Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

[Jurnal The Messenger] is an  International Scientific Journal published by the Department of Communication, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication, Universitas Semarang. Articles published are the results of research done on communication field, bringing the new sights on Cultural Studies, Integrated Marketing Communication, and Media.  Starting from 2021, [Jurnal The Messenger] will publish three times  (Regular Issues) a year (January-April, May-August, and September-December).  

[Jurnal The Messenger] is  the first communication journal in Indonesia indexed in the Web of Science database.  

[Jurnal The Messenger] has been  included in Journal Citation Reports 2021  from Clarivate Analytics Web of Science, with Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) 2020 as 31.64 (JCI Percentile),  142/207 (JCI Rank, Category: Communication), in Q3 of JCI Quartile; and also Journal Impact Factor (JIF) Without Self Cites as 0.122 that available at:  https://jcr.clarivate.com/jcr/browse-journals  

our scope:

-).  Cultural Studies: Representation Studies,  Identity Studies, Minority Studies, Gender,  Feminist Theory,  Reception Studies, Popular Culture,  Film Studies, Subcultures, Ideology, Hegemony, Texts and Readers.

-). Integrated Marketing Communication: Public Relations,  Corporate Communication, Crisis Communication, Advertising, Brand Value, Digital Branding, Direct Selling, Promotion, Interactive and Digital Marketing Communication Studies.

-). Media: Memory and Media,  Gender and Sexuality in the Media, Social Media, Media Globalization, Media Convergence,  Media Literacy, Media Language, Media and Religion,  Media and Technology.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Submitted papers are evaluated by double blind peer review for contribution, originality and relevance. The Editor shall inform you of the results of the review as soon as possible, hopefully in 6 months. Please notice that because of the great number of submissions that [Jurnal The Messenger] has received during the last few months the duration of the review process can be up to 10 months.

 

Publication Frequency

Online Submission (submitted papers MUST BE written in English, and with  OUR TEMPLATE).
We strongly prefer to receive manuscripts via our online submission system. Using this system, authors can upload manuscript files (text, figures and supplementary information (including video), ASO (Authors' Statement of Originality) & CTA (Copyright Transfer Agreement)) directly to our office and check on the status of their manuscripts during the review process. First, kindly please register as author, and then you should login to submit your papers. Please don ´t forget tick author when you make a registration.

Vol 14 No 1 (2022)  (Regular Issue), deadline: October 1,  2021
Vol 14 No 2 (2022)  (Regular Issue), deadline: February 1,  2022
Vol 14 No 3 (2022) (Regular Issue),  deadline: June  1, 2022

 

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.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS 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. More...