Peer Review Process

Peer Review Process

• Review Guideline
• Types of Decisions

Submissions must represent the original and independent work of the authors. Each new submission is assessed by one or more editors to determine whether it falls within focus and scope of Jurnal STATISTIKA. We will reject a manuscript without review if it contains insufficient statistical,data science content, and it’s applications; is mainly concerned with developing and advancing methodology and not primarily with the application of these methods to statistics and data science; there are substantive issues with the design, methodology, or data quality; it exceeds our word limit or is incorrectly formatted; it is poorly presented and unclear.

Review Guideline

Step 1: Editorial assessment

Peer review follows a number of stages, beginning with submitting your article to a journal. At this first stage, the Editor-in-Chief will decide if it’s suitable for the journal, asking questions such as:

• Has the author followed the journal’s guidelines?
• Is this the right journal for this article?
• Will the journal’s readers find it interesting and useful?

The editor might reject the article immediately, but otherwise it will move to the next stage, and into peer review.

Step 2: First round of peer review

If the manuscript passes the editorial assessment, it will be assigned to a editor, who will then send it to at least two experts in the relevant field to undergo a double-blind peer-review. Manuscripts that fail to pass the initial screening will be rejected without further review.

Step 3: Second round of peer review

The editor will find and contact potential referees or other researchers or academics who are experts in your field. They will be asked to read your article, and advise the editor whether to publish your paper in that journal

Step 4: Revise and resubmit

You can then amend your article based on the reviewers’ comments, resubmitting it with any or all changes made. You may be asked to make further revisions or the paper may be rejected if the editor thinks that the revisions you have made are not adequate.

Step 5: Final decision

At this stage, the revised manuscript will either be accepted or rejected. This decision is dependent whether the editor finds the manuscript to have been improved to a level worthy of publication. If the author(s) are unable to make the required changes or have done so to a degree below the journal's standards, the manuscript will be rejected.

Manuscripts that pass the initial assessment are assigned to a subject expert in our team of Associate Editors to oversee the review process. All papers are subject to peer review and authors can expect a decision, or an explanation for the delay, within a month of receipt. If a revision is invited, the corresponding author should submit the revised manuscript within 2 weeks. The final decision is taken by one of the senior editors based on the information gained through the peer review process.

Types of Decisions

Decline: Following peer review, the paper is judged not to be acceptable for publication in Jurnal STATISTIKA and resubmission is not possible.

Resubmit: The submitted version of the paper is not acceptable and requires major revision but there is clear potential in the work and Jurnal STATISTIKA 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 Jurnal STATISTIKA. 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 Jurnal STATISTIKA.

Final acceptance: The paper is acceptable 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 a minor amendments 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.