Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

PENA DIMAS: Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat  focuses on the main problems in development in the field of research-based multidisciplinary community service with a focus on innovative solutions that have a direct impact on community development and empowerment such as Asset Based Communities Development (ABCD), Participatory Action Research (PAR), Community Based Research (CBR), Service Learning (SL). The scope of service raised in this journal includes, but is not limited to:

  1. Education and Literacy
  2. Public Health
  3. Economy and Entrepreneurship
  4. Environment and Sustainable Development
  5. Technology and Innovation
  6. Religion, Social, Culture and Law
  7. Public Policy and Governance

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

All submissions can be made using the online journal system or sent via email directly to the editorial team. Every submitted manuscript will be checked by the editor. Manuscripts that do not match to the journal criteria are rejected without review. Manuscripts that match with the criteria of the journal will first be checked for plagiarism. If the standard of the similarity level of words/Similarity Index meets the specified standards, the script will be processed to peer review with a system between the author and the reviewer who do not know each other (double blind review). Each article will be reviewed by two (2) different reviewers. If the manuscript is required for revision it will be returned to the author. Editors make decisions based on the reviewers recommendations. The editor has full authority to make any decisions after receiving reviews and recommendations from reviewers as follows:

  • Manuscript can be accepted without change
  • Manuscript can be accepted under minor revisions (editors will check)
  • The manuscript can be accepted under major revisions with the necessarily changes recommended by the reviewer/appraiser
  • Manuscript is rejected

 

Publication Frequency

Pena Dimas: Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat with the registration number E-ISSN 2964-7789 is a scientific multidisciplinary community service journal published by the Faculty of Economics and Business, Islamic University of Malang. Pena Dimas Journal publishes journals twice a year, in April and October. Pena Dimas Journal is a journal that has a main focus on the development of sciences in the field of community service. The purpose of this journal publication is to disseminate conceptual thoughts or ideas that have been achieved in the field of community service and have not been published before.

 

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.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...