Focus and Scope

Focus and Scope

Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati (JKM) provides a scientific platform for the publication and dissemination of research, scholarly works, and evidence-based knowledge in the field of midwifery and related health sciences.

The journal aims to contribute to the advancement of midwifery science and practice by publishing high-quality research that strengthens evidence-based care, develops and evaluates innovative approaches, and addresses contemporary issues in maternal, reproductive, and community health.

JKM welcomes original research articles and other scholarly manuscripts relevant to the development of midwifery and health sciences.

The scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to:

• Midwifery care

• Maternal and newborn health

• Community midwifery

• Reproductive health

• Women's health

• Nutrition related to maternal, reproductive, and family health

• Psychology related to maternal and reproductive health

• Public health related to maternal, child, and reproductive health

• Adolescent health

• Family planning and preconception care

• Elderly and women's health across the life course

• Health promotion and education

• Evidence-based midwifery

• Innovations in midwifery practice

• Other health sciences directly related to midwifery and maternal–reproductive health

Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati encourages manuscripts that provide scientific, clinical, educational, community, or policy contributions to improving the quality of midwifery services and maternal, newborn, reproductive, and community health outcomes.

Section Policies

Artikel

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

The manuscript will be reviewed by the editor. The editor will decide whether the manuscript is appropriate to the scope and focus and appropriate for the reviewer. In this part we take time 6 days of working days.

Submissions that pass the initial editorial screening will be assigned to at least two independent reviewers through a blind peer-review process.There are three possible editorial decisions (1) the manuscript is accepted, (2) be amended and re-submit, or (3) is rejected. In This part  we take time 4-6 weeks.

The time to reach a final decision depends on the number of reviews rotation, perceptive writer etc. Typically, the time frame of delivery by an average of 2-4 months a final decision.

The total time a process until publishing a manuscript depends (additionally to the factors mentioned above) on the submission date, the journal's publication schedule, authors' adherence to the publication guidelines etc. Reviewed and accepted submissions are published by Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati, average would take time 2-4 months.

Open Access Policy

 This journal provides open access which in principle makes research freely available to the public and will support the largest global exchange of knowledge.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

Frequency Publication

This journal is published monthly. Published by Institute for Research and Community Service (LPPM) Malahayati University

Publication Decision

The editors are responsible for deciding which articles to publish. Editors comply with journal editorial board policies and require legal requirements as applicable to defamation, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. Editors like to discuss in teams to make final decisions.

Level of confidence

Regularly evaluate articles as intellectual property with justice without discrimination against race, sex, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or the author's political philosophy.

Confidentiality

The editorial team is prohibited from sharing any information about the article to anyone except for author himself, reviewers, and other editorial advisors. Ensuring the confidentiality of the author is the right to dignity.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Unpublished articles wish to return to the author, delete from database and prevent misuse one of the articles in the future

Reviewer's Task

Contribution to Assignment Editorial Decisions as a peer review to help editors in making editorial decisions and through editorial can give feedback on suggestions or recommendations to the author to improve the quality of the article. Speed After receiving the article, the editor will immediately process and the author can follow the management process path to the final result publication. Confidentiality Article has been submitted to during the process, handling as secret document. Review and editorial board in charge of an article. Standards of Objectivity The review process is carried out regularly objective. Personal criticism of the author is prohibited. The arbitrator assesses the article as considering their views with clarity and argument supporters. Reviewer Source Acknowledgment identify relevant and appropriate articles, supported by quotes. All observed statements, derivation, or argument reported accompanied by relevant quote. A reviewer warns to keep paying attention when finding similarity or substantial overlap. Openness and Conflict of Interest Information or ideas privileges obtained through regular peer review carried out in secret and prevent the use of Reviewers continue to pay attention to conflicts of interest resulting from competition, collaboration, or co-author, company

