About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Knowbase : International Journal of Knowledge in Database is an international journal published by the State Islamic Institute of Bukittinggi, West Sumatra, Indonesia.

Focus :

Knowbase : International Journal of Knowledge in Database is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles which contribute new results in all areas of the database management systems & its applications. The goal of this journal is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia to focus on understanding Modern developments in this field, and establishing new collaborations in these areas. Authors are solicited to contribute to the journal by submitting articles that illustrate research results that describe significant advances in the areas of Database management systems.

Scope

Data and Information Integration & Modelling
Data Mining Algorithms
Data Mining Systems, Data Warehousing
Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
Data Structures and Data Management Algorithms
Database and Information System Architecture and Performance
DB Systems & Applications
Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies
Electronic Government & e-Participation
Electronic Government & e-Participation
Expert Systems, Decision Support Systems & applications
Knowledge and information processing
Knowledge Processing
Mobile Data and Information
Multi-databases and Database Federation
User Interfaces to Databases and Information Systems

Peer Review Process

Some policies in reviewing process of Knowbase : International Journal of Knowledge in Database

All manuscripts submitted to this journal must follow Focus and Scope and Author Guidelines of this journal. The submitted manuscripts must fulfil scientific merit or novelty appropriate to the focus and scope of this journal.
All manuscrips submitted to this journal must be written in good English. Authors for whom English is not their native language are encouraged to have their paper checked before submission for grammar and clarity. The work must not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
The submitted manuscripts to this journal will be peer-reviewed at least 2 (two) expert reviewers from International Peer-Reviewers. The reviewers give scientific valuable comments improving the contents of the manuscript. Sometimes (if required) a third peer-reviewer is needed to give critical comments to the submitted manuscript. The review process used in this journal is blind peer review.
All submitted manuscripts must be free from plagiarism contents. All authors are suggested to use plagiarism detection softaware to do the similarity checking (please use Turnitin to check the similarity). Editors will also check the similarity of manuscripts in this journal by using a Turnitin software
Final decision of manuscript acceptance is solely made by Editor in Chief (together with Associate Editors and Editorial Board if required for consideration) according to reviewers critical comments. The final decision of manuscript is solely based on the Associate Editor and Editorial Board final review which considering peer-reviewers comments (but not solely by Reviewer).
Publication of accepted articles including the assigning the article to published issue will be made by Editor in Chief by considering sequence of accepted date and geographical distribution of authors as well as thematic issue.

Publication Frequency

Knowbase : International Journal of Knowledge in Database is a Journal published online twice a year in June and December.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public which supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. All the published Open Access articles will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. We are continuously working with our author communities to select the best choice of license options, currently being defined for this journal as follows: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)