Focus and Scope

Topics of interest include but are not limited to

Intelligent Computing 

• Machine Learning
• Reinforcement Learning 
• Computer Vision 
• Image Processing 
• Bio-inspired Algorithms 
• Robotic Intelligence 
• Big Data 
• Scheduling and Optimization 
• Chaos Theory and Intelligent Control Systems

Health Informatics

• Electronic Health Records 
• Data Mining in Healthcare 
• Medical Image Processing & Techniques 
• Telemedicine 
• Bioinformatics & Biostatistics 
• Hospital Information Systems 
• Health Economics Issues 
• Nursing Informatics 
• ICT in Health Promotion 
• E-learning & Education in Healthcare 
• Healthcare Quality Assurance

Multidisciplinary and Integration of Sciences

• JICHI encourages contributions that involve a multidisciplinary approach, integrating computer science, engineering, biomedical sciences, health economics, social sciences, and management.
• Topics that connect intelligent computing technologies with ethics, law, and policy in health informatics are highly valued.
• Studies integrating Artificial Intelligence with behavioral sciences to improve patient compliance or develop Human-Centered Design solutions in health device development.

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

Peer Review Process

The JICHI is committed to maintaining the highest standards of academic integrity and scholarly excellence. To achieve this, the journal employs a rigorous double-blind peer review process designed to evaluate the quality, originality, and scientific contribution of submitted manuscripts. In a double-blind system, both the reviewers and the authors remain anonymous throughout the evaluation process, ensuring objectivity and impartiality in decision-making.

1. Initial Editorial Screening

Upon submission, each manuscript undergoes an initial screening by the Editor-in-Chief or a designated editorial member. This preliminary review assesses whether the manuscript aligns with the journal's scope and aims, adheres to the submission guidelines, and demonstrates appropriate scholarly rigor and coherence. The editor also evaluates the manuscript’s readability, logical structure, and methodological soundness.

All submissions are checked using Turnitin to detect textual similarity. Manuscripts with a similarity index exceeding 15% will be either rejected or returned to the authors for revision prior to further consideration. This step ensures adherence to ethical publishing practices and prevents academic misconduct.

2. Peer Review Process

Manuscripts that pass the initial screening are forwarded for peer review by two or three independent reviewers who are recognized experts in the relevant field. These reviewers are selected based on their academic qualifications, expertise in the manuscript’s subject area, and absence of conflicts of interest.

Reviewers evaluate the manuscript based on several key criteria, including:

• Relevance: The importance of the research question, its alignment with the journal’s thematic areas, and its potential contributions to the field.
• Originality: The novelty and innovativeness of the research, particularly the extent to which it advances existing knowledge or explores uncharted areas.
• Literature Review: The completeness and appropriateness of the literature cited, with an emphasis on primary sources and recent publications, ideally within the last 10 years.
• Methodology: The robustness, transparency, and validity of the research design, data collection, and analysis procedures.
• Results and Discussion: The clarity, depth, and logical consistency of the findings and their interpretation in the context of previous research.
• Conclusion: The strength and relevance of the conclusions drawn, including implications for future research and practice.
• Language and Style: The effectiveness of academic English used in presenting the research, including grammar, structure, and technical terminology.

3. Revision and Re-evaluation

Once reviewer feedback is received, the editorial office communicates the comments and recommendations to the authors. Authors are required to submit a revised manuscript along with a point-by-point response letter addressing each reviewer comment. The editorial team may return the revised manuscript to the original reviewers for a second evaluation to ensure that the revisions meet the required standards.

In some cases, multiple rounds of revision may be necessary before a final decision can be reached. Authors are expected to complete revisions within the timeline specified by the editorial office.

4. Editorial Decision

Following the peer review process, the Editor-in-Chief makes the final decision on the manuscript, taking into account the reviewers’ recommendations and the quality of any revisions submitted. The possible outcomes are as follows:

• Reject: The manuscript is unsuitable for publication in the journal and will not be reconsidered.
• Resubmit for Review: The manuscript requires major revisions and may be resubmitted for a new round of peer review.
• Accept with Revisions: The manuscript is accepted conditionally, subject to the implementation of minor or major revisions as specified by the reviewers or editors.
• Accept: The manuscript is accepted in its current form and will proceed to the production stage.