Writer's Task

Reporting standards Authentic articles presented by an author in reference to research results, find accurate, reliable data and accountability carried out as well as objective discussions about its significance. Not enough to load details and reference maybe others easily to find references.Data manipulation process considered a violation, behavior that unethical and unacceptable. Access and Retention Data Author provides raw data of the relationship with articles for editorial review, and also provide public access to the data (consistent with Statement ALPSP-STM on Data and Databases), published author articles, the author must save the data. in presenting information when there is a seminar presentation event. Originality and Plagiarism The authors ensure that the article written is original, from own property and if the author has used someone else's statement, need a proper quote. Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publications Authors are prohibited from publishing the same article in several journals, for exhibiting unethical and unacceptable behavior. Source Acknowledgment The author's attitude must acknowledge the paper others, also need some citations from reputable journals. Essays from Research Articles Essays that must be limited, only those who have a contribution in the research process such as the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of results. Contributors to be mentioned as co-authors. The lead author ensures that all co-authors have an agreement, the final version of the article and will publish. Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects During the project involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that are of the harmful properties inherent in its use, the author must be clearly explained and identify it's in the script. Disclosure and Conflict of Interest Authors are asked to disclose clearly regarding conflicts such as financial conflicts, substantive conflicts of interest that may be construed to influence outcomes over the course of the project. All financial resources support in the project need to be disclosed. Fundamental error in a published work When an author finds an error or significant inaccuracies in his published work, It is the obligation of the author to immediately notify the journal editor or publisher and work with the editor to retract or correct the paper

Screening for Plagiarism Policy

The Malahayati Midwifery Journal has a policy of screening for plagiarism. We use  

Before submitting articles to reviewers, those are first checked for similarity/plagiarism tool, by a member of the editorial team. The papers submitted to Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati  must have similarity level less than 20%.

Plagiarism is the exposing of another person’s thoughts or words as though they were your own, without permission, credit, or acknowledgment, or because of failing to cite the sources properly. Plagiarism can take diverse forms, from literal copying to paraphrasing the work of another. In order to properly judge whether an author has plagiarized, we emphasize the following possible situations:

1. An author can literally copy another author’s work- by copying word by word, in whole or in part, without permission, acknowledge or citing the original source. This practice can be identified through comparing the original source and the manuscript/work who is suspected of plagiarism.
2. Substantial copying implies for an author to reproduce a substantial part of another author, without permission, acknowledge or citation. The substantial term can be understood both in terms of quality as quantity, being often used in the context of Intellectual property. Quality refers to the relative value of the copied text in proportion to the work as a whole.
3. Paraphrasing involves taking ideas, words or phrases from a source and crafting them into new sentences within the writing. This practice becomes unethical when the author does not properly cite or does not acknowledge the original work/author. This form of plagiarism is the more difficult form to be identified.

Indexing and Abstract

Malahayati Journal of Midwifery indexed by: Google Scholar

Revocation

The papers published in the Jurnal Kebidanna Malahayati 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%20guidelines.pdf

Posting Your Article Policy

Understand Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati (JKM) article sharing and posting policies for each stage of the article life cycle.

Prior to submission to JKM
Authors may post their article any where at any time, including on preprint servers such as arXiv.org. This does not count as a prior publication.

Upon submission to JKM
Authors may share or post their submitted version of the article (also known as the preprint) in the following ways:

On the author’s personal website or their employer’s website
On institutional or funder websites if required
In the author’s own classroom use
On Scholarly Collaboration Networks (SCNs) that are signatories to the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers’ Sharing Principles (https://www.stm-assoc.org/stm-consultations/scn-consultation-2015/)

The following text should be included on the first page of the submitted article when it first is posted in any of the above outlets: “This work has been submitted to the Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati, hhttps://ejurnalmalahayati.ac.id/index.php/kebidananj km&page=login for possible publication".

Upon acceptance to JKM
If an author previously posted their submitted version of the article in any of the following locations, he or she will need to replace the submitted version with the accepted version of JKM. No other changes may be made to the accepted article.

1. Author’s personal website
2. Author’s employer’s website
3. arXiv.org
4. Funder’s repository*

Final published article

1. When the article is published, the posted version should be updated with a full citation to the original of Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati including DOI. He or she will need to replace the accepted version with the published article version of JKM.
2. The article will be followed by statements on theJKM's copyright notice at https://ejurnalmalahayati.ac.id/index.php/kebidanan#copyrightNotice.

