Peer Review Process

All articles submitted to the editorial staff will go through Initial Review processes by the Editorial Board. Afterwards, the articles will be sent to peer reviewers for the next step of the selection, the Double-Blind Review Process. As soon as the double blind review process is finished, the articles will be returned to the authors for revision. These processes can take up around 1 to 2 months. Each manuscript will be peer-reviewed in terms of the substantial and technical aspects. The peer review team are all experienced reviewers in the management and publication of national and international academic journals.

Authors whose papers are accepted, revised, rejected will be informed with the results from the reviewers.

The steps for the reviewing process are in the following figure.

In short, the steps are:

  1. Manuscript Submission (by author) (step 1)
  2. Manuscript Check and Selection (by manager and editors) (step 2). Editors have a right to directly accept, reject, or review. Prior to further processing steps, plagiarism check using turtitin is applied for each manuscript.
  3. Manuscript Reviewing Process (by reviewers) (step 3-4)
  4. Notification of Manuscript Acceptance, Revision, or Rejection (by editor to author based on reviewers comments) (step 5)
  5. Paper Revision (by author)
  6. Revision Submission based on Reviewer Suggestion (by author) with similar flow to point number 1. (step 1)
  7. If reviewer seems to be satisfied with revision, notification for acceptance (by editor). (step 6)
  8. Galley proof and publishing process  (step 7 and 8)

The steps point number 1 to 5 is considered as 1 round of peer-reviewing process. And, our reviewing process at least goes through 2 round of reviewing process.

The journal editor or editorial board considers the feedback provided by the peer reviewers and arrives at a decision. The following are the most common decisions:

  1. Accept without any changes (acceptance): the journal will publish the paper in its original form
  2. Accept with minor revisions (acceptance): the journal will publish the paper and asks the author to make small corrections
  3. Accept after major revisions (conditional acceptance): the journal will publish the paper provided the authors make the changes suggested by the reviewers and/or editors
  4. Revise and resubmit (conditional rejection): the journal is willing to reconsider the paper in another round of decision making after the authors make major changes
  5. Reject the paper (outright rejection): the journal will not publish the paper or reconsider it even if the authors make major revisions