Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Politik Indonesia: Indonesian Political Science Review, also known as IPSR, is political science's premier scholarly journal on Indonesian politics, providing peer-reviewed articles, review essays, and book reviews from subfields throughout the discipline. Areas covered: Politics and Citizenship on local scale in Indonesia, Asia and Global (comparative analysis). 

 

Section Policies

Editorial

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Research Article

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Book Review

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

The submitted manuscript is first reviewed by an editor. It will be evaluated in the office, whether it is suitable for the Politik Indonesia: Indonesian Political Science Review (IPSR) focus and scope or has a major methodological flaw and similiarity score by using Turnitin.

The manuscript will be at least two anonymous reviewers (Double Blind Review). Reviewers' comments are then sent to the relevant author for necessary actions and responses.

The suggested decision will be evaluated in an editorial board meeting. Afterwards, the editor will send the final decision to the corresponding author.

Review Outcomes

Utilizing feedback from the peer review process, the Editor will make a final publication decision. The review process will take approximately 4 to 12 weeks. Decisions categories include:

  • Reject - Rejected manuscripts will not be published and authors will not have the opportunity to resubmit a revised version of the manuscript to IPSR.
  • Resubmit for Review - The submission needs to be re-worked, but with significant changes, may be accepted. However, It will require a second round of review.
  • Revisions required - Manuscripts receiving an accept-pending revisions decision will be published in IPSR under the conditions that minor / major modifications are made. Revisions will be reviewed by an editor to ensure necessary updates are made prior to publications.
  • Accept - Accepted manuscripts will be published in the current form with no further modifications required.

 

Publication Frequency

The journal was first published in January 2016. 
During 2016-2019, the journal published twice a year (January and July).
Starting in 2020, the journal published three times a year (April, August and December).

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.