Publication Ethics And Malpractice Statement

Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati

Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati (JKM) is committed to maintaining high standards of integrity, transparency, accountability, confidentiality, and ethical conduct in scholarly publishing.

The journal's publication ethics policies are guided by the principles and recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and applicable standards of responsible scholarly publishing.

This policy applies to all authors, editors, editorial board members, peer reviewers, and other parties involved in the submission, evaluation, editorial decision-making, and publication processes of Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati.

1. Editorial Responsibilities

Editors are responsible for ensuring that manuscripts are evaluated fairly, objectively, independently, and on the basis of their scientific merit, relevance, originality, methodological quality, and contribution to the scope of Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati.

Editorial decisions must not be influenced by the authors' race, gender, religion, nationality, institutional affiliation, political beliefs, personal relationships, or other characteristics unrelated to scientific quality.

Editors must ensure the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts and must not disclose information about manuscripts to unauthorized individuals.

Editors must disclose any potential conflict of interest and must withdraw from the editorial handling of manuscripts where such conflicts may compromise, or reasonably appear to compromise, impartiality.

The final decision to accept, revise, or reject a manuscript remains the responsibility of the Editor based on the scientific quality of the manuscript, reviewer recommendations, ethical compliance, and editorial assessment.

Publication fees or Article Processing Charges, where applicable, must not influence editorial decisions.

2. Peer Review Responsibilities

All manuscripts that pass the initial editorial screening will be evaluated by at least two independent peer reviewers through the journal's blind peer-review process.

Reviewers are selected based on their expertise and relevance to the subject of the manuscript.

Reviewers must provide objective, constructive, evidence-based, and substantive comments regarding the originality, methodology, data analysis, results, discussion, conclusions, references, and scientific contribution of the manuscript.

Personal criticism of authors is inappropriate and must not be included in peer-review reports.

Reviewers must treat manuscripts as confidential documents and must not share, distribute, reproduce, or use unpublished information obtained through the review process for personal, academic, professional, or commercial advantage.

Reviewers must disclose any potential conflict of interest and decline the review when impartial evaluation cannot reasonably be assured.

Reviewers must not use Artificial Intelligence systems to analyse, assess, generate substantive peer-review comments, or process confidential manuscript content in a manner that compromises confidentiality or independent scholarly judgment.

3. Responsibilities of Authors

Authors must submit original scholarly work that has not been published previously and is not simultaneously under consideration by another journal.

Authors are responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and completeness of all data, analyses, references, tables, figures, interpretations, and conclusions contained in their manuscript.

Authors must provide sufficient information regarding research methods to enable appropriate scientific evaluation and, where applicable, replication or verification.

Authors must respond appropriately and transparently to editorial and peer-review comments.

Authors must disclose all sources of funding, potential conflicts of interest, ethical approvals, and relevant use of Artificial Intelligence in accordance with JKM policies.

4. Authorship and Contributorship

Authorship must be limited to individuals who have made substantial intellectual contributions to the research and manuscript.

All listed authors must have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for its content and must approve the final version submitted for publication.

Individuals who contributed to the work but do not meet the criteria for authorship should be acknowledged appropriately.

Guest authorship, honorary authorship, ghost authorship, and the inclusion of individuals who did not make a meaningful contribution are not acceptable.

Each published article must include an Author Contributions statement describing the roles of the authors.

5. Research Ethics and Ethical Approval

Research involving human participants, human biological materials, identifiable personal information, animals, or other activities requiring ethical oversight must comply with applicable ethical and institutional requirements.

For research requiring ethical approval, authors must clearly state:

• the name of the ethics committee or institutional review board;

• the ethical approval or ethical-clearance number;

• the year of approval; and

• the informed-consent process where applicable.

For research involving children, adolescents, or vulnerable participants, appropriate parental or guardian consent and/or participant assent must be described when relevant.

Authors are responsible for protecting participant privacy, confidentiality, dignity, safety, and rights.

Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati may request supporting ethical-approval documentation when necessary.

