Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Jurnal Ilmu Kedokteran (Journal of Medical Science) is dedicated to publishing scientific research in medicine and health. The journal welcomes articles that contribute to the advancement of medical knowledge, including basic, clinical, and translational research. The primary focus areas of this journal include, but are not limited to:

1. Clinical Medicine and Surgery: Studies on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases, including innovative therapies and new approaches in patient management.

2. Basic Medical Sciences: Research exploring the biological, biochemical, and molecular aspects underlying disease processes and treatments.

3. Public Health and Preventive Medicine: Articles discussing prevention strategies, health promotion, and public health policies that impact global health.

4. Community and Family Medicine: Research focused on healthcare services at the community level and patient care within the family context.

5. Medical Innovations and Health Technology: Studies on the development of new medical technologies, diagnostic devices, and health tools.

The journal accepts original articles, literature reviews, case reports, and brief communications that provide new insights and are relevant to the advancement of medical sciences. JIK is committed to publishing high-quality scientific work that adheres to ethical standards and significantly contributes to the medical and healthcare fields.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

The manuscript will undergo a peer review process. The editor will first screen the manuscript to ensure its relevance to the focus, scope, and author guidelines of JIK. Each manuscript will then be reviewed by at least two peer reviewers, who will evaluate it based on the following criteria: authenticity, adherence to ethical standards, and the logical rationale behind the research. JIK employs a single-blind review process, where the reviewers receive the manuscript anonymously. All comments and feedback from the editor and reviewers will be communicated to the author.

 

Publication Frequency

Jurnal Ilmu Kedokteran (Journal of Medical Science) is published twice a year (in March and September)

 

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.

No fees are charged authors, readers or institutions. All funds to operate these system and journal come from the Faculty of Medicine Universitas Riau.

All materials are free to be copied and redistributed in any medium or format. However, appropriate credit should be given. This content licensing is in accordance with a CC license: CC-BY-NC.

 

Archiving

JIK has electronic backup and preservation of access to the content of its journal via PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) 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.

We allowed authors to deposit all versions (Submitted version, Accepted version, and Published version) of the manuscript to be deposited in an institutional or another repository of the author’s choice without embargo.

 

Plagiarism Screening Policy

All manuscripts submitted to JIK will be screened for plagiarism using Crossref Similarity Check (Turnitin), with a maximum similarity threshold of 25%

 

Publication Ethics

This journal follows guidelines from Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in facing all aspects of publication ethics and, in particular, how to handle cases of research and publication misconduct. All articles in this journal involving human subjects should respect principles of research ethics as described in Declaration of Helsinki and studies involving animals should obey the International Guiding Principles for Biomedical Research as developed by the Council for International Organization of Medical Sciences (CIOMS).

Jurnal Ilmu Kedokteran adapts COPE to meet high quality standard of ethics for publisher, 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. In addition, the publisher doesn’t have right to interfere with the integrity of the contents and only support to publish in timely manner.

For Editors

  1. Editors should be responsible for every articles published in Jurnal Ilmu Kedokteran.
  2. Editors should help authors to follow the instruction for the author.
  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 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 of conflict of interest.
  5. Editors need to ensure the document sent to the reviewer does not contain the information of the author, vice versa.
  6. Editors’ decision 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 staffs should guarantee the confidentiality of the submitted manuscript.
  9. Editors will be guided by COPE flowcharts if there is a suspected misconduct or disputed authorship.

For Reviewers

  1. Reviewers need to comment on ethical questions and possible research and publication misconduct.
  2. Reviewers will do the work in timely manner and should notify editor if they can not complete the work.
  3. Reviewers need to keep the confidentiality of the manuscript.
  4. Reviewers should not accept to review the manuscripts in which there is 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. Author(s) should ensure the originality of the work and they have properly cited others’ work in accordance of the references format.
  3. Author(s) should not engage in plagiarism nor self-plagiarism.
  4. The author(s) haven’t suggested any personal information that may make the identity of the patient recognizable in any forms of description part, photograph or pedigree. When the photographs of the patient were essential and indispensable as scientific information, the author(s) have received the consent in written form and have clearly stated it.
  5. In case of experimenting on human, the authors have certified that the process of the research is in accordance with ethical standards of Helsinki declaration, domestic and foreign committees that preside over human experi­ment. If any doubts are raised whether the research was proceeded in accordance with the declaration, the authors should explain it. In case of experimenting on animals, the authors have certified that the authors had followed the domestic and foreign guideline related to experiment of animals in a laboratory.
  6. Author(s) should give the editor the data and details of the work, if there are suspicions of data falsification or fabrication.
  7. Authors of the journal should clarify everything that may cause conflict of interests such as work, research expenses, consul­tant expenses, and intellectual property on the document of ICMJE form disclosure.

 

Article Processing Charges

Authors who submit articles to Jurnal Ilmu Kedokteran (Journal of Medical Science) are free of charge, both submission and publication fees.