Focus and Scope

KOLANO: Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Sciences is a multidisciplinary journal that accommodates research and community service articles from a broad range of scientific and professional disciplines. The journal encourages manuscripts that present original findings, innovative approaches, practical solutions, and community-based interventions relevant to scientific and societal development.

The journal's focus and scope include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

  • Civil Engineering, including construction, structural engineering, transportation, water resources, geotechnical engineering, environmental engineering, and infrastructure development.
  • Agribusiness, including agricultural economics, agribusiness management, agricultural marketing, entrepreneurship, agricultural development, and sustainable agricultural systems.
  • Forestry, including forest management, forest conservation, biodiversity, agroforestry, forest products, and sustainable forest resource utilization.
  • Marine Science, including marine resources, coastal and ocean management, marine biodiversity, fisheries-related studies, marine conservation, and sustainable utilization of marine resources.
  • Management, including strategic management, human resource management, marketing management, financial management, operations management, entrepreneurship, and organizational studies.
  • Accounting, including financial accounting, management accounting, auditing, taxation, accounting information systems, public sector accounting, and sustainability accounting.
  • Law, including civil law, criminal law, constitutional law, administrative law, business law, environmental law, customary law, and other contemporary legal issues.
  • Public Administration, including public policy, public management, governance, public services, institutional development, regional administration, and government innovation.
  • Communication Studies, including interpersonal communication, organizational communication, mass communication, digital communication, media studies, public relations, journalism, and communication for development.
  • Education, including educational management, curriculum and instruction, learning methodologies, educational technology, teacher education, assessment and evaluation, and educational development.
  • Information Systems, including information systems management, enterprise systems, e-government, decision support systems, information technology governance, and digital transformation.
  • Informatics Engineering, including software engineering, computer networks, artificial intelligence, data science, cybersecurity, information technology, and computational applications.
  • Health Sciences, including public health, health promotion, community health, health services, nursing and related health disciplines, health education, and other issues concerning individual and community health.

In addition to discipline-specific studies, KOLANO particularly welcomes interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research that integrates perspectives, methods, or approaches from two or more fields of study. The journal also accepts community service articles that document the implementation, outcomes, evaluation, and impact of knowledge- and technology-based interventions aimed at addressing community needs and supporting sustainable community development.

The scope of the journal is not limited to the topics listed above, provided that submitted manuscripts demonstrate clear academic relevance, methodological rigor, and alignment with the multidisciplinary orientation of KOLANO.