Peer Review Process

International Journal of Local and Global Islamic Dynamics (abbr. IJOLANGID) conducts the manuscript review process following journal publishing ethics. The scholarly article submitted to this journal will be double-blind and reviewed by at least 2 (two) or more expert reviewers. The reviewers give valuable scientific comments improving the contents of the manuscript. The manuscript review process involves a board of editors and a board of reviewers. The review process includes:

  • Manuscript Template Compliance
  • Plagiarism Check with Turnitin (the similarity must not be more than 25%)
  • File types to be submitted (filetype must be in Word document)
  • Language Compliance
  • Compliance with Author Guidelines
  • Substance Manuscript Content
  • The Integrity of Discussion Topics
  • Found innovations and Novelty
  • And other matters relating to the review process

Reviewers’ Responsibilities

Reviewers must comply with peer review guidelines. For more details see here. If Editor has invited you to review a manuscript, please consider the following items:

  • Reviewing manuscript critically but constructively and preparing detailed comments about the manuscript to help authors improve their research;
  • Reviewing multiple versions of a manuscript as necessary;
  • Providing all required information within established deadlines;
  • Making recommendations to the editor regarding the suitability of the manuscript for publication in the journal;
  • Declaring to the editor any potential conflicts of interest with respect to the authors or the content of a manuscript they are asked to review;
  • Reporting possible research misconducts;
  • Suggesting alternative reviewers in case they cannot review the manuscript for any reasons;
  • Treating the manuscript as a confidential document;
  • Not making any use of the work described in the manuscript;
  • Not communicating directly with authors, if somehow they identify the authors;
  • Not identifying themselves as authors;
  • Not passing on the assigned manuscript to another reviewer;
  • Ensuring that the manuscript is of high quality and original research;
  • Informing the editor if he/she finds the assigned manuscript is under consideration in any other publication to his/her knowledge;
  • Writing a review report in English only;
  • Authoring a commentary for publication related to the reviewed manuscript.

What should be checked while reviewing a manuscript?

  • Novelty;
  • Originality;
  • Scientific reliability;
  • A valuable contribution to science;
  • Adding new aspects to the existing field of study;
  • Ethical aspects;
  • Structure of the article submitted and its relevance to authors’ guidelines;
  • References provided to substantiate the content;
  • Grammar, punctuation, and spelling;
  • Scientific misconduct.

The detailed Journal peer review process is based on the following chart:

Publication Process