Focus and Scope

Indonesia Journal Education and Midwifery Care (IJEMC) is a periodical scientific article published in the Indonesian language published by Medical Faculty of Universitas Padjadjaran of Midwifery Master Program 4 times a year in every March, June, September, and December. IJEMC also publishes Supplements containing articles of literature study and protocol studies. The manuscript submission process is open year-round. article selection is done by using a peer review system and editorial reviews prior to publication. All accepted texts will be discussed by experts in the appropriate field of scholarship. IJEMC is appointed as a media of information and scientific knowledge mainly publishes research articles (limited to some cases of interest and has a new value). IJEMC receives manuscripts from the following fields under the science and development of midwifery with an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach:

Publications on IJEMC include related publication trees on:

Pregnancy Care

Childbirth Care

Postpartum Care and Nursing Mother

Community Midwifery Care

Learning Process

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

Peer Review Process

Reviewers are entitled to provide feedback to some authors to improve the quality of manuscripts and editors published. Reviewer's appointment in accordance with the editorial policy tailored to their respective expertise.

Willingness

Review works with willingness Peer reviewers should inform the editor about the willingness to do a review on the manuscript to be published.

Confidentiality

The reviewed manuscript is a confidential document.

Standard Objectivity

Peer reviewers must take hold on the principles of objectivity and be avoiding personal criticism against the author of the manuscript during the review process. All comments must be accompanied by clear and supportive suggestions.

Reference Clarity

Peer Reviewers are recommended to provide information to the authors of the research with the literature, or relevant case studies which have not been cited, having a substantial similarity or overlap with the manuscripts reviewed.

Conflicts of Interest

1. Reviewers are not allowed to use an unpublished manuscript material for personal use without the prior written consent of the author, under any circumstances.
2. The information and ideas contained in the reviewed manuscript are confidential and should not be distributed or used for personal gain.
3. If having a conflict of interest for reasons of competition, collaboration, or other relationship with the author, institution or company involved in publishing, peer reviewers are not permitted to evaluate the related manuscript.

Double Blind Peer Review

In the process of review, the author and reviewer should not disclose any information about each other.

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...

Plagiarism

Each manuscript received IJEMC plagiarism check process will be conducted, using an application Grammarly.

Publication Ethics

Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pelayanan Kebidanan Indonesia (Indonesian Journal of Education and Midwifery Care) (ISSN 2407-1951 E-ISSN 2442-3629) is a peer-reviewed journal published Prodi Magister Kebidanan Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Padjadjaran Bandung. 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. 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 Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pelayanan Kebidanan Indonesia (Indonesian Journal of Education and Midwifery Care) 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. 

Prodi Magister Kebidanan Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Padjadjaran Bandung as publisher of Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pelayanan Kebidanan Indonesia (Indonesian Journal of Education and Midwifery Care) 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, Prodi Magister Kebidanan Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Padjadjaran Bandung and Editorial Board will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful and necessary.

Publication decisions

The editor of Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pelayanan Kebidanan Indonesia (Indonesian Journal of Education and Midwifery Care) 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

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.

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.

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.

Standards of Objectivity

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

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.

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

Reporting standards

Authors of 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 behaviour and are unacceptable.

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.

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.

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 behaviour and is unacceptable.

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.

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.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflicts 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.

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.

Reference Management

In the creation of the IJEMC journal citation and list of libraries using the Endnote application and Mendeley.

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