Focus and Scope

Socio Politica : Jurnal Ilmiah Jurusan Sosiologi is an open-access journal and peer-reviewed scientific works both theoretically and practically in the studies of social science. The journal has been accredited at SINTA 4 level by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia.

This journal covers crosscutting issues on social science studies in the perspectives of religion, education, law, politics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, culture, Islam, etc.

Peer Review Process

All submitted manuscripts are read by editorial staff. Those Manuscripts evaluated by editors to be inappropriate to journal criteria is rejected promptly without external review. Manuscript evaluated to be of potential interest to our readership are sent to double-blind reviewers. The editors then make a decision based on the reviewer's recommendation from among several possibilities: rejected, major revision, need minor revision, or accepted.

The editor has the right to decide which manuscripts submitted to the journal should be published.

Review Process :

1. The author submits the manuscript
2. Editor Evaluation/Desk Review (includes plagiarism check, reference accuracy, conformity with focus and scope. Manuscript could be rejected or returned to the review process).
3. The double-blind peer-review process by two reviewers
4. Editor Decision (based on the revised article)
5. Proofread
6. Confirmation to the author

Publication Frequency

Socio Politica: Jurnal Ilmiah Jurusan Sosiologi publishes two times in a year i.e. January, and July.

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 work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Publication Ethics

Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication

The publication of an article in a double-blind peer-reviewed Socio Politica: Jurnal Ilmiah Jurusan Sosiologi 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. Therefore, it is important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the authors, the journal editors, the peer reviewers, the publisher, and the scholarly community.

UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung as the publisher of this journal 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, Editorial Boards will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful and necessary.

Publication Decisions

The editors of Socio Politica: Jurnal Ilmiah Jurusan Sosiologi are responsible for deciding which 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:

Evaluation Reviewers become the main reference for the Editor-in-Chief in making editorial decisions. Evaluation results from the reviewers are really intended to help the author to improve the quality of the article.

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:

Each article is accepted by the reviewer must be strictly confidential. Article and peer-reviewed results should not be submitted directly to the author, or communicated to other than the author, but it must be submitted to the editor in charge, Editor-in-Chief or the Managing 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.

Acknowledgement 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 Standard

Authors must present the original manuscript, not published in any form, and do not submit the same article to other journals until the publisher give an answer regarding the feasibility of the manuscript. Authors should provide accurate and accountable data. Authors must cite the sources appropriately by considering the content of the manuscript either in the form of written publications and personal interviews. Authors who are discovered to make a major error in their own published works are required to notify the publisher or editor and assist with withdrawal or correction of the manuscript. Author should follow the Socio Politica : Jurnal Ilmiah Jurusan Sosiologi guidelines in preparing the article to submit

Originality, plagiarism and acknowledgement of sources

Authors should adhere to publication requirements that submitted work is original, is not plagiarized, and has not been published elsewhere - fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable. To ensure it, the authors need to check the originality of article using plagiarism checker before submission. The article will be rejected if there is plagiarism on the article. Any information from references used in the article should be honestly and accurately cited in the article.

 

Data Access and Retention

Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

Ethics

Authors should only submit papers only on work that has been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner and that complies with all relevant legislation.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

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

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.

Multiple submissions, Redundant or Concurrent Publication

The authors should submit their article to the Socio Politica : Jurnal Ilmiah Jurusan Sosiologi. When it is not accepted to publish in the Socio Politica : Jurnal Ilmiah Jurusan Sosiologi as the result of peer-review and officially reported by Editor-in-Chief or the Managing Editor, the authors can submit it to other journal. The article will be rejected if there is plagiarism and multiple submissions on the article.

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. If the editor or the publisher learns from a third party that a published work contains a significant error, it is the obligation of the author to promptly retract or correct the paper or provide evidence to the editor of the correctness of the original paper

 

DUTIES OF PUBLISHER

Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of the UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung as the publisher of Socio Politica : Jurnal Ilmiah Jurusan Sosiologi, encourages the editors and all stakeholders involved in publication processes to follow the ethics and code of conducts of every parties. The publisher defines the relationship between publisher, editor and other party in a contract, respect privacy, protects intellectual property and copyright, and fosters editorial independence.

Publisher works with journal editors to set journal policies appropriately and aim to meet those policies, particularly with respect to: editorial independence, research ethics, including confidentiality, consent, and the special requirements for research, authorship, transparency and integrity.

Publisher works with journal editors to converse journal policies in general and review journal policies periodically, responsible for the investigation of suspected research and publication misconduct and, where possible, facilitate in the resolution of these cases, make and publish corrections, clarifications, and retractions, and publish content on a timely basis.

Author Fees

This journal charges the following author fees.

Article Submission: 500,000.00 (IDR)
Authors are required to pay submission Fee as part of the submission process to contribute to review costs.

 

Article Publication: 500,000.00 (IDR)
Authors are required to pay an Article Publication Fee to cover publications costs when the article is accepted for publication.

Sponsors

• FISIP UIN SGD Bandung

Journal History

Socio Politica: Jurnal Ilmiah Jurusan Sosiologi was formerly a journal of the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Sunan Gunung Djati State Islamic University, Bandung. Now under the Management of the UIN SGD Bandung Journal House, it has been accredited with a Sinta 4 ranking as a national scientific journal by the Minister of Research and Technology/Head of the National Research and Innovation Agency: 177/E/KPT/2024 for the period 2023-2027; and is internationally indexed by the Index Copernicus International.