contact is identified, send the query to jurnal.interaksi@live.undip.ac.id

Complaint about scientific content, e.g., an appeal against rejection

The Editor-in-Chief or Managing Editor considers the authors’ argument, and the reviewer reports and decides whether

  • The decision to reject should stand
  • Another independent opinion is required
  • The appeal should be considered.

The complainant is informed of the decision with an explanation if appropriate. Decisions on appeals are final, and new submissions are given priority over appeals.

Complaints about processes, e.g. time taken to review

The Editor-in-Chief, the Managing Editor (where appropriate), and/or in-house contact (where appropriate) will investigate the matter. The complainant will be given appropriate feedback. Feedback is provided to relevant stakeholders to improve processes and procedures.

Complaints about publication ethics, e.g., researcher's author's, or reviewer's conduct

The Editor-in-Chief or Managing Editor may ask the publisher for advice on difficult or complicated cases via their in-house contact. The Editor-in-Chief or Managing Editor decides on a course of action and provides feedback to the complainant.

 

Correction, Retraction & Withdrawal

Interaksi: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi has the same policy regarding corrections and retractions. We differentiate between Erratum, Corrigendum, Retraction, Addendum, Article Removal, and Article Withdrawal. Interaksi: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi takes responsibility to seriously maintain the integrity and completeness of the scholarly record of our content for all end users. Changes to articles after they have been published online may only be made under the circumstances outlined below. Interaksi: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi places great importance on the authority of articles after publication, and our policy is based on best practices in the academic publishing community.

Erratum (Publisher Correction): An erratum refers to a correction of errors introduced to the article by the publisher. All publisher-introduced changes are highlighted to the author at the proof stage, and any errors are ideally identified by the author and corrected by the publisher before final publication. Errata should be published for scientifically relevant formatting changes or changes to authorship if the author or contributor list is incorrect, when a deserving author has been omitted, or when somebody who does not meet authorship criteria has been included. Scientifically relevant formatting issues that require an Erratum might include missing or unclear figures or errors introduced during proofreading (e.g., missing text). Minor errors that do not affect readability or meaning (e.g., spelling or grammatical errors) do not qualify for an Erratum. All authors should proofread the final version carefully.

Corrigendum (Author Correction): A corrigendum refers to a change to an article that the author wishes to publish at any time after acceptance. Authors should contact the journal's editor, who will determine the impact of the change and decide on the appropriate course of action. Interaksi: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi will only instigate a corrigendum to a published article after receiving approval and instructions from the editor.

Author Name Change Policy: Some authors might wish to change their name following publication. In such cases, Interaksi: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi will update and republish the article and re-deliver the updated metadata to the appropriate indexing services (please note that all updates depend on the databases' policies). Our teams know that name changes can be sensitive and/or private for various reasons, including alignment with gender identity, marriage, divorce, or religious conversion. Therefore, an Erratum will not be published to protect the author's identity, and co-authors will not be notified. Authors should contact the journal's Editorial Office (email to: jurnal.interaksi@live.undip.ac.id) with their name change request.

Retraction: Notification of erroneous results that have the potential to undermine the trustworthiness of a previously published publication. Although the original publication has been retracted, it is still available to readers, and the retraction statement informing readers of the invalidity of the published work is bidirectional and connected to the original published document.

Addendum: If crucial results (e.g., additional affiliation, clarify some aspect of methods/analysis, etc.) were unintentionally omitted from the original publication, the original article can be amended through an Addendum reporting these previously omitted results. The addendum will be published in the journal's current issue, with article numbers added. A hyperlink to the addendum will also be added to the original publication, but the original paper does not need to be updated.

Article Removal: An article removal will be issued in rare circumstances where the problems are very serious and cannot be addressed by a Retraction or Correction notice. Interaksi: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi will consider removing a published article from very limited circumstances, such as 1) If the article contains content that could pose a serious risk if followed or acted upon. 2) If the article contains content that violates the rights to privacy of a study participant. 3) If the article is defamatory or infringes other legal rights. 4) If an article is subject to a court order. A removal notice will be issued if an article is removed from Interaksi: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi.

Withdrawal Policy: Some writers request that their submissions be removed from the publication process after submitting them. Withdrawing submissions from consideration for publication wastes valuable resources and an enormous amount of work the editors, reviewers, and editorial staff put forward while processing the manuscripts. As a result, submission of an article to Interaksi: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi indicates that the work has not been published or submitted elsewhere; as a result, the journal is highly opposed to the unethical removal of an article from the publication process after it has been submitted. Once an article has been submitted, the author provides the editorial board with complete publishing rights, and the editorial board has the exclusive authority to decide whether or not an article should be withdrawn from publication.

 

Data Sharing Policy

Data Sharing

Sharing the full data sets underlying the results in your article brings many benefits. It enables reuse, reduces research waste, and promotes collaboration. Greater transparency increases trust in research results by allowing results to be independently verified. These benefits lead to a more reliable evidence base and a healthier world. Authors submitting their research article to this journal are encouraged to deposit research data as a supplementary file during submission or in a relevant data repository and cite and link to this dataset in their article. If this is not possible, authors are encouraged to make a statement explaining why research data cannot be shared. Sharing your data helps you get credit for your work and make your data accessible and discoverable for your peers.

The policies on data sharing:

  • We require that the data generated by your research that supports your article be made openly and publicly available upon publication. Where it is not possible or viable to make data openly available (due to confidentiality or sensitivity issues), it should be shared through a controlled access repository.
  • We strongly encourage the release of data generated by your research that supports your article as soon as possible, wherever legally and ethically possible.

