Editorial Policies

Section Policies

Editorial

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Articles

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Reviews

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Case Studies

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Notes from the field

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Notes and cases from the field (practitioners)

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Reports

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News and Notices

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Points of View

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Peer Review Process

The Journal of Community Informatics accepts the submission of articles on any topic within the field of CI and from any geographic location and including Internet-enabled multimedia. Submitted articles are evaluated on the basis of their contribution to the knowledge and practice CI and on methodology, theoretical and empirical contribution, and style.

Submitted articles will, in general, be reviewed by two external reviewers chosen for their knowledge in specific sub-areas of CI. Peer reviewers will have four possible options, for each article:

  1. accept without revision,
  2. accept after revision without expecting to check those revisions,
  3. neither accept nor reject until author(s) make revisions and resubmit,
  4. reject because unsound, inappropriate or otherwise failing to make a contribution to the field.

Reviewers may ask for revisions with respect to the nature and content of the analysis, insufficient contextualization or contribution of the article in the field or to the field including the literature, theory and current practice, or inappropriate linking of results and conclusions among others. The Journal of Community Informatics normally allows authors a maximum of two revisions for each article. Peer reviewers are asked to comment concerning the clarity and style of the writing. In such cases authors are asked to revise the article, seeking, if necessary, the assistance of colleagues or a commercial editing service.

Our intention is to publish research as quickly as possible. Our electronic submission process is designed to facilitate rapid publication. The Journal has English as working language, so unless clearly stated in a Call for Papers for a Special Issue, articles may at this time be submitted and will be peer reviewed only in English. Abstracts in English must be provided for all articles; additional abstracts in other languages are welcome but not required.

Statement on use of Generative AI

All submissions to JoCI (articles, editorials, reviews, etc.) must be the exclusive work of the listed human authors. In preparing your manuscript, please describe in comments to the editor how any generative AI model was used. For support in navigating the appropriate use of generative AI, please follow these guidelines prepared by the American Psychological Association.

Also note that the use of generative AI to write peer reviews is not permitted. All peer reviews submitted as part of reviewer duties must be wholly the work of the corresponding peer reviewer. 

Publication Frequency

The Journal of Community Informatics will be published two times a year.

Open Access Policy

The Journal of Community Informatics provides open access and an open archive for all of its content based on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Such access is associated with increased readership and increased citation of an author's work.

The Journal of Community Informatics does not charge for publication. Nor APCs nor submission charges will be requested under any circumstance.

Authors retain copyright on their work. This is stated in the published copy of each submission to the Journal. Any version in the Journal is published under Creative Commons public licence "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5", as stated in the Copyright Notice for the Journal.

For more information on this approach, see the Public Knowledge Project, which has designed this system to improve the scholarly and public quality of research, and which freely distributes the journal system as well as other software to support the open access publishing of scholarly resources.

 

Notices

Visit the Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) for information about CIRN's annual conference in Monash, Italy.