Aim & Scope

Basic and Applied Nursing Research Journal (BANRJ) is focuses on sharing data and information about basic and applied nursing study to support evidence-based practice in nursing education, clinical application in all nursing specialties and all aspects of healthcare.

The scope of this journal includes, but not limited to:

Study on fundamentals of nursing.
Development of nursing education.
Clinical research on medical surgical nursing, critical care nursing, emergency nursing, maternity nursing, and pediatric nursing.
Management in nursing.
Dissemination of community health research on geriatric, family, and community nursing.
Application of holistic and complementary care in nursing.
Mental health nursing study.
Health Communication/ Therapeutic Communication in Nursing

Open Access Policy

Basic and Applied Educational Research Journal (BAERJ) 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.

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. This is in accordance with Budapest Open Access Initiative.

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...

Peer-Review Policy

The journal implements the peer review policy as a means to ensure the quality of the publication in the journal. The peer-review process consists of initial review, double-blind review, and the decision by the editor.

Initial Review: The editor evaluates the submitted manuscript to determine if the content is suitable for the journal. The manuscript is also subjected to a similarity check procedure to identify any indication of plagiarism. Manuscripts with contents that are not suitable for the journal or with a high percentage of similarity will be returned immediately to the author(s).

Peer Review: Submitted manuscripts that have passed the initial review are subjected to double-blind review, where both authors and reviewers remain anonymous during the review process. Minimum of two reviewers are assigned to evaluate and provide the recommendation for a manuscript. In assigning the reviewers, the editor is responsible to avoid the conflict of interest during the review process.

Decision: The editor makes the final decision on the acceptability of a manuscript based on the comments and recommendation of the reviewers.

Plagiarism

Authors should submit only original work that is not plagiarized and not has been published or being considered elsewhere. Turnitin or other software will be used by the editorial team to check for similarities of submitted manuscripts with existing literature. The maximum allowed similarity index is 20%.