Focus and Scope

Jurnal Pengabmas JHCS ini mempublikasikan artikel hasil-hasil kegiatan Pengabdian Masyarakat yang dilaksanakan dalam bidang kesehatan. Jurnal Pengabmas JHCS menerima naskah yang berasal dari hasil penelitian atau tinjauan pustaka tentang : Keperawatan, Kebidanan, Farmasi, Kesehatan Gigi, Gizi, Kesehatan Lingkungan, Teknik Laboratirum Medis mupun bidang lain terkait kesehatan seperti Kesehatan Kerja dan Kesehatan Pariwisata.

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

» Peer Review Process

Every submitted article is independently reviewed by at least a double-blind review (peer-reviewers). The decision for publication, amendment, or rejection is based upon their reports/recommendation.  After being reviewed, there will be four kinds of editor decision based on the reviewers’ recommendation:

1. Accept Submission: The submission will be accepted without revisions.
2. Revisions Required: The submission will be accepted after minor changes have been made.
3. Resubmit for Review: The submission needs to be re-worked, but with significant changes, it may be accepted. It will require a second round of review, however.
4. Decline Submission: The submission will not be published in the journal.

» Article Revision

The articles sent back to the authors for revision should be returned to the editor without delay. The revised article returned later than 10 days will be considered as new submissions. The revised article can be sent to the editorial through the Online Submission Interface.

Publication Frequency

Journal Of Health and Community Service diterbitkan dua kali setahun pada Bulan Maret dan Sptember dalam bentuk online oleh Pusat Penelitian dan Pengabmas Poltekkes Kemenkes Gorontalo

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. This is an Open Access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute,print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of Open Access.

Publication Ethic

Journal of Health and Community Service 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 the 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. Journal Health and Nutritions  is 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.

Journal of Health and Community Service  adapts COPE to meet a 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. Publisher doesn’t have right to interfere with the integrity of the contents and only support to publish in a timely manner.

For Editors

Based on the review report of the editorial review board, the editor can accept, reject, or request modifications to the manuscript.

Editors should be responsible for every article published in Journal of Health and Community Service.

The editors may communicate with other editors or reviewers in making the final decision.

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 for conflict of interest.

Editors need to ensure the document sent to the reviewer does not contain the information of the author, vice versa.

Editors’ decision should be informed to authors accompanied by reviewers’ comments unless they contain offensive or libelous remarks.

Editors should respect requests from authors that an individual should not review the submission if these are well-reasoned and practicable.

Editors and all staffs should guarantee the confidentiality of the submitted manuscript.

Editors will be guided by COPE flowcharts if there is a suspected misconduct or disputed authorship.

Reviewers

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

Reviewers will do the work in a timely manner and should notify the editor if they can not complete the work.

Reviewers need to keep the confidentiality of the manuscript.

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

Author(s) affirm that the material has not been previously published and that they have not trans­ferred elsewhere any rights to the article.

Author(s) should ensure the originality of the work and they have properly cited others’ work in accordance with the references format.

Author(s) should not engage in plagiarism nor self-plagiarism.

Author(s) should ensure that they follow the authorship criteria that are taken from Journal of Health and Community Service  that is explained in instruction for an author of  Journal of Health and Community Service.

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.

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to conception, design, execution or interpretation of the reported study. Others who have made a significant contribution 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.

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.

Author(s) should give the editor the data and details of the work if there are suspicions of data falsification or fabrication.

If at any point in time, the author(s) discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in the submitted manuscript, then the error or inaccuracy must be reported to the editor.

Authors of the journal should clarify everything that may cause a conflict of interests such as work, research expenses, consul­tant expenses, and intellectual property on the document of Journal of Health and Community Service  form disclosure.

Disclaimer

The Editors of Journal of Health and Community Service  make every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) contained in its publications. However, the  Editors of Journal of Health and Community Service make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness or suitability for any purpose of the Content and disclaim all such representations and warranties whether express or implied to the maximum extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this publication are the views of the authors and are not necessarily the views of the Editors of Journal of Health and Community Service.