The average timeline for the entire review process ranges between 4 and 12 weeks, depending on the availability of reviewers and the responsiveness of authors during the revision stages.

5. Ethics and Confidentiality

JICHI adheres to the principles of confidentiality, transparency, and ethical integrity throughout the peer review process. All parties involved—editors, reviewers, and authors—are expected to comply with international standards of ethical publishing. Reviewers are required to disclose any potential conflicts of interest and to maintain strict confidentiality regarding the content of the manuscripts they evaluate. In addition, all studies involving human or animal subjects must include documentation of ethical approval from a recognized institutional review board or equivalent authority.

[Last updated: January 12, 2024]

Open Access Policy

This journal provides open access to the full text of all its published articles at no cost to readers or their institutions. Readers are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link the full text of all articles in the Journal of Intelligent Computing and Health Informatics (JICHI). This open access approach is based on the belief that making research freely available would support a broader global exchange of knowledge.

Archiving

The Journal of Intelligent Computing and Health Informatics (JICHI) uses LOCKSS system as a place for digital archiving and preservation of all published articles. Here is URL link for this digital archiving: https://jurnal.unimus.ac.id/index.php/ICHI/gateway/lockss

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Publication Frequency

Journal of Intelligent Computing and Health Informatics is published two times a year (March, September)

Type of Journal Received

All articles should include a validation of the idea presented, e.g. through case studies, experiments, or systematic comparisons with other approaches already in practice. Two types of papers are accepted:

1. A short paper that discusses a single contribution to a specific new trend or a new idea, and; 
2. A long paper that provides a survey of a specific research trend using a systematic literature review (SLR) method, as well as a traditional review method.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

The Journal of Intelligent Computing and Health Informatics (JICHI) is committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics and takes all necessary measures to prevent any publication malpractice. The Editorial Board is responsible, among other duties, for preventing publication malpractice. Unethical behavior is unacceptable, and JICHI does not tolerate any plagiarism. Authors who submit articles affirm that the manuscript’s content is original. Furthermore, the submission implies that the manuscript has not been published previously in any language, either in part or in whole, and is not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Editors, authors, and reviewers associated with the Journal of Intelligent Computing & Health Informatics must fully commit to good publication practices and take responsibility for fulfilling the duties and responsibilities as outlined by the COPE Code of Conduct for Journal Editors. As part of its Core Practices, COPE has provided guidelines at http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines. 

Section A: Publication and Authorship

All submitted papers were subjected to a rigorous peer-review process:

1. Reviewers are experts in the manuscript's particular area.
2. The review process wasdouble-blind.
3. Review factors include relevance, soundness, significance, originality, readability, and language quality.
4. Possible decisions include acceptance, acceptance with revision, and rejection.
5. If authors are encouraged to revise and resubmit their manuscript, there is no guarantee of acceptance.
6. Rejected articles will not be re-reviewed.
7. Paper acceptance is subject to legal requirements, including those related to libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism.
8. No research can be included in more than one publication.

Section B: Authors’ Responsibilities

The authors areresponsiblefor the following:

1. Certifying that their manuscripts are original.
2. Ensuring that the manuscript has not been previously published elsewhere.
3. Confirming that the manuscript is not underconsiderationfor publication elsewhere.
4. Participating in the peer-review process.
5. Providing retractions or corrections of errors.
6. Ensuring that all of the authors have made significant contributions to the research.
7. Stating that all data in this paper are genuine and authentic.
8. Notifying the Editors of any conflicts of interest.
9. Identify all sources used in the creation of the manuscript.
10. Report any errors they discover in their published paper to the Editors.

Section C: Reviewers’ Responsibilities

Reviewers must:

1. Keep all confidential information regarding papers confidential and treat it as privileged information.
2. Conduct objective reviews without personal criticism from the author.
3. Express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
4. Identify relevant published work not cited by the authors.
5. Notify the Editor-in-Chief of any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript underconsiderationand any other published paper.
6. Avoid reviewing manuscripts for which conflicts of interest arise from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships with the authors, companies, or institutions.

