Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Indonesia conducts the manuscript review process following journal publishing ethics. The research article submitted to this journal will be single-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 30%)
• 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

(http://publicationethics.org/files/u7140/Peer%20review%20guidelines.pdf)

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: