Focus and Scope

Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pemberdayaan Sosial Kemanusiaan is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal publishing across a wide range of teaching and learning methods within higher education.

Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pemberdayaan Sosial Kemanusiaan aims to identify, promote and publish excellence and innovations in the practice and theory of teaching and learning in and across all disciplines in higher education. The journal provides a forum on the sharing, dissemination and discussion of research, experience and perspectives across a wide range of teaching and learning issues within higher education. JPPSK also aims to be a valuable resource for individuals in the development and enhancement of their own practice, for programme and Faculty teams in utilizing and contributing to research through learning and teaching activities, and for institutions in the promotion of research-informed learning and teaching.

Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pemberdayaan Sosial Kemanusiaan covers a wide range of topics including:

• Islamic Education: This research focuses on exploring the Disciplinary and interdisciplinary pedagogies and learning experiences in Islamic Education
• Pedagogical Spirituality: This research focuses on exploring the integration of spirituality into pedagogical practices within educational settings. It aims to investigate how incorporating spiritual principles and practices can enhance teaching and learning experiences, promote holistic development, and foster a sense of purpose and meaning among students
• Religious Education: This research examines the role of religious education in schools or universities, exploring how it contributes to students' understanding of different religious traditions, values, and beliefs. It investigates curriculum design, teaching methodologies, and the impact of religious education on students' religious literacy, interfaith dialogue, and cultural understanding.
• Character Education: This research investigates strategies and approaches for cultivating positive character traits, values, and ethical behavior in students. It explores the role of educators in promoting virtues such as honesty, respect, empathy, and responsibility, and examines the impact of character education on students' moral development, social skills, and overall well-being
• General Education: This research aims to enhance the quality and effectiveness of general education programs in higher education institutions. It explores curriculum design, interdisciplinary approaches, and the development of core competencies, critical thinking skills, and lifelong learning abilities among students. It may also investigate the impact of general education on students' academic success, career readiness, and personal growth.
• Ethics and Morals: This research explores ethical theories, moral development, and the application of ethical principles in educational contexts. It investigates how ethical decision-making skills can be nurtured in students and examines the role of educators in promoting ethical behavior and social responsibility. Additionally, it may address contemporary ethical issues in education, such as academic integrity, diversity, and social justice.

The journal welcomes papers which are accessible to both specialist and generalist readers and are theoretically and empirically rigorous. Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pemberdayaan Sosial Kemanusiaan is essential reading for all those who wish to stay informed of state-of-the-art teaching and learning developments.

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

Manuscripts submitted to Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pemberdayaan Sosial Kemanusiaan will undergo a selection and assessment process by the Board of Editors to ensure their accordance with the writing guideline, focus, and scope, and that they are of excellent academic quality.  The manuscripts will be reviewed using the double-blind peer review method in which case neither authors nor reviewers know each other’s identities. 

Desk Review. At the desk review stage, manuscripts will be examined to ensure that they have met the writing guideline, focus, and scope with excellent academic quality. If they do not meet the conditions, the author will be given the opportunity to revise their manuscript according to the given criteria. However, there is also the possibility that the manuscript will be directly rejected.

Peer review. When the manuscript has passed the desk review stage, it will then be delivered to two reviewers who are experts in the field of the submitted manuscript. The review process will be done within three weeks. Manuscripts that did not successfully pass the desk review process will not proceed to this stage. 

Reviewer’s decision. The reviewers will provide the following recommendations: 

1. Accepted; means that the manuscript is acceptable for publication;
2. Accepted with minor revisions; means that the manuscript is acceptable for publication once it is revised in response to the reviewers’ concerns;
3. Accepted with major revisions; means that substantive inadequacies in the manuscript, such as data analysis, the main theory used, and rewriting of paragraphs, need to be revised;
4. Rejected; means that the manuscript is not acceptable for publication or the given reviews relate to very basic issues.

The reviewer’s decision will be considered by the Board of Editors to determine the ensuing process of the manuscript. 