Failure to provide appropriate ethical information may result in manuscript rejection, requests for clarification, correction of a published article, or other editorial action.

6. Informed Consent and Participant Privacy

Authors must obtain informed consent from research participants where required.

Identifiable participant information, photographs, clinical details, or other materials that could reveal participant identity must not be published without appropriate consent and ethical justification.

Authors must ensure that unnecessary identifying information is removed from manuscripts.

7. Originality and Plagiarism

Authors must ensure that submitted manuscripts are original.

Plagiarism, including direct plagiarism, paraphrasing without appropriate attribution, self-plagiarism, and inappropriate reuse of previously published material, is unacceptable.

All submitted manuscripts may be screened using plagiarism-detection software or other appropriate methods.

Similarity reports are used as an editorial screening tool and are not the sole basis for determining plagiarism. Editors will assess the context, source, extent, and nature of similarity before reaching an editorial decision.

When plagiarism is suspected, JKM may request clarification, require correction, reject the manuscript, or take appropriate post-publication action depending on the severity of the case.

8. Data Fabrication, Falsification, and Manipulation

Fabrication, falsification, selective manipulation, or intentional misrepresentation of research data is considered serious research misconduct.

Authors must not invent participants, observations, measurements, results, ethical approvals, references, or other research information.

Manipulation of images, tables, graphs, statistical results, or research records in a manner that misrepresents the original data is prohibited.

The journal may request original data or supporting documentation where questions regarding research integrity arise.

9. Duplicate, Redundant, and Simultaneous Publication

Manuscripts submitted to JKM must not be simultaneously submitted to another journal.

Authors must disclose any previous publication, preprint, conference proceeding, thesis, dataset, or other work that substantially overlaps with the submitted manuscript when relevant.

Redundant or duplicate publication that reproduces substantially the same findings without appropriate disclosure, justification, and citation is not acceptable.

10. Citation and Reference Integrity

Authors must ensure that references are accurate, relevant, verifiable, and appropriately cited.

References must not be fabricated.

Authors must not intentionally manipulate citations for the purpose of artificially increasing citation counts of authors, journals, institutions, or particular publications.

Editors and reviewers must not require authors to add irrelevant citations for the purpose of increasing citations to their own work or to Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati.

11. Conflict of Interest

Authors, editors, and reviewers must disclose financial, institutional, professional, personal, academic, or other relationships that could reasonably be perceived as influencing their judgment.

Each published manuscript must contain a Conflict of Interest statement.

If no conflict exists, authors should state:

“The authors declare no conflict of interest.”

Editors and reviewers with significant conflicts of interest must not participate in decisions where their impartiality may be compromised.

12. Funding Disclosure

Authors must disclose all funding sources that supported the research or preparation of the manuscript.

The role of the funding body should be disclosed when relevant.

If no external funding was received, authors should state:

“This research received no external funding.”

Funding sources must not influence peer-review or editorial decisions.

13. Artificial Intelligence

The use of Artificial Intelligence and generative AI must comply with the Artificial Intelligence Policy of Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati.

AI systems cannot be listed as authors.

Authors remain fully responsible for any content produced or modified with AI assistance.

Authors must disclose whether AI was used in preparing the manuscript through an Artificial Intelligence Declaration.

Peer reviewers must not use generative AI systems to evaluate confidential manuscript content or generate substantive peer-review assessments.

Editors must not use AI as a substitute for independent scientific and editorial judgment.

14. Confidentiality

Editors and reviewers must protect the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts.

Unpublished data, ideas, methods, results, figures, or other information obtained through editorial or peer-review processes must not be used without appropriate permission.

Reviewer identities must be protected according to the journal's stated peer-review model.

15. Corrections, Retractions, and Expressions of Concern

Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati is committed to maintaining the integrity of the scholarly record.

When significant errors are identified after publication, the journal may publish a correction or other appropriate notice.

Retraction may be considered when there is reliable evidence that findings are seriously unreliable because of misconduct or major error, plagiarism, redundant publication, unethical research, or other substantial breaches of publication ethics.

Where an investigation is incomplete but serious concerns exist, the journal may issue an Expression of Concern when appropriate.

