Announcements

  • IJoRCE Indexed in DOAJ, Aligned with New National Accreditation Standards, and Implements Crossmark

    18-08-2026

    International Journal of Research and Community Empowerment (IJoRCE) is now officially indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), accessible at https://doaj.org/toc/2985-6175. This milestone reinforces IJoRCE’s commitment to high-quality, transparent, ethical, and accessible scholarly publishing. Accordingly, several editorial and publication policies have been updated to align with DOAJ requirements and the latest national scientific journal accreditation framework under Permendiktisaintek Number 9 of 2026 and Kepdirjen Saintek Number 374/DST/D.D1/HM.01.01/2026. IJoRCE has also implemented Crossmark to enable readers to verify the current status of published articles and identify post-publication updates. All articles published from 1 January 2027 onward will fully implement Crossmark, including the official “Check for updates” button on both article webpages and PDF files. Further information is available in the Crossmark and Post-Publication Update Policy.

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  • Updated Publication Ethics and Generative AI Policy

    28-06-2026

    The International Journal of Research and Community Empowerment (IJoRCE) has updated its Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement and Generative Artificial Intelligence Utilization Policy to strengthen transparency, accountability, confidentiality, editorial independence, peer-review integrity, authorship responsibility, and protection of the scholarly record. The main updates include clearer responsibilities for editors, reviewers, authors, and editorial staff; stronger guidance on authorship disputes and authorship changes; clearer procedures for complaints and appeals, research misconduct, corrections, errata, corrigenda, expressions of concern, manuscript withdrawal, article retraction, article removal, article replacement, and post-publication changes; and clarification that any administrative, review-related, technical, or production-related charges are governed by the journal’s Publication Fees Policy and do not influence editorial decisions.

    IJoRCE has also clarified the responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI), AI-assisted technologies, and language-assistance tools. Authors must disclose any use of such tools in the manuscript, including tools used for grammar checking, spelling checking, punctuation checking, language polishing, translation, paraphrasing, readability improvement, reference assistance, coding assistance, data-related assistance, figure preparation, or other manuscript-related support. AI tools cannot be credited as authors or co-authors and must not be used to replace scholarly judgment, fabricate data or declarations, manipulate images, conceal plagiarism, manipulate citations, or generate false, inaccurate, unverifiable, non-existent, fabricated, or misleading citations and references. Reviewers may use AI only for limited language-support purposes in preparing review reports, while editors may use local, private, secure, or journal-controlled AI tools only for limited supportive purposes. In all cases, confidentiality, privacy, peer-review integrity, editorial independence, and human accountability must be maintained.

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  • IJoRCE LoA Verification

    07-06-2026

    In response to the increasing circulation of fake Letters of Acceptance (LoA) in various scientific journals, the management of International Journal of Research and Community Empowerment (IJoRCE) provides an online LoA verification system as a preventive measure to maintain document authenticity, improve editorial service transparency, and help authors, institutions, and related parties ensure that the LoA being used has been officially issued by IJoRCE by scanning the QR Code provided on the LoA or by visiting the following link: https://journal.edupartnerpublishing.co.id/index.php/IJoRCE/LoA.

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  • Optimization of the Editorial Process Due to the Increase in Manuscript Submissions at IJoRCE

    28-08-2025

    The Editorial Team of the International Journal of Research and Community Empowerment (IJoRCE) informs authors and readers that manuscript submissions have significantly increased. In response, the Editorial Board will optimize the editorial workflow and increase the number of articles published in each issue to 7–10. In addition, the article template has been slightly updated to support improvements in the publication process.

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