Data Availability Statement

Interaksi: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi requires a Data Availability Statement for submitted research articles. On submission, authors are asked to select at least one of the standardized Data Availability Statements text options below in bold as applicable and to supplement these statements with additional information noted in the guidance below. Authors can select multiple statements if they have data under different conditions.

These statements will be published under the "Data Availability Statement" section of the final published article.

  • Data are available in a public, open-access repository. Please state the repository name, the persistent URL, and any conditions for reuse (e.g., license, embargo). All data publicly available and used in the writing of an article should be cited in the text and the reference list, whether they are data generated by the author(s) or by other researchers.
  • Data are available upon reasonable request. Please state what the data are (e.g., deidentified participant data), who the data are available from, their publishable contact details (e.g., a generic lab email address or an individual ORCID identifier, please ensure you have permission), and under what conditions permit reuse. Is there additional information available (e.g. protocols, statistical analysis plans)?
  • Data may be obtained from a third party and are not publicly available. Please state what the data are (e.g., deidentified participant data), who the data are available from, their publishable contact details (e.g., a generic lab email address or an individual ORCID identifier, please ensure you have permission), and under what conditions permit reuse. Is there additional information available (e.g. protocols, statistical analysis plans)
  • All data relevant to the study are included in the article or uploaded as supplementary information. Please ensure this does not include respondent-identifiable data. Please state "Not applicable."
  • Data sharing is not applicable as no datasets were generated and/or analyzed for this study. Please state "Not applicable.
  • No data are available. Please state "Not applicable."

Data availability statements commonly take one of the following forms:

  • The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available in the [NAME] repository, [PERSISTENT WEB LINK TO DATASETS].
  • The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
  • All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in this published article (and its supplementary information files).
  • The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are not publicly available due to [REASON(S) WHY DATA ARE NOT PUBLIC] but are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
  • Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study.
  • The data supporting this study's findings are available from [THIRD PARTY NAME]. However, restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for the current study and are not publicly available. Data are, however, available from the authors upon reasonable request and with permission of [THIRD PARTY NAME].
Without specific instructions from a journal, editor authors can use or adapt the statement(s) above. Depending on the nature of the research, several statements may need to be combined.

 

Deposit Policy (Self-archiving)

Authors can deposit all versions of their papers in institutional or subject repositories, embargo not applied.

The paper version includes the following:

  • Preprint
  • Author's accepted manuscript
  • Published article (Version of record)

Authors may deposit and use the paper version as follows:

  • on the personal website
  • on the company or institutional repository
  • on subject repositories
  • with individuals requesting personal use for teaching and training within the author's institution and also as part of an author's grant applications

 

Reference Management

All the served data or quotes in the article taken from the other author's articles should attach the reference sources. The references should use a reference application management such as Mendeley, End Note, or Zotero. The writing format used in South Sight: Journal of Media and Society Inquiry follows the format applied by APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Association).

 

Plagiarism Policy

Manuscripts submitted to Interaksi: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi will be screened for plagiarism and self-plagiarism using TURNITIN and Google-based search engines. Depending on the level of originality and similarities with other documents, the managing editor will decide on whether to immediately reject the manuscripts, contact authors for further clarifications, or to proceed to the peer-review process.

 

Direct Marketing Policy

Attracting high-quality submissions is critical to the success of a journal. That's why our publishing teams work closely to increase visibility and promote the research we publish. The marketing campaigns we develop are targeted and data-driven to help our journal reach potential authors and readers and maximize its success. In promoting the journal and publications to the public, Interaksi: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi attempts to avoid actions detrimental to other parties (e.g., spreading spam) and to avoid misleading information between prospective authors and publishers.

Our goals are to raise awareness, drive submissions, and Increase readership. The strategy we do:

Discoverability of Journal Homepage

The fundamental goal of the discoverability of the journal homepage is to drive submissions by:

  • Showcasing the journal, its contents, and the editorial team.
  • Helping authors navigate the submission and publication process.

The journal homepage provides a unique platform highlighting the journal's aims and scope, important news, content, and journal insights (e.g., publication times)

Search Engine Optimization

The discoverability of our journal homepage and the content hosted on our various platforms is significantly improved, largely thanks to the contributions of search engines like Google. We optimize our website's content to achieve a higher position in the rankings of the major search engines. Through the optimization of keywords, images, and headlines, we make sure that the homepage of our journal is accessible to the largest and most relevant audience possible. This results in increased visibility of our sites and the individual journals we publish.

Social Media

For researchers, using social media has become a routine part of their lives. To meet the rising demand created by this trend, we have created social media channels on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to promote new research and issue calls for submissions across a wide variety of subject areas. These channels increase the traffic to journals' homepages, allow researchers to interact with us directly, and speed up networking within their respective communities.

We have a fantastic opportunity to collaborate through social media. It will allow us to provide researchers with the information they want and need to know, raise awareness of research and announcements, and attract submissions for the journal. As an editor, we strongly recommend that you promote the Interaksi: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi on various social media platforms.

 

Advertising Policy

Interaksi: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi does not accept advertising from any parties nor endorse any product or service marked as an advertisement or promotion in its publications. 

 

Article Processing Charge

FREE OF CHARGE for Submitting, Processing, and Publishing the Article in Interaksi: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi. Authors will be informed of the decision on their manuscript(s) within at least three to six months. It depends on the queue caused by the load of submissions. We do not provide or offer a fast-track review.

 

Revenue Stream

Interaksi: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi does not accept revenue from various sources. The journal only accepts funding from publisher support to ensure wide and affordable access while maintaining high-quality standards and full editorial independence.