Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Cultural Syndrome welcomes and acknowledges high quality theoretical and empirical original research papers, case studies, review papers, literature reviews, book reviews, conceptual framework, analytical and simulation models, technical note from researchers, academicians, professional, practitioners and students from all over the world. Cultural Syndrome focused to publish high-quality articles in the field of Cultural Studies, Art and Humanities, Visual Culture, and other related fields of Humanities and Social Science.

The scope of this jurnal to study Design Thinking, Visual Communication, Photography, Creativity, Typography, Graphic Design, Semiotics, Communication Design, Visual Design, Design Education, Visual Rhetoric, Signage Design, Wayfinding & Environmental Graphics, Critical Thinking, Popular Cultures, Media Studies, Visual Cultures, Folklore, Folk Art, Performing Art and Cultural Heritage.


 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Cultural Syndrome is a double-blind peer-reviewed Journal. This means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. Submitted papers are evaluated by anonymous referees for contribution, originality, and relevance. Reviewer selection is critical to the publication process, and we base our choice on many factors, including expertise, reputation, specific recommendations and our own previous experience of a reviewer's characteristics. We check with potential reviewers before sending them manuscripts to review. Reviewers reserves the right to reject the script if the script review didn't match to the fields/expertise. Reviewers should bear in mind that all correspondences in this journal contain confidential information, which should be treated as such.

In general, we need two month to inform you about the results. Totally, peer review process estimated time consuming up to four months.

 

Publication Frequency

Cultural Syndrome is published twice a year.

 

Open Access Policy

Cultural Syndrome is an open access journal under licence CC-BY-NC. In other words, this journal provides immediate open access to every article on the principle that making research freely accessible to the public; It supports a greater global exchange of knowledge; and an invaluable way to boost the visibility and impact of research. The journal it's 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 that 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 (1) to give authors control over the integrity of their work; (2) the right to be properly acknowledged and cited, and; (3) not use the materials and contents publication for commercial purposes.

 

Archiving

To ensure the continuity of data article that has been published to be accessible to everyone, the editor took the policy of every issue of Cultural Syndrome for doing digital archiving at the National Library of Republic of Indonesia. The manuscript has been published each issue delivered to the national library as much as two copies and OAI.

Each Member of the National Library of the Republic of Indonesia (Perpusnas RI) and has had a number of legitimate members, has the right to make use of our online digital collection write-up (e-Resources).

To become a member of Perpusnas RI, please do registration online via http://keanggotaan.perpusnas.go.id, or by visiting the PERPUSNAS in service building at Jalan Salemba Raya 28 Jakarta Pusat or Jalan Merdeka Selatan 11 Jakarta Pusat.

Cultural Syndrome also implementing PKP Private LOCKSS Network (PLN) preservation function.

All-digital Journal content is stored on a secure server who is backed up frequently. In the event of a problem, the back-up will be restored within 48 hours.

 

Publication Ethics

Author(s) duties

Authors should present an objective discussion of the significance of their research work as well as sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Authors also must ensure that their work is entirely original, and therefore wherever and whenever the work and/or words of others are used, all instances must be appropriately acknowledged. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. Authors should not submit articles describing essentially the same research to more than one journal. The corresponding author should ensure that there is a full consensus of all co-authors in approving the final version of the paper and its submission for publication. The author(s) should inquire with the original copyright holder (usually the original publisher or authors), whether or not this material can be re-used.

Plagiarism, fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior are unacceptable..


Editor(s) duties

Editors evaluate manuscripts exclusively on the basis of their academic merit. Editor not use unpublished information in the editor's own research without the express written consent of the author. Whenever ethical complaints are filed concerning a submitted manuscript or published paper, editors must take reasonable action to ensure that proper compliance to ethical standards is restored. Submitted information and ideas must be kept confidential and cannot be used for personal advantage or gain. Editors should pass the final acceptance only after discussion with the other managing and co-editors and reviewers based on the compliance, originality and quality of the article. It is the duty of editors to correct the articles if demand comes from authors. If needed, other appropriate action should be taken at the time of processing of the article. Editor should address and take sufficient steps about ethical complaints to the published data and/or methodologies. Further communications should be made to the corresponding authors.

Editor should evaluate the manuscripts initially without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, citizenship etc.


Reviewer(s) duties

All manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Any appointed reviewer who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript, or is otherwise aware that a prompt review will be impossible, should notify the editor and step down from the review process. 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.

Reviews should be conducted objectively, and observations should be formulated clearly with supporting arguments so that authors can use them for improving the paper.


Others Core Practices of Publications

We really try to organize and obey to publication ethics and publication malpractice statement by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Conformance to standards of ethical behavior is therefore expected of all parties involved: authors, editors, reviewers, and publishers. Detailed information about COPE and Core Practices of Publications, please visit Core Practices of Publications.

