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Journal of Materials Exploration and Findings

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Contents

Philosophy of Journal of Materials Exploration and Findings

For more information, please see Journal of Materials Exploration and Findings Aims and Scope page.


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Who Can Submit?

Anyone may submit an original article to be considered for publication in the Journal of Materials Exploration and Findings (JMEF), provided he or she owns the copyright to the work being submitted or is authorized to do so by the copyright owner or owners. Authors are the initial owners of the copyrights to their works (an exception to this might exist in the non-academic world if the authors have, as a condition of employment, agreed to transfer the copyright to their employer).


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General Submission Rules

Submitted articles cannot have been previously published, nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic). Please note: "publication" in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication. In addition, by submitting material to the Journal of Materials Exploration and Findings (JMEF), the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that he or she will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at Journal of Materials Exploration and Findings (JMEF). If you have concerns about the submission terms for the Journal of Materials Exploration and Findings (JMEF), please contact the editors.


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Formatting Requirements

Journal of Materials Exploration and Findings (JMEF) has rules governing the formatting of the final submission. See Final Manuscript Preparation Guidelines for details. Although we can provide limited technical support, it is ultimately the responsibility of the author to produce an electronic version of the article as a high-quality PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) file, or a Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, or RTF file that can be converted to a PDF file.

It is understood that the current state of technology of Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) is such that there are no, and can be no, guarantees that documents in PDF will work perfectly with all possible hardware and software configurations that readers may have.


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Rights for Authors and UI Scholars Hub

As further described in our submission agreement, in consideration for publication of the article, the authors retain full copyright and grant JMEF a license to publish and distribute their work under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Attribution and Usage Policies

All articles published in JMEF are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), allowing anyone to share, reuse, or modify the content with proper attribution to the original authors.

Personal-use Exceptions

Authors are free to share, distribute, and republish their articles on any platform, including personal websites, institutional repositories, and commercial websites, as long as proper attribution is given.

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General Terms and Conditions of Use

Users of the UI Scholars Hub website and/or software agree not to misuse the UI Scholars Hub service or software in any way.

The failure of UI Scholars Hub to exercise or enforce any right or provision in the policies or the Submission Agreement does not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any term of the Submission Agreement or these policies is found to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Submission Agreement and these policies remain in full force and effect. These policies and the Submission Agreement constitute the entire agreement between UI Scholars Hub and the Author(s) regarding the submission of the Article.


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Open Access Policies

JMEF is fully committed to open access principles. All articles published in JMEF are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), allowing anyone to read, download, copy, distribute, print, link to, index, use as data for software, and reuse the content, including for commercial purposes, as long as proper attribution is given.

No financial, legal, or technical barriers restrict access to the published content, ensuring free and immediate availability to the public.

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Publication Policies

Peer Review Policies

JMEF uses double-blind peer review. Neither the reviewers nor the authors know each other's identities and backgrounds. A minimum number of 2 (two) reviewers will be assigned to each manuscript for review. The assigned reviewers come from the reviewer list and editorial board.

JMEF verifies the originality of every manuscript submitted using iThenticate for similarity checking. Before being assigned to reviewers, all manuscripts undergo an initial editorial screening to ensure compliance with JMEF's scope and formatting guidelines. JMEF follows a double-blind peer review process, where neither the reviewers nor the authors know each other's identities. Each manuscript is reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. The acceptance criteria include originality, novelty, clarity, and scientific soundness.


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Charges for Article Processing (APCs)

JMEF produces high-quality open access articles that are immediately available to the public and the scientific community. These articles can be freely reused with the necessary attribution. To maintain the journal quality, the APCs will be 500,000 IDR (50 USD if payment made in USD or for outside Indonesia). An additional fee will be charged for manuscripts with more than 10 pages (for research articles) or more than 15 pages (for review articles) at a cost of 50,000 IDR (5 USD) per page. To be noted that the number of the pages is the number of pages when manuscript is accepted. The APC applies to the final accepted manuscript. Minor changes in page count after acceptance do not affect the APC calculation.

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Blind Admission

Without regard to the author's color, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, or citizenship, manuscripts will be judged solely on their intellectual value.

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Confidentiality

The corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher are the only people who should be informed about a submitted article by the Editor in Chief and any editorial staff.

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Interest conflicts and disclosure

Anyone who has a glimpse of the article (while handling it) is not permitted to exploit any unpublished materials provided in the text for their own research without the author's prior written approval.

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Copyright and CC Licensing

Journal of Materials Exploration and Findings (JMEF) is fully committed to open access principles. All articles published by JMEF are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. Under this license, authors retain full copyright of their work, while granting JMEF the non-exclusive right to publish and distribute the articles. This license allows anyone to read, download, copy, share, adapt, and build upon the work, including for commercial purposes, as long as proper attribution is given to the original authors.

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Editorial and Publishing System

JMEF uses UI Scholar Hub Digital Commons, which is open source journal management and publishing software developed, supported, and freely distributed by the bepress publishing services. The editorial and publishing process of JMEF can be seen here

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