Revision Stage. Once the manuscript has been received with notations of minor or major revisions, it will be returned to the author with a review summary form. For manuscripts accepted with major revisions, authors are allotted three weeks to revise. Whereas for manuscripts accepted with minor revisions, one week is allotted for revision. When returning the revised manuscript, the author is required to fill in and attach the review summary form.  

Final decision. At this stage, the manuscript will be re-evaluated by the Board of Editors to ensure that the author has revised in response to the reviewers’ concerns. In this final decision, the manuscript may still be rejected if the author did not seriously conduct the revisions necessary. 

Proofread. Once the manuscript has been deemed acceptable by the Board of Editors, it will undergo a proofreading process to maintain linguistic quality. 

Publication confirmation. At this stage, the final layout of the manuscript will be resent to the author to ensure that the content is in accordance with the author’s writing. At this stage, the author may revise any typographical error found in the final manuscript. Once confirmation from the author is given, the Editorial Secretary will process the manuscript for online publication on the website as well as a print publication.   

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.

Editorial Team

Publication Ethics Statement

The Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pemberdayaan Sosial Kemanusiaan Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement, derived primarily from COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, clarifies the ethical behaviour of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in the journal, including the members of editorial board, editors, authors, and the publisher of the journal.

Ethical Guidelines for Journal Publication

The publication of articles in the peer-reviewed Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pemberdayaan Sosial Kemanusiaan is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected body of scientific knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the authors’ work and the institutions that support them. This statement on Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement compromises the ethical guidelines for all parties involved in the act of publication: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher, and the reader/society. Department of Islamic Education, Faculty of Social Science Education, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, as the publisher, the editors, and members of the editorial board of Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pemberdayaan Sosial Kemanusiaan, take duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing seriously and recognize their ethical responsibilities.

There will be no processing fee entitled to the submission and the publication of selected articles in Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pemberdayaan Sosial Kemanusiaan. The journal is also committed to ensure that advertising, reprinting, or other commercial revenue have no impact or influence on editorial decisions. In addition, Department of Islamic Education, Faculty of Social Science Education, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, as the co-publisher, and the Editorial Board of the journal will assist in the communication with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful and necessary.

Allegations of Research Misconduct

Research misconduct means fabrication, falsification, citation manipulation, or plagiarism in producing, performing, or reviewing research and writing an article by authors, or in reporting research results. When authors are found to have been involved with research misconduct or other serious irregularities involving articles that have been published in scientific journals, Editors have a responsibility to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the scientific record.

In cases of suspected misconduct, the Editors and Editorial Board will use the best practices of COPE to assist them to resolve the complaint and address the misconduct fairly. This will include an investigation of the allegation by the Editors. A submitted manuscript that is found to contain such misconduct will be rejected. In cases where a published paper is found to contain such misconduct, a retraction can be published and will be linked to the original article.

The first step involves determining the validity of the allegation and an assessment of whether the allegation is consistent with the definition of research misconduct. This initial step also involves determining whether the individuals alleging misconduct have relevant conflicts of interest.

If scientific misconduct or the presence of other substantial research irregularities is a possibility, the allegations are shared with the corresponding author, who, on behalf of all of the coauthors, is requested to provide a detailed response. After the response is received and evaluated, additional review and involvement of experts (such as statistical reviewers) may be obtained. For cases in which it is unlikely that misconduct has occurred, clarifications, additional analyses, or both, published as letters to the editor, and often including a correction notice and correction to the published article are sufficient.

Institutions are expected to conduct an appropriate and thorough investigation of allegations of scientific misconduct. Ultimately, authors, journals, and institutions have an important obligation to ensure the accuracy of the scientific record. By responding appropriately to concerns about scientific misconduct, and taking necessary actions based on evaluation of these concerns, such as corrections, retractions with replacement, and retractions,Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pemberdayaan Sosial Kemanusiaan will continue to fulfill the responsibilities of ensuring the validity and integrity of the scientific record.

Publication Decisions

The editor of Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pemberdayaan Sosial Kemanusiaan is responsible for deciding which of the 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.

