Indonesian Red Crescent Humanitarian Journal

About the Journal

Indonesian Red Crescent Humanitarian Journal (IRCHUM) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by Bulan Sabit Merah Indonesia. IRCHUM provides a forum for research, scholarly analysis, and evidence-based discussion concerning humanitarian action and social-humanitarian activities.

The journal welcomes interdisciplinary contributions that strengthen knowledge, policy, practice, community resilience, and humanitarian responses in Indonesia and other relevant contexts.

Focus and Scope

IRCHUM focuses on humanitarian action and social-humanitarian activities. The journal publishes original research articles, community service reports, case studies, conceptual papers, theoretical studies, review articles, and policy discussions related to disaster management, emergency response, volunteering, community empowerment, social programs, humanitarian services, and other issues directly connected with humanitarian practice.

Manuscripts in the fields of health, medicine, nursing, and midwifery are welcomed insofar as they are situated within a clear humanitarian context, including disaster response, emergency care, community health, humanitarian medical services, public health outreach, and support for vulnerable communities.

Manuscripts that discuss health, medical, nursing, or other professional topics without a clear relationship to humanitarian, community, emergency, disaster, vulnerable-population, or social-humanitarian contexts may be considered outside the journal's Focus and Scope.

Editorial and Peer Review Process

All submitted manuscripts undergo an Initial Editorial Assessment to evaluate their compliance with the journal's Focus and Scope, author guidelines, publication ethics, scientific quality requirements, and technical requirements.

Manuscripts that pass the editorial assessment are evaluated through a double-blind peer-review process by at least two reviewers with relevant expertise. Editorial decisions are based on academic quality, methodological soundness, relevance to the journal's scope, research integrity, and substantive recommendations provided by the reviewers.

The manuscript submission, review, revision, and editorial decision processes are managed through the journal's Open Journal Systems (OJS).

Submission

Authors are required to prepare their manuscripts in accordance with the IRCHUM Author Guidelines and the latest article template before submission.

All manuscripts should be submitted through the journal's online submission system. Authors can upload manuscript files and supplementary materials, monitor the editorial process, submit revisions, and follow the status of their submissions through their OJS account.

Article Processing Charge

Publication Ethics and Research Integrity

IRCHUM is committed to maintaining high standards of scholarly publishing and academic integrity. Authors, reviewers, and editors are expected to comply with journal policies concerning publication ethics, authorship and contributorship, conflicts of interest, plagiarism and similarity screening, research misconduct, Artificial Intelligence use, research ethics, ethical clearance, data availability, corrections, retractions, and editorial appeals.

Research involving human participants and/or animals must comply with applicable ethical requirements. Where ethical approval is required, authors must provide information regarding the relevant ethics committee and the approval number or other appropriate evidence of ethical compliance.

Artificial Intelligence Policy

Authors must transparently disclose the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools where applicable and remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and content of their manuscripts. AI tools cannot be listed as authors and must not replace scholarly judgment.

Reviewers are prohibited from using AI tools to analyse, evaluate, or generate peer-review comments from submitted manuscripts, and must not upload manuscripts or parts of manuscripts into external AI systems. Editors must also maintain manuscript confidentiality and may not use AI to replace editorial judgment or decision-making.

Data Availability and Research Transparency

Authors are expected to provide an appropriate Data Availability Statement. Where relevant and ethically permissible, authors should provide access to supporting data, code, methods, protocols, or research materials. Data sharing must remain consistent with research ethics, privacy protection, confidentiality obligations, legal requirements, and intellectual property rights.

Open Access

Indonesian Red Crescent Humanitarian Journal provides open access to its published content to promote the widest possible dissemination and use of humanitarian knowledge. Authors retain rights in accordance with the journal's applicable Copyright and Licensing Policy.

Open-access publication may contribute to wider readership, greater visibility, scholarly collaboration, interdisciplinary exchange, public engagement, and broader use of research findings.

Abstracting and Indexing

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