Focus and Scope

Warisan: Journal of History and Cultural Heritage publishes articles on local and national, academic, and general topics related to history and cultural heritage. This journal discusses all different periods and areas of Indonesian and world history; it encompasses all aspects of history, along with economic, social, cultural, and political. This journal also encompasses all areas of cultural heritage, especially social science perspectives, across all historical periods and locations.

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

The peer-review process is designed to uphold the highest standards of academic integrity, ensuring that all published works contribute meaningfully to the field of historical research. Our peer-review process is rigorous, transparent, and fair, aimed at providing authors with constructive feedback while maintaining the quality and credibility of the journal.

1. Initial Manuscript Screening
   Upon submission, all manuscripts undergo an initial screening by the editorial team. This step involves evaluating the manuscript for alignment with the journal’s focus and scope, checking for adherence to formatting guidelines, and conducting a plagiarism check using Turnitin. To proceed further, manuscripts must meet a similarity threshold of no more than 25%. The editor also ensures that the manuscript fits the journal’s academic and ethical standards before sending it for peer review. This initial review typically takes between one to four weeks.
   
   
2. Assignment to Peer Reviewers
   Manuscripts that pass the initial screening are then subjected to a single-blind peer-review process, where the reviewers remain anonymous, but the authors' identities are known to the reviewers.
   
   
3. Review Evaluation Criteria
   Reviewers evaluate manuscripts based on the originality of the research, the clarity of argumentation, the methodological rigor, and the overall contribution to historical scholarship. The reviewers are also asked to identify any ethical concerns, including potential conflicts of interest, and to ensure that sources and references are appropriately cited.
   
   
4. Editorial Decision
   Once the reviewers have submitted their reports, the editorial team evaluates the feedback and makes one of the following editorial decisions:
• Accept the manuscript for publication.
• Minor revisions are required, with authors asked to address specific comments.
• Major revisions are required, with a more extensive manuscript overhaul needed.
• Resubmit for review following substantial revisions.
• Reject the manuscript if it does not meet the journal’s standards.

In cases where reviewers provide conflicting recommendations, a third reviewer may be consulted, and their decision will be final. The managing editor makes the final decision based on the reviewers' recommendations and the quality of revisions, if applicable.

5. Revision Process
   Authors receiving a decision to revise their manuscript must address all reviewer comments and resubmit within the timeframe specified by the editorial board. It may be rejected if the revised manuscript is not received within the required period. The revision process is reviewed either by the original reviewers or by the editorial team, depending on the extent of revisions made.
   
   
6. Final Decision and Publication
   Once the revisions have been approved, the manuscript is accepted for publication. Authors are informed of the final decision and the timeline for publication. Accepted articles are copyedited, proofread, and published in the upcoming issue.
   
   
7. Review Timeframe
   The entire peer-review process, from submission to the final decision, typically takes 1 to 4 months. Authors are notified at each stage of the review process to ensure transparency.

Publication Frequency

Warisan: Journal of History and Cultural Heritage publishes 3 (three) issues each year in April, August, and December. The publication must be conducted at the end of each month. Articles published in this journal are available online and are free access and download via its full-text address https://mahesainstitute.web.id/ojs2/index.php/warisan/issue/archive.

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.

Benefits of open access for the author, include:

• Free access for all users worldwide.
• Authors retain copyright to their work.
• Increased visibility and readership.
• No spatial constraints.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Archiving

Article Processing Charge

Article Submission

IDR 0

Article Publication (Accepted Manuscript)

IDR 400000 

Plagiarism and Retraction Policy

Warisan: Journal of History and Cultural Heritage maintains a strict policy regarding plagiarism and unethical behavior in scholarly publishing. The journal is committed to upholding the highest standards of integrity and transparency in all stages of the publication process. To ensure the originality and authenticity of the research published, all submissions are carefully checked for plagiarism, and any violations of ethical guidelines may lead to retraction of published articles.

