Focus and Scope

Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi aims to encourage research in communication studies, with particular reference to culture, diversity, living norms and customs, history, philosophy, doctrines, and ideology. Topics addressed within the journal include but are not limited to:

• Political communication employs messages and political actors related to power, government, and policy.
• Business communication is an idea or opinion exchange, information, and instruction among people (personal or non-personal) through various symbols to achieve company goals.
• Health communication discusses communication strategies to distribute health information within a community or society. Health communication aims to persuade individuals or society to make decisions about health activities.

Section Policies

Research Article

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

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

• Accept Submission: the manuscript meets the standard and is ready for further process of publication.
• Revisions Required: Minor revision (can be re-reviewed by the referee or accepted by the editor).
• Resubmit for Review: Major revision (need more round peer-review process)
• Resubmit Elsewhere: It does not 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 4 (four) months, hopefully. The peer reviewers have expertise in media and analysis text, political communication, health communication, social communication, educational communication, organizational communication, and intercultural communication. 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. Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi will publish the selected papers under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. 

Publication Frequency

Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi is published twice a year (June and December).

Open Access Policy

Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi provides immediate open access to its content by making research freely available to the public. It supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles [see copyright provisions].

Archiving

Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi has electronic backup and preservation of access to the content of its journals via the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN). This can be seen in Publisher Manifest.

PKP has developed the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) to digitally preserve OJS journals. The LOCKSS program offers decentralized and distributed preservation, seamless perpetual access, and preservation of the authentic original version of the content. The PKP PN ensures that journals that are not part of any other digital preservation service (such as CLOCKSS or Portico) can be preserved for long-term access. For additional details about the PKP PN. Please see the high-level overview (an early discussion document).

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 Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi follows the format applied by APA 7^th Edition (American Psychological Association).

Publication Ethics

Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi is fully concerned with the publication ethic of the whole publication process of the journal, and all received articles. As a quality assurance of a journal, Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi assures the professionalism of every party from the journal management, authors, editors, and reviewers by referring to Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi Publishing Ethics adopted from COPE's Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It directly reflects the quality of the authors’ work and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody scientific methods. It is, therefore, important to agree with the standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the publishing process: the authors, the journal editors, the peer reviewers, the publishers, and the society.  

Universitas Padjadjaran, as the publisher of Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi, takes its guardianship duties over all publishing stages seriously. We recognize our ethical and other responsibilities in ensuring that advertising, reprint, or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. In addition, the Faculty of Communication Science Universitas Padjadjaran and Editorial Board will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers if necessary.

Duties of Editors

• Publication Decisions: The editor of the Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi is responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive the publishing process. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as it shall then be in force for libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making dis decision.
• Peer review: The editor shall ensure that the peer review process is fair, unbiased, and timely. Research articles must typically be reviewed by at least two external and independent reviewers; the editor should seek additional opinions where necessary. The editor shall select reviewers with suitable expertise in the relevant field, taking into account the need for appropriate, inclusive, and diverse representation. The editor shall follow best practices to avoid the selection of fraudulent peer reviewers. The editor shall review all disclosures of potential conflicts of interest and suggestions for self-citation by reviewers to determine whether there is any potential for bias.
• Process Control: The editor must ensure that each manuscript is initially evaluated by the editor for originality, using appropriate software to do so. After passing this test, the manuscript is forwarded to one reviewer or more for double-blind peer review, each of whom will recommend accepting, rejecting, or modifying the manuscript. The review period will be given up to 21 days at least, lasting up to a month and a half.
• Fair Play: The editor at any time evaluates manuscripts for their intellectual content regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors. When nominating potential editorial board members, the editor shall take into account the need for appropriate, inclusive, and diverse representation.
• Journal metrics: The editor must not attempt to influence the journal’s ranking by artificially increasing any journal metric. In particular, the editor shall not require that references to that (or any other) journal’s articles are included except for genuine scholarly reasons, and authors should not be required to include references to the editor’s own articles or products and services in which the editor has an interest.
• Confidentiality: The editors and any editorial board members must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding authors, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher as appropriate. Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the author's written consent. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.
• Disclosure and Conflict of Interest: Any potential editorial conflicts of interest should be declared to the publisher in writing prior to the appointment of the editor and then updated if and when new conflicts arise. The publisher may publish such declarations in the journal. The editor must not be involved in decisions about papers that s/he has written him/herself or have been written by family members or colleagues or related to products or services in which the editor has an interest. Further, any such submission must be subject to all of the journal’s usual procedures, peer review must be handled independently of the relevant author/editor and their research groups, and there must be a clear statement to this effect on any published paper.
• Vigilance over the Published Record: The editor should work to safeguard the integrity of the published record by reviewing and assessing reported or suspected misconduct (research, publication, reviewer, and editorial) in conjunction with the publisher (or society).