Corrections, retractions, and other post-publication notices will be linked transparently to the original article.

The journal will not silently remove or replace published articles solely to conceal errors.

16. Handling Allegations of Research and Publication Misconduct

Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati will take allegations of research and publication misconduct seriously.

When concerns are raised, the editorial team may:

1. conduct an initial assessment;

2. request clarification or supporting documentation from the authors;

3. seek confidential advice or additional expert review;

4. contact relevant institutions or ethics committees where appropriate;

5. suspend editorial processing while an investigation is ongoing; and

6. take proportionate editorial action based on available evidence.

All allegations will be handled as fairly, confidentially, and objectively as possible.

Authors will normally be given an opportunity to respond to allegations before a final editorial decision is made.

17. Complaints and Appeals

Authors, reviewers, readers, and other parties may submit complaints regarding editorial processes, publication ethics, conflicts of interest, peer review, or published content.

Authors may appeal an editorial decision when they believe a significant scientific or procedural error has occurred.

Complaints and appeals must provide clear reasons and relevant supporting evidence.

Appeals will be reviewed independently from the original decision where reasonably possible.

Submission of an appeal does not guarantee reversal of the original editorial decision.

18. Post-Publication Discussion

JKM supports responsible scholarly discussion regarding published articles.

Readers may communicate concerns, comments, or evidence of potential errors to the editorial office.

Substantive concerns will be assessed and, where necessary, may lead to clarification, correction, retraction, or other appropriate editorial action.

19. Editorial Independence

Editorial decisions are made independently on the basis of scientific quality, integrity, relevance, ethics, and journal scope.

The journal's publisher, institutional affiliation, funding arrangements, advertising, sponsorship, or publication fees must not interfere with individual editorial decisions.

20. Copyright, Licensing, and Permissions

Authors must comply with the copyright and licensing policy of Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati.

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce or adapt copyrighted material from other sources where required.

Copyright ownership and licensing information must be clearly stated on the journal website and in published articles in accordance with the journal's applicable policy.

21. Commitment to Publication Ethics

Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati is committed to continuously improving its editorial and publication practices in accordance with developments in scholarly publishing ethics, applicable national regulations, and guidance from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

This Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement applies to editorial and publication processes beginning with Volume 12 Number 8, August 2026, and subsequent issues, while ethical concerns relating to previously published material may also be reviewed in accordance with appropriate publication-ethics procedures.

Publication Fee

Publication fee of Rp. 513,500

 

 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy

Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati

Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati (JKM) recognizes the increasing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), including generative artificial intelligence tools, in scientific writing and scholarly publishing. The journal supports the responsible, transparent, ethical, and accountable use of AI-assisted technologies while maintaining the principles of research integrity, confidentiality, authorship responsibility, and independent scholarly judgment.

This policy applies to authors, editors, and peer reviewers involved in the submission, review, editorial decision-making, and publication processes of Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati.

1. AI Use by Authors

Authors may use AI-assisted technologies only as supporting tools in the preparation of a manuscript, for example for language refinement, grammar correction, readability improvement, or translation assistance, provided that such use does not replace the authors' intellectual contribution, scientific reasoning, analysis, interpretation, or responsibility for the manuscript.

AI tools, including generative AI systems, cannot be listed as authors or co-authors because they cannot take responsibility for the accuracy, integrity, originality, and ethical accountability of scholarly work.

Authors remain fully responsible for all content submitted to Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati, including the accuracy of data, statistical analyses, interpretations, citations, references, tables, figures, conclusions, and statements generated or modified with the assistance of AI.

Authors must carefully review, verify, and validate any AI-assisted output before including it in the manuscript.

AI must not be used to fabricate, falsify, manipulate, or generate research data, research participants, statistical results, ethical approval information, citations, references, or scientific findings that are not supported by the actual research.

Authors must also ensure that confidential, sensitive, identifiable, or protected research information, including participant or patient information, is not uploaded to external AI systems in a manner that may compromise privacy, confidentiality, informed consent, or applicable ethical requirements.