 

Online Submitting Manuscript Guidelines

The manuscript text must be submitted by one of two systems (second procedure will be preferred):

  1. Submitting document should be done by Online Submission System in the Cultural Syndrome OJS website https://journal.unindra.ac.id/index.php/cusy
  2. First, the author should register as an author or reviewer (checking role as author or reviewer) in the “Register” or https://journal.unindra.ac.id/index.php/cusy/user/register
  3. After registration completed, log in as an author, click in “New Submission”.
  4. The article submits stage consist five stages, such as: (1) Start, (2) Upload Submission, (3) Enter Metadata, (4) Upload Supplementary Files, (5) Confirmation. In the “Start” column, chose Journal Section (Full Article), check all the checklists.
  5. In the “Upload Submission” column, upload the manuscript files at MSWord format in this column. In the “Enter Metadata” column, fill out all the author data and affiliation. Following the Journal Title, Abstract, and Indexing Keywords.
  6. In the “Upload Supplementary Files” column, allowed to upload supplementary data file or the statement letter or other else. In the “Confirmation” column, if all the data that you enter were right, then click “Finish Submission”.
  7. If the author has difficulties in the submitting process via the online system, please contact Cultural Syndrome editorial team at cultural.syndrome@unindra.ac.id

 

Author(s) Manuscript: Submission to Production

To maintain a high-quality publication, all submissions undergo a rigorous review process. Manuscripts judged to be of potential interest to our readership are sent for formal review, typically to two reviewers, but sometimes more if special advice is needed (for example on statistics or a particular technique). The editors then make a decision based on the reviewers' advice, from among several possibilities: (1) Accept, with or without editorial revisions; (2) Invite the authors to revise their manuscript to address specific concerns before a final decision is reached; (3) Reject, but indicate to the authors that further work might justify a resubmission, and; (4) Reject outright, typically on grounds of specialist interest, lack of novelty, insufficient conceptual advance or major technical and/or interpretational problems.

Authors will receive information for submitting a final copy of their manuscript upon acceptance from the Editor. Once the article has been finalized for print production, the corresponding author will receive an e-mail by Editor.

Upon publication of the journal, the author(s) will be able to download a free PDF offprint of the article through the journal site. Information on the terms and conditions regarding the use of the final article PDF for the corresponding author and/or any co-authors is available on the site.

 

Conflict of Interest Statement

All manuscripts for original articles, editorials, comments, and erratum that are published on Cultural Syndrome accompanied by a conflict of interest disclosure statement or a declaration by the authors that they do not have any conflicts of interest to declare.

These includes:

  1. All financial and non-financial interests and relationships;
  2. Direct employment with a private sector entity (whether full or part-time), and service on private sector and non-profit Boards and advisory panels, whether paid or unpaid, and;
  3. All authors have participated in (a) conception and design, or analysis and interpretation of the data; (b) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and (c) approval of the final version.
Cultural Syndrome will only publish articles after the author(s) have confirmed that they have disclosed all potential conflicts of interest.

 

Corrections

In cases of serious errors that affect the article in a material way (but do not fully invalidate its results) or significantly impair the reader’s understanding or evaluation of the article, Cultural Sydrome will publish a correction note that is linked to the published article. The published article will be left unchanged.

 

Retractions (Expressions of Concern)

If the Journal receives a complaint that any contribution to the Journal infringes copyright or other intellectual property rights or contains material inaccuracies, libelous materials or otherwise unlawful materials, the Journal will investigate the complaint. Investigation may include a request that the parties involved substantiate their claims.

In accordance with the "Retraction Guidelines" by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Cultural Syndrome will retract a published article if:

  1. there is clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct (e.g. data fabrication) or honest error (e.g. miscalculation);
  2. the findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper cross-referencing, permission or justification (i.e. cases of redundant publication);
  3. it constitutes plagiarism;
  4. it reports unethical research, and;
  5. An article is retracted by publishing a retraction notice that is linked to or replaces the retracted article.
Cultural Syndrome will make any effort to clearly identify a retracted article as such. If an investigation is underway that might result in the retraction of an article Cultural Syndrome may choose to alert readers by publishing an expression of concern.

 

Article Submission Charges

We opened up the opportunity for author(s) all around the world to going submission their article in Cultural Syndrome. We very proud to declare that the author(s) are NOT CHARGE at the time for submission their article on to Cultural Syndrome.

 

Article Processing Charges (APCs)

We are fully committed to advancing science at our university and also in the world; and for that reason, WE DO NOT CHARGE the author(s) either from the submission stage until their articles are published in the Cultural Syndrome. We look forward with the author(s), and also the reader(s) for all the goodness of the efforts we have made.

Publishing article in Cultural Syndrome is totally FREE OF CHARGE

 

 

 

Research Datasets

We strongly encourage writers who submit their manuscripts to the Cultural Syndrome to openly submit their research data. Several platforms are now popularly used to store research datasets to reduce falsification/fabrication of data actions.

 

Against Plagiarism

Plagiarism is presenting the words or ideas of someone else as your own without proper acknowledgment to the source. When you work in a research paper, you will probably find supporting material for your paper from works by others. It's okay to quote people and used their ideas, but you do need to correctly credit them. Even when you summarize or paraphrase information found in books, articles, or Web pages, you must acknowledge the original author (Sources: http://library.ucsc.edu/help/research/what-is-plagiarism).

To uphold the academic honesty and integrity and as a way to inform readers that certain part of our writing is free from acts of plagiarism, then in publishing articles through examination of anti-plagiarism. Cultural Syndrome using Plagiarism Checker X to checks academic papers literally on the fly.

The engine performs the real-time checks against real-time web index ensuring the editor(s), and/or reviewer(s) receive the most accurate similarity results. If it finds the existence of elements of plagiarism in the script, then the article will be rejected.

 

Revenue Sources

All costs arising from the management of the Cultural Syndrome are the responsibility of the Universitas Indraprasta PGRI (as a publisher).