Peer Review Process

All papers are fully peer-reviewed. We only publish articles that have been reviewed and approved by highly qualified researchers with expertise in a field appropriate (at least two reviewers per article). We used a double-blind peer-reviewing process. Detailed information about the flow for the manuscript submission (author) to the acceptance by editor is shown in the following figure.

In short, the steps are:

  1. Manuscript Submission (by Author)
  2. Manuscript Check and Selection (by Editor in Chief and Editors). Editors have a right to directly accept, reject, or review. Prior to further processing steps, plagiarism check using Turnitin is applied for each manuscript.
  3. Manuscript Reviewing Process (by Reviewers) 
  4. Notification of Manuscript Acceptance, Need Revision, Need Further Review or Rejection (by Editor to Author based on Reviewers results) 
  5. Paper Revision (by Author)
  6. Revision Submission based on Reviewer Suggestion (by Author)
  7. If the reviewer seems to be satisfied with revision, notification for acceptance (by Editor)
  8. Publishing process  

The steps point number 1 to 5 are considered as 1 round of the peer-reviewing process. The editor or editorial board considers the feedback provided by the peer reviewers and arrives at a decision. The following are the most common decisions:

  • Accepted, as it is. The journal will publish the paper in its original form;
  • Revision Required, the journal will publish the paper and asks the author to make some corrections suggested by the reviewers and/or editors (let authors revised with stipulated time);
  • Rejected (outright rejection), the journal will not publish the paper or reconsider it even if the authors make major revisions.