Journal of Community Service Based on Participation, Collaboration, and Social Innovation applies a peer-review process to ensure that every manuscript published in the journal meets academic standards, originality, methodological clarity, practical relevance, community impact, and publication ethics.
All submitted manuscripts are evaluated through an editorial screening and peer-review process before being accepted for publication. The review process is conducted objectively, fairly, confidentially, and professionally by editors and reviewers who have expertise relevant to community service, participation, collaboration, social innovation, empowerment, and community development.
Every manuscript submitted to Journal of Community Service Based on Participation, Collaboration, and Social Innovation will first be checked by the editorial team.
The editorial screening includes the suitability of the manuscript with the journal’s focus and scope, compliance with author guidelines, manuscript format, citation style, originality, clarity of writing, ethical compliance, and relevance to community service and social innovation.
Manuscripts that do not meet the journal’s scope, do not follow the author guidelines, contain serious writing or formatting problems, have high similarity, or do not meet minimum academic standards may be rejected before entering the peer-review process.
All submitted manuscripts may be checked using similarity detection software.
Manuscripts that contain plagiarism, duplicate publication, excessive similarity, improper citation, or unethical use of sources may be returned to the authors for revision or rejected by the editorial team.
Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts are original and that all sources, data, images, tables, figures, and documentation used in the manuscript are properly cited.
Journal of Community Service Based on Participation, Collaboration, and Social Innovation uses a peer-review system in which manuscripts are reviewed by qualified reviewers with expertise relevant to the topic of the manuscript.
Reviewers evaluate manuscripts based on academic quality, originality, clarity of objectives, suitability of methods, relevance of community service activities, participatory approach, collaborative process, social innovation, program impact, sustainability, and compliance with publication ethics.
Reviewers are expected to assess manuscripts based on the following criteria:
Relevance of the manuscript to the journal’s focus and scope.
Originality and novelty of the community service or social innovation program.
Clarity of the background, problem, objectives, and target community.
Suitability of the method, approach, and implementation stages.
Quality of participation and involvement of community members.
Strength of collaboration among stakeholders, institutions, or community partners.
Relevance and effectiveness of the social innovation applied.
Clarity of results, outputs, outcomes, and community impact.
Sustainability and potential replication of the program.
Quality of discussion, reflection, and academic contribution.
Clarity of writing, structure, tables, figures, and documentation.
Relevance and adequacy of references.
Compliance with research ethics, community ethics, and publication ethics.
After completing the review process, reviewers may provide one of the following recommendations:
Accepted without revision.
Accepted with minor revision.
Accepted with major revision.
Resubmission for review.
Rejected.
The final decision regarding manuscript acceptance or rejection is made by the editor based on reviewer comments, manuscript quality, author revisions, ethical considerations, and the journal’s editorial policy.
Authors who receive revision requests must revise their manuscripts according to the comments and suggestions provided by reviewers and editors.
The revised manuscript must be submitted within the time specified by the editorial team. Authors are expected to provide clear responses to reviewer comments and explain the revisions made in the manuscript.
If authors disagree with certain reviewer comments, they must provide academic, reasonable, and evidence-based explanations.
The editorial team has full authority to make the final decision on all submitted manuscripts.
Editorial decisions may include acceptance, minor revision, major revision, resubmission, or rejection. The editor’s decision is final and is based on academic quality, reviewer recommendations, ethical considerations, manuscript suitability, and journal publication standards.
All manuscripts submitted to Journal of Community Service Based on Participation, Collaboration, and Social Innovation are treated as confidential documents.
Editors and reviewers are not allowed to disclose, discuss, copy, distribute, or use manuscript content for personal, institutional, academic, or professional advantage before publication.
Reviewers must maintain confidentiality throughout the review process and must not share the manuscript with other parties without permission from the editor.
Editors and reviewers must disclose any potential conflict of interest related to the manuscript, authors, institutions, funding sources, community partners, or research topic.
If a conflict of interest exists, the editor or reviewer must withdraw from handling or reviewing the manuscript.
Reviewers are expected to pay attention to ethical aspects of community service manuscripts, especially when the manuscript involves community members, vulnerable groups, students, institutions, surveys, interviews, observations, photographs, videos, or personal data.
If reviewers identify potential ethical issues, such as lack of consent, misuse of community data, unethical documentation, plagiarism, data manipulation, or exaggerated claims of community impact, they must inform the editor.
The peer-review process generally takes several weeks, depending on the availability of reviewers, the complexity of the manuscript, and the quality of revisions submitted by the authors.
The journal is committed to conducting the review process efficiently and professionally while maintaining academic quality, editorial independence, and ethical standards.
By submitting a manuscript to Journal of Community Service Based on Participation, Collaboration, and Social Innovation, authors agree to follow the journal’s peer-review process and accept editorial decisions based on academic evaluation, reviewer recommendations, manuscript quality, community relevance, and publication ethics.
