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ELANG: Journal of Interdisciplinary Research publishes original research that applies a multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary approach in the following fields:

Management and Business
Visual Communication Design
Social Engineering
Computer Science

Manuscripts that address a problem in one field using concepts, methods or data from another field are particularly welcome.

ELANG accepts three types of manuscript: Research Articles, Case Studies and Review Articles (systematic literature reviews or bibliometric analyses). A case study must evaluate its result; a manuscript that only builds an application or system without evaluation is not accepted. A review article must follow a stated protocol (for example PRISMA 2020). Opinion pieces, activity reports, teaching modules and manuscripts without an original scholarly contribution are not accepted. The required structure of each type is described in the Author Guidelines.

ELANG is owned and managed by the Research and Community Service Institute (LPPM), Universitas Bhinneka Nusantara (UBHINUS), Malang, Indonesia. LPPM UBHINUS appoints the Editorial Team, provides the resources and the publishing platform, and ensures that the journal complies with publication ethics and national accreditation requirements. Editorial decisions are made independently by the Editorial Team. The journal does not receive funding from advertising or commercial sponsors.

Peer Review Process

Initial screening. Before peer review, the Editor checks every new submission for completeness of the three required files, fit with the focus and scope, compliance with the template and Author Guidelines, research integrity and initial quality, including the similarity report (see Plagiarism Check). Submissions that do not pass are returned to the authors for correction or declined without external review. Authors are informed of the screening result within 7 days of submission.

Double-anonymous review. ELANG applies double-anonymous peer review: the identities of authors and reviewers are concealed from each other. Reviewers receive only the Anonymized Manuscript. The whole process is managed through the journal's online system (OJS).

Reviewers. Each manuscript is evaluated by at least two reviewers with expertise in its subject, who are not from the authors' institution. Reviewers assess originality and contribution, the research gap, the method, the analysis and discussion, the conclusion, and the quality and currency of the references. Reviewers with a personal or institutional relationship with the authors must declare it and decline the invitation. Reviewers may not use generative AI tools to analyse, evaluate or write review comments, or upload any part of a manuscript to an AI application.

Timeline. Reviewers respond to an invitation within 1 week and complete the review within 4 weeks. Authors submit their revision, with a response to every comment, within 2 weeks.

Decisions. In the first round the Editor records a decision only after at least two reviews have been completed: Accept, Minor Revision, Major Revision or Reject. A Major Revision is returned to at least one of the first-round reviewers; a Minor Revision is verified by the Editor. Review is limited to two rounds, after which the Editor decides to accept or reject. Decisions are based solely on academic merit. The process follows the COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers.

ELANG is published twice a year: No. 1 in July and No. 2 in January. Submissions are accepted throughout the year. The editorial schedule of each issue is:

Issue	Submission deadline	Final decision	Publication
No. 1	15 April	mid-June	July
No. 2	15 October	mid-December	January

A manuscript is published in the earliest issue whose final-decision date it meets; otherwise it is scheduled for the next issue.

ELANG provides immediate open access to all published articles, with no subscription, no paywall and no embargo. Readers may read, download and print any article without registration.

Authors retain the copyright of their articles and grant the journal the right of first publication. All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0): anyone may share and adapt the work for any purpose, provided that the original authors and source are credited and adaptations are distributed under the same license. See the Copyright Policy.

ELANG does not charge authors any fee. There is no submission fee and no article processing or publication charge. All costs are covered by LPPM Universitas Bhinneka Nusantara.

ELANG preserves its published content through the following arrangements:

Crossref: every article is registered with Crossref and receives a DOI (prefix 10.32664), so that links to the article persist even if its location changes.
Server backup: the publisher's technical team backs up the journal server, including the database and all published files, every day.

Archived articles keep their CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Additional preservation services will be listed here once they are in operation.

Every person listed as an author must meet all of the following: (1) a substantial contribution to the conception or design of the work, or to the acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data; (2) drafting the manuscript or revising it critically; (3) approval of the final version; and (4) agreement to be accountable for the work. Position, supervision of a unit, funding or personal relationships alone do not justify authorship; such contributors are thanked in the Acknowledgements.

Contributor roles. Each author's contribution is stated using the 14 roles of CRediT (ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022): Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing. The CRediT statement is written in the Title Page and is printed in the article after acceptance.

Corresponding author. The corresponding author is the main contact with the editorial office and ensures that all co-authors have approved the manuscript, the author list and the CRediT statement.

Changes in authorship. The list and order of authors must be identical in the Title Page and in OJS. Additions, removals or reordering are allowed before peer review only through a written request signed by all authors, including any author being added or removed. After peer review has started, changes are accepted only in exceptional cases with the written consent of all authors and the approval of the Editor-in-Chief.

Ghost, guest and gift authorship are not accepted, and the sale or purchase of authorship is treated as serious misconduct. AI tools cannot be authors. Authorship disputes are resolved among the authors; if a dispute arises during processing, the journal pauses the manuscript and follows COPE guidance, involving the authors' institutions where needed.

