About the Journal

FOCUS AND SCOPE

Jurnal Vokatek is an open-access scholarly journal that publishes high-quality works on research and community service. The journal promotes evidence-based innovation in community engagement and empowerment, emphasizing practical solutions, measurable outcomes, and sustainable social transformation. Manuscripts may be submitted in English.

The journal publishes original empirical research (quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods), community-based project descriptions and evaluations, systematic literature reviews (including meta-analyses), methodological papers, policy and governance studies, and conceptual works related to community engagement and social innovation.

This journal covers, but is not limited to, the following areas

1. Social Sciences, Economics, Psychology, Tourism, and Community Development

  • Coaching and mentoring for leadership, performance improvement, and community empowerment
  • Psychological and behavioral dimensions of community programs including motivation, behavior change, and ethics
  • Volunteerism engagement and management including participation, retention, and volunteer leadership
  • Digital and virtual volunteerism including online engagement models and their community impacts
  • Philanthropy, fundraising innovation, and CSR practices including partnerships, accountability, and social welfare impact
  • Community-based tourism development, tourism Economics, hospitality, and business events
  • Case studies and impact evaluation of community interventions and empowerment programs

2. Humanities, Arts, Culture, and Religious Studies

  • Community culture, heritage, local wisdom, and social cohesion programs
  • Arts-based empowerment and creative approaches to community engagement
  • Religious studies and values-based community development for social harmony
  • Community communication, inclusion, and ethical public engagement practices

3. Education and Learning Innovation

  • Coaching in education and community development to strengthen institutional capacity and social innovation
  • Community education, training, mentoring, and capacity building programs
  • Development of learning materials, modules, and learning media for community programs
  • Digital learning and educational technology to support community outreach and learning outcomes
  • Program evaluation and assessment of training and learning effectiveness

4. Science, Health, Sport, and Environment

  • Community health promotion, prevention programs, and health literacy initiatives
  • Sport and physical activity programs for health improvement and community well-being
  • Environmental education, sustainability initiatives, sanitation, clean water, and waste management
  • Climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and community resilience programs

5. Law, Governance, and Engineering for Community Solutions

  • Community legal education, legal literacy, mediation, consumer protection, and access to justice initiatives
  • Governance and policy analysis for accountability and institutional strengthening in community programs
  • Engineering and appropriate technology solutions for community needs including design and implementation
  • Digital systems and technology-enabled services to improve program effectiveness and measurable impact

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.

Benefits of open access for the author, include:

  • Free access for all users worldwide
  • Authors retain copyright to their work
  • Increased visibility and readership
  • Rapid publication
  • No spatial constraints

Works/articles in this journal as are bound to Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Publication Ethics

Our ethic statements are based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

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Publication decisions
The editor is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published.
The editor may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.
 
Fair play
An editor at any time evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
 
Confidentiality
The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
 
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.
 
Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions
Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.
 
Promptness
Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.
 
Confidentiality
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.
 
Standards of Objectivity
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
 
Acknowledgement of Sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
 
Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.
 
Duties of Authors

Reporting standards
Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
 
Originality and Plagiarism
The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
 
Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication
An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.
 
Acknowledgement of Sources
Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.
 
Authorship of the Paper
Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors.

The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published works
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.