Journal
Definitions and Journal Types
Journal Definition
- Of course you often hear the name of the journal, especially if you are in
college and are preparing the final project, thesis, or thesis. Well, on this
occasion will discuss the understanding of journals and various types of
journals in detail.
Journal
Definition
In the Big
Indonesian Dictionary, journals have many meanings such as diaries (books),
books used as intermediaries, daily newspapers, special magazines that contain
articles in certain fields of science, and many others.
Journal is an excerpt
from several reports in which there are important points in the journal.
Scientific journals have many types because they cover all fields of science,
including social sciences and humanities. In the field of natural science or
medicine, publishing scientific articles is more important than other academic
fields.
Various Kinds of
Journals
Journals have
various types, among which you can see the following:
1) Print Journal
Print journals
are types of journals written by several authors and distributed through print.
Print journals are also accredited by attaching the names of bebestari partners
and evidence of journal examination and accreditation rules set by the Directorate
of Higher Education. However, since April 2016 accreditation of print journals
began to not be held and replaced with online journals or what we often call
e-journals, which of course must be with ISSN standards that are different from
print journals.
2) Online Journal
To distinguish
true online journals from narrow definitions, there are two definitions of
online journals understood.
An online journal
is a type of journal that can be accessed or obtained online through the
journal website or the website of an institution. This online journal can be
said as a print journal but the results are online.
The real online
journal is if the journal has a systematic process in its management that is
done online. In this case the process carried out between the authors then
continued by the editor and subsequently the free partner via e-mail and then
enter the decision process whether the journal is accepted, rejected, or must
be corrected. This depends on the executor of the journal and the system it
uses. What you should know is that online journals will be more easily
recognized and widely distributed if the journal already has a DOI (digital
object identifier). This is like a car or motorcycle that has a vehicle
registration number.
3) Local Journal
Local journals
are names that are held to represent journals published by an institution with
writers from the institution itself. All journal publications consist of
writers from the institution itself and the journal also does not go through a
peer-reviewed process or the journal is only read by the institution itself and
is usually not in line with the articles to be read and examined.
4) National
Journal
National journals
are types of journals written by several foreign writers and examined by
readers from abroad as well. However, it has not yet been accredited because it
is possible that the journal has not yet passed or has not been submitted for
accreditation and started indexing to several index institutions both
domestically and abroad.
5) International
Journal
An international
journal is a type of journal that uses international languages such as
English, Chinese, Arabic and so on. However, the international naming is not
only because of the language, but because the authors are made from various
universities throughout the world and have free partners who are experts and
reliable in their fields. However, it does not only reach that stage. The
journal is also written using the OJS (Open Journal System) system.
International journals can also be taken from local journals if the author of
the journal only comes from an institution in that area so that it can be
categorized as a local journal abroad as well as an Indonesian-English journal
written by a local writer from an institution in the region itself.
6) Reputable
International Journal
Reputable
international journals are the types of journals that have passed verification
or index in Thompson reuters and Copernicus, DOAJ, CrossReff (medium) and
Zambrut (the highest). The journals of Indonesian children who have been
successfully indexed in Zambrut generally speak English and are based on
science and technology.
That is the
discussion about the definition of journals and journal types. Thank you for
visiting. Also read other interesting articles to continue to broaden your
horizons.
You may often
hear the term article. The definition of the article itself is a paper that is
designed to be published in a journal or book collection of articles written
with scientific procedures guidelines that have been agreed or determined
This article was
made from the results of field research, literature studies, thoughts or
results from project development. Articles are grouped into two when viewed in
terms of systematic writing and also its contents, namely the results of research
and non research articles.
Research Article
Based on the
understanding of the article, then there are a number of characteristics of a
scientific article, such as below:
Scientific
articles usually contain only those matters that are important, such as
research findings, a summary of the results of research findings, and finally
conclusions.
The article is
arranged in writing systematic, which consists of parts and sub sections.
In the research
article there is also a procedure that must be obeyed, which can take three
ways as below
The article was
written before the technical report with the aim, this was done to obtain
input.
Also made after
the technical report.
Journal articles
are the only articles that are designed for self-financing research, in which
the article writing system is without a numeric or alphabetical system.
As a scientific
paper, articles must be systematically followed, with arrangements such as,
Title of Author's Name, Sponsor, Abstract and keywords, Introduction, Methods,
Results, Discussion, Conclusions and Suggestions, Reference Lists /
Bibliography.
Non Research
Article
Non-research
articles actually refer to all types of scientific articles that are not
included in the research reports. This article has provisions that are not much
different from the provisions when you write a short paper, or the length will
not be more than 20 pages, except in abstract short papers and keywords do not need
to be there.
Systematic
writing non-research articles does not use numerical and alphabetical
numbering. This non-research type article only contains things that are very
essential and pages that range for about 10 to 20 pages. Non-research articles
also must contain a number of basic elements such as the title, author's name
and others.
Understanding
Journal
For those of you
who are struggling in the academic field or even in the scientific world, you
must be familiar with the term journal. The journal itself is a periodic
publication whose contents are a number of articles which are published
periodically at certain intervals. Journals are usually published monthly or
every year, or in some cases journals are published annually. There are a
number of types of journals that are produced and also published in the world
of journals, so they can be calcified as follows:
Professional or
Trade Journals
This journal is
targeted at a particular profession or industry and this journal usually
contains the latest news, opinion or even practical advice about new products.
In addition it can also contain reviews to inform readers about events in the
industry and profession. Articles collected may be peer-reviewed and may
include citations. There are a number of examples, such as MediaWeek, The
Bookseller, and also Advertising Age.
Popular Journals
Usually popular
journals contain feature stories, opinions and also pieces of editorial that
inform and also entertain their readers. The article is not peer-reviewed and the
language style used also usually uses language styles that are easy to
understand. They also usually contain a lot of advertisements, illustrations
and a number of glossy photos. There are also many unusual quotes and
bibliographies. There are several examples of the most popular such as, Vogue,
Time, Economist and others.
Scholarly
Journals
Scholarly Journal
is also known as refereed journals, peer-reviewed journals or even academic
journals. Understanding this journal is a magazine whose contents are articles
that will be published regularly at certain intervals. The main purpose of this
journal is to spread knowledge and research about new findings. They may also
contain a review and critique of studies and findings. These journals are not
uncommonly identified by their titles, perhaps like the words 'Quarterly',
'Journal', 'Review', and others. Examples of this one journal such as the South
African Journal of Science, Publishing Research Quarterly and others.
That is the
understanding of articles and journals, hopefully with the above understanding
you will not mistakenly distinguish articles and journals.