Effective date. The CRediT statement and the Title Page are required for manuscripts submitted from 9 November 2026. Articles submitted or published earlier do not include them.

Authors, reviewers and editors must disclose any financial, personal or professional relationship that could be perceived to influence the research, the review or the editorial decision. Authors declare it in the Declarations section (identifying details in the Title Page). Reviewers decline an invitation when they have a conflict of interest. Editors who have a conflict of interest, including manuscripts they authored themselves or by close collaborators, withdraw from handling the manuscript, which is then assigned to another editor who makes the decision independently. Failure to disclose a conflict of interest may lead to correction or retraction.

Authors may use generative AI tools for language editing or literature searching, but must disclose the tool name and version, the purpose, and the sections concerned in the Declarations section, and remain fully responsible for the content. AI must not be listed as an author and must not be used to fabricate data, results, images or references. Figures created or edited with generative AI must be disclosed in their captions.

Reviewers must not use AI to analyse, evaluate or write reviews, and must not upload any part of a manuscript to an AI application. Editors may use AI only for administrative or language tasks; AI does not replace editorial judgement. Use of AI against this policy is treated as a breach of academic integrity and may lead to rejection, correction or retraction. The AI declaration is required for manuscripts submitted from 9 November 2026.

Authors upload a complete Turnitin similarity report with every submission, and the Editor verifies it before review. The maximum similarity is 20%, excluding quotations and the reference list. Manuscripts above this limit are returned for revision and re-checked, or rejected when the overlap shows substantial unoriginal content. Copying without citation, paraphrasing without acknowledging the source, and reusing one's own published work without disclosure are violations of academic integrity. Plagiarism found after publication is handled under the Correction and Retraction policy.

Every article includes a Data Availability Statement in its Declarations section, using one of five options: (a) openly available in a repository; (b) available from the corresponding author on reasonable request; (c) included in the article or its supplementary files; (d) not publicly available, with the reason; (e) no new data were created or analysed. Data may be withheld when sharing would breach ethics, personal data protection, confidentiality or intellectual property. Where software or models are central to the findings, authors should provide the source code or enough detail of the method and parameters for others to reproduce the results.

Human participants: studies involving people (surveys, interviews, usability tests, experiments) must obtain approval from an ethics committee or follow their institution's procedure for low-risk research, and obtain informed consent; for participants under 18, consent from a parent or guardian.
Personal data: research using personal data, including data from social media, applications or organisational systems, must comply with Law of the Republic of Indonesia No. 27 of 2022 on Personal Data Protection and the terms of the data source. Data are anonymised before analysis and publication.
Animals: research involving animals requires approval from an animal ethics committee.
Security research: studies that reveal security vulnerabilities must follow responsible disclosure to the affected party and must not publish details that enable misuse.
Declaration: authors state the ethics approval, exemption or reason it was not required in the Ethical Approval declaration.

Editors may request evidence of approval, consent or data permission at any stage.

Research misconduct includes fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, improper authorship, undisclosed conflicts of interest, and duplicate or simultaneous submission. Any allegation, from a reviewer, editor, reader or third party, is handled following COPE guidance: review of the evidence, clarification from the parties involved, investigation where needed, and a decision by the Editor-in-Chief. Outcomes may include rejection, revision, correction or retraction. Allegations may be sent to lppm@ubhinus.ac.id and are treated confidentially.

Appeals. The corresponding author, with the agreement of all co-authors, may appeal a decision on a manuscript that has undergone peer review if it was based on a factual error or a misunderstanding. Decisions made at initial screening are final. One appeal per manuscript may be sent within 30 days of the decision to the Editor-in-Chief at lppm@ubhinus.ac.id, stating the manuscript ID and a point-by-point explanation. The appeal is assessed by an editor who was not involved in the original decision, and the outcome is communicated within 30 days and is final.

Complaints. Complaints about the journal's processes, the conduct of editors or reviewers, or the application of these policies may be sent to lppm@ubhinus.ac.id. The editorial office acknowledges a complaint within 7 working days and responds within 30 days. Complaints about the Editor-in-Chief are handled by the Head of LPPM Universitas Bhinneka Nusantara. Unresolved matters may be referred to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

ELANG follows COPE guidelines. A correction is published when an error does not affect the validity of the findings (for example a typographical error or a wrong affiliation). A retraction is published when there is clear evidence that the findings are unreliable because of misconduct or serious honest error, redundant publication or plagiarism. Decisions are made by the Editor-in-Chief after investigation, are linked to the original article and its DOI metadata, and retracted articles remain accessible but are clearly marked.

Post-Publication Discussion

Readers who find an error, have a question or wish to comment on a published article may contact the editorial office through the Contact page, stating the article title, DOI and the details of the concern. The editorial office reviews the matter, follows up with the corresponding author where appropriate, and takes action under the Correction and Retraction policy.

Last updated: 9 November 2026.

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