About the Journal

LINK Journal (ISSN: 1829-5754; e-ISSN: 2461-1077; http://ejournal.poltekkes-smg.ac.id/ojs/index.php/link) is a peer-reviewed journal published by the Centre for Research and Service to the Community, Poltekkes Kemenkes Semarang. LINK focuses on publishing scientific articles on community service results, including community empowerment, training, mentoring, appropriate technology, and health management. Community service results can take the form of applying research findings and region-based community service to address and manage the various potentials, obstacles, challenges, and problems in the community.

LINK Journal accepts health-related articles on topics about: Nursing, Midwifery, Nutrition, Health Analyst, Dental Health, Radiology, Medical Records and Health Information, Traditional Medicine and Local Wisdom, and Public Health.

Articles published in the LINK journal have undergone a review process by Mitra Bestari (peer reviewers). The Editor has the right to decide whether a scientific article is appropriate, based on Mitra Bestari's recommendation.

LINK 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. All articles published in the LINK journal are open access and free to access.

"By 'open access' to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be appropriately acknowledged and cited."

Editors accept submissions of well-prepared manuscripts that have not been published elsewhere, except for certain sources such as preprints. The manuscript format and requirements are listed on the back cover page. We will evaluate and edit incoming manuscripts to ensure uniformity in structure, terminology, and other writing practices. Our selected reviewers will review all manuscripts using the double-blind method.