Editorial Policies
Focus and Scope
Focus and Scope
Jurnal Ilmu Sosial Indonesia (JISI) is a peer-reviewed journal published by the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIP), Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta. The journal serves as an academic platform for scholars and researchers to publish high-quality research on contemporary theoretical and applied issues in social and political sciences.
Scope of the Journal
JISI welcomes original research articles, conceptual papers, and book reviews in the following fields:
- Political Science: Including governance, public policy, political theory, electoral studies, and democratization.
- Sociology: Covering social structures, inequality, social change, and community development.
- Anthropology: Exploring cultural dynamics, traditions, and socio-cultural transformations.
- International Relations: Discussing global politics, foreign policy, international organizations, and transnational issues.
- Public Administration: Examining bureaucratic governance, public service management, and e-government.
- Cultural and Gender Studies: Addressing issues of identity, diversity, social justice, and gender relations.
Section Policies
Articles
Open Submissions- Indexed
- Peer Reviewed
Peer Review Process
The Review Process
Each submitted manuscript is initially evaluated by the editorial team. Only those papers that meet our editorial criteria are sent for full peer review. Papers that fail to meet the general standards of interest or suitability are promptly rejected based on internal assessments and external expert advice.
Manuscripts that align with our readership’s interests proceed to the next review stage, where they are assessed by at least two independent reviewers. The final decision is made by the editors based on the reviewers' recommendations.
Peer-Reviewer Selection
Reviewer selection is a critical part of the publication process. It is based on various factors, including:
- Expertise in the subject area.
- Reputation and prior experience in reviewing publications.
- Specific recommendations from experts in the field.
Before sending manuscripts for review, we ensure that potential reviewers are qualified and available for the task.
Writing the Review
The primary objective of the review is to provide the editors with essential insights to determine whether a manuscript should be accepted. Additionally, reviewers should provide constructive feedback to authors, suggesting improvements to align with editorial requirements.
If a manuscript does not meet the journal’s standards, reviewers should clearly explain its weaknesses so that the authors understand the basis for rejection and how they might improve their work. However, referees are not obligated to provide detailed, constructive feedback for papers that do not meet the basic criteria outlined in the editorial guidelines.
Anonymity
JISI follows a double-blind review process, meaning that both authors and reviewers remain anonymous to each other. Unless reviewers strongly wish to disclose their identity, we prefer that they remain anonymous throughout the review process and beyond.
Peer-Review Publication Policies
All submitted manuscripts within the scope of education and social sciences are subject to a rigorous peer-review process. No fewer than two qualified reviewers will evaluate prospective articles before acceptance.
Ethics and Security
JISI editors may seek additional expert advice on submitted papers beyond technical reviewers. This includes concerns related to:
- Ethical issues
- Data access and availability
- Potential security risks
In rare cases, manuscripts with sensitive societal implications may be subject to additional scrutiny alongside the standard peer-review process. Ultimately, the final decision to publish lies with the journal’s editors.
Publication Frequency
Jurnal Ilmu Sosial Indonesia (JISI) is a scholarly journal that, since its 2025 edition, has been published four times a year, covering the periods of January–March, April–June, July–September, and October–December. Each issue is designed to include no fewer than 10 articles that have undergone a rigorous evaluation and editing process. This process ensures that every published article meets high academic standards and is relevant to the development of social sciences.
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 journal is open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to users or / institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full text articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or author. This is in accordance with Budapest Open Access Initiative
Budapest Open Access Initiative
and knowledge. The new technology is the internet. The public good they make possible is the world-wide electronic distribution of the peer-reviewed journal literature and completely free and unrestricted access to it by all scientists, scholars, teachers, students, and other curious minds. Removing access barriers to this literature will accelerate research, enrich education, share the learning of the rich with the poor and the poor with the rich, make this literature as useful as it can be, and lay the foundation for uniting humanity in a common intellectual conversation and quest for knowledge.For various reasons, this kind of free and unrestricted online availability, which we will call open access, has so far been limited to small portions of the journal literature. But even in these limited collections, many different initiatives have shown that open access is economically feasible, that it gives readers extraordinary power to find and make use of relevant literature, and that it gives authors and their works vast and measurable new visibility, readership, and impact. To secure these benefits for all, we call on all interested institutions and individuals to help open up access to the rest of this literature and remove the barriers, especially the price barriers, that stand in the way. The more who join the effort to advance this cause, the sooner we will all enjoy the benefits of open access.
