About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Updated on [10 April 2024]

Jurnal Informatika invites original articles and is a not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Jurnal Informatika is a scientific journal publishing theories and applications with significant implications to information systems, multimedia, and computational intelligence. The papers' major substantive should apply an algorithm and mathematics implementation on the information system, multimedia, and computational intelligence. A The Scope topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Information science & technology. A The journal opens the topics to highlight the advanced works on information science and technology, such as theories and applications on Communication and networks, Data warehousing and mining, Enterprise system development and resource management, Management information and database systems, Security and privacy, Software engineering, System development and process management, and Usability engineering.
  • Multimedia system. A This section welcomes the excellent paper related to Multimedia software and systems integration, compression and editing, storage, fusion and embedding, Multimedia Internet of Things, Multimedia user interfaces, and New integrated media.
  • Computational Intelligence. A This section publishes the specific topics of Agent System and Multi-Agent Systems, Decision Support System, Image Processing & Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Explainable human-in-the-loop artificial intelligence, and Trusted machine/deep learning.

Peer Review Process

  1. The submitted manuscript is first reviewed by an editor for initial screening to the journal aims and scope and similarity level by using the Crosscheck/iThenticate Engine. The similarity level must less than 20 % (Exclude Bibliography) and the similarity score to each other source is no more than 3%.
  2. These manuscripts will be sent to two reviewers anonymously (Single Blind Review).
  3. Reviewers' comments are then sent to the corresponding author to take the necessary actions and responses.
  4. The decision of the revised manuscript will be then evaluated in an editorial board meeting, the final decision of whom are sent to the corresponding author.

Publication Frequency

Jurnal Informatika is published three times in a year starting from Vol 14 No 1 January 2020 (January, May, and September)

Open Access Policy

This journal is an open access journal which provides immediate, worldwide, barrier-free access to the full text of all published articles without charge readers or their institutions for access. Readers have right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of all articles in Jurnal Informatika. 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

Jurnal Informatika called JIFO, is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and takes all possible measures against any publication malpractices. The Editorial Board is responsible for, among others, preventing publication malpractice. Unethical behavior is unacceptable, and the JIFO  does not tolerate plagiarism in any form. Authors who submitted articles: affirm that manuscript contents are original. Furthermore, the authors’ submission also implies that the manuscript has not been published previously in any language, either wholly or partly, and is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Editors, authors, and reviewers, within the Jurnal Informatika, are to be fully committed to good publication practice and accept the responsibility for fulfilling the following duties and responsibilities, as set by the COPE Code of Conduct for Journal Editors. As part of the Core Practices, COPE has written guidelines on the http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines.

Section A: Publication and authorship 

  1. All submitted papers are subject to a strict peer-review process by reviewers that are experts in the area of the particular manuscript.
  2. The review process is double-blind peer-review.
  3. The factors that are taken into account in review are relevance, soundness, significance, originality, readability, and language.
  4. The possible decisions include acceptance, acceptance with revisions, or rejection.
  5. If authors are encouraged to revise and resubmit a submission, there is no guarantee that the revised submission will be accepted.
  6. Rejected articles will not be re-reviewed.
  7. The paper acceptance is constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism.
  8. No research can be included in more than one publication. 

Section B: Authors’ responsibilities

  1. Authors must certify that their manuscripts are their original work.
  2. Authors must certify that the manuscript has not previously been published elsewhere.
  3. Authors must certify that the manuscript is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere. 
  4. The authors must participate in the peer-review process. 
  5. Authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.
  6. All Authors mentioned in the paper must have significantly contributed to the research.
  7. The authors must state that all data in the paper are real and authentic.
  8. The authors must notify the Editors of any conflicts of interest.
  9. The authors must identify all sources used in the creation of their manuscript.
  10. Authors must report any errors they discover in their published paper to the Editors. 

Section C: Reviewers’ responsibilities

  1. Reviewers should keep all information regarding papers confidential and treat them as privileged information. 
  2. Reviews should be conducted objectively, with no personal criticism of the author.
  3. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
  4. Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.
  5. Reviewers should also call to the Editor in Chief’s attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
  6. Reviewers should not review 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. 

Section D: Editors’ responsibilities

  1. Editors have complete responsibility and authority to reject/accept an article.
  2. Editors are responsible for the contents and overall quality of the publication.
  3. Editors should always consider the needs of the authors and the readers when attempting to improve the publication.
  4. Editors should guarantee the quality of the papers and the integrity of the academic record.
  5. Editors should publish errata pages or make corrections when needed.
  6. Editors should have a clear picture of research funding sources.
  7. Editors should base their decisions solely one the papers’ importance, originality, clarity, and relevance to publication’s scope.
  8. Editors should not reverse their decisions nor overturn the ones of previous editors without serious reason. 
  9. Editors should preserve the anonymity of reviewers. 
  10. Editors should ensure that all research material they publish conforms to internationally accepted ethical guidelines.
  11. Editors should only accept a paper when reasonably certain.
  12. Editors should act if they suspect misconduct, whether a paper is published or unpublished, and make all reasonable attempts to persist in obtaining a resolution to the problem.
  13. Editors should not reject papers based on suspicions; they should have proof of misconduct.
  14. Editors should not allow any conflicts of interest between staff, authors, reviewers, and board members.

Journal History

  1. 16 January 2007:A  Jurnal Informatika's first publish (Vol 1 No 1 January 2007; ISSN 1978-0524), and registered by the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (SK no. 0004.19/JI.3.02/SK.ISSN/2007.01 - 16 Januari 2007) 
  2. 26 August 2016:A  Jurnal Informatika has ISSN ONLINE, 2528-6374,A and registered by the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (SK no. 0005.25286374/JI.3.1/SK.ISSN/2016.08 - 26 Agustus 2016) start Vol. 11, No. 1, January 2017.
  3. 9 July 2018:A Accredited a SINTA 3A by the Ministry of Research Technology and Higher Education, the Republic of Indonesia
  4. January 2018: The first English issue published on Vol 12 No 1 January 2018.
  5. January 2020: Start from 2020 Jurnal Informatika published 3 times a year.
  6. January 2021: Jurnal Informatika launches the New Template.