Publisher

Publishing Mission and Operating Principles

JSOMER supports the responsible publication and worldwide dissemination of rigorous and ethically conducted research on social media. The journal provides an interdisciplinary forum for scholarship at the intersection of the social and behavioral sciences, humanities, education, communication, health and medical sciences, natural and environmental sciences, engineering, and computational sciences.

The journal publishes research examining social media as a technological, communicative, behavioral, psychological, educational, cultural, economic, medical, scientific, environmental, and societal phenomenon. Regardless of disciplinary origin, social media must constitute a substantive component of the research question, theoretical framework, methodology, data, or interpretation of findings.

JSOMER operates on a nonprofit basis and prioritizes scholarly quality, editorial independence, research integrity, methodological rigor, accessibility, transparent reporting, and responsible publishing practices.

The publisher is responsible for maintaining the journal’s publishing infrastructure, supporting operational continuity, facilitating the preservation and accessibility of published content, and protecting the independence and integrity of the scholarly record. Editorial authority remains with the journal’s editorial leadership in accordance with the journal’s governance, peer-review, and publication ethics policies.

Open-Access and Fee Model

JSOMER is an open-access journal that operates under a diamond publishing model. All published scholarly content is made immediately and permanently available online without subscription, payment, or registration barriers.

The journal does not charge authors any submission fees, article processing charges, editorial fees, peer-review fees, publication fees, page charges, or other mandatory fees.

No payment influences manuscript assessment, peer review, or editorial decisions. Authors, reviewers, editors, and editorial decision-makers are treated independently of financial considerations.

The journal’s routine publishing and technical expenses are funded directly by the publisher. This financial support does not confer any authority over editorial decisions concerning individual manuscripts.

Copyright and Licensing

Authors retain copyright in their work and grant JSOMER the nonexclusive right of first publication and the right to identify itself as the original publisher.

Published articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) unless a specific item clearly states otherwise.

License: Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Copyright and licensing information is displayed on the journal website and should also appear on the article record and in the full-text version of each published article.

Persistent Identifiers, Metadata, and Discoverability

JSOMER assigns a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to published scholarly articles. Article DOIs use the prefix 10.29329 and resolve through the DOI system.

Article-level bibliographic metadata are made available through the journal platform, including supported citation-export formats and OAI-PMH services. DOI metadata are registered through Crossref infrastructure.

The journal encourages authors to provide persistent researcher identifiers, including ORCID iDs. JSOMER aims to make article titles, abstracts, keywords, authorship information, author affiliations, publication dates, references, funding information, licensing information, and post-publication updates available in accurate and structured metadata.

The publisher endeavors to maintain consistency between the information displayed on the journal website and the metadata supplied to DOI registration agencies, indexing and abstracting services, library discovery systems, and digital preservation services.

Digital Preservation and Long-Term Access

JSOMER is published using Open Journal Systems (OJS). The platform provides a CLOCKSS-compatible publisher manifest and permits preservation-system ingestion of published archival units.

The existence of the publisher manifest facilitates the identification and potential ingestion of journal content by compatible preservation systems. It does not, by itself, constitute a claim that the journal has an active preservation agreement with CLOCKSS.

The journal maintains its online archive and seeks to support continued access to the scholarly record, including published issues, individual articles, article metadata, corrections, retractions, expressions of concern, and other post-publication notices.

CLOCKSS-compatible publisher manifest: View the JSOMER manifest

Any additional preservation arrangements formally established by the journal will be disclosed through the journal’s Open Access and Archiving Policy.

Editorial Independence and Publisher Responsibilities

The publisher supports editorial freedom and does not direct editors to accept or reject manuscripts for commercial, personal, institutional, political, financial, or reputational reasons.

Editorial decisions are based on:

• relevance to the journal’s aims and scope;
• originality and significance of the scholarly contribution;
• methodological appropriateness and transparency;
• ethical compliance;
• clarity and completeness of reporting;
• correspondence between the evidence and the conclusions;
• recommendations provided through independent peer review; and
• adherence to the journal’s editorial and publication policies.

The publisher does not interfere with the independent evaluations of reviewers or with the decisions of the Editor-in-Chief or assigned editors.

No editorial decision is influenced by:

• an author’s ability or inability to pay;
• an author’s nationality, institutional affiliation, geographic location, professional status, or personal characteristics;
• personal or institutional relationships;
• commercial interests;
• the potential effect of a manuscript on the journal’s citation performance; or
• the views expressed in a manuscript, provided that the manuscript complies with applicable scholarly, ethical, and legal requirements.

When the publisher is an author or co-author of a submission, the publisher must not participate in or have access to the editorial assessment, selection of reviewers, peer-review correspondence, or decision-making process for that manuscript. The submission must be assigned to an independent editor who has no relevant conflict of interest. Where such a manuscript is published, an editorial independence statement should be included in the published article.

Responsibilities of the Publisher

The publisher is responsible for:

• maintaining the journal’s publishing platform and official website;
• supporting the continuity and regularity of publication;
• providing the technical and administrative infrastructure required for editorial and peer-review activities;
• protecting the independence of the Editor-in-Chief, editors, and reviewers;
• maintaining accurate journal and article metadata;
• supporting persistent identification and long-term accessibility;
• ensuring that ownership, fees, copyright, licensing, and access conditions are publicly disclosed;
• protecting the confidentiality and integrity of editorial records;
• supporting editors in responding to allegations of research or publication misconduct;
• facilitating corrections, retractions, expressions of concern, and other post-publication notices when required;
• preventing financial, commercial, institutional, or personal interests from influencing editorial decisions;
• maintaining appropriate technical and administrative safeguards for journal data; and
• cooperating with recognized indexing, abstracting, archiving, and research-integrity organizations.

The publisher supports the correction of the scholarly record when reliable evidence identifies an error, ethical concern, or instance of misconduct. The publisher also supports the publication of corrections, retractions, expressions of concern, or other appropriate notices in accordance with the journal’s policies and recognized scholarly publishing standards.

Detailed responsibilities of authors, reviewers, editors, and the publisher are set out in the journal’s Ethical Principles and Publication Policy.

Business and Revenue Model

JSOMER operates on a nonprofit basis. The journal does not derive revenue from:

• submission fees;
• article processing charges;
• editorial or peer-review fees;
• publication fees;
• page charges;
• subscriptions;
• pay-per-view access;
• advertising;
• sponsored editorial content; or
• payments connected to manuscript acceptance or editorial decisions.

The journal’s routine publishing and technical expenses are funded directly by the publisher. Financial and operational arrangements do not influence editorial assessment, peer review, or publication decisions.

If the journal’s ownership, revenue sources, fee policy, or financial model changes, the relevant information will be disclosed transparently on the journal website before the change is implemented. Where necessary, the change will also be reported to relevant indexing, abstracting, and directory services.