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Editorial Policies

Peer Review Process

Description

Submissions should be prepared in accordance with the Author Guidelines. The manuscript may be returned to authors without a scientific assessment if they do not meet all submission requirements, if they are not in the correct format, or cannot be downloaded reliably.

Submissions must represent the original and independent work of the authors. Each new submission is assessed by the Principal Editor to determine whether it falls within the general remit of JSHT. We will reject a manuscript without review if it contains insufficient content; it exceeds our word limit or is incorrectly formatted; it is poorly presented and unclear. Manuscripts that pass the initial assessment will be handled by the Principal Editor or Associate Editor to oversee the review process for contribution, originality, relevance, and presentation.

Once a manuscript passes the initial checks, it will be assigned to one independent expert for peer-review. A double-blind review is applied, where authors' identities are not known by reviewers, and the authors do not also know the reviewers. Peer review comments are confidential and will only be disclosed with the express agreement of the reviewer. All manuscripts are subject to peer review and authors can expect a decision, or an explanation for the delay, within 2 months of receipt. If a revision is invited, the corresponding author should submit the revised manuscript within 2 weeks. The final decision is taken by Principal Editors based on the information gained through the peer-review process.

We ensure that the reviewed manuscript is treated confidentially prior to being published, as explained in publication ethics.

Types of Decision

There are four types of editorial decisions during the peer review process, which are:

  • Decline submission

    • Following peer review, the paper is judged not to be acceptable for publication in JSHT and resubmission is not possible.

  • Resubmit for Review

    • The submitted version of the paper is not acceptable and requires major revision, but there is clear potential in the work, and JSHT is prepared to consider a new version. Authors are offered the opportunity to resubmit their paper as a new submission. Concerns will remain regarding the suitability of the paper for publication until the editors are convinced by the authors that their paper fits the scope and standards of JSHT. The resubmitted manuscript will be returned to the original associate editor if at all possible.

  • Revision

    • The paper requires changes before a final decision can be made. Authors are asked to modify their manuscript in light of comments received from referees and editors and to submit a new version for consideration within 2 weeks of receiving the decision letter. A point-by-point explanation of how comments have been addressed must be supplied with the revised version of the paper. Revisions may undergo further peer review and papers may undergo more than one round of revision. If the authors do not revise their papers to the satisfaction of the editors, the paper can still be declined from publication in JSHT.

  • Accept submission

    • The paper is accepted for publication, subject to conditions that need to be addressed in producing a final version of the manuscript. These may include sub-editing changes and the minor amendment to ensure the paper fully matches our criteria. After final checking in the editorial office, acceptance is confirmed and the paper is forwarded to the publishers for publication.

    Plagiarism Policy

    Statement and Policy

    Jurnal Sosial Humaniora Terapan does not publish the plagiarized papers.

    Papers must be original, unpublished, and not pending publication elsewhere. Any material taken verbatim from another source needs to be clearly identified as different from the present original text by (1) indentation, (2) use of quotation marks, and (3) identification of the source.

    Any text of an amount exceeding fair use standards (herein defined as more than two or three sentences or the equivalent thereof) or any graphic material reproduced from another source requires permission from the copyright holder and, if feasible, the original author(s) and also requires identification of the source; e.g., previous publication.

    All submitted papers will be checked of their similarity by Turnitin.

    When plagiarism is identified, the Principal Editor responsible for the review of this paper will agree on measures according to the extent of plagiarism detected in the paper in agreement with the guidelines.

    Similarity Level

    Editorial board has passed the following actions:

    1. Similarity Index above 20%: Send to the author for improvement (due to poor citation and/or poor paraphrasing).
    2. Similarity Index (10-20%): Send to the author for improvement (provide correct citations to all places of similarity and do good paraphrasing even if the citation is provided).
    3. Similarity index less than 10%: Accepted or citation improvement may be required (proper citations must be provided to all outsourced texts).
    4. In cases 2 and 3: The authors should revise the article carefully, add required citations, and do good paraphrasing to outsourced text. And resubmit the article with a new Turnitin report showing NO PLAGIARISM and similarity less than 10%.