Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Smart Society Empowerment Journal is a peer-reviewed and open access journal focusing on educative, promotive,preventive, and community empowerment activities in the health sector. This journal publishes original articles and reviews. This journal is published at least three times a year. 

 

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

The articles submitted to Smart Society Empowerment Journal will be processed through a formatting review by the editor and independently reviewed by two peer reviewers. The review process applies single blind method. Decisions from reviewers are a top priority for editors to make decisions. The time required by reviewers to complete a round review process is four weeks. Generally, prospective reviewers will be selected based on their reputation in the suitability of their expertise. The decision for publication, amendment, or rejection is based on their reports/recommendation. After being reviewed, there will be four kinds of editor decision based on reviewers’ recommendation:

> Accept Submission: The submission will be accepted without revisions.
> Revisions Required: The submission will be accepted after minor changes have been made.
> Resubmit for Review: The submission needs to be re-worked, but with significant changes, may be accepted. It will require a second round of review, however.
> Decline Submission: The submission will not be published in the journal.

 

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.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...