The literature that should be freely accessible online is that which scholars give to the world without expectation of payment. Primarily, this category encompasses their peer-reviewed journal articles, but it also includes any unreviewed preprints that they might wish to put online for comment or to alert colleagues to important research findings. There are many degrees and kinds of wider and easier access to this literature. By "open access" to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.
While the peer-reviewed journal literature should be accessible online without cost to readers, it is not costless to produce. However, experiments show that the overall costs of providing open access to this literature are far lower than the costs of traditional forms of dissemination. With such an opportunity to save money and expand the scope of dissemination at the same time, there is today a strong incentive for professional associations, universities, libraries, foundations, and others to embrace open access as a means of advancing their missions. Achieving open access will require new cost recovery models and financing mechanisms, but the significantly lower overall cost of dissemination is a reason to be confident that the goal is attainable and not merely preferable or utopian.
To achieve open access to scholarly journal literature, we recommend two complementary strategies.
I. Self-Archiving: First, scholars need the tools and assistance to deposit their refereed journal articles in open electronic archives, a practice commonly called, self-archiving. When these archives conform to standards created by the Open Archives Initiative, then search engines and other tools can treat the separate archives as one. Users then need not know which archives exist or where they are located in order to find and make use of their contents.
II. Open-access Journals: Second, scholars need the means to launch a new generation of journals committed to open access, and to help existing journals that elect to make the transition to open access. Because journal articles should be disseminated as widely as possible, these new journals will no longer invoke copyright to restrict access to and use of the material they publish. Instead they will use copyright and other tools to ensure permanent open access to all the articles they publish. Because price is a barrier to access, these new journals will not charge subscription or access fees, and will turn to other methods for covering their expenses. There are many alternative sources of funds for this purpose, including the foundations and governments that fund research, the universities and laboratories that employ researchers, endowments set up by discipline or institution, friends of the cause of open access, profits from the sale of add-ons to the basic texts, funds freed up by the demise or cancellation of journals charging traditional subscription or access fees, or even contributions from the researchers themselves. There is no need to favor one of these solutions over the others for all disciplines or nations, and no need to stop looking for other, creative alternatives.
Open access to peer-reviewed journal literature is the goal. Self-archiving (I.) and a new generation of open-access journals (II.) are the ways to attain this goal. They are not only direct and effective means to this end, they are within the reach of scholars themselves, immediately, and need not wait on changes brought about by markets or legislation. While we endorse the two strategies just outlined, we also encourage experimentation with further ways to make the transition from the present methods of dissemination to open access. Flexibility, experimentation, and adaptation to local circumstances are the best ways to assure that progress in diverse settings will be rapid, secure, and long-lived.
The Open Society Institute, the foundation network founded by philanthropist George Soros, is committed to providing initial help and funding to realize this goal. It will use its resources and influence to extend and promote institutional self-archiving, to launch new open-access journals, and to help an open-access journal system become economically self-sustaining. While the Open Society Institute's commitment and resources are substantial, this initiative is very much in need of other organizations to lend their effort and resources.
We invite governments, universities, libraries, journal editors, publishers, foundations, learned societies, professional associations, and individual scholars who share our vision to join us in the task of removing the barriers to open access and building a future in which research and education in every part of the world are that much more free to flourish.
Archiving
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. More...
Author Fees
Author Fee Policy
This journal is committed to supporting open access and ensuring transparency in the publication process. Therefore, the author fee policy is as follows:
- Article Submission Fee – Free. Authors are not required to pay any fees when submitting their manuscripts to JISI.
- Editorial and Review Process Fee – Free. All manuscripts submitted to JISI will undergo a rigorous selection process and be processed in the order they are received, at no additional cost. JISI does not provide Fast Track Review.
- Article Processing Charge (APC) 100 USD – This fee is charged only if the article is accepted for publication. The funds are used to support journal management and maintain the open-access platform.
- Waiver Policy – Authors who do not have the financial means to pay the publication fee may apply for a waiver before their manuscript is accepted. Requests will be considered based on the editorial policy.
All published articles will be available in full open access at no cost to readers.