Complaints and Appeals

Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pemberdayaan Sosial Kemanusiaan will have a clear procedure for handling complaints against the journal, Editorial Staff, Editorial Board, or Publisher. The complaints will be clarified to a respected person with respect to the case of complaint. The scope of complaints includes anything related to the journal business process, i.e. editorial process, found citation manipulation, unfair editor/reviewer, peer-review manipulation, etc. The complaint cases will be processed according to COPE guidelines. The complaint cases should be sent by email to: highereducationspiritualpedagogies@upi.id

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.

Peer-Review Policy

Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pemberdayaan Sosial Kemanusiaan applies the COPE' forms and ethical guidelines for peer-reviewers. The journal performs double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. Thus, full name(s) of the author(s) must be omitted from the manuscript to guarantee the blind review process. The author’s information and affiliation appear only in the submission form and the final production of the selected manuscript.

Authors are obliged to participate in the peer-review process and cooperate fully by responding promptly to editors’ requests for raw data, clarifications, and proof of ethics approval and copyright permissions. In the case of a first decision of "revisions necessary", authors should respond to the reviewers’ comments systematically, point by point, and in a timely manner, revise and re-submit their manuscript to the journal by the deadline given.

The submitted manuscript will be peer-reviewed by two reviewers, and the manuscript author(s) will immediately be informed about the results.

Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pemberdayaan Sosial Kemanusiaan also collaborates with reviewers through Publon online platform. Editors of the journal should take all necessary steps to enclose the identities of authors and reviewers. 

Publication Decision

Editors of Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pemberdayaan Sosial Kemanusiaan are responsible for deciding which of the 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 journal's editorial board's policies and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding copyright infringement, plagiarism, and malpractice conduct. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making the publication decision.

Justice

Editors evaluate the content of articles based on their intellectual capacity regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnic origin, nationality, or political philosophy of the authors.

Editors’ decisions to accept or reject a paper for publication should be based only on the paper’s importance, originality, and clarity, and the study’s relevance to the focus and scope of the journal.

Confidentiality

Editors and editorial board members should ensure the review process and the selection of published works confirm the journal's ethical guidelines and take necessary steps to apply the blind-review process to every submission.

During the manuscript evaluation, editors and members of the editorial board have to conceal identities of both the reviewers and the manuscript authors in order to ensure the double-blind review process. The editors facilitate anonymous correspondence between authors and reviewers. Following the editorial decision for publication acceptance, identities disclosure is considered appropriate.

All manuscript that are received by reviewer or partners should be treated as confidential documents. They may not be displayed or discussed with others unless permitted by the editor and the author.

Unpublished articles must not be used in the editors’ own research without the author's written consent. Confidential information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not be used for personal gain.

Manuscript review process should be conducted objectively. Reviewers must provide their views clearly and followed by supporting arguments.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Reviewers should not consider reviewing the article with which they assume to have a conflict of interest, e.g., because of personal/professional relationships with the authors, companies, or institutions associated with the manuscript.

Duties of the Editorial Board

The editorial board of Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pemberdayaan Sosial Kemanusiaan consists of recognized experts in the fields within the focus and the journal's scope.

Members of the Editorial Board will be involved in reviewing the submitted manuscripts. The members advise the editors regarding the journal policy and scope, assist the editors in identifying the topics for special issues—for which the members may be the guest editors—, attract new authors and submissions, promote the journal to their colleagues and peers and help the editors in the decision making over issues such as plagiarism claims and disagreements between reviewers regarding manuscripts.

Duties of Editors

The editors of Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pemberdayaan Sosial Kemanusiaan must take necessary steps to follow COPE's guidelines for journal editors that rules, among others, the editors' relations with authors, relations with reviewers, relations with editorial board members, relations with the publisher and ethical guideline for editorial processes and possible misconducts.

The editors of Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pemberdayaan Sosial Kemanusiaan should take all reasonable steps to strive to meet the needs of readers and authors; to constantly improve the journal; to ensure the quality of the material they publish; to champion freedom of expression; to maintain the integrity of the academic record; to preclude business needs from compromising intellectual standards; to encourage ethical research and publication; to always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed.