Duties of Reviewers

• Contribution to Editorial Decisions: Peer reviewers assist the editors in making editorial decisions, and the editorial communications with the authors may also assist the authors in improving their papers.
• Promptness: Any invited referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should immediately notify the editors and decline the invitation to review so that alternative reviewers can be contacted.
• 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 editors. This applies also to invited reviewers who decline the review invitation.
• Standards of Objectivity: Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
• Disclosure and Conflict of Interest: Peer reviewers should consult the Editor before agreeing to review a paper where they have potential conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer reviews must be kept confidential and not used for personal interest. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts with conflicts of interest resulting from competition, collaboration, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions corresponding to the papers.
• Acknowledgment of Sources: Peer reviewers should identify relevant published works that have 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. Reviewers should also call the editor's attention to any substantial similarity or overlapping manuscript under consideration and any other published papers of which they have personal knowledge.
• Alertness to Ethical Issues: Peer reviewers should be alert to potential ethical issues in the paper and bring these to the editor's attention, including any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which the reviewer has personal knowledge. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation.

Duties of Authors

• Reporting standards: Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed and an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient details and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constituting unethical behavior are unacceptable.
• Data Access and Retention: Authors may be asked to provide the raw data of their study together with the manuscript for editorial review and should be prepared to make the data publicly available if practicable. In any event, authors should ensure accessibility of such data to other competent professionals for at least ten years after publication (preferably via an institutional or subject-based data repository or other data center), provided that the confidentiality of the participants can be protected and legal rights concerning proprietary data do not preclude their release.
• Originality and Plagiarism: The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works and that the authors have used the work and/or words of others that are appropriately cited or quoted.
• Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication: Authors should not generally publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to multiple journals concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior, which is unacceptable.
• Acknowledgment 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 works.
• 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. If there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they shall be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding authors should ensure that all appropriate co-authors are included in the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed with the submission for publication.
• Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects: If the work involves chemicals, humans, animals, microbes, procedures, or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the authors must clearly identify these in the manuscript.
• Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflicts 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 work: When authors discover a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editors or publishers and cooperate with the editors to retract or correct the paper.

Duties of the Publisher

• Handling of unethical publishing behavior: In cases of alleged or proven scientific misconduct, fraudulent publication, or plagiarism, the publisher, in close collaboration with the editors, will take all appropriate measures to clarify the situation and to amend the article in question. This includes the prompt publication of an erratum, clarification, or, in the most severe case, the retraction of the affected work.  The publisher and the editors shall take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred and under no circumstances encourage such misconduct or knowingly allow such misconduct to occur.
• Access to journal content: The publisher is committed to the permanent availability and preservation of scholarly research and ensures accessibility by partnering with organizations and maintaining our own digital archive. For details on Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi’s archiving policy, please click here: https://jurnal.unpad.ac.id/jkk/about/editorialPolicies#archiving.
• Safeguard editorial independence: We are committed to ensuring that the potential for advertising, reprint, or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions.

Allegations of Misconduct

Research misconduct means fabrication, falsification, citation manipulation, or plagiarism in producing, performing, or reviewing research, writing an article by authors, or reporting research results. When authors are found to have been involved with research misconduct or other serious irregularities involving articles that have been published in scientific journals, Editors have a responsibility to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the scientific record.

In cases of suspected misconduct, the Editors and Editorial Board will use the best practices of COPE to assist them in resolving the complaint and addressing the misconduct fairly. This 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.

If scientific misconduct or the presence of other substantial research irregularities is a possibility, the allegations are shared with the corresponding author, who, on behalf of all of the coauthors, is requested to provide a detailed response. 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.

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 Procedures

This procedure applies to complaints about the policies, procedures, or actions of the Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi editorial staff. 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 that is within the responsibility of the Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi editorial board – i.e., content or process. The procedure outlined below aims to be fair to those making complaints and those complained about.

Policy and Process

The below procedure applies to appeals to editorial decisions, complaints about the failure of processes such as long delays in handling papers, and complaints about publication ethics. The complaint should in the first instance 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 approach 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.kajian.komunikasi@unpad.ac.id).  

Complaint about scientific content, e.g. an appeal against rejection
The Editor-in-Chief or Handling 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 take priority over appeals.

Complaints about processes, e.g. time taken to review 
The Editor-in-Chief together with the Handling 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 Handling Editor follows guidelines published by the Committee on Publication Ethics. The Editor-in-Chief or Handling Editor may ask the publisher via their in-house contact for advice on difficult or complicated cases. The Editor-in-Chief or Handling Editor decides on a course of action and provides feedback to the complainant. If the complainant remains dissatisfied with the handling of their complaint, he or she can submit the complaint to the Committee on Publication Ethics. More information can be found here.

