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 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.

 

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.

 

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