Jurnal Terapan Sosial Humaniora dan Teknologi is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal published by LPPM STMIK Indonesia Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Currently in the administrative processing of official e-ISSN and p-ISSN from the National Centre for ISSN Indonesia (BRIN) for its inaugural volume in 2027, the journal is published biannually in March and September. All published manuscripts are permanently archived and assigned a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI).

Jurnal Terapan Sosial Humaniora dan Teknologi is a scientific, peer-reviewed, and open-access journal dedicated to publishing high-quality interdisciplinary research and practical applications exploring the intersection of social sciences, humanities, and technological advancement. The journal aims to bridge theoretical perspectives in society and culture with applied computational methodologies, digital innovation, and sociotechnical transformations.

All published articles are assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) via Crossref, ensuring permanent accessibility, persistence, and robust citation linkage within the international scholarly record.

The journal's main focus areas include, but are not limited to:

• Digital Humanities & Cultural Informatics: Digital heritage preservation, historical data modeling, linguistic corpus analytics, digitized indigenous knowledge systems, and computational folklore studies.
• Computational Social Science: Social network analysis (SNA), public opinion mining, socio-political discourse tracking on digital platforms, and behavioral predictive modeling.
• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) & Sociotechnical Systems: User experience (UX/UI) design for diverse social groups, accessibility technologies, and the socio-cultural ergonomics of interactive systems.
• E-Governance, Digital Policy & Public Administration: Smart governance solutions, digital public service delivery, civic tech, policy informatics, and open-government data ecosystems.
• Digital Economy, E-Business & Community Empowerment: Rural digital entrepreneurship, fintech adoption in underserved communities, technology-driven micro-enterprises, and applied supply-chain socio-dynamics.
• Technology, Law & Digital Society Ethics: Cyberlaw, intellectual property in the digital era, data privacy rights, algorithmic bias mitigation, and regulatory governance of emerging digital platforms.
• Digital Communication, Media Ecology & Journalism: Algorithmic content distribution, media literacy in computational environments, digital activism, crisis communication, and disinformation counter-mechanisms.
• Applied Community Technologies & Social Innovation: Field-tested technological implementations, disaster risk reduction systems, participatory GIS, and assistive tech tailored for societal well-being and community resilience.

Submitted manuscripts must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. All manuscripts undergo a rigorous double-blind peer review process conducted by at least two independent reviewers with expertise in the relevant subject area.

Jurnal Terapan Sosial Humaniora dan Teknologi strives for a rigorous yet efficient review process. On average, authors can expect a first decision within 7 days, a peer review period of 14 days, a total submission-to-acceptance time of approximately 28 days, and publication within 7 days of acceptance. Jurnal Terapan Sosial Humaniora dan Teknologi is committed to a fair, transparent, and timely review process in accordance with best practices recommended by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics). To ensure complete editorial accountability, all published articles explicitly feature the complete genesis history (Received, Revised, Accepted, and Published dates).

Jurnal Terapan Sosial Humaniora dan Teknologi periodically publishes Special Issues dedicated to emerging and high-impact topics at the convergence of social humanities and technological progress. Special Issues are guest-edited by leading experts and undergo the same rigorous double-blind peer review process as regular submissions.

Proposals for Special Issues should include:

• A clear title and description of the proposed theme;
• Relevance to the journal's scope and current societal or technological trends;
• Names, institutional affiliations, and Scopus/ORCID profiles of proposed Guest Editors;
• Proposed milestone timeline for submission, review, and publication.

Proposals may be submitted via the Contact Us page.

Jurnal Terapan Sosial Humaniora dan Teknologi recognizes the constructive assistance offered by Artificial Intelligence tools in scholarly writing while safeguarding academic transparency. The following policy applies to all submissions:

• Transparent Disclosure: Authors must provide an explicit statement prior to References indicating whether or not AI-assisted tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Grammarly AI, Copilot) were utilized during linguistic polishing or proofreading.
• AI Authorship Preclusion: In alignment with COPE standards, AI tools cannot be listed as authors or co-authors because non-human software cannot assume legal or ethical accountability for research assertions.
• Author Ownership & Integrity: Authors maintain full intellectual ownership and legal responsibility for the factual integrity, context, citations, and originality of their published work.
• Permitted Scope: The use of AI is welcomed strictly for proofreading, grammar, and stylistic enhancement. Conceptual design, empirical data analysis, and substantive conclusions must reflect the authors' own scholarly synthesis.

This policy is fully harmonized with the position statement of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Jurnal Terapan Sosial Humaniora dan Teknologi is published twice a year (biannual) — March and September. Each issue features an intentionally curated collection of peer-reviewed original research, practical applications, and interdisciplinary field reviews. Submission slots per issue are limited to preserve rigorous review quality; the journal may close submissions early once the issue capacity is reached. Authors are advised to monitor the latest Announcements for current call-for-papers status.