Editors are willing to be held accountable for everything published in Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pemberdayaan Sosial Kemanusiaan and to actively seek the views of authors, readers, reviewers, and editorial board members about ways of improving the qualities of the journal.

Editors must support initiatives designed to prevent research and publication misconduct, educate the authors about publication ethics, encourage responsible behaviour, and discourage misconduct.

Relations with readers

Editors have to ensure that all published articles had been reviewed by suitably qualified reviewers (including statistical review where appropriate), adopting processes that encourage accuracy, completeness, and clarity.

Relations with authors

The editors’ decisions to accept or reject a paper for publication should be based on the paper’s importance, originality and clarity, and the study’s validity and relevance to the journal's remit.

Editors should not reverse decisions to accept submissions unless serious problems are identified with the submission.

Relations with reviewers

Editors provide guidance to reviewers on everything that is expected of them including the need to handle the submitted material as a confidential document.

Editors must ensure that the material submitted to the journal remains confidential while under review.

Editors should conceal identities of authors whose manuscripts are under peer-review process and guarantee the anonymity of the manuscript’s authors and reviewers

Relations with editorial board members

Editors provide guidelines on everything expected of the members and keep the existing members updated on new policies and developments.

Relations with the publisher

The editors guarantee the exercise of academic freedom, independence, and justice and have to make decisions on which articles to publish based on the quality and suitability for the journal and without interference from the publisher.

Protecting individual data

Editors obey laws on confidentiality of individual information obtained in the course of submission, reviewing process, and publication. Thus, editors have to take necessary steps to obtain written consent for publication from the authors or people who might recognize themselves or be identified by others (e.g. from case reports or photographs).

Dealing with possible misconduct

Editors have a duty to act if they suspect misconduct or if an allegation of misconduct is brought to them. This duty applies to under review, published as well as unpublished papers.

Editors should not simply reject papers that raise concerns about possible misconduct. They are ethically obliged to pursue alleged cases.

Editors should make all reasonable efforts to ensure that a proper investigation into alleged misconduct is conducted; if this does not happen, editors should make all reasonable attempts to persist in obtaining a resolution to the problem.

Ensuring the integrity of the academic record and intellectual property

The editor has to promptly make a correction to errors and inaccurate or misleading statements.

Editors should be alert to intellectual property issues and work with Department of Islamic Education, Faculty of Social Science Education, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, as the publisher of Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pemberdayaan Sosial Kemanusiaan, to handle potential breaches of intellectual property laws and conventions.

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Reviewers assist the editors in making editorial decisions and, through the editorial communications with the authors, may also assist the author in improving the manuscript.

Promptness

Any selected referee/reviewer 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 themselves from the review process.

Confidentiality

All manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others unless authorized by the editors.

Standards of Objectivity

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism toward the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Reviewer’ decisions to accept or reject a paper for publication should be based only on the paper’s importance, originality, and clarity, and the study’s relevance to the focus and scope of the journal.

Acknowledgment 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 for the editor's attention to 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 reviewing manuscripts with which they feel to have conflicts of interest resulting from relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Duties of Authors

Reporting standards

Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient details and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.

Data Access, Retention, and Reproducibility

Authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data, if practicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication. Authors are responsible for data reproducibility.

Originality and Plagiarism

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works and appropriately cited or quoted the works and/or words of others they used.

Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication

An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgment of Sources

Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should ensure that they have written and submitted only entirely original works, and if they have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited. Publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the work reported in the manuscript should also be cited. Plagiarism comes in many forms, from "passing off" another's paper as the author's own, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another's paper (without attribution), to claiming results from research conducted by others.

