Peer Review Process

Peer Review Process

Every article that goes to the editorial staff will be selected through Initial Review processes by the Editorial Board. Then, the articles will be sent to the Mitra Bebestari/ peer reviewer and will go to the next selection by the Blind Review Process. After that, the articles will be returned to the authors to revise. These processes take a month for a maximum time. In each manuscript, the peer reviewer will be rated from the substantial and technical aspects.

 

Manuscript processing time in JSMI:

  1. The author has 10 - 60 days waiting period on the first article submission, the section editor will decide whether the article needs to be revised or not
  2. Section editors need 10 -30 days to examine articles based on JSMI author guidelines (templates, focus, and scope as well as article content) and will make a decision whether the paper is worthy of being sent to the reviewer, revision first or decline?
  3.  If the section editor's decision is revision, the author has 1-30 days to revise the article in accordance with the recommendations of the section editor.
  4. In the revised article given to the editor to be reviewed, the editorial team needs until 60 days to finish the review.
  5. If the article Declined, section editor has 14 days to inform the author regarding the editorial team decision
  6. If the article Revision Required, the section editor will notify the author to improve his writing in accordance with the reviewer's recommendations.
  7. The author has a maximum of 1 month to correct the article and send the revised paper file (without tracking function), by marking the revised part in blue or yellow highlight and the file "Response to Reviewer" which records each question per reviewer and answers for each question (along with the revision location in the new paper file).
  8. The results of the improvement will be sent back to the review and process review maximal until round 3 to gives a decision, Accepted or Declined
  9. The editorial team discusses the final decision in an editorial team meeting whether the articles recommended by the reviewers proceed to be Published or Declined. The editorial team has 30 days to make the final decision.
  10. The soon-to-be-published articles, lay-outed by the section editor for 40 days
  11. The authors have 14 days to confirm the layout result.
  12. Section editor publishes the accepted articles.