Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Focus and Scope of Journal of Social, Culture, and Language is articles raised from the results of research, studies, and scientific work in the fields of:

1. Social science

2. Cultural studies

3. Linguistics

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Peer Review Process and AI Use Policy

Journal of Social, Culture, and Language (JSCL) maintains a double-blind peer review policy to ensure objectivity, transparency, and academic integrity in the publication process.

All research articles published in JSCL undergo a double-blind peer review, the key characteristics of which are outlined below:

  • Double-blind peer review is a process used in academic publishing to ensure impartiality and prevent bias. In this method, both the author and the reviewer remain anonymous to each other. Identifying information is removed from the manuscript before it is sent to reviewers so that the reviewer does not know the author’s identity, and vice versa.
  • The process begins when an author submits a manuscript. The editor first evaluates its suitability for the journal and then assigns qualified reviewers. The editor maintains confidentiality throughout the review process. Reviewers provide constructive comments and recommendations, which are returned to the author for revision. This process may be repeated until the paper meets the journal’s publication standards.
  • The goal of double-blind peer review is to minimize potential bias and promote fairness. This system prevents conflicts of interest and ensures that manuscripts are judged solely on academic merit, not on the author’s identity, institution, or reputation.
  • Despite some limitations, double-blind peer review remains a cornerstone of JSCL’s editorial policy, ensuring that every published article upholds rigorous academic and ethical standards.

Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

In alignment with JSCL’s Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in the publication process is regulated as follows:

  • For Authors: AI tools may be used only as assistive instruments—for example, to improve language clarity, grammar, or formatting. However, AI must not be used to generate, fabricate, or manipulate research data, analysis, or references. Authors must disclose any significant use of AI tools in the methodology or acknowledgments section.
  • For Editors: Editors may use AI-based tools to support technical or administrative tasks, such as plagiarism detection, reference checking, and manuscript screening. However, all editorial judgments and final publication decisions must remain entirely human-driven.
  • For Reviewers: Reviewers may use AI only to support comprehension (e.g., grammar checking or citation verification) but must not rely on AI systems to form review opinions or recommendations. The integrity and confidentiality of the peer review process must be maintained at all times.

This policy ensures that AI serves as a supporting tool rather than a decision-making entity, preserving human accountability, academic integrity, and ethical responsibility throughout the publication process.

 

 

Publication Frequency

The schedule of the Journal of Social, Culture, and Language regularly publishes it every six months (twice a year) in May and November.

 

Open Access Policy

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.

 

Archiving

Digital Archiving Policy

The Journal of Social, Culture, and Language has electronic backup and preservation of access to the content of its journals via PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN). This can be seen at 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 kindly see the high-level overview (an early discussion document).

 

Publication Ethics

Journal of Social, Culture, and Language is a peer-reviewed journal. This journal follows guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) facing all aspects of publication ethics and, in particular, how to handle cases of research and publication misconduct. This statement clarifies ethical behavior of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal, including the author, the Editor-in-Chief, the Editorial Board, the peer-reviewer, and the publisher (University of Trunojoyo Madura).  The Journal of Social, Culture, and Language and the UNIVERSITY OF TRUNOJOYO MADURA (UTM) JOURNALS are dedicated to following best practices on ethical matters, errors, and retractions. The prevention of publication malpractice is one of the important responsibilities of the editorial board. Any kind of unethical behavior is not acceptable, and the journals do not tolerate plagiarism in any form.

The Journal of Social, Culture, and Language adapts COPE to meet a high-quality standard of ethics for publishers, editors, authors, and reviewers. As an essential issue, publication ethics needs to be explained clearly to improve the quality of the research worldwide. In this part, we explain the standard for editors, authors, and reviewers. The publisher doesn’t have the right to interfere with the integrity of the contents and only support publishing in a timely manner.

For Editors

  1. Based on the review report of the editorial review board, the editor can accept, reject, or request modifications to the manuscript.
  2. Editors should be responsible for every article published in the Journal of Social, Culture, and Language
  3. The editors may communicate with other editors or reviewers in making the final decision.
  4. An editor has to evaluate the manuscript objectively for publication, judging each on its quality without looking to the nationality, ethnicity, political beliefs, race, religion, gender, seniority, or institutional affiliation of the authors. He/she should decline his/her assignment when there is a potential for conflict of interest.
  5. Editors need to ensure the document sent to the reviewer does not contain the information of the author, or vice versa.
  6. Editors’ decisions should be informed to authors accompanied by reviewers’ comments unless they contain offensive or libelous remarks.
  7. Editors should respect requests from authors that an individual should not review the submission if these are well-reasoned and practicable.
  8. Editors and all staff should guarantee the confidentiality of the submitted manuscript.
  9. Editors will be guided by COPE flowcharts if there is suspected misconduct or disputed authorship.

For Reviewers

Reviewers need to comment on ethical questions and possible research and publication misconduct.

  1. Reviewers will do the work in a timely manner and should notify the editor if they cannot complete the work.
  2. Reviewers need to keep the confidentiality of the manuscript.
  3. Reviewers should not accept to review the manuscripts in which there is a potential conflict of interest between them and any of the authors.

