Editorial Policies

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

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Peer Review Process

Peer Review Process

The peer review process in the Journal of Intelligent Computing & Health Informatics (JICHI) is designed to ensure that manuscripts that meet the highest academic standards are published. When a manuscript is submitted, the editor conducts an initial review to ensure alignment with the journal’s focus and scope and evaluates the quality of the manuscript based on several key criteria. We will check whether the manuscript adheres to submission guidelines, assess the readability of the content, identify any methodological flaws, and evaluate the originality of the work. As part of this process, we used Turnitin to check the similarity score. Manuscripts with similarity scores >15% will be rejected or returned to the authors for revision before further consideration.

If the manuscript passes this initial screening, it proceeds to a double-blind peer review process, where we send the manuscript to atleast two to three anonymous reviewers.The reviewers are experts in the field and provide detailed feedback on various aspects of the manuscript, including the following:

  1. Relevance: We assess the significance of the research, its contribution to the relevant field, and potential applications.
  2. Novelty: We identify the originality of ideas, derivations, and applications, particularly those that have not been extensively explored in previous studies.
  3. Literature Review: Reviewers should examine the completeness and relevance of the literature review, particularly in identifying research gaps and using the most recent primary references (ideally within the last 10 years).
  4. Methodology: We evaluated the appropriateness and rigor of the methods, including the accuracy of the assumptions, clarity of the equipment descriptions, and thoroughness of the experimental steps.
  5. Results and Discussion: We assessed the quality, depth, andlogical coherence of the results and discussion, ensuring that the findings were robust and wellsupported by data.
  6. Conclusion: We evaluated the insights conveyed and recommended future research and applications based on the findings.
  7. Language: The reviewers assessed the effectiveness of the English language in communicating the research, ensuring that the manuscript was clear, well-structured, and free from significant grammatical or typographical errors.

After receiving feedback from the reviewers, we forward the necessary revisions to the authors. The manuscript may undergo several rounds of review depending on the nature of the feedback and the extent of the revisions required.

Review Outcomes

Based on the feedback received from the peer review process, the editorial team will make a final decision regarding publication.The review process typically takes between 4 and 12 weeks. Possible decisions include:

  1. Reject: The manuscript is deemed unsuitable for publication, and the authors will not have the opportunity to resubmit a revised version of the manuscript to JICHI.
  2. Resubmit for Review: The manuscript requires substantial revisions that, if addressed, may make it suitable for publication. The revised manuscript will undergo a second round of peer review.
  3. Accept with Revisions: The manuscript is accepted on the condition that minor or major revisions are made.The editorial team will review the revisions and ensure that all necessary updates are completed before publication.
  4. Accept: The manuscript is accepted in its current form with no further modifications.

Correspondence

The authors should direct all correspondence regarding the manuscript to the Editor of JICHI (jichi.informatika@unimus.ac.id) and cc to ahmadilham@unimus.ac.id, with a copy being sent to the journal’s official email.The Editor will coordinate all communications with the corresponding author, who isresponsible forsharing relevant information with other co-authors.In addition to communications related to the peer review process, further correspondence may be required to finalize the copyediting and layout editing of the accepted manuscript.

[Updated on 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

Understand JICHI's article sharing and posting policies for each stage of the article life cycle.

Prior to submission to JICHI
Authors may post their article anywhere at any time, including on preprint servers such as arXiv.org. This does not count as a prior publication.

Upon submission to JICHI
Authors may share or post their submitted version of the article (also known as the preprint) in the following ways:

  1. On the author’s personal website or their employer’s website
  2. On institutional or funder websites if required
  3. In the author’s own classroom use
  4. On Scholarly Collaboration Networks (SCNs) that are signatories to the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers’ Sharing Principles (https://www.stm-assoc.org/stm-consultations/scn-consultation-2015/)
The following text should be included on the first page of the submitted article when it first is posted in any of the above outlets: “This work has been submitted to the JICHI for possible publication".

Upon acceptance to JICHI
If an author previously posted their submitted version of the article in any of the following locations, he or she will need to replace the submitted version with the accepted version of JICHI counted since the article was published (you have time 4 (four) weeks to changes the status of your article on articles repository). No other changes may be made to the accepted article.
  1. Author’s personal website
  2. Author’s employer’s website
  3. arXiv.org
  4. Funder’s repository*
Final published article
  1. When the article is published, the posted version should be updated with a full citation to the original of JICHI, including DOI. He or she will need to replace the accepted version with the published article version of JICHI.
  2. The article will be followed by statements on the JICHI copyright notice.

Please also carefully read JICHI's Copyright Notice at https://jurnal.unimus.ac.id/index.php/ICHI/about/submissions#copyrightNotice