Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Intelligent Computing 

  • Machine Learning
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Computer Vision
  • Image Processing
  • Scheduling and Optimization
  • Bio-inspired Algorithms
  • Business Intelligence
  • Chaos theory and intelligent control systems
  • Robotic Intelligent
  • Multimedia & Application
  • Web and mobile Intelligence and Big Data, etc.

Health Informatics 

  • Electronic health record
  • E-Health Information
  • Medical Image Processing & Techniques
  • Data Mining in Healthcare
  • Bioinformatics & Biostatistics
  • Mobile applications for patient care
  • Medical Image Processing & Techniques
  • Hospital information systems
  • Document handling systems
  • Electronic medical record systems
  • Standardization, and systems integration
  • ICT in health promotion programmes e-health Guidelines and protocols
  • E-learning & education in healthcare
  • Telemedicine Software- Portals-Devices & Telehealth
  • Public health & consumer informatics
  • Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery in Medicine
  • ICT for Patient empowerment
  • ICT for Patient safety
  • Medical Databanks-Databases & Knowledge Bases
  • Healthcare Quality assurance
  • Nursing Informatics
  • Evaluation & Technology Assessment
  • Home-based eHealth
  • Health Management Issues
  • Health Research
  • Health Economics Issues
  • Statistical Method for Computer Medical Decision Support Systems
  • Medical Informatics or medicine in general Organizational, economic, social, clinical impact, ethical and cost-benefit aspects of IT applications in health care.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

The manuscript submitted is first reviewed by an editor. It is evaluated in the office, whether it is appropriate to our focus and scope or has a major methodological defect. At least 2 anonymous reviewers will be sent this manuscript (Double Blind Review). Comments from reviewers are then forwarded to the respective author for actions and answers. The proposed decision will be assessed at a meeting of the Editorial Board. The editor subsequently transmits the final decision to the respective author.

We hope reviewer evaluate the manuscript based on the following seven criteria.

  1. Relevance: why the authors do this research and what is its importance and application;
  2. Novelty: paper gives new ideas, derivations, applications that have been not studied before or little- or not in depth-studied;
  3. Literature review: identify research gaps with the most recent primary references (last 10 years);
  4. Methods: appropriateness of methods, the accuracy of assumptions and/or estimates used, description of equipment and limitations, experimental steps, etc;
  5. Results and discussion: quality of results, depth, and logic of discussion;
  6. Conclusion: Insight conveyed and recommendations that might be used by others for future work;
  7. English: used effectively to communicate the ideas and easy to understand with least or no grammatical errors or typos.

 

Open Access Policy

Journal of Intelligent Computing and Health Informatics (JICHI) is an open-access journal that provides immediate, worldwide, barrier-free access to the full text of all published articles without charging readers or their institutions for access. Readers have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of all articles in the JICHI's journal. 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.

Benefits of open access for the author, include:

  • Free access for all users worldwide
  • Authors retain copyright to their work
  • Increased visibility and readership
  • Rapid publication
  • No spatial constraints

For more detail about the Open Access Policy, you can check the Open Access Statement  at this link

 

 

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

See more info.

 

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

Journal of Intelligent Computing and Health Informatics (JICHI) (e-ISSN: 2721-9186, p-ISSN: 2715-6923) is a peer-reviewed electronic journal. This statement clarifies the ethical behavior of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal, including the author, the chief editor, the Editorial Board, the peer-reviewer­­­­­ and the publisher (Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang Press). This statement is based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed JICHI's journal is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher, and the society. 

Publisher and Editor

Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang Press as the publisher of the JICHI's journal takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing extremely seriously and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. In addition, the Department of Informatics of Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang and Editorial Board will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful and necessary.

Allegations of Research Misconduct

Research misconduct means fabrication, falsification, citation manipulation, or plagiarism in producing, performing, or reviewing research and writing an article by authors, or in reporting research results. When authors are found to have been involved with research misconduct or other serious irregularities involving articles that have been published in scientific journals, Editors have a responsibility to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the scientific record.

