Peer Review Process
Sambhasana will undergo submitted manuscripts selection and assessment process by the Editorial Team 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 double-blind peer review method in which case neither authors nor reviewers know each other’s identities.
Desk Review | Manuscripts will be examined to ensure that they have met the writing guideline, focus, and scope with excellent academic quality. The author will be given the opportunity to revise their manuscript according to the given criteria if they do not meet the conditions. There is also the possibility that the manuscript will be directly rejected.
Peer review | The will then be delivered to reviewers who are experts in the field of the submitted manuscript. The review process will be done within 3 weeks.
Reviewer’s decision | The reviewers will provide the following recommendations:
- Accepted; means that the manuscript is acceptable for publication
- Accepted with minor revisions; means that the manuscript is acceptable for publication once it is revised in response to the reviewers’ concerns
- 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
- 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 Editorial Team to determine the ensuing process of the manuscript.
Revision Stage | The manuscript with notations of minor or major revisions from reviewer’s decision will be returned to the author. For manuscripts accepted with major revisions, authors are allotted around 3 weeks to revise. Whereas for manuscripts accepted with minor revisions, around 1 week is allotted for revision.
Manuscript decision | The manuscript will be re-evaluated by the Editorial Team to ensure that the author has revised in response to the reviewers’ notes. The manuscript may still be rejected if the author did not seriously conduct the revisions necessary.
Copyediting | Once the Editorial Team accept the manuscript , it will undergo a proofreading process to maintain linguistic quality.
Publication confirmation | 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. The author may revise any typographical error found in the final manuscript. Once confirmation from the author is given, the manuscript will be processed for online publication on the website.
