Focus and Scope

Biokultur receives manuscripts from both original articles which are field-work research and literature review in the field of Anthropology. The scope of the anthropology includes:

• Social Anthropology
• Physical Anthropology
• Political Anthropology
• Cultural and Society 

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Literature Review

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

Manuscripts submitted to Biokultur 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 3 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 3 weeks to revise. Whereas for manuscripts accepted with minor revisions, 1 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 Editor will process the manuscript for online publication on the website as well as a print publication.

Publication Frequency

Biokultur publishes twice per year every June and December.

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. Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in Biokultur.

Biokultur Journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the CLOCKSS 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.

Biokultur

Biokultur is a peer reviewed open access scientific journal published by Universitas Airlangga. Biokultur recieves manuscripts from both original article which is field-work research and literature review in the field of Anthropology. The scope of the anthropology includes; Social Anthropology; Physical Anthropology; Political Antropology; Culture and Society. Biokultur is published 2 times per year every June and December. Article could be written in either Bahasa Indonesia or English. Contributors for Biokultur are researchers, lecturers, students, social practitioners, politic practitioners, and other practitioners that focus on culture and society in Indonesia and worldwide.

Plagiarism Screening

To avoid plagiarism, all submissions are screened using Turnitin before undergo the review processes. Plagiarism-free  works should match these requirements:

1. Writing that quoting writings of others (by quoting indirectly) that has been well paraphrased, by making one's own words, instead of performing copy and paste or typing the source word-by-word, and write down the reading sources according to the rules of scientific writing.

2.  Writing with the direct quotation, by quoting the same words as the original copies should apply quotation marks (for writing that less than 30 percent), or if the quote consists of over 40 words, the paragraphs should be notched and apply different font size.

3. Mentioning the source other people's ideas that are being used, whether from published or unpublished writing, both oral or written source, in any form of media

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Article Processing Charge

Article Submission, Processing, and Publication are free of charge.

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