Focus and Scope

Its scope includes (but is not limited to) the following:

1. IoT communication and networking protocols such as network coding
2. IoT demands, impacts, and implications on sensors technologies, big data management
3. IoT enabling technologies
4. IoT services and applications
5. IoT system architecture

Applying IoT in various domains including but not limited to:

1. Behavioural sciences, sustainable and well-being society;
2. Business, marketing & finance (e-commerce, finance, advertising & media);
3. Ecology (precision agriculture, dairy, fishing, wildlife management, water, climate & ecology);
4. eLearning, technology-enhanced learning, CSCL, virtual campuses, education and technology;
5. Energy (smart grids, meters & appliances, renewable energy);
6. Manufacturing & industry (smart design & smart manufacturing, advanced robotics);
7. Medicine & healthcare (delivery & care systems, decision support, wearables);
8. Nano IoT (personalized precision medicine, Biological IoT, Chemical IoT);
9. Transportation (infrastructure, logistics, road and rail, shipping, aerospace, autonomous vehicles);
10. Urban life (smart/cyber-cities, home automation, smart buildings);
11. Future design for various IoT use cases, such as smart cities, smart environment, smart homes, etc.

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

This journal operates a conventional single-blind reviewing policy in which the reviewer's name is always concealed from the submitting author. Authors should present their papers honestly without fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, or inappropriate data manipulation. Submitted papers are evaluated by anonymous referees for contribution, originality, relevance, and presentation. Papers will be sent for anonymous review by at least two reviewers who will either be members of the Editorial Board or others of similar standing in the field. In order to shorten the review process and respond quickly to authors, the Editors may triage a submission and come to a decision without sending the paper for external review. The Editor shall inform you of the results of the review as soon as possible, hopefully in 6-12 weeks. The editors' decision is final, and no correspondence can be entered into concerning manuscripts considered unsuitable for publication in this journal. All correspondence, including notification of the editors’ decision and requests for revisions, will be sent by email.

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.

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...

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

Intelektual Pustaka Media Utama (IPMU) is a non-profit international scientific association of distinguished scholars engaged in engineering and science devoted to promoting research and technologies in the engineering and science fields through digital technology. IPMU are peer-reviewed international journals. This statement clarifies the ethical behavior of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in our journals, including the authors, the editors, the peer-reviewer­­­­­s and the publisher. This statement is based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Checklist for preparing your paper for publication

1. Is your manuscript written in IoT format? At this stage, it is not that essential that you follow every detail of the IoT format. Please try to follow the format as closely as possible.
2. Is your title adequate and is your abstract correctly written? The title of the paper should contain a maximum of 10 words, without acronyms or abbreviations. The Abstract (MAX 200 WORDS) should be informative and completely self-explanatory (no citation in the abstract), provide a clear statement of the problem, the proposed approach or solution, and point out major findings and conclusions.
3. Authors are suggested to present their articles in the sections' structure: 1. Introduction - 2. The Proposed Method/Algorithm/Procedure specifically designed (optional) - 3. Research Method - 4. Results and Discussion – 5.  Conclusion. Authors may present complex proofs of theorems or non-obvious proofs of the correctness of algorithms after the introduction section (obvious theorems & straightforward proofs of existing theorems are NOT needed).
4. Introduction section: explain the context of the study and state the precise objective. An Introduction should contain the following three parts (within 3-7 paragraphs):
   - Background: Authors have to make clear what the context is. Ideally, the authors should give an idea of the state-of-the-art field the report is about.
   - The Problem: If there was no problem, there would be no reason for writing a manuscript, and definitely no reason for reading it. So, please tell readers why they should proceed with reading. Experience shows that for this part a few lines are often sufficient.
   - The Proposed Solution: Now and only now! - authors may outline the contribution of the manuscript. Here authors have to make sure readers point out what are the novel aspects of the authors' work.
   Authors should place the paper in the proper context by citing relevant papers. At least 10 references (recent journal articles) are used in this section.
5. Method section: the presentation of the experimental methods should be clear and complete in every detail facilitating reproducibility by other scientists.
6. Results and discussion section: The presentation of results should be simple and straightforward in style. This section reports the most important findings, including results of statistical analyses as appropriate and comparisons to other research results. Results given in figures should not be repeated in tables. This is where the author(s) should explain in words what he/she/they discovered in the research. It should be clearly laid out and in a logical sequence. This section should be supported with suitable references.
7. Conclusion section: Summarize sentences the primary outcomes of the study in a paragraph. Are the claims in this section supported by the results, do they seem reasonable? Have the authors indicated how the results relate to expectations and to earlier research? Does the article support or contradict previous theories? Does the conclusion explain how the research has moved the body of scientific knowledge forward?
8. Language. If an article is poorly written due to grammatical errors, it may make it more difficult to understand the science.
9. Please make sure that the manuscript is up to date. The minimum number of references is 20 to 25 entries (and the 15 entries are recent journal articles) for original research articles, and the minimum number of references is 50 to 55 entries for review papers.
10. Is the manuscript clearly written? Is the article exciting? Does the content flow well from one section to another? Please try to keep your manuscript on the proper level. It should be easy to understand by well-qualified professionals, but at the same time please avoid describing well-known facts (use proper references instead). Often manuscripts receive negative reviews because reviewers are not able to understand the manuscript, and this is the authors' (not the reviewers') fault. Notice that if reviewers have difficulties, then other readers will face the same problem and there is no reason to publish the manuscript.
11. Do you have enough references? We will usually expect a minimum of 20 to 25 references primarily to journal papers, depending on the length of the paper. Citations of textbooks should be used very rarely and citations to web pages should be avoided. All cited papers should be referenced within the text of the manuscript.
12. Figures and Tables. Relation of Tables or Figures and Text: Because tables and figures supplement the text, all tables and figures should be referenced in the text. Avoid placing figures and tables before their first mention in the text. Authors also must explain what the reader should look for when using the table or figure. Focus only on the important points the reader should draw from them and leave the details for the reader to examine on her own.
    
