Peer-Review Process

SCHOULID: Indonesian Journal of School Counseling is a double-blind, peer-reviewed journal. This means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. Submitted papers are evaluated by anonymous referees for contribution, originality, and relevance. Reviewer selection is critical to the publication process, and we base our choice on many factors, including expertise, reputation, specific recommendations, and our own prior experience with a reviewer's characteristics. We check with potential reviewers before sending them manuscripts. Reviewers reserve the right to reject the script if the script review didn't match the fields/expertise. Reviewers should bear in mind that all correspondence in this journal contains confidential information, which should be treated as such.

In general, we need one month to inform you (the authors) about the results. Totally, the peer review process is estimated to be time-consuming, up to three months.

To maintain a high-quality publication of SCHOULID: Indonesian Journal of School Counseling, all submissions undergo a rigorous review process. Manuscripts judged to be of potential interest to our readership are sent for formal review, typically to two reviewers, but sometimes more if special advice is needed (for example, on statistics or a particular technique). The editors then make a decision based on the reviewers' advice, from among several possibilities: (1) Accept, with or without editorial revisions; (2) Invite the authors to revise their manuscript to address specific concerns before a final decision is reached; (3) Reject, but indicate to the authors that further work might justify a resubmission, and; (4) Reject outright, typically on grounds of specialist interest, lack of novelty, insufficient conceptual advance or major technical and/or interpretational problems.

Authors will receive information for submitting a final copy of their manuscript upon acceptance from the Editor. Once the article has been finalised for print production, the corresponding author will receive an email from the Editor.

Upon publication of the journal, the author(s) will be able to download a free PDF offprint of the article through the journal site. Information on the terms and conditions regarding the use of the final article PDF for the corresponding author and/or any co-authors is available on the site.