Jurnal Terapan Sosial Humaniora dan Teknologi is an immediate and permanent Open Access journal. All published content is freely available online immediately upon release, without subscription, registration, or pay-per-view fees. Readers are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full texts of articles, consistent with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI).

The journal believes that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge and maximizes the citation impact and visibility of published authors. For further details on open publishing models, see the Public Knowledge Project.

Jurnal Terapan Sosial Humaniora dan Teknologi applies an Article Processing Charge (APC) to support peer review management, Crossref DOI registration, XML/PDF typesetting, and perpetual online preservation. To support scholars and foster submissions, publications in the inaugural volumes are fully subsidized / free of charge by LPPM STMIK Indonesia Banda Aceh.

Future fee adjustments, payment methods, and waiver options for authors experiencing financial hardship are transparently updated and managed on our dedicated Publication Fee page. Where fees apply, once a manuscript is formally accepted and processed, the charge is non-refundable due to immediate production commitments.

All articles published in Jurnal Terapan Sosial Humaniora dan Teknologi are assigned a unique, permanent Digital Object Identifier (DOI) via Crossref, ensuring persistent linking and verified citation tracking across scholarly indexing databases. DOIs are activated immediately upon final publication.

Authors who publish in Jurnal Terapan Sosial Humaniora dan Teknologi retain unrestricted copyright of their work, granting the journal right of first publication. All articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.

Jurnal Terapan Sosial Humaniora dan Teknologi maintains zero tolerance for plagiarism, data fabrication, or academic misconduct. All submitted manuscripts are screened using iThenticate, Turnitin, and Copyleaks before entering peer review.

Jurnal Terapan Sosial Humaniora dan Teknologi is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics for authors, reviewers, and editors. Our publication ethics framework governs author duties (CRediT taxonomy), reviewer independence, conflict of interest disclosures, and retraction procedures. For full particulars, please consult our dedicated Publication Ethics page.

All authors, peer reviewers, and editors must disclose any potential financial, personal, or institutional conflicts of interest that could compromise the integrity or objectivity of the research:

• Authors: Must include an explicit Conflict of Interest Statement prior to References disclosing financial grants, corporate consultancies, or affirming their absence.
• Reviewers: Must immediately decline to evaluate manuscripts involving recent collaborators, department colleagues, or competing commercial stakes.
• Editors: Must recuse themselves from handling submissions where personal, institutional, or financial conflicts exist.

Jurnal Terapan Sosial Humaniora dan Teknologi strictly executes the COPE Retraction Guidelines:

• Corrigendum / Erratum: Issued when a substantive typographical or calculation error does not compromise the scientific findings.
• Retraction: Enacted when a published article contains proven data fabrication, falsification, unreferenced plagiarism, or severe ethical violations. Retracted PDFs are retained in the archive watermarked "RETRACTED" to preserve scholarly history.
• Expression of Concern: Published when conclusive evidence of misconduct is under active institutional investigation.

Jurnal Terapan Sosial Humaniora dan Teknologi is dedicated to the perpetual preservation and worldwide accessibility of its published scholarship. The journal participates in distributed archiving networks:

• LOCKSS — Enabling participating libraries to collect, preserve, and restore decentralized archives.
• CLOCKSS — Guaranteeing large-scale digital preservation across global dark archives.
• PKP Preservation Network (PKP-PN) — Providing automated distributed preservation for OJS journals.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to self-archive the published version (Publisher's PDF) in institutional repositories, subject archives, and personal scientific profiles.

• Establishment & Preparation (2026): Jurnal Terapan Sosial Humaniora dan Teknologi was founded under LPPM STMIK Indonesia Banda Aceh as a flagship interdisciplinary peer-reviewed academic platform. All editorial workflows, submission gateways, and system foundations were established on OJS 3.
• ISSN Registration (2026): Formal administrative submission and processing for official e-ISSN and p-ISSN through the ISSN National Centre for Indonesia (BRIN).
• Harmonization of National & Global Publishing Standards (2026): Formally integrated national accreditation standards under the Decree of the Director General of Science and Technology No. 374/DST/D.D1/HM.01.01/2026 alongside global publishing ethics (COPE and CRediT taxonomy). This framework institutionalizes end-to-end manuscript history dating, strict PDF-to-web metadata consistency, and transparent author declarations (AI disclosure, author contributions, funding sources, and competing interests) starting from the inaugural volume.
• Inaugural Volume Launch (Scheduled 2027): Formal release of Volume 1, Number 1 with integrated Crossref DOI assignment, initiating consistent biannual publications in March and September under full open-access governance.