Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Jurnal Kimia Sains dan Aplikasi is a broad-based primary journal encompassing all branches of chemistry and its sub-disciplines. It contains full research articles, short communication and review articles but not limited to inorganic, physical, organic, analytical and biochemistry.

Jurnal Kimia Sains dan Aplikasi is the forum for the publication of good quality and original work that opens discussion in chemistry or in other scientific disciplines.

 

Section Policies

Research Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Review

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Short Communication

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to this journal should follow focus and scope, and author guidelines of this journal. When a manuscript is submitted, it is given a submission ID number. Always refer to this number in communications with the editor. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to inform the coauthors of the manuscript’s status throughout the review and publication processes.

All manuscripts must be free from plagiarism contents. All authors are suggested to use plagiarism detection software to do the similarity checking before submitting the draft. Editors check all manuscripts to see if there are any similarities with other articles. The Editor reviews the manuscript for scope and assigns reviewers. All manuscripts are considered to be confidential and undergo a blind review. All article will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 (two) or more reviewers.

All reviewers are expected to complete their reviews within one month after receiving the manuscript. Final decision of articles acceptance will be made by Editors according to reviewers comments. The corresponding author is notified, about three months after the submission, of the editor’s decision to accept, reject, or require modification.

 

Publication Frequency

Jurnal Kimia Sains dan Aplikasi is published four times a year

 

Open Access Policy

Jurnal Kimia Sains dan Aplikasi 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.

Jurnal Kimia Sains dan Aplikasi allows and encourages authors to deposit both their pre- and post-prints in Open-Access institutional archives or repositories. The primary benefit of pre- and post-print self-archiving is reaching a larger audience, which enhances the visibility and impact of your research.

All articles published Open Access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.  We are continuously working with our author communities to select the best choice of license options: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)

The Authors submitting a manuscript do understanding that copyright of the accepted article shall be assigned to Jurnal Kimia Sains dan Aplikasi and Chemistry Department, Diponegoro University as publisher of the journal.

 

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...

 

Article Processing Charges

Jurnal Kimia Sains dan Aplikasi is published in full open access under a Creative Commons (CC BY-SA) license. This allows the scientific community and the general public to gain unlimited, free and immediate access to scholarly articles. There are no charges for submitted articles and no submission charges. Editorial items such as editorials, corrections, additions, retractions, letters, comments, etc. are also published free of charge.

 

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Jurnal Kimia Sains dan Aplikasi 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 (Chemistry Department, Diponegoro University). This statement is based on COPE’s Code of Conduct

1. Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors

2. Code of Conduct for Reviewers

3. Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers.

it is expected of authors, reviewers and editors that they follow the best-practice guidelines on ethical behaviour contained therein.

 

 

Content Licence

Jurnal Kimia Sains dan Aplikasi (JKSA) applies the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license to all works we publish. This license was developed to facilitate open access – namely, free immediate access to, and unrestricted reuse of, original works of all types. Under this license, authors agree to make articles legally available for reuse, without permission or fees, for virtually any purpose. Anyone may copy, distribute or reuse these articles, as long as the author and original source are properly cited.

No permission is required from the authors or the publishers to reuse or repurpose JKSA content provided the original article is cited. In most cases, appropriate attribution can be provided by simply citing the original article.