1. Plagiarism Policy

Definition of Plagiarism
Plagiarism is defined as the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language, ideas, or work of another author without proper citation, presenting it as one’s original work. This includes:

• Direct plagiarism: Copying text or ideas from another work without proper attribution.
• Mosaic plagiarism: Borrowing phrases from a source without using quotation marks, or paraphrasing someone else’s ideas without credit.
• Self-plagiarism: Reusing one’s own previously published work without proper citation or justification (e.g., submitting the same work to multiple journals).

Plagiarism Detection
All submitted manuscripts are screened for plagiarism using Turnitin or equivalent plagiarism detection software. The journal adheres to a strict similarity index threshold of 25%. If a manuscript exceeds this similarity index, the manuscript will be returned to the author for revision or, in severe cases, rejected outright.

Actions in Case of Plagiarism

• Minor Plagiarism (small sections of text copied without proper citation):

  • The authors will be notified and asked to revise the manuscript, ensuring proper attribution and rephrasing of the copied material.

• Moderate Plagiarism (significant portions copied without attribution):

  • The manuscript will be rejected, and authors will be asked to revise and resubmit the manuscript after addressing the plagiarism concerns. A warning will also be issued to the authors.

• Severe Plagiarism (substantial copying of text, ideas, or data):

  • The manuscript will be immediately rejected.
  • The authors will be banned from submitting manuscripts to Warisan: Journal of History and Cultural Heritage for up to five years.
  • In cases of extreme plagiarism, the authors' institution(s) may be notified.

2. Retraction Policy

Warisan: Journal of History and Cultural Heritage is committed to correcting the scholarly record when necessary, either by issuing corrections or retractions. Articles may be retracted in cases of serious ethical violations, including but not limited to plagiarism, data fabrication, falsification, or serious errors that undermine the reliability of the research.

Grounds for Retraction

• Plagiarism: If an article is found to contain plagiarized material that exceeds acceptable limits or violates the journal’s ethical standards, it will be retracted.
• Data Fabrication or Falsification: Any article found to contain falsified or fabricated data will be retracted.
• Unethical Research: Research involving unethical practices, including violations of human or animal rights, will lead to the retraction of the article.
• Duplicate or Redundant Publication: If an article is found to have been published in another journal without proper disclosure, it will be retracted.

Retraction Process

• When a retraction is necessary, the editorial team will investigate to confirm the need for retraction, following COPE’s Retraction Guidelines.
• A retraction notice will be issued explaining the reasons for the retraction. The notice will be linked to the original article in the journal’s database.
• The original article will remain accessible but will be marked as “retracted” to ensure transparency and maintain the academic record.
• Retraction notices will be published promptly to minimize potential harm from misleading or inaccurate research.

Corrections
In cases where a small error or omission does not warrant a full retraction but still needs to be addressed, a correction will be issued. This correction will be published in the next available issue and linked to the original article.

Author Responsibility
Authors are expected to cooperate fully if a retraction or correction is required. Failure to respond or resolve ethical concerns may result in sanctions, including a ban on future submissions to the journal.

3. Consequences for Repeat Offenders

Authors found to have committed plagiarism or ethical violations on more than one occasion may be subject to permanent bans from publishing in Warisan: Journal of History and Cultural Heritage. Their affiliated institutions may be informed of the repeated misconduct.

Repository Policy

Warisan: Journal of History and Cultural Heritage is committed to disseminating and preserving scholarly research, encouraging authors to share their work freely. In alignment with open-access principles, the journal supports archiving all manuscript versions in institutional repositories, subject-specific repositories, and preprint servers.

1. Preprint Archiving

Authors are permitted and encouraged to deposit the preprint version of their manuscript (the version before peer review) in any recognized preprint server or institutional repository at any time. We recognize the value of preprint sharing in accelerating the dissemination of research and fostering scholarly collaboration.

• Conditions:
  Authors must indicate that the work has not yet been peer-reviewed. Once the manuscript is accepted for publication in Warisan: Journal of History and Cultural Heritage, authors are encouraged to update the repository with a link to the final published version (version of record).

