Focus and Scope

The scope of this journal has various aspects of science in the field of Vocational Health, such as:

1. Medical Laboratory Technology;
2. Radiology Nuclear Medicine and Imaging;
3. Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health;
4. Health Professions (miscellaneous)

Specially focus on research about the development of diagnostic technique, treatment, prevention of diseases and health problems within Asia and Africa.

Journal of Vocational Health Studies accepts submissions from all over the world. All accepted articles will be published on an open-access basis and will be freely available to all readers with worldwide visibility and coverage.

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Original Research Article

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Literature Review

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Case Study

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to this journal (Journal of Vocational Health Studies) must follow the Focus and Scope and Author Guidelines of this journal. The submitted manuscript to this journal can be written in  English. The manuscript must not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. 

All submitted manuscripts must be free from plagiarism contents. All authors are suggested to use plagiarism detection software to do the similarity checking (please use Turnitin to check the similarity). Editors will also check the similarity of manuscripts in this journal by using Turnitin software.

The submitted manuscripts to this journal will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 (two) or more expert reviewers from the Peer-Reviewers Team. Reviewers will provide scientifically valuable comments to improve the manuscript's content. The review process used in this journal is a double-blind review system. Reviewers need 3-4 (three to four) weeks to complete one round of the reviewing process.

The final decision of manuscript acceptance is solely made by the Editor in Chief according to reviewers' critical comments. The Editor's final review, which considers peer-reviewer comments, determines the manuscript's fate. However, the decision is not solely based on the reviewer's assessment.

Publication of accepted articles including assigning the article to a published issue will be made by the Editor in Chief by considering the sequence of accepted date.

Publication Frequency

The Journal of Vocational Health Studies is published three times a year, in March, July, and November. It is published by the Faculty of Vocational Health Studies, Universitas Airlangga.

Open Access Policy

Journal of Vocational Health Studies (JVHS) provides immediate open access to its content by making research freely available for the public and supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. 

The Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that if accepted for publication, the copyright of the article is transferred to the Journal of Vocational Health Studies whilst the moral right of the publication belongs to the author.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the PKP PN, LOCKSS, and CLOCKSS systems 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.

Article Processing Charge

Journal of Vocational Health Studies (JVHS) is an open-access journal and does not charge article publication charge (APC) for submitting, processing, or publishing articles. This includes peer-reviewing, editing, publishing, maintaining, archiving, and allowing immediate access to the full-text versions of the article.

Plagiarism Screening

It is the policy of this journal to use automated software, like TURNITIN to check for plagiarism in all submitted manuscripts. The journal cannot accept any plagiarism in any manuscript, as manuscripts found to contain plagiarism will be rejected immediately. Manuscripts are accepted if the similarity index is less than 20%. The results of this automated detection are forwarded to the Section Editor and will serve as the preliminary check for plagiarism. Additionally, plagiarism may be identified during the review process by the technical reviewers assigned to the manuscript. A final plagiarism check will be conducted after the author finalizes their reviewed manuscript.

When plagiarism is identified, the Section Editor overseeing the manuscript review and the Editor in Chief will agree on appropriate measures based on the extent of plagiarism detected, following the provided guidelines. The Editor in Chief retains the authority to make exceptions to these guidelines on a case-by-case basis.