For Authors

  1. Author(s) affirm that the material has not been previously published and that they have not trans­ferred elsewhere any rights to the article.
  2. The author(s) should ensure the originality of the work, and they have properly cited others’ work in accordance with the format of the references.
  3. The author(s) should not engage in plagiarism nor self-plagiarism.
  4. The author(s) should ensure that they follow the authorship criteria that are taken from  Journal of Social, Culture, and Language that is explained in instruction for the author of  Journal of Social, Culture, and Language
  5. Authors should not submit the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently. It is also expected that the author will not publish redundant manuscripts or manuscripts describing the same research in more than one journal.
  6. Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. Others who have made significant contributions must be listed as co-authors. Authors also ensure that all the authors have seen and agreed to the submitted version of the manuscript and their inclusion of names as co-authors.
  7. The author(s) haven’t suggested any personal information that may make the identity of the patient recognizable in any form of description, part, photograph, or pedigree.
  8. Author(s) should give the editor the data and details of the work if there are suspicions of data falsification or fabrication.
  9. If at any point in time, the author(s) discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in a submitted manuscript, then the error or inaccuracy must be reported to the editor.
  10. Authors of the journal should clarify everything that may cause a conflict of interest, such as work, research expenses, consul­tant expenses, and intellectual property, on the document of the Journal of Social, Culture, and Language form disclosure.

 

Plagiarism Policy

PLAGIARISM INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING:

  • Referencing and/or quoting terms, words, and/or sentences, data, and/or information from a source without citing the source in the citation and/or without adequately acknowledging the source;

  • Referencing and/or quoting random terms, words, and/or sentences, data, and/or information from a source without citing the source in the citation and/or without adequately acknowledging the source;

  • Utilizing ideas, opinions, views, or theories from a source without adequately acknowledging the source;

  • Paraphrasing or reformulating words and/or sentences from a source—whether consisting of words, phrases, ideas, opinions, views, or theories—without adequately acknowledging the source;

  • Submitting a scientific paper produced and/or published by others as one's own original work without proper acknowledgment.

PREVENTION

Each article submitted to the Journal of Social, Culture, and Language must be accompanied by a signed statement from the author affirming that:

  • The article is free of plagiarism;

  • If plagiarism is later proven in the article, the author is willing to accept sanctions in accordance with applicable legal provisions.

SANCTIONS

  • Reprimand;

  • Letter of warning;

  • Revocation of the article;

  • Cancellation of publication.

 

Article Processing Charges (APC)

Journal of Social, Culture, and Language (JSCL) charges the following author fee:

Article Publication Fee: IDR 100,000.-

This fee covers all costs associated with the peer-review process, editorial systems, typesetting, web publication, and long-term archiving. If the paper is accepted for publication, the authors will be required to pay the fee. Accepted manuscripts will not proceed to the final production stage until payment has been received.

Payment must be transferred to our bank account using the following details:

  • Name of Bank: Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI)
    Bank Account: 169220000000102001
    Name of Account Holder: BRIVA Journal of Social, Culture, and Language
    Publication Fee: 100.000 IDR
    Admin (VA) Fee: 3.500 IDR

    Total Amount:  103.500 IDR

Please email the proof of publication fee payment to: [email protected]

 

Copyright & License

To be considered for publication in the Journal of Social, Culture, and Language, authors must complete all stages of the journal's review and publication process. By submitting a manuscript, authors acknowledge and agree to the following terms:

1. Copyright and Publishing Rights
Upon acceptance for publication, authors agree to transfer the copyright of the published article to the Journal of Social, Culture, and Language, Universitas Trunojoyo Madura, as the publisher. This transfer grants the journal the right to reproduce, publish, distribute, archive, and communicate the article in various formats and media, including printed copies, reprints, electronic media, translations, and other forms of reproduction.

2. Authors' Rights and Dissemination
Authors retain the right to use and disseminate their published work for lawful scholarly and academic purposes. Authors may share the article's link or DOI and may reuse their work without obtaining prior written permission from the journal, provided that the Journal of Social, Culture, and Language is properly acknowledged as the original publisher.

3. License
Use of the content published on this website is subject to the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

4. Reproduction and Permission
Reproduction of any part of an article, storage in retrieval systems or databases, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or other means requires appropriate permission where such permission is required under applicable copyright law.

5. Responsibility for Published Content
The Editorial Board makes reasonable efforts to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all published materials. However, the opinions, findings, interpretations, conclusions, and other statements expressed in published articles are solely the responsibility of the respective authors.

6. Copyright Transfer Form
Authors are required to complete and sign the Copyright Transfer Form upon acceptance of their manuscript. The form can be downloaded here: CTA FORM OF JSCL.

After signing, the completed Copyright Transfer Form should be submitted either as an original hard copy by mail or as a scanned copy via email to the following address:

JSCL Managing Editor

Dr. Eka Susylowati, S.S., M.Hum.

Universitas Trunojoyo Madura

Phone: 085947747470

Email: [email protected]

 

Copyright Transfer Agreement

Copyright Transfer Agreement

Authors who submit manuscripts to the Journal of Social, Culture, and Language agree that, upon acceptance for publication, the copyright of the published article will be transferred to Journal of Social, Culture, and Language, Universitas Trunojoyo Madura, as the publisher of the journal.

The transferred copyright grants the journal the exclusive right to reproduce, publish, distribute, archive, and communicate the article in all forms and media, including printed copies, reprints, photographs, microfilms, electronic media, and translations. Reproduction of any part of this journal, storage in retrieval systems or databases, and transmission in any form or by any means—including electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—may only be carried out with prior written permission from the Journal of Social, Culture, and Language, Universitas Trunojoyo Madura.

The Editorial Board makes every reasonable effort to ensure that all published materials are accurate and free from misleading information. However, the opinions, findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in articles and advertisements published in the Journal of Social, Culture, and Language are solely the responsibility of the respective authors and advertisers.

Although authors are required to transfer copyright, they retain significant scholarly rights to their work in accordance with the journal's copyright policy.

The Copyright Transfer Form can be downloaded here: CTA FORM OF JSCL

After signing, the completed Copyright Transfer Form should be submitted either as the original hard copy by mail or as a scanned copy via email to:

JSCL Managing Editor

Dr. Eka Susylowati, S.S., M.Hum.

Universitas Trunojoyo Madura

Phone: 085947747470

Email: [email protected]