Section D: Editors’ Responsibilities

The editors areresponsiblefor the following:

1. Full responsibility and authority to accept or reject articles.
2. Ensuring content and overall quality of the publication.
3. Considering the needs of both authors and readers when improving the publication.
4. Ensuring the quality of papers and the integrity of the academic record.
5. Publishing errata pages or making corrections as necessary.
6. Understanding the sources of research funding.
7. Based on the importance, originality, clarity, and relevance of the papers to the publication’s scope.
8. Not reversing decisions or overturning those of previous editors without serious reasons.
9. Preserving the anonymity of reviewers.
10. Ensuring that all published research conforms to internationally accepted ethical guidelines.
11. Accepting papers only when reasonably certain of their quality.
12. Acting on suspected misconduct, whether the paper is published or unpublished, and making all reasonable efforts to resolve issues.
13. Do not reject papers based on mere suspicion; proof of misconduct is required.
14. Avoid any conflicts of interest between the staff, authors, reviewers, and board members. 

Plagiarism Policy

Papers submitted to the Journal of Intelligent Computing and Health Informatics (JICHI) will be screened for plagiarism using Turnitin plagiarism detection tools. The JICHI's journal will immediately reject papers leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism.

Before submitting articles to reviewers, those are first checked for similarity/plagiarism tool, by a member of the editorial team. The papers submitted to the Journal of Intelligent Computing and Health Informatics must have a similarity level of less than 15% (Exclude Bibliography), and the similarity score to each source is no more than 3%.

Plagiarism is the exposure of another person’s thoughts or words as though they were your own, without permission, credit, or acknowledgment, or because of failing to cite the sources properly. Plagiarism can take diverse forms, from literal copying to paraphrasing the work of another. To accurately judge whether an author has plagiarized, we emphasize the following possible situations:

• An author can literally copy another author’s work- by copying word by word, in whole or in part, without permission, acknowledge or citing the original source. This practice can be identified by comparing the original source and the manuscript/work who is suspected of plagiarism.
• Substantial copying implies an author to reproduce a substantial part of another author, without permission, acknowledge, or citation. The substantial term can be understood both in terms of quality as quantity, being often used in the context of Intellectual property. Quality refers to the relative value of the copied text in proportion to the work as a whole.
• Paraphrasing involves taking ideas, words, or phrases from a source and crafting them into new sentences within the writing. This practice becomes unethical when the author does not properly cite or does not acknowledge the original work/author. This form of plagiarism is the more difficult form to be identified.

Indexing

Journal of Intelligent Computing and Health Informatics (JICHI), with registered number e-ISSN: 2721-9186, ISSN: 2715-6923. Finally, accepted papers will be freely accessed in this website and the following abstracting & indexing databases:

References Management

Every article accepted by JICHI's journal must use references management softwere. eg Mendeley or Zotero.

Retraction

Papers published in JICHI will be retracted from the publication if

1. there is clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either because of misconduct (e.g. data fabrication) orhonesterror (e.g. miscalculation or experimental error)
2. The findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper crossreferencing, permission, or justification (i.e. cases of redundant publication)
3. constitutes plagiarism
4. it reports unethical research

The mechanism of retraction follows the Retraction Guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), which can be accessed at https://publicationethics.org/files/retraction%20guidelines.pdf.

Withdrawal of Manuscripts

Author is not allowed to withdraw submitted manuscripts, because the withdrawal is waste of valuable resources that editors and referees spent a great deal of time processing submitted manuscript, and works invested by the publisher.

If author still requests withdrawal of his/her manuscript when the manuscript is still in the peer-reviewing process, author will be punished with paying $200 per manuscript, as withdrawal penalty to the publisher. However, it is unethical to withdraw a submitted manuscript from one journal if accepted by another journal.

The withdrawal of manuscript after the manuscript is accepted for publication, author will be punished by paying US$400 per manuscript. Withdrawal of manuscript is only allowed after withdrawal penalty has been fully paid to the Publisher. If author don't agree to pay the penalty, the author and his/her affiliation will be blacklisted for publication in this journal. Even, his/her previously published articles will be removed from our online system.

Posting Your Article Policy

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Journal of Intelligent Computing and Health Informatics (JICHI)
ISSN 2715-6923 (print) | 2721-9186 (online)
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Department of Informatics
Faculty of Engineering
Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang

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