Authorship of the Manuscript

Only persons who meet these authorship criteria should be listed as authors in the manuscript as they must be able to take public responsibility for the content: (i) made significant contributions to the conception, design, execution, data acquisition, or analysis/interpretation of the study; and (ii) drafted the manuscript or revised it critically for important intellectual content; and (iii) have seen and approved the final version of the paper and agreed to its submission for publication. All persons who made substantial contributions to the work reported in the manuscript (such as technical help, writing and editing assistance, general support) but who do not meet the criteria for authorship must not be listed as an author but should be acknowledged in the "Acknowledgments" section after their written permission to be named has been obtained. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors (according to the above definition) and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the author list and verify that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript and agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

Authors should—at the earliest stage possible (generally by submitting a disclosure form at the time of submission and including a statement in the manuscript)—disclose any conflicts of interest that might be construed to have an influence on the results or their interpretation in the manuscript. Examples of potential conflicts of interest that should be disclosed include financial ones such as honoraria, educational grants, other funding, and non-financial ones such as personal or professional relationships, affiliations, knowledge, or beliefs in the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript. All sources of financial support for the work should be disclosed (including the grant number or other reference number, if any). Acknowledgment for source of funding of the article and essential contribution from institutions and/or individuals to the production of the article should be clearly declared at the "Acknowledgment" section.

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.

Duties of the Publisher

Department of Islamic Education, Faculty of Social Science Education, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, takes all necessary steps to oversee and promote the sustainability of the Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pemberdayaan Sosial Kemanusiaan. It works with the editors and members of the editorial board to create relevant journal policies and guidelines. It also provides and maintains the online platform for the journal and assists the publication and indexing of the journal articles.

The publisher ensures that journal editors, authors, and reviewers adopt best publishing policies and practices. It will review the journal policies regularly and update the policies when necessary.

The publisher will also work and collaborate with the editors and editorial board members to handle any potential cases of breaches of intellectual property and laws. If necessary, the publisher appoints an "ethics commission" to advise the editor and editorial board members on possible publication misconducts, potential violations of the journal's policies and guidelines, and intellectual property and laws.

Access to the journal content

The publisher is committed to the permanent availability and preservation of published manuscripts and ensures the accessibility of the journal's contents.

The publisher takes efforts to enhance published works' visibility by maintaining dataset, archiving, abstracting, and indexing the published works.

Archiving

The publisher is responsible for the journal's contents archiving. It utilizes the LOCKSS (Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) 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.

Ethical Concerns

Editors (in conjunction with the publisher, members of editorial board, the reviewers, ethics commission, and/or society) will take responsive measures when ethical concerns are raised with regard to a submitted manuscript or published paper. Every reported act of unethical publishing behaviour will be looked into, even if it is discovered years after publication. The editors follow the COPE Flowcharts when dealing with cases of suspected misconduct.

Handling of unethical publishing behaviour 

In cases of alleged or proven scientific misconduct, fraudulent publication, or plagiarism, the publisher, in close collaboration with the editors and members of editorial board and ethics commission in necessary-, will take all appropriate measures to clarify the situation to amend the article in question. This includes the prompt publication of an erratum, clarification, or, in the most severe case, the retraction of the affected work. The publisher, together with the editors, shall take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, and under no circumstances encourage such misconduct or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place.

Plagiarism Prevention Policy

Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable. JPPSK applies plagiarism-detection to each submitted manuscript. The journal uses Turnitin to track the level of similarities, and the author will be well-informed about the result of the similarities-checking. For further information on similarities and plagiarism, please check the journal's plagiarism notice. 

Privacy Statement

This statement clarifies the 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 of JPPSK. The names and email addresses registered at the submission will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

Post-Publication Discussions and Corrections

JPPSK accepts discussion and corrections on published articles by readers. In case the reader giving discussions and corrections toward a published article, the reader can contact by email to Editor-in-Chief by explaining the discussions and corrections. If accepted (by Editor-in-Chief), the discussions and corrections will be published in the next issue as Letters to Editor. Respected Authors can reply/answer the discussions and corrections from the reader by sending the reply to Editor in Chief. Therefore, Editors may publish the answer as Reply to Letter to Editor.

Publication Fees

No submission, processing, page, colored figures, or publication charges are received from authors or elsewhere. All articles are freely available as early online and on the day of publication in the journal.

Article Submission Charges: 0.00 (IDR)

The submission includes submitting, peer-reviewing, editing, publishing, maintaining, and archiving.

Article Processing Charges: 0.00 (IDR)

Allows people to access the full-text versions of the articles.