Peer Review Process

The Scientific Committee of ISCaRD 2018 is responsible for the decision of the articles submitted to the Conference. All article submissions will be initially screened whether the manuscript has follow scope and author guidelines. All submitted manuscript will be screened using Turnitin or iThenticate for plagiarism checking before being sent to reviewers. The manuscript will be sent to section editor and will be reviewed by at least two anonymous reviewers.

Every article submitted will go through an Editorial Review and Double Blind Peer Reviews. The manuscripts that do not sufficient for publication, not meet the general interest or inappropriate to the focus and scope and/or have many errors in many aspects would be directly rejected without peer review. The manuscripts that meet the editorial requirement would be processed for peer review by at least two reviewers. In a condition when particular advice is required the editor has the right to appoint additional reviewer. The decision on one manuscript is made by the Editorial Board meeting. The decision would be based on the advice from the reviewers and could categorized into: 1) Accepted, with minor editorial correction; 2) Minor revision, when author is invited to revise and no further review is needed; 3) Major revision, when author is invited to revise and need to resubmit for review; 4) Rejected, when there is major conceptual/technical/interpretational problems.

The reviewers of the JDI have the responsibility to do a useful reports that help the editors in making final decision on a manuscript.  The author has the responsibility to clearly stated the changes that are made in the revised manuscript. A careful examination on the sentence structure, text accuracy and completeness, self-explanatory tables and figures should be done by the author. The editors have the right to make editing to the manuscript in terms of style, format and clarity. Acceptance of a manuscript is decided in the Editorial Board meeting. The final decision on a manuscript would be given by the Editor in Chief.

Archive Access Policy

The presentations that make up the current and archived conferences on this site have been made open access and are freely available for viewing, for the benefit of authors and interested readers.

About IPCSPI FISIP UI 2017

Research with its dissemination activities is one of the univeristy’s fundamental duty for dealing with issues and challenges in a society. Within this awareness, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia held their first International Postgraduate Conference on Social and Political Issues (IPCSPI). The conference will be a placed for international postgraduate students, together with researchers and practitioners from all over the world, to present their view and collaborate on social and political issues and challenges. This event will be held on October 25^th – 26^th, 2017 in Depok, West Java, Indonesia.

Within a theme “Social Inclusion and Transnational Issues”, we invite participants to join and present their research with subtheme as follows, IPCSPI want to provide a space for international postgraduate students in the field of Social and Political Sciences in exchanging their ideas, knowledge and research. The precence of scholars and practitioners will reinforce studies and research on  Social Inclusion and Transnational Issues. Furthermore, the IPCSPI is  designed to enhance resarch disseminations of academics which is connected with social and political issues in the ground.

The IPCSPI target is producing eminence paper which will be a refererence for scholar  over the world in developing knowledge and ideas in the field of Social and Political Sciences. Prospective papers will be published in three forms:

• Indexed academic journal
• Indexed conference proceedings
• Book series

The conference’s will be attended by international participants include postgraduate students, scholars, researchers, policy makers, and practicioners.