Development of the Back End System for the JSIL’s Journal Management using a Web Application

Abstract

This research is a research and development (R&D) study with the objectives of (1) designing and developing a back-end system for journal management using a web application and (2) studying user satisfaction with the journal management web application. The study employed the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) concept for system development and used Vue.js as a development tool. The computer languages used in web application development included HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with MySQL for database development. The research instrument was a user satisfaction questionnaire using a 5-point Likert scale, with an Index of Item-Objective Congruence (IOC) of 0.82 from three experts. The participants consisted of 10 editorial board members selected through purposive sampling. Qualitative data analysis was conducted using descriptive statistics, including mean and standard deviation. The findings revealed that 1) the system defined user permissions in two parts: administrator and editorial board members. The display screen consisted of a dashboard, an article, a preliminary screening, and a fee receipt. The system could add, delete, and edit article information, journal information, personnel information, reviewer comments, and user settings. 2) Overall user satisfaction had a mean score of 4.08 (good level). When considering each part, system appropriateness and user requirements had the highest mean score of 4.30 (good level), followed by system operation accuracy with a mean of 4.25 (good level), system processing with a mean of 4.03 (good level), system security with a mean of 4.03 (good level), and system usability with a mean of 3.70 (good level). The system's strengths include allowing editors and management to monitor and track the progress of each article with information consolidated on a single screen and supporting preliminary article evaluation by editorial board members, which serves as a quality screening process before sending articles to field-specific reviewers. This additional journal process is not available in the OJS template. The system's limitation was its lack of responsiveness to small screens, which affected operational convenience.