Focus and Scope

Comdent: Communication Student Journal aims to encourage research in communication studies. Topics addressed within the journal include but are not limited to:

1. Journalism Studies

• Journalism or media content includes socials, cultures, politics, economics, developments, humanitarian and community, science, technology, etc.
• Media management
• Audience research
• Media and society

2. Public Relations Studies

• Political public relations
• Public relations management
• Public relations crisis
• Public relations and public
• Public relations audit
• Marketing public relations
• Corporate social responsibility
• Human relations
• Media publicity
• Society Empowerment Through Public Relations

3. Communication Management Studies

• Strategic communication in profit and nonprofit organizations, policy-making, and guidance for planned communication activity within or between organizations, including planning, organizing, implementing, and evaluating.
• Information and communication technology for interpersonal, group, organizational, and mass communication purposes.
• Business and marketing communication, from traditional or mediated advertising and promotion to integrated marketing communications through various symbols in achieving company goals.
• Communication training and consulting, including the resource, the process, and the industry.
• Social communication is an important part of a social movement toward social change for humans to have a better life.
• The media industry and management that identifies and describes strategic and operational phenomena and problems in media enterprise's leadership contain the functions of strategic management, procurement management, production management, organizational management, and marketing of media enterprises.
• Instructional communication. Teaching-learning communication process, types of student learners, the subject matter, or the instructional setting.

4. Television and Film Studies

• Television studies
• Film studies
• Communication strategies in the field of television and film
• Communication models used in the field of television and film
• The study of media texts in television programs and film
• Marketing studies on television and film
• Management studies on television and film

5. Communication Studies

• Political communication. Communication that employs message and political actors or is related to power, government, and policy.
• Cross-cultural communication. Communication between people with a different culture (for instance, race, ethnicity, or socio-economic)
• Organizational communication. Discusses organizational behavior and explains interactions between people within the organization.
• Health communication. Discusses communication strategies to distribute health information within the community or society. The aim of health communication is to persuade individuals or society to make decisions about health activities

6. Media Production Management (Vocational Communication)

• Video content production
• Audio content production
• Graphic design
• Animation
• Games
• Web design and development
• Interactive media
• Digital photography
• Creative media industry
• Advertising

Section Policies

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 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 make 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 2 (two) 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

Comdent: Communication Student Journal publishes twice a year i.e. May-October and November-April

Open Access Policy

Access rights to the entire publication content of this journal are open access for non-commercial purposes. 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

Comdent: Communication Student Journal 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).

Screening For Plagiarism

Comdent: Communication Student Journal will not tolerate any plagiarism. Therefore, the Author should check their article through a plagiarism checker application—for instance, the turnitin.com application or other applications. If an article is indicated as a plagiary, it will be rejected and not reviewed.

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 Comdent: Communication Student Journal follows the format applied by APA 7^th Edition (American Psychological Association).

Publication Ethics

Comdent: Communication Student Journal concerns fully on the publication ethic of the whole publication process of the journal and on all received articles. As a quality assurance of a journal, Comdent: Communication Student Journal assures the professionalism of every party from the journal management, authors, editors, and reviewers by referring to Comdent: Communication Student Journal Publishing Ethics adopted from COPE's Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, as follow:

Duties of Editors

Editors evaluate submitted manuscripts exclusively based on their academic merit (importance, originality, study’s validity, clarity) and topic relevance to the journal’s scope. The Editor-in-Chief has full authority over the entire editorial content of the journal and the timing of publication of that content. Editors and editorial staff will keep the confidentiality of the article. All submitted articles considered for publication undergo peer review by at least two reviewers who are experts in the field.

Duties of Reviewers

1. Peer review assists editors in making editorial decisions and, through editorial communications with authors, may assist authors in improving their articles. Only qualified referees will be invited to review an article. Any article received for review is confidential and will be treated as such; it will not be shown to or discussed with others except if authorized by the Editor-in-Chief. Reviews would be conducted objectively, and observations formulated clearly with supporting arguments so that authors can use them to improve the article. Reviewers will identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors and will also notify the editors of any substantial similarity or overlap between the article and any other article (published or unpublished).
2. Any invited referee who has conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the manuscript and the work described will be immediately replaced with the more fair referee.
3. Unpublished material disclosed in a submitted article will not be used in a reviewer’s own research without the express written consent of the authors. Information or ideas obtained through peer review will be confidential and not used for the reviewer’s personal advantage.

 Duties of Authors

1. Authors of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed and the results, followed by an objective discussion of the significance of the work. Authors should ensure that they have written and submitted only entirely original works, and if they have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited. Publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the work reported in the article should also be cited. Papers describing essentially the same research should not be published in more than one journal or primary publication. Hence, authors should not submit for consideration a manuscript that has already been published in another journal.
2. Only persons considered to have significant contributions should be listed as authors in the article. All persons who contributed substantially to work reported in the article must not be listed as an author but should be acknowledged in the "Acknowledgements" section. Authors should ensure that they have properly acknowledged the work of others by citing publications that support the nature of the work.
3. When authors discover significant errors or inaccuracies in their own published work, it is their obligation to promptly notify the journal’s editors or publisher and cooperate with them to either correct the paper in the form of an erratum or to retract the paper. If the editors or publisher learns from a third party that a published work contains a significant error or inaccuracy, then it is the author’s obligation to promptly correct or retract the paper or provide evidence to the journal editors of the correctness of the paper.
4. Authors who publish with this journal agree to retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License Authors can 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 acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal. Authors should sign a copyright transfer agreement when they have approved the final proofs sent by Comdent: Communication Student Journal before the publication.
5. Reviewers/editors are competent in the scope of Public Relations science. As the evidence of papers and their competence, reviewer/ editor candidates will provide a link or URL address of scientific sites, such as Google Scholar/ResearchGate/Orcid/Scopus, and so forth.

Duties of the Publisher

1. The publisher and the editors 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. 
2. For each article accepted and published in Comdent: Communication Student Journal, its grammar and sentences are checked by a proofreader and checked with the Grammarly® application, and is recommended to use the Reference Manager application (Mendeley/End Note/Zotero).

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Editorial Office of Comdent: Communication Student Journal:

Faculty of Communication Science, Universitas Padjadjaran

Jl. Raya Bandung-Sumedang KM. 21 Jatinangor, Sumedang 45363, Jawa Barat, Indonesia 
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