About the Journal

Academica: Journal of Community Service is a multidisciplinary scientific publication related to community service activities carried out by students, lecturers, researchers and others. Academica is a multidisciplinary scientific journal on community service activities which is published periodically four times a year (March, June, September and December) by the Central Institute for Social and Humanities Studies [LPS2H]. Academica Journal will publish scientific papers from various service activities of Lecturers, Students, and other Institutions. The implementation of community service activities aims at providing information, education and solutions to various problems faced by the community.

Focus and Scope

The Journal will publish scientific articles in multidisciplinary fields covering the humanities and social sciences, political science, communication, education, religious sciences and philosophy, economics, engineering, health sciences, medical sciences, creative economics, Islamic law, government, engineering, engineering, applied science, design science, media arts and community development

Peer Review Process

Academica : Jurnal Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat will publish the only paper strictly following guidelines and manuscript preparation. All submitted manuscripts are going through a double-blind peer review process. Those papers are read by editorial members (upon field of specialisation) and will be screened by Managing Editor to meet necessary criteria of publication in two weeks. Every submitted manuscript which passes this step will be checked by Turnitin to identify any plagiarism. Manuscripts will be sent to two reviewers, based on their historical experience in reviewing manuscript or based on their field of specialisation. The time period for review is three weeks. After receiving the payment, the articles are then published within two months from the payment date.

Academica : Jurnal Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat has reviewing forms in order to keep same items reviewed by two reviewers. Then editorial board will make a decision upon the reviewers comments or advice. Reviewers will give their assessment on originality, clarity of presentation, contribution to the field/science.

Academica : Jurnal Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat has four kind of decisions:

  • Accepted, as it is
  • Accepted by Minor Revisions(let authors revised with stipulated time)
  • Accepted by Major Revisions(let authors revised with stipulated time)
  • Rejected(generally, on grounds of outside of scope and aim, major technical description problems, lack of clarity of presentation).

 The detailed Journal peer review process is based on the following chart:

Open Access Policy

This journal 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 Academica : Jurnal Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat. This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global knowledge exchange. All the The Academica : Jurnal Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat publications can be viewed on the archive.

Archiving Policy

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. All content in the the Global LOCKSS Network is preserved with explicit publisher permission, secured via written contract or through online permission statements. We work closely with LOCKSS network implementers to facilitate development of governance and legal terms that are appropriate to the implicated content, jurisdictions, rights, and access affordances. Our work also licensed under a https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Author Fees

This journal charges the following author fees.

Article Submission: 0.00 (IDR) Authors are required to pay an Article Submission Fee as part of the submission process to contribute to review costs.

Fast-Track Review: 0.00 (IDR) With the payment of this fee, the review, editorial decision, and author notification on this manuscript is guaranteed to take place within 4 weeks.

Article Publication: 500,000.00 (IDR) If this paper is accepted for publication, you will be asked to pay an Article Publication Fee to cover publications costs. If you do not have funds to pay such fees, you will have an opportunity to waive each fee. We do not want fees to prevent the publication of worthy work.

Screening for Plagiarism

The submitted manuscript would be check for plagiarism using by: Turnitin