About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Mahakarya: Student's Journal of Cultural Sciences is an academic periodical focusing on publishing the research results under the scope of cultural sciences, such as language, literature, and history studies along with their teachings. The journal was created as the medium for students of higher education all over the world to disseminate their research reports, final projects, theses, dissertations and other academic writings in the forms of articles that can openly be accessed by public. This journal is nationally accredited with Sinta 3 which is valid from 2024-2028.

Mahakarya: Student's Journal of Cultural Sciences is published bianually with two issues a year between January-June and July-December. The language used for the article is preferably English since this journal is targeting global audience. However, articles in Bahasa Indonesia are limitedly acceptable with the purpose for promoting this local language for international communication. Any students of undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate programs are welcomed to participate in developing cultural sciences by publishing their scientific articles in this journal.

Peer Review Process

Mahakarya: Student's Journal of Cultural Sciences maintains the standards of peer review while increasing the efficiency of the process. The initial review process takes around four to six weeks, in which the editors do plagiarism check and reviews the content and the language clarity of the article.

Articles are then reviewed by two independent experts in the relevant area. The review process is double-blind peer-review. Thus, author will not be informed who reviews his/her manuscript and the reviewers will not know who the author is until the article is published. With this method, peer reviewers are expected to provide their objective opinions based on the manuscript quality. This process takes four to eight weeks. The manuscripts accepted with minor or major revisions should be revised as the reviewers' comments and suggestions.

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.
Registration is not required to read or download our published articles and policies.

Publication Ethics

Mahakarya: Student's Journal of Cultural Sciences clarifies ethical behaviour 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 (Faculty of Cultures and Languages, UIN Raden Mas Said Surakarta). This statement is based on COPE’s Code of Conduct

Complaints and Appeals

Mahakarya: Student's Journal of Cultural Sciences adheres to Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines on appeals to journal editor decisions and complaints about a journal's editorial management of the peer review process.

Procedures to appeal a journal editor’s decision:

Submit an appeal letter to the journal’s editorial office: [email protected]
The appeal letter should contain:
Details on the disagreement of the decision
Direct, clear, and unambiguous responses to the comments of the editors and/or reviewers that played a significant role in the rejection decision
New information or data that the author(s) would like the journal to consider
Evidences that the author(s) have made technical errors in their assessment of the rejected manuscript
Evidences that a reviewer may have a conflict of interest

This elaboration is based on COPE's principle of Complaints and appeals

Conflicts of Interest/Competing Interests

A competing interest or a conflict of interest occurs when professional judgment concerning a primary interest (such as patients' welfare or the validity of research) may be influenced and impacted by a secondary interest (such as financial gain or personal rivalry). It may arise for the authors of an article in Mahakarya: Student's Journal of Cultural Sciences when they have a financial interest that may influence, probably without their knowing, their interpretation of their results or those of others. Mahakarya: Student's Journal of Cultural Sciences believes that to make the best decision on how to deal with an article, we should know about any competing interests that authors may have and that if we publish the article, readers should know about them too.

Policies on Data Sharing and Reproducibility

Mahakarya: Student's Journal of Cultural Sciences Editors strongly encourage authors to include additional material data sets and codes that demonstrate the results shown in their final article. Mahakarya: Student's Journal of Cultural Sciences journal editors may set their policies based on this broad principle, and authors may request a waiver for reasons of confidentiality or security.

Mahakarya: Student's Journal of Cultural Sciences is also introducing a basic data-sharing policy across all its journal titles. This policy will encourage authors to share and make the data underlying their published article publicly available when it does not violate the protection of human subjects or other valid subject privacy concerns.

Authors will be further encouraged to cite any data referenced in their paper. Whether this has been created by the author or someone else, cited data sets should be included in the reference list. Finally, authors will be encouraged to include a data availability statement. Data-sharing policies will be set at the journal level in consultation with editors, relevant societies, or other stakeholders.

Ethical Conduct Standards

Mahakarya: Student's Journal of Cultural Sciences is fully committed to upholding the highest level of ethical standards in research publication. The journal attaches particular importance to ethical values such as honesty, excellence in research practice, transparency, open communication, and respect. It adheres to the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The authors concur to follow its ethical guidelines by submitting a manuscript to the journal.

Authorship: Anyone who has made a substantial contribution to the conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of the data; drafts the work or revises it critically; approves the final version of the work; agrees to be accountable for all aspects of the work should be listed as an author of the manuscript. Anyone who contributed to the work but failed to meet the authorship criteria should be acknowledged. The corresponding author is the person who handles the correspondence during the publication process and has the authority to act on behalf of all co-authors in all matters related to the publication of the article. The corresponding author continues to serve as the main point of contact for any inquiries after the article is published.

Conflict of Interest: To ensure that the articles published in the journal are free from inappropriate external influence, authors must declare any potential conflict of interests that may affect the objectivity or integrity of the article. These conflicts may be financial, non-financial, professional, or personal in nature.

Funding: Authors must provide details of the source of funding received during the manuscript preparation as required by the funding and grant-awarding bodies.

Studies Involving Human or Animal Subjects: Studies involving human or animal subjects must abide by institutional and national policies for ethical conduct and include proper documentation such as ethical committee approvals, informed consent, and other legal permissions.

Ethical Oversight: Research works that include potentially hazardous chemicals or procedures must clearly state the details. If necessary, the submission must be accompanied by the appropriate ethical documentation.

Data Sharing and Availability: The journal expects the authors to be open and transparent about the data, code, or other materials related to the published content. To ensure that the findings of the study are reproducible and reliable, authors are encouraged to deposit data in a suitable repository and describe where the data may be found.

Advertising: The journal allows limited and targeted advertising on its website to exclusively promote selected research content published by the journal publisher.

Complaints and Appeals: Anyone who may be concerned that publication ethics guidelines or principles are not followed should raise their complaints and appeals with details and documents about the case. Complaints and appeals should be directed to [email protected]. All complaints and appeals will be handled rigorously according to the best practices of COPE.

Corrections and Retractions: The journal will publish a corrigendum or an erratum if an error is found during post-publication. Retractions are issued if the errors are significant and results and conclusions are no longer reliable. Suppose serious ethical malpractices such as plagiarism and duplication are discovered in a published article. In that case, the journal reserves the right to retract the article and take up the matter with relevant academic bodies or institutions.

Intellectual Property

Authors certify that their submitted manuscript (and any supporting items) are their own intellectual property, and the copyright has not been transferred to others.

Authors certify that the manuscript contains no plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, or manipulated citations and that the manuscript conforms to Mahakarya: Student's Journal of Cultural Sciences authorship policies.

Authors certify that for any copyrighted tables, figures, data, text, etc., permission has been obtained from the copyright holders to reproduce.

All manuscripts, revisions, drafts, and galleys remain the intellectual property of the author(s). Except as stated in the agreed license, the author(s) retain the copyright to their work.

Authors retain the full right to modify, reshare, repost, or archive any version of their copyrighted work.

All review comments and reports remain the intellectual property of the reviewer or Editor. Except as stated in the agreed license, the author(s) retain the copyright to their work.

Authors, reviewers, and editors agree to keep all communications, comments, or reports from reviewers or editors confidential.

Reviewers and editors agree to keep all manuscripts, revisions, and drafts confidential, except the final published galley(s).