The Committee on Publication Ethics COPE publishes a code of practice for editors of scientific, technical, and medical journals https://publicationethics.org/appeals. It will consider complaints against editors, but only once a journal’s own complaints procedures have been exhausted.

Correction, Retraction & Withdrawal

Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi has the same policy regarding corrections and retractions. We differentiate between Erratum, Corrigendum, Retraction, Addendum, Article Removal, and Article Withdrawal. Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi takes its 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. Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi places great importance on the authority of articles after they have been published, 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 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 editor of the journal, who will determine the impact of the change and decide on the appropriate course of action. Jurnal Kajian 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, Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi will update and republish the article and re-deliver the updated metadata to the appropriate indexing services (please note that all updates are dependent upon the policies of the databases). Our teams are aware that name changes can be sensitive and/or private in nature, for a variety of reasons that may include alignment with gender identity, marriage, divorce, or religious conversion. Therefore, to protect the author's identity, an Erratum will not be published and co-authors will not be notified. Authors should contact the journal’s Editorial Office (email to: jurnal.kajian.komunikasi@unpad.ac.id | jurnalkajiankomunikasiunpad@gmail.com) with their name change request.

Retraction: Notification of erroneous results that have the potential to undermine the trustworthiness of a previously published publication. Despite the fact that 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 bidirectionally 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, with article numbers added, in the current issue of the journal. 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 in nature and cannot be addressed by a Retraction or Correction notice. Jurnal Kajian 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. In case of an article is removed from Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi, a removal notice will be issued in its place.

Withdrawal Policy: Some writers request that their submissions be removed from the publication process after they have been submitted. Withdrawing submissions from consideration for publication wastes valuable resources and an enormous amount of work put forward by the editors, reviewers, and editorial staff in the course of processing the manuscripts. As a result, submission of an article to Jurnal Kajian 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.

The following guideline may also be helpful: COPE Guidelines for Retracting Articles.

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

Data Availability Statement

Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi requires a Data Availability Statement for any 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 as noted in the guidance below. Authors can select more than one statement if they have data under different conditions.

These statements will be published under the section "Data Availability Statement" 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 of reuse (eg. license, embargo). All data that are 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, reuse is permitted. 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, reuse is permitted. 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 that support the findings of this study are available from [THIRD PARTY NAME], but restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for the current study and so are not publicly available. Data are, however, available from the authors upon reasonable request and with permission of [THIRD PARTY NAME].

In the absence of specific instructions from a journal, editor authors can use or adapt the statement(s) above. Several statements may need to be combined depending on the nature of the research.

Deposit Policy (Self-archiving)

Authors are permitted to 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

Declaration of Competing Interests

DECLARATION OF COMPETING INTERESTS FOR AUTHORS

Declare conflicts of interest or state. Authors must identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of reported research results. In the interests of transparency and to help readers form their own judgments of potential bias, Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi requires reviewers and authors to declare any competing financial and/or non-financial interests in relation to the work described. The corresponding author is responsible for submitting a competing interests statement on behalf of all authors of the paper.

Definition

For the purposes of this policy, competing interests are defined as financial and non-financial interests that could directly undermine, or be perceived to undermine, the objectivity, integrity, and value of a publication through a potential influence on the judgments and actions of authors with regard to objective data presentation, analysis, and interpretation.

Financial competing interests

Financial competing interests include (but are not limited to):

1. Receiving reimbursements, fees, funding, or salary from an organization that may in any way gain or loses financially from the publication of the article, either now or in the future.
2. Holding stocks or shares in an organization that may in any way gain or loses financially from the publication of the article, either now or in the future.
3. Holding, or currently applying for, patents relating to the manuscript's content.
4. Receiving reimbursements, fees, funding, or salary from an organization that holds or has applied for patents relating to the manuscript's content.

Non-financial competing interests

Non-financial competing interests include (but are not limited to) political, personal, religious, ideological, academic, and intellectual competing interests.

Example of competing interest statements:

"I/We have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper."

“The authors declare no conflict of interest.”

DECLARATION OF COMPETING INTERESTS FOR REVIEWERS

We ask that all reviewers disclose both 'Non-Financial' and 'Financial' Competing Interests that might lead a reasonable person to question whether your interpretation of the data or of the article may have been influenced by your personal or financial relationship with other people or organizations. For every peer review report submission, you must state whether you have any competing interests, and if you disclose that you do have some, you must provide details.

All competing interests that are declared will be displayed against your peer review report. If no competing interests are provided, the line: ‘No competing interests were disclosed’ will be added to your report. If you are unsure whether you have a competing interest, please contact our editorial office at jurnal.kajian.komunikasi@unpad.ac.id.

