Focus and Scope

MeNice journal covers field of Mechatronics, Electrical, Electronics, and Informatics Engineering.

Topic of interest include, but are not limited to, the following.

1. Mechatronics

• Intelligent mechatronics, robotics and biomimetics
• Novel and unconventional mechatronic systems and robots
• Modelling and control of mechatronics systems and robots
• Elements, structures, mechanisms of micro and nano systems
• Sensors, wireless sensor networks and multi-sensor data fusion
• Biomedical and rehabilitation engineering, prosthetics and artificial organs
• AI, neural networks and fuzzy logic in mechatronics and robotics
• Industrial automation, process control and networked control systems
• Telerobotics, human computer interaction, human-robot interaction.

2. Electrical

Electrical Engineering Materials Electric Power Generation Transmission and Distribution Power Electronics Power Quality Power Economic FACTS Renewable Energy

Electric Traction Electromagnetic Compatibility High Voltage Insulation Technologies High Voltage Apparatuses Lightning Detection and Protection Power System Analysis SCADA Electrical Measurements

3. Electronics

Electronic Materials Microelectronic System Design and Implementation of Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) VLSI Design System-on-a-Chip (SoC) and Electronic Instrumentation Using CAD Tools

Biomedical Transducers and instrumentation Biomechanics and Rehabilitation Engineering Transistor MOSFET CMOS

4. Informatics

Computer Architecture Computer Network Computer Security Parallel and Distributed Computer High Performance Computing Pervasive Computing Embedded System  Software Engineering Programming Mobile Programming Human-Computer Interaction

Virtual/Augmented Reality Game Programming Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Data Mining Bioinformatics Computer Vision Natural Language Processing Information Retrieval Information System IT Governance

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

Every submitted article to Journal of Mechatronics, Electrical, Electronics, and Informatics (MeNice) will be reviewed using double-blind review process by at least one reviewer and one peer-reviewer based on contribution, originality, relevance, and presentation. 

Plagiarism scanning will be conducted with the help of Google Scholar and an Anti-Plagiarism Software.

The decision made for the article is the result of the Editorial Board’s agreement based on the suggestions proposed by the reviewer(s) and peer-reviewer(s).

Publication Frequency

This journal is published twice a year in June and December

Important dates:

June Edition
Submission Deadline	:	15 April
Notification of Acceptance	:	15 May
Published	:	30 June
December Edition
Submission Deadline	:	15 October
Notification of Acceptance	:	15 November
Published	:	31 December

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.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

This statement clarifies ethical behaviour of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in our journal, including the authors, the editors, the peer-reviewers and the publisher (Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta). This statement is based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication

The publication of an article in this journal is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the authors, the journal editors, the peer reviewers, the publisher and the society. 

Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta as the publisher of this Journal takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing extremely seriously and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. In addition, the  Editorial Board will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful and necessary.

A. Editor's Responsibilities

1. Publication Decisions

The editors of the journal are responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors 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 editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

B. Reviewer's Responsibilities

1. Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Peer-review process assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Standards of Objectivity

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

5. 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.

6. 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.

C. Author's Duties

1. Reporting Standards

Authors of original research report 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 behaviour and are unacceptable.

2. Data Access and Retention

Authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data if practicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

3. 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.

4. Multiple, Redundant, and 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.

5. 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.

6. Authorship of 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.

7. Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects 

If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript.

8. 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.

9. 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.

Withdrawal of Manuscripts

1. Author is not allowed to withdraw submitted manuscripts, because the withdrawal is waste of valuable resources that editors and reviewers spent a great deal of time processing submitted manuscripts, money and works invested by the publisher.
2. If author still requests withdrawal of his/her manuscript when the manuscript is still in the peer-reviewing process, author will be punished with paying $50 per manuscript, as withdrawal penalty to the publisher.
3. However, it is unethical to withdraw a submitted manuscript from one journal if accepted by another journal.
4. The withdrawal of manuscript after the manuscript is accepted for publication, author will be punished by paying US$100 per manuscript.
5. Withdrawal of manuscript is only allowed after withdrawal penalty has been fully paid to the Publisher.
6. If author don't agree to pay  the penalty, the author and his/her affiliation will be blacklisted for publication in this journal. Even, his/her previously published articles will be removed from our online system.

Retraction Policies

The papers published in Journal of Mechatronics, Electrical, Electronics, and Informatics (MeNice) will be consider to retract in the publication if :

1. They have clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct (e.g. data fabri-cation) or honest error (e.g. miscalculation or experimental error);
2. the findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper crossreferencing, permission or justification (i.e. cases of redundant publication);
3. it constitutes plagiarism;
4. it reports unethical research.

The mechanism of retraction follow the Retraction Guidelines of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) which can be accessed at https://publicationethics.org/files/retraction guidelines.pdf.

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