In cases of suspected misconduct, the Editors and Editorial Board will use the best practices of COPE to assist them to resolve the complaint and address the misconduct fairly. This will include an investigation of the allegation by the Editors. A submitted manuscript that is found to contain such misconduct will be rejected. In cases where a published paper is found to contain such misconduct, a retraction can be published and will be linked to the original article.

The first step involves determining the validity of the allegation and an assessment of whether the allegation is consistent with the definition of research misconduct. This initial step also involves determining whether the individuals alleging misconduct have relevant conflicts of interest. 

If scientific misconduct or the presence of other substantial research irregularities is a possibility, the allegations are shared with the corresponding author, who, on behalf of all of the coauthors, is requested to provide a detailed response. After the response is received and evaluated, additional review and involvement of experts (such as statistical reviewers) may be obtained. For cases in which it is unlikely that misconduct has occurred, clarifications, additional analyses, or both, published as letters to the editor, and often including a correction notice and correction to the published article are sufficient. 

Institutions are expected to conduct an appropriate and thorough investigation of allegations of scientific misconduct. Ultimately, authors, journals, and institutions have an important obligation to ensure the accuracy of the scientific record. By responding appropriately to concerns about scientific misconduct, and taking necessary actions based on evaluation of these concerns, such as corrections, retractions with replacement, and retractions, the JICHI's journal will continue to fulfill the responsibilities of ensuring the validity and integrity of the scientific record.

Publication decisions

The editor of the JICHI journal is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Fair play

An editor at any time evaluates manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality

The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.

Duties of Reviewers

  1. Contribution to Editorial Decisions: Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.
  2. Promptness: Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.
  3. Confidentiality: Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.
  4. Standards of Objectivity: Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
  5. Acknowledgment of Sources: Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
  6. Disclosure and Conflict of Interest: Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Duties of Authors

  1. Reporting standards: The author's reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
  2. Data Access and Retention: Authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data (consistent with the ALPSP-STM Statement on Data and Databases), if practicable, and should, in any event, be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.
  3. Originality and Plagiarism: The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
  4. Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication: An author should not, in general, publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
  5. Acknowledgment of Sources: Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.
  6. Authorship of the Paper: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
  7. Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects: If the work involves chemicals, humans, animals, procedures, or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript.
  8. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or another substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
  9. Fundamental errors in published works: When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

 

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 10% (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 Policy

The papers published in Journal of Intelligent Computing and Health Informatics will be considered to retract in the publication if :

  1. They have clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct (e.g. data fabrication) or honest error (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. it constitutes plagiarism
  4. it reports unethical research

The mechanism of retraction follows the Retraction Guidelines of 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

 

Crossmark Policy

Crossmark 

Applying the CrossMark icon is a commitment by Journal of Intelligent Computing and Health Informatics to maintain the content published and alert readers to changes if and when they occur.

What is Crossmark? 

CrossMark, a multi-publisher initiative from CrossRef, provides a standard way for readers to locate the authoritative version of a document. Journal of Intelligent Computing and Health Informatics recognizes the importance of the integrity and completeness of the scholarly record to researchers and librarians and attaches the highest importance to maintaining trust in the authority of its electronic archive. Clicking on the CrossMark icon will inform the reader of the current status of a document and may also provide additional publication record information about the document.

doi: 10.26714/jichi.crossmark 

 

Journal of Intelligent Computing and Health Informatics (JICHI)

Journal of Intelligent Computing & Health Informatics (JICHI) is an open access scientific peer-review journal publishing. The journal's focus is on exchanging information relating to intelligent computing and health informatics applied in industry, hospitals, government, and universities. 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. As our commitment to the advancement of science and technology, the JICHI follows the open access policy that allows the published articles freely available online without any subscription. 

Frequency: 2 issues per year

p-ISSN : 2715-6923
e-ISSN : 2721-9186
DOI    : 10.26714

Important Dates:

Paper Submission Date: Anytime

Acceptance Notification: 2-3 Months from Submission Date

Online Publication Date: Last date of March, September