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Peer Review Process
Submitted paper will be firstly reviewed by the editors to determine whether the paper meet the edition theme and submission guidelines. Papers which meet the theme and the guidelines will be assigned to selected reviewers for peer-reviews. TECHBUS is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal which involves reviewers based on their expertise relevant to the topic of the paper. Final decision of paper acceptance is solely decided by the editors according to reviewers' comment.
In short, the steps are:
- Manuscript Submission (by author)
- Manuscript Check and Selection (by editors). Editors have a right to directly accept, reject, or review according to standard set up by TECHBUS). Prior to further processing steps, plagiarism check using Turnitin is applied for each manuscript.
- Manuscript Reviewing Process (by reviewers)
- Notification of Manuscript Acceptance, Revision, or Rejection (by editor to author based on reviewers’ comments)
- Paper Revision (by author)
- If the editor seems to be satisfied with revision, notification for acceptance (by editor).
- Editing and Proof reading (by editor)
- Publishing process (by editor)
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;
- Accepted by Minor Revisions, the journal will publish the paper and asks the author to make small corrections (let authors revised with stipulated time);
- Accepted by Major Revisions, the journal will publish the paper provided the authors make the changes suggested by the reviewers and/or editors (let authors revised with stipulated time);
- Resubmit (conditional rejection), the journal is willing to reconsider the paper in another round of decision making after the authors make major changes;
- Rejected (outright rejection), the journal will not publish the paper or reconsider it even if the authors make major revisions.