When deciding if you have a competing interest, it might be helpful to consider the following examples, but note that this is not an exhaustive list:

Financial competing interests

• In the past five years have you received reimbursements, fees, funding, or salary from an organization that may in any way gain or loses financially from the online listing of this work, either now or in the future? Is such an organization financing the work presented in this article or its presentation at a conference? If so, please specify. 
• Do you hold any stocks or shares in an organization that may in any way gain or loses financially from the online listing of this work, either now or in the future? If so, please specify.
• Do you hold or are you currently applying for any patents relating to the content of the work? Have you received reimbursements, fees, funding, or salary from an organization that holds or has applied for patents relating to the content of the work? If so, please specify.
• Do you have any other financial competing interests? If so, please specify.

Non-financial competing interests

• Are you a current collaborator with any of the authors of the paper in question, or have you been in the past 3 years?
• Have you co-authored a paper with any of the authors of the paper in question in the past 3 years?
• Are there any other non-financial competing interests (political, personal, religious, ideological, academic, intellectual, commercial or any other) to declare in relation to your assessment of this work? If so, please specify.

Example of competing interest statements:

"No competing interests were disclosed"

Plagiarism Policy

Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi will not tolerate any plagiarism. Therefore, the Author(s) should check their manuscript through a plagiarism checker application before submitting it.

Manuscripts submitted to Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi will be screened for plagiarism using the Turnitin plagiarism detection tool. Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi will immediately reject papers leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism and be returned them to the authors for correction.

Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi wants to ensure that all authors are careful and comply with international standards for academic integrity, particularly on the issue of plagiarism.

Plagiarism occurs when an author takes ideas, information, or words from another source without proper credit to the source. Even when it occurs unintentionally, plagiarism is still a serious academic violation and unacceptable in international academic publications.

A citation is required when the author learns specific information from a specific source (name, date, place, statistical number, or other detailed information).

When the author takes an idea from another author, a citation is required even if the author then develops the idea further. This might be an idea about how to interpret the data, either what methodology to use or what conclusion to draw. It might be an idea about broad developments in a field or general information. Regardless of the idea, authors should cite their sources. In cases where the author develops the idea further, it is still necessary to cite the original source of the idea, and then in a subsequent sentence, the author can explain her or his more developed idea.

When the author takes words from another author, a citation and quotation marks are required. Whenever four or more consecutive words are identical to a source the author has read, the author must use quotation marks to denote the use of another author's original words; just a citation is no longer enough.

Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi takes academic integrity very seriously, and the editors reserve the right to withdraw acceptance from a paper that violates any of the standards above. For further information, potential authors can contact the editorial office at: 

jurnal.kajian.komunikasi@unpad.ac.id or jurnalkajiankomunikasi@gmail.com.

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 to maximize the success of our journal. In promoting the journal and publications to the public, Jurnal Kajian 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 the content of our website so that it achieves 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. 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 to meet the rising demand that this trend has created. These channels increase the traffic directed to journals' homepages, allow researchers to interact with us directly, and speed up networking within their respective communities.

Through social media, we have a fantastic opportunity to collaborate with one another, which 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 Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi on various social media platforms.

Advertising Policy

Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi is not accepting advertising from any parties.

All advertisements and commercially sponsored publications are independent of editorial decisions. Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi does not endorse any product or service marked as an advertisement or promoted by a sponsor in Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi publications. Editorial content is not compromised by commercial or financial interests, or by any specific arrangements with advertising clients or sponsors. Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi reserves the right to decline any type of advertising that is damaging to the brand of the journal or is inappropriate to the content held on the journal network. Advertisements may not be deceptive or misleading and must be verifiable. Advertisements should clearly identify the advertiser and the product or service being offered. The exaggerated or extravagantly worded copy will not be allowed. Advertisements will not be accepted if they appear to be indecent or offensive in either text or artwork, or if they relate to the content of a personal, racial, ethnic, sexual orientation, or religious nature. Advertisements will appear in the print or online version, depending on request. Readers can criticize the advertisement by sending it to the office. For all inquiries, contact the Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi editorial office by e-mail below: 

jurnal.kajian.komunikasi@unpad.ac.id | jurnalkajiankomunikasiunpad@gmail.com

Revenue Stream

Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi accepts revenue from a range of sources to ensure wide and affordable access while maintaining high standards of quality and full editorial independence. The sources of income include article processing charge (APC), sale of reprints, and publisher supports. The revenue sources do not influence editorial decision-making.

For information about APC, please click here.

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Editorial Office of Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi:

Faculty of Communication Science, Universitas Padjadjaran
Jl. Raya Bandung-Sumedang Km. 21 Jatinangor, Sumedang 45363, Indonesia
WA: +6282316731181 (Chat Only)

Telephone: +62227796954
Faxmile: +62227794122
E-mail: jurnal.kajian.komunikasi@unpad.ac.id | jurnalkajiankomunikasiunpad@gmail.com

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