About the Journal
JOURNAL DESCRIPTION
Journal Sampurasun : Interdisciplinary Studies for Cultural Heritage with ISSN: 2460-5743 (e-ISSN) and 2460-5735 (print) is an international refereed e-journal written in English. It is a double-blind peer-reviewed, published in two issues per year (June and December) and scientific journal published by Unpas and Supported by University of Northern Philippines (UNP), Universiti Utara Malaysia, (UUM) Chonbuk National University(CBNU), Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań(AaM), Derby University (United Kingdom).
The purpose of the journal is to bring a wide spectrum of participants to disseminate research findings of academicians, national and local government units, non-governmental organizations, heritage conservation practitioners and planners, tourism organizations, and the media. Specifically, ISCH intends to discuss and exchange knowledge on preservation and revitalizing culture, values, and best practices of people in the world. ISCH also caters to recent challenges and opportunities for saving treasured culture and values. Its scope encompasses the thematic as follows:
Social and Humanity
Social Work, Sociology, Law, Education, Public Administration, Business Administration, Communication, International Relation, Management, Culture and Art, Anthropology, History, Women Studies, Hospitality and Tourism.
Engineering
Environmental Engineering, Informatics Engineering, Urban and City Planning, Industrial Technology and Food Technology.
VISION AND MISSION
Vision:
To be an international journal focused on the preservation of cultural heritages and values.
Mission:
To generate knowledge on the preservation of various cultural heritages and values through research dissemination and collaboration among heritage cities of the world.
Aim and Scope
Journal Sampurasun : Interdisciplinary Studies for Cultural Heritage is a peer reviewed International e-Journal written in English. It is published in two issues per year (June and December). This journal is being organized and collaborated for the first time by two higher institutions of learning from the ASEAN Region.
The purpose of the journal is to bring a wide spectrum of participants to disseminate research findings of academicians, national and local government units, non-governmental organizations, heritage conservation practitioners and planners, tourism organizations, and the media.
Specifically, ISCH intends to discuss and exchange knowledge on preservation and revitalizing culture, values, and best practices of peoples in the world. ISCH also caters to recent challenges and opportunities for saving treasured culture and values. Its scope encompasses the thematic as follows: 1) Humanity: Hospitality and Tourism, Law, Sociology, Social Work, Education, Women Studies; 2) Governance: Public Administration, Business Administration, Management, Local governance,Urban and City Planning, Environment, 3) Heritage Conservation: Culture and Art, Architecture, Anthropology, History, Food and Culinary Art.
PUBLICATION ETHICS AND MALPRACTICE STATEMENTS
Ethical Guidelines for Journal Publication
The publication of an article in the Journal Sampurasun : Interdisciplinary Studies for Cultural Heritage is an important medium in development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge that reflects the quality of work of the authors and institutions that support them.
Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. These are, therefore, important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing.
Pasundan University and University of Northern Philippines as publishers of this Journal take their duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing and recognize ethical and other responsibilities. This statement is based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.
The journal is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and takes all possible measures against any publication malpractices. All authors submitting their articles for publication attest that such represent their original contributions and have not been copied or plagiarized in whole or in part from other works. Researches submitted will be subjected for plagiarism detection evaluation.
Publication Decisions
The editors in chief of the ISCH journal are responsible in deciding which of the articles submitted should be published. They are guided by the policies and guidelines of the journal.
Confidentiality, Disclosure, and Conflicts of Interest
The editorial staff and referees see to it that any information on the comments of a submitted manuscript is not disclosed to anyone other than the corresponding authors. In cases where in such are requested by others, permission is secured first from the authors and the editors-in chief who have the right to grant or deny. Any data in the submitted manuscript are not used in the editorial staff and referees’ own researches until the paper has been published. When conflicts of interest exist, the editorial staff and referees are objective at all times.
Fair play
The editors and/referees at any time evaluate 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.
Duties of Reviewers
Contribution to Editorial Decisions
Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.
Promptness
Any selected referee 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 himself from the review process.
Confidentiality
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.
Standards of Objectivity
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
Acknowledgement 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 to the editor's attention 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 manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other 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 detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.
Data Access and Retention
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 (consistent with the ALPSP-STM Statement on Data and Databases), if practicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.
Originality and Plagiarism
The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
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.
Acknowledgement of Sources
Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.
Authorship of the Paper
Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
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.