    Figures:
    1. All figures appearing in the article must be numbered in the order that they appear in the text.
    2. Each figure must have a caption fully explaining the content.
    3. Figure captions are presented as a paragraph starting with the figure number i.e. Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.
    4. Figure captions appear below the figure
    5. Each figure must be fully cited if taken from another article
    6. All figures must be referred to in the body of the article
    
    Tables:
    
    1. Material that is tabular in nature must appear in a numbered captioned table.
    2. All tables appearing in the article must be numbered in the order that they appear in the text.
    3. Each table must have a caption fully explaining the content with the table number i.e. Table 1, Table 2, etc.
    4. Each column must have a clear and concise heading
    5. Tables are to be presented with a single horizontal line under the table caption, the column headings, and at the end of the table
    6. All tables must be referred to in the body of the article
    7. Each table must be fully cited if taken from another article
13. Each citation should be written in the order of appearance in the text in square brackets. For example, the first citation [1], the second citation [2], and the third and fourth citations [3], [4]. When citing multiple sources at once, the preferred method is to list each number separately, in its own brackets, using a comma or dash between numbers, such as [1], [3], [5]. It is not necessary to mention an author's name, pages used, or date of publication in the in-text citation. Instead, refer to the source with a number in a square bracket, e.g. [6]-[9], that will then correspond to the full citation in your reference list. Examples of in-text citations:
    
    • This theory was first put forward in 1970 [9]."
    • Sutikno [10] has argued that...
    • Several recent studies [7], [9], [11]-[15] have suggested that ....
    • ... end of the line for my research [16].
14. Self-citations: to control citation manipulation (COPE, 2019), this journal asks that authors keep self-citation to a minimum. We would strongly recommend no more than 5 (including jointly authored publications), or 20% self-citations, whichever number is lower.
15. Please be aware that for the final submission of a regular paper, you will be asked to tailor your paper, so the last page is not half empty.

Policy of Plagiarism Detection

The peer-review process is at the heart of scientific publishing. As part of IPMU's commitment to protecting the integrity of the scholarly record, IPMU feels a strong obligation to support the scientific community in all aspects of research and publishing ethics. All submitted manuscripts must be free from plagiarism contents. All authors are suggested to use plagiarism detection software to do the similarity checking before submitting their manuscript to the journal (please use iThenticate or Turnitin to check the similarity). Editors will also check the similarity of manuscripts in this journal by using Turnitin or iThenticate software. The manuscript will instantly be rejected if there is plagiarism indicated or detected. The final camera-ready also will be checked again for the similarity rate. The overall similarity rate of a manuscript should not exceed 25 percent, and the similarity rate to a single source should not exceed 10 percent.

Intellectual Journal of Internet of Things

This journal is published by the Intelektual Pustaka Media Utama (IPMU).