Peer Review Process

Dialog Legal: Jurnal Syariah, Jurisprudensi dan Tata Negara applies the following review process policy:

  1. Authors are advised to check plagiarism and be free from other copyright violations before submission.
  2. Articles submitted by authors will go through a review process by Editorial review and peer review, especially checking for conformity with the scope and template of the Journal. In this process, the editor will establish communication with the author so that the article is worth sending to the Reviewer or even returned/declined.
  3. Articles that have passed the above steps are then sent to 2 reviewers for content review using the blind review method.
  4. The review process will consider novelty, objectivity, methods, scientific impact, conclusions, and references.
  5. Reviewers will suggest improvements and/or accept/reject the article.
  6. The editor will decide by considering the suggestions from the reviewers whether the article meets the requirements of the Progres Informatics Journal.
  7. The editor in chief's decision is final.
  8. The entire review process is fully implemented based on OJS web.

Manuscripts submitted to Dialog Legal: Jurnal Syariah, Jurisprudensi dan Tata Negara  will undergo a selection and assessment process by the Board of Editors to ensure their accordance with the writing guideline, focus, and scope, and that they are of excellent academic quality.  The manuscripts will be reviewed using the “Single-Blind Peer Review”  In this case, the author does not recognize the identity of the reviewer, but the reviewer knows the identity of the author.

Desk Review. At the desk review stage, manuscripts will be examined to ensure that they have met the writing guideline, focus, and scope with excellent academic quality. If they do not meet the conditions, the author will be given the opportunity to revise their manuscript according to the given criteria. However, there is also the possibility that the manuscript will be directly rejected. 

Peer review. When the manuscript has passed the desk review stage, it will then be delivered to two reviewers who are experts in the field of the submitted manuscript. The review process will be done within four weeks. Manuscripts that did not successfully pass the desk review process will not proceed to this stage. 

Reviewer’s decision. The reviewers will provide the following recommendations: 

  1. Accepted; means that the manuscript is acceptable for publication;
  2. Accepted with minor revisions; means that the manuscript is acceptable for publication once it is revised in response to the reviewers’ concerns;
  3. Accepted with major revisions; means that substantive inadequacies in the manuscript, such as data analysis, the main theory used, and rewriting of paragraphs, need to be revised;
  4. Rejected; means that the manuscript is not acceptable for publication or the given reviews relate to very basic issues.

The reviewer’s decision will be considered by the Board of Editors to determine the ensuing process of the manuscript. 

Revision Stage. Once the manuscript has been received with notations of minor or major revisions, it will be returned to the author with a review summary form. For manuscripts accepted with major revisions, authors are allotted four weeks to revise. Whereas for manuscripts accepted with minor revisions, two weeks is allotted for revision. 

Final decision. At this stage, the manuscript will be re-evaluated by the Board of Editors to ensure that the author has revised in response to the reviewers’ concerns. In this final decision, the manuscript may still be rejected if the author did not seriously conduct the revisions necessary. 

Proofread. Once the manuscript has been deemed acceptable by the Board of Editors, it will undergo a proofreading process to maintain linguistic quality. 

Publication confirmation. At this stage, the final layout of the manuscript will be resent to the author to ensure that the content is in accordance with the author’s writing. At this stage, the author may revise any typographical error found in the final manuscript. Once confirmation from the author is given, the Editorial Secretary will process the manuscript for online publication on the website as well as a print publication.

Publication confirmation. At this stage, the final layout of the manuscript will be resent to the author to ensure that the content is in accordance with the author’s writing. At this stage, the author may revise any typographical error found in the final manuscript. Once confirmation from the author is given, the Editorial Secretary will process the manuscript for online publication on the website as well as a print publication.

How does it work?

When a manuscript is submitted to the journal, it is assessed to see if it meets the criteria for submission. If it does, the editorial team will select potential peer reviewers within the research field to peer review the manuscript and make recommendations.

The following is the publication flow of the Saintekom Journal:

This journal uses Open Journal Systems 3.3.0.8, which is an open source journal management and publishing software developed, supported, and freely distributed by the Public Knowledge Project under the GNU General Public License, following the editorial and publication process on OJS.