Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

J-SIGN is an open-access journal dedicated specifically to any publication in the area of informatics which covers the discipline of Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence. Our journal invites academicians, researchers, and practitioners to submit articles and reports that are the result of works, research, and studies oriented toward applying information technology products for the development of society in general. J-SIGN receives any article in the form of a pure research report, a technical report from on-field implementation experience, a systematic literature review, opinions from experts, experienced practitioners, and leaders, and also a counter-argument for a particular position. As a media for disseminating new insight in the field of informatics for development, J-SIGN receives articles with the following (but not limited to these) themes:

  • Software Engineering

  • Network and Communication Technology

  • Geospatial

  • Cloud Computing

  • Computer Vision

  • Data Science

  • Machine Learning

  • Bioinformatics

  • Fuzzy Systems

  • Natural Language Processing

  • Multimedia

Section Policies

Articles

  • Checked Open Submissions
  • Checked Indexed
  • Checked Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

Papers are double-blindly reviewed by experts and specialists in informatics, information system, and artificial intelligent. When a paper past an initial review, it will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Otherwise, the paper will be sent back to the author for correction and re-submission.

The initial review made by J-SIGN (Informatics, information Systems, and artificial intelliGeNce). In this stage, editors will check for plagiarism using the proper tool. The following step is to assess comprehensively papers by editors whether their fit the template or not, such as the number of references and their categories, the ages of referenced sources, and the referenced tables/ figures/ formulas.

The paper will be distributed to two reviewers by first deleting the author's information from the paper. The reviewers use our review guidelines to judge your paper. We will let you know as soon as the reviews are done.

Publication Frequency

J-SIGN Journal opens for manuscript submission throughout the year. Only 5 (five) selected reviewed articles will be published in an issue, which makes 10 articles in a volume). The journal is published biannually; May and November.

Open Access Policy

J-SIGN 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.It means:

  1. Every reader has free and unlimited access to the full-text of all articles published in J-SIGN, and
  2. Every reader is free to re-use the published article if proper citation of the original publication is given.

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...

Publication Fee

Article Submissions and Publications:
0.00 (IDR) Authors ARE NOT REQUIRED to pay an Article.

Publication Ethics

Publication ethics, which is adapted by J-SIGN Journal (Journal of Informatics, Information System, Artificial Intelligence) is based on COPE's Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors. Our journal is committed to adhere to the ethical principles based on Core Practices issued by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) as follows:

Allegations of misconduct

Our journal welcomes any valid allegation made against authors, reviewers and editors. The handling of allegations of misconduct at our journal can be divided into two situations. First is allegation against author and second is an allegation against a reviewer or editor. If an author has been alleged of potential misconduct such as plagiarism or its article has already been published elsewhere hence independent investigation will be conducted towards the allegation. Shall the allegation is found to be valid, the alleged author will be blacklisted and his/her article will be withdrawn from our publication. The alleged author will also be required to provide a formally-written statement of apology which will be posted in our announcement platform on our website.

Similarly in the case of allegation against a reviewer or editor, an independent investigation will also be performed accordingly. Shall the allegation against the reviewer and editor is found to be true and valid, the said reviewer and editor will no longer be participating in any of our journal activities.

 

Authorship and Contributorship

Authors are responsible to provide original research, which have not been submitted or published elsewhere. Authors are also responsible to provide accurate and detailed data when they are requested. To ensure originality, the authors need to check the originality of article using plagiarism checker before the article submission. The authors have to fill and submit copyright transfer form available in the website when submitting their manuscript. When reproducing data from other sources, proper citation and permission are required.


Complaints and appeals

Our journal are committed to treat any complaints and appeals fairly, promptly and independently. For instance, reasonable complaints against reviewer will be handled by chief editor and any complaint against chief editor will be handled by publisher.


Conflicts of interest / Competing interests

A conflict of interest is possible to occur when author has a financial, commercial, legal, or professional relationship with other organizations, or with the people working with them, that could influence their research. Therefore authors are required to provide full disclosure about any potential conflicts of interest in a covering letter. Detailed financial sources supporting the work should also be fully acknowledged. The editor may decide not to publish your article on the basis of any declared conflict. The conflict of interest can be declared on your cover letter or on the manuscript submission form in the journal’s online peer-review system.


Data and reproducibility

Authors are responsible to provide accurate and detailed data when they are requested.


Ethical oversight

In publishing papers, J-SIGN welcomes all quality, scholarly papers from authors, which fulfill ethical conduct of research in authors discipline research. 


Intellectual property

Policy relating to copyright has been given on J-SIGN's Copyright. It is a legal requirement for an author to sign the copyright agreement of before publication. Should there is any further research of any J-SIGN's paper, this extended version should be clearly mentioned in the upcoming paper and the related J-SIGN's paper should be cited.


Journal management

Dedicated scholar in their disciplines supports J-SIGN. It is managed and published by Informatics Department, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. J-SIGN Jornal editorial team is headed by Chief Editor and assisted by managing editors and associate editors with the advice and supervision of independent Editorial Advisory Board coming from Indonesia. J-SIGN Journal encourages its editors to attend workshops or seminars relate to journal management. 

The responsibilities of the editorial team as follows: 

 

    • Chief Editor and managing editors have a fully responsibility and authority to accept or reject an article. Article submitted by the authors to J-SIGN are distributed by editor in chief or managing editors to editor in board or external reviewers. J-SIGN relies on the double-blind peer-review process to uphold the quality and validity of individual articles and the journals that publish them.
    • A decision to publish an article, editors should be objective and fair when conducting their duties without making any discrimination on gender, ethnic, religion, political view or geographical origin of the authors. Editor has the right to do editorial revision of the accepted manuscript. Editors should also accept article based on quality of an article on academic merit. Responsibilities of reviewers are requested to assist in improving the quality of an article within a scheduled period of time set by editor in chief or managing editor. Reviewers contribute to the decision-making process on the article. If reviewers find any published or submitted content similar to article that under review, the editor has to be informed. Reviewers should have no conflict of interest with respect to the research, the authors and/or the research funders. Any confidentiality of information supplied by the editor or author should be maintained.


Peer review processes

J-SIGN adopts a double-blind peer-review process for its prospective paper.  Regarding this issue, J-SIGN has provided its policies in the Peer Review section.


Post-publication discussions and corrections

Our journal allows debate post publication through letters to the editor and mechanisms for correcting, revising or retracting articles after publication is through announcement feature on our website.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with J-SIGN Journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

This work is licensed under Attribution 4.0 International

Open Accsess

Open Access will be available free to read, download and reuse in accordance with the applicable journal license terms.