2. Postprint Archiving

Once the manuscript has been reviewed and accepted, authors may archive the postprint version (the accepted manuscript) in any repository without restriction. This version can be deposited immediately after acceptance without any embargo period.

• Conditions:
  Authors should clearly state that the work has been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication in Warisan: Journal of History and Cultural Heritage. Once available, a link to the final published version, including the DOI, should be provided.

3. Published Version Archiving

Authors can also archive the final published version (version of record) in any repository or personal website. The journal allows the final PDF published on its platform to be freely distributed.

• Conditions:
  The archived version should include a full article citation, including the journal name, volume, issue, page numbers, DOI, and a link to the journal’s official website. This ensures proper attribution to the source.

4. Rights and Licensing

All versions of the manuscript—preprint, postprint, and published version—are subject to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This license allows for sharing, adapting, and redistributing the material in any medium as long as proper credit is given to the original authors and the journal.

5. Benefits of Archiving

By allowing the archiving of all versions of the manuscript, Warisan: Journal of History and Cultural Heritage ensures:

• Increased visibility and discoverability of research.
• Broader dissemination of knowledge without access barriers.
• Compliance with institutional and funder open access policies.

Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC)

The Initiative for Open Citations I4OC is a collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers, and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data.

An initiative to open up citation data

The aim of this initiative is to promote the availability of data on citations that are structured, separable, and open.

Structured means the data representing each publication and each citation instance are expressed in common, machine-readable formats, and that these data can be accessed programmatically. Separable means the citation instances can be accessed and analyzed without the need to access the source bibliographic products (such as journal articles and books) in which the citations are created. Open means the data are freely accessible and reusable.

Key benefits of achieving this aim include:

• The establishment of a global public web of linked scholarly citation data to enhance the discoverability of published content, both subscription access and open access. This will particularly benefit individuals who are not members of academic institutions with subscriptions to commercial citation databases.
• The ability to build new services over the open citation data, for the benefit of publishers, researchers, funding agencies, academic institutions and the general public, as well as enhancing existing services.
• The creation of a public citation graph to explore connections between knowledge fields, and to follow the evolution of ideas and scholarly disciplines.

Reference distribution

Many publishers currently deposit reference lists from their journal articles to Crossref as part of their participation in Crossref’s Cited-by service. To open their references, along with the other bibliographic metadata that publishers send to Crossref, publishers need to turn on reference distribution for all of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) prefixes they manage. This step allows references within the Crossref members’ articles to be distributed without restriction through all of Crossref's Metadata Delivery services, including the REST API and bulk metadata dumps, to any interested party. See below for additional information on reference distribution and on how to participate in Crossref’s Cited-by service.

Our Policy

Our journal is committed to the principles of open science and the promotion of transparency in scholarly research. As such, we support the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) and its efforts to make bibliographic and citation information in scholarly research articles more openly available.

To align with the goals and principles of I4OC, our journal will adopt the following practices:

• We will make all bibliographic and citation information in our published articles available under a Creative Commons public domain dedication, to ensure that it can be freely used and reused by anyone.
• We will use standardized formats and structures for bibliographic and citation information, such as the Citation Style Language (CSL) provided by Crossref, Mendeley, and Zotero to facilitate its integration into other systems and tools.
• We will provide access to bibliographic and citation information through APIs and other means, to enable its integration into other systems and tools.
• We will encourage our authors to include complete and accurate bibliographic and citation information in their manuscripts, and to follow best practices for open citations as outlined by I4OC.

By adopting these practices, we hope to contribute to the transparency and accessibility of scholarly research, and to facilitate the use and reuse of citation information in new and innovative ways.

Generative AI and AI-assisted technologies

The use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in writing

This policy aims to provide greater transparency and guidance to authors, readers, reviewers, editors in relation to generative AI and AI-assisted technologies. Please note the policy only refers to the writing process, and not to the use of AI tools to analyze and draw insights from data as part of the research process.