2. Mandatory AI Disclosure by Authors

Authors are required to disclose whether Artificial Intelligence or generative AI tools were used during manuscript preparation.

The disclosure must be included in the final manuscript under the section:

Artificial Intelligence Declaration

If AI was not used, authors should state:

“The authors declare that artificial intelligence (AI), including generative AI, was not used in the preparation of this manuscript.”

If AI was used, authors must identify the AI tool or provider and clearly explain the purpose for which it was used.

Example:

“The authors used [name of AI tool/provider] solely for language editing and grammatical improvement. All AI-assisted outputs were reviewed and verified by the authors. The authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and final content of the manuscript.”

The use of AI for language assistance does not transfer responsibility from the authors to the AI provider.

Failure to disclose relevant AI use may be considered a breach of publication transparency and may result in editorial clarification, manuscript revision, rejection, correction, or other actions in accordance with the journal's publication ethics policy.

3. AI Use by Editors

Editors must maintain the confidentiality and integrity of all submitted manuscripts.

Editors must not upload confidential manuscripts, unpublished research data, reviewer reports, author information, or other protected editorial materials to public or third-party generative AI systems when such use may compromise confidentiality, intellectual property, or research integrity.

Artificial Intelligence must not replace the editor's professional judgment in assessing manuscript quality, originality, scientific validity, ethical compliance, reviewer recommendations, or final publication decisions.

Editorial decisions regarding acceptance, revision, or rejection of manuscripts remain the responsibility of the authorized editors of Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati.

Where AI-assisted tools are used for limited administrative or technical purposes, such use must not compromise manuscript confidentiality, author privacy, reviewer anonymity, or independent editorial judgment.

4. AI Use by Peer Reviewers

Peer reviewers are responsible for conducting an independent, confidential, critical, and scholarly evaluation of manuscripts assigned to them.

Peer reviewers must not upload the manuscript, any part of the manuscript, unpublished data, tables, figures, supplementary materials, or confidential author information into generative AI systems or other AI platforms.

Peer reviewers must not use Artificial Intelligence to analyze the scientific content of a manuscript, assess its scientific quality, determine its methodological validity, generate reviewer recommendations, or prepare substantive peer-review comments.

Peer-review reports must represent the reviewer's own professional expertise, critical assessment, and independent scholarly judgment.

Reviewers are also responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of manuscripts and must not use unpublished information obtained through peer review for personal, professional, academic, or commercial purposes.

5. AI, Research Integrity, and Scientific Responsibility

The use of Artificial Intelligence does not reduce or transfer the ethical and scientific responsibilities of authors, editors, or reviewers.

All parties involved in the publication process remain responsible for maintaining:

• accuracy and scientific validity;

• originality and academic integrity;

• confidentiality and privacy;

• appropriate attribution and citation;

• transparency in the use of AI;

• protection of research participants and research data; and

• compliance with the publication ethics policies of Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati.

AI-generated content that contains fabricated information, false citations, manipulated data, misleading interpretations, plagiarism, or other forms of academic misconduct is not acceptable.

6. Editorial Action for Inappropriate AI Use

When the editorial team identifies suspected undisclosed, inappropriate, or unethical use of Artificial Intelligence, Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati may request clarification and supporting information from the authors.

Depending on the nature and severity of the issue, the journal may require manuscript revision, reject the submission, issue a correction, or take other appropriate action in accordance with the journal's publication ethics, correction, and retraction policies.

7. Policy Implementation

This Artificial Intelligence Policy applies to manuscripts submitted, reviewed, accepted, and prepared for publication beginning with Volume 12 Number 8, August 2026, and subsequent issues of Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati.

The policy may be updated periodically in response to developments in artificial intelligence technology, scholarly publishing standards, publication ethics, and applicable national regulations.

Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati
Faculty of Health Sciences / Universitas Malahayati
Indonesia

Open Access Policy

Jurnal Kebidanan Malahayati (JKM) provides immediate open access to all published content. This policy is based on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge and facilitates wider access to scientific information. Readers may access and read published articles without subscription or access charges, in accordance with the journal's copyright and licensing policy.