Journal of Data and Information Science

Please submit your aritcle via: www.j-jdis.com.

Peer Review Process

JDIS applies a single-blind peer review process. All submissions will be evaluated first by an Editor-in-Chief or an Associate Editor-in-Chief who checks suitability for JDIS. Then, research and review articles considered in scope and of sufficient quality will be sent to two or three external reviewers. It usually takes five weeks from when the article is sent out for review to the first decision.

All articles submitted to JDIS will be checked using the iThenticate. Manuscripts that are detected to have a high Similarity Index Percentage and verified not to be caused by the duplication with authors’ own preprints will be returned to the authors without further peer review.

JDIS will publish an official retraction of the paper for suspected plagiarism in a published article. The mechanism follows the guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), which can be accessed at https://publicationethics.org/retraction-guidelines

Instructions for Authors

Article Types

• Research Articles: original research work or a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of a topic (around 5,000 to 8,000 words)
• Review Articles: manuscripts that provide a novel synthesis of a research area (around 5,000 to 10,000 words)
• Research notes: short data-based discussions of research findings of interest to the wider community.
• Perspectives: forward-looking viewpoints that advocate important future directions in the field (around 2,000 to 3,000 words)
• Commentaries: call attention to published articles, books, or reports (around 1,000 to 2,000 words)
• Letters to the Editor: comments on previously published articles in JDIS (around 100 to 2,000 words)
• Opinions: pieces to present ideas, discuss recent books, propose arguments, or initiate debates (around 1,000 to 3,000 words)
• Editorial: editors or guest editors may occasionally provide background information on an issue or an event

Submission guidelines

JDIS does not require specific formats for first submissions. Both Word and PDF are acceptable file types. However, the following elements should be incorporated into your manuscript:

• Names and affiliations of all authors.
• For a research article, the abstract should be prepared in a structured form, including Purpose, Design/methodology/approach, Findings, Research limitations, Practical implications, and Originality/value.
• Provide a list of up to six keywords
• Pages, sections, and subsections should be numbered. In addition, we suggest line numbering as well.
• Figures and tables should be placed close to where they are first referenced.
• JDIS strongly discourages the use of maps in submitted manuscripts. Authors are encouraged to employ alternative forms of visual representation, such as charts, graphs, or diagrams, to convey geographic or spatial information. If the inclusion of a map is deemed essential to the presentation of the research, authors are required to use the official map template provided by the JDIS Editorial Office
• References should adhere to APA (American Psychological Association) style
• Acknowledgments, author contribution statements, competing interest statements, funding information, data availability statements, and appendices should be included at the end of the manuscript.

Open Access Statement

This is an open access journal that provides free, immediate, and unrestricted online access to all its published content for readers around the world.

Publication Agreement

Copyright policy

All contributions published in JDIS will be under a Creative Commons Attributions license, with the default as CC-BY.

APC Policy

To publish in JDIS, authors are not required to pay an Article Processing Charge.