Where authors use AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process, these technologies should only be used to improve readability and language of the work and not to replace key authoring tasks such as producing scientific, pedagogic, or medical insights, drawing scientific conclusions, or providing clinical recommendations. Applying the technology should be done with human oversight and control and all work should be reviewed and edited carefully, because AI can generate authoritative-sounding output that can be incorrect, incomplete, or biased. The authors are ultimately responsible and accountable for the contents of the work.

Authors should disclose in their manuscript the use of AI and AI-assisted technologies and a statement will appear in the published work. Declaring the use of these technologies supports transparency and trust between authors, readers, reviewers, editors, and contributors and facilitates compliance with the terms of use of the relevant tool or technology.

There are a number of artificial intelligence technologies with Large Language Model (LLM) that can give advice or create content that can be useful in your studies. ChatGPT by OpenAI and Gemini by Google are widely known and commonly used as generative AI and AI-assisted technologies for academic writing.

As generative artificial intelligence is an emerging technology, there is a lot of debate about how to incorporate it into existing referencing systems. It differs from many other academic sources, as there is no specific author and it is currently not able to be reproduced or recovered. Further, generative artificial intelligence can be used as more than just a source of information. You may use it to brainstorm ideas, or refine your writing. In cases like this, a citation would not be appropriate.

Authors should not list AI and AI-assisted technologies as an author or co-author, nor cite AI as an author. Authorship implies responsibilities and tasks that can only be attributed to and performed by humans. Each (co-) author is accountable for ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved and authorship requires the ability to approve the final version of the work and agree to its submission. Authors are also responsible for ensuring that the work is original, that the stated authors qualify for authorship, and the work does not infringe third party rights, and should familiarize themselves with the journal's policies e.g. Author Guideline, Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement, and Plagiarism and Retraction Policy before they submit.

Further to this, and in accordance with COPE’s position statement on AI tools, Large Language Models cannot be credited with authorship as they are incapable of conceptualising a research design without human direction and cannot be accountable for the integrity, originality, and validity of the published work.

The Editorial Team of Warisan: Journal of History and Cultural Heritage recommend that a combination of the following should be used to acknowledge the use of generative artificial intelligence in academic work:

• Written acknowledgment of the use of generative artificial intelligence and its extent.
• Descriptions of how the information was generated (including the prompts used).

A suggested format

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THE USE OF GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

I acknowledge the use of [insert AI system(s) and link] to [specific use of generative artificial intelligence]. The prompts used include [list of prompts]. The output from these prompts was used to [explanation of use].

For example:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THE USE OF GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The authors acknowledge the use of Gemini Advanced (https://gemini.google.com/) to refine the academic language and accuracy of our work. On 6 July 2024, the authors submitted several paragraphs with the instruction to "Improve the academic tone and accuracy of language, including grammatical structures, punctuation and vocabulary" and "Please check the English grammar and make corrections where possible to improve the readability of the text." The output (here) was then modified further to better represent our tone and style of writing. This acknowledgement has been approved by the editorial team of this journal.

References:

COPE: Committee on Publication Ethics. COPE position statement. Retrieved from https://publicationethics.org/cope-position-statements/ai-author?ct=t(member-insight-ai-feb-2023)

Elsevier. The use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in writing for Elsevier. Retrieved from https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/the-use-of-generative-ai-and-ai-assisted-technologies-in-writing-for-elsevier 

Monash University. Acknowledging the use of generative artificial intelligence. Retrieved from https://www.monash.edu/student-academic-success/build-digital-capabilities/create-online/acknowledging-the-use-of-generative-artificial-intelligence#tabs__3254796-03 

Waiver Policy

We encourage our authors to publish their papers with us and don’t wish the cost of publication processing fees to be an insurmountable barrier. Authors don't need to pay for Article Publication if the quality of the article qualified with our standard and requirements, but Warisan: Journal of History and Cultural Heritage reserve the right to approve or reject any waiver application. The waiver's decision will be communicated to the corresponding author within one week after the request is received.

Warisan: Journal of History and Cultural Heritage
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