Focus and Scope

Focus and Scope

Focus

Jurnal Borneo Humaniora is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary scholarly journal published by the Institute for Research and Community Service (Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat—LPPM), Universitas Borneo Tarakan, Indonesia.

The journal provides a platform for the dissemination of original research findings, scholarly reviews, theoretical analyses, and critical academic discussions in the humanities, education, and related social and interdisciplinary fields.

Jurnal Borneo Humaniora aims to advance knowledge and encourage scholarly dialogue on human thought, language, culture, education, social relations, institutions, and human development. The journal welcomes research that contributes to theoretical development, empirical understanding, and practical solutions to relevant academic and societal challenges.

The journal particularly welcomes studies addressing Indonesian society, the Borneo region, local knowledge, cultural diversity, regional development, and contemporary issues, provided that they demonstrate a clear contribution to the relevant field of scholarship.

Scope

Jurnal Borneo Humaniora welcomes manuscripts in the following areas, including interdisciplinary studies that connect two or more of these fields.

1. Economics and Social Development

Research on economic behavior, regional and local economic development, entrepreneurship, community empowerment, human resource development, social welfare, economic institutions, and the socioeconomic dimensions of sustainable development.

2. Education and Educational Studies

Research on educational theory and practice, curriculum development, teaching and learning, educational innovation, early childhood education, primary and secondary education, higher education, mathematics education, language education, literacy, educational assessment, teacher professional development, educational psychology, and learning technologies.

3. Theology, Philosophy, and Ethics

Studies of philosophical thought, moral and applied ethics, theology, religious thought, values, human existence, critical reasoning, and the relationship between belief systems, society, culture, and human development.

4. Law and Legal Studies

Research on legal theory, legal institutions, legal development, human rights, customary law, access to justice, legal awareness, and the relationship between law, society, culture, and public institutions.

5. History and Philology

Historical research, historiography, historical documents, manuscripts, textual studies, philological analysis, cultural heritage, and the development of communities, institutions, and intellectual traditions.

6. Language and Linguistics

Research on language structure and use, phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, language acquisition, multilingualism, language variation, language change, and language education.

7. Culture and Anthropology

Studies of cultural identity, local wisdom, customary practices, cultural heritage, community traditions, social organization, anthropology, cultural transformation, and interactions between local cultures and contemporary social change.

8. Literature and Literary Studies

Research on literary theory, literary criticism, Indonesian and regional literature, comparative literature, literary history, oral literature, literary representation, and the relationship between literary works, society, history, language, and culture.

9. Arts and Creative Expression

Studies of visual and performing arts, traditional and contemporary artistic practices, cultural performance, creative expression, art education, and the social and cultural significance of artistic production.

10. Psychology and Human Development

Research on developmental psychology, educational psychology, social psychology, cognitive processes, human behavior, psychological development, interpersonal relationships, guidance and counseling, and psychological aspects of learning and social life.

11. Interdisciplinary Humanities and Social Research

Research integrating the humanities with education, social sciences, digital technologies, communication, and other relevant disciplines to investigate human behavior, social relationships, cultural transformation, identity, and contemporary societal challenges.

Types of Manuscripts

The journal considers original research articles, educational research articles, scholarly review articles, theoretical and conceptual studies, and critical academic discussions relevant to its focus and scope.

All submissions must demonstrate originality, academic rigor, appropriate research methods or analytical reasoning, engagement with relevant scholarly literature, and a clear contribution to knowledge.

Scope and Editorial Assessment

All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial editorial screening to determine their relevance to the journal's focus and scope, originality, scholarly quality, and compliance with the author guidelines.

Manuscripts that fall outside the journal's scope or do not meet the required academic standards may be rejected without external peer review. Manuscripts considered suitable will proceed to the journal's applicable peer-review process.

Submission of a manuscript does not guarantee acceptance or publication.

Jurnal Borneo Humaniora welcomes contributions from researchers and scholars from Indonesia and other countries whose work advances scholarship in the humanities and related fields.