Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The focus and scope of this journal is on religion and society studies or research, to discuss primarily about the religions contribution in order to create a society in dignified, fair, and tolerant life also to respect diversity in Indonesian society life.

 

Section Policies

Front Matter

Editors
  • Sharon Budihardjo
Unchecked Open Submissions Unchecked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Editorial

Editors
  • Sharon Budihardjo
  • Yohan Lemuel
  • H. Panjaitan
Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

 Review Policy:

  1. The manuscripts will be reviewed by 2 (two) reviewers at least.

  2. Editorial Board protect all the confidential materials that submitted to journal and all communications between authors and reviewers.

  3. Editorial Board will check plagiarism using Ithenticate.  If there is a plagiarism indication, Editor can reject it.

  4. The manuscripts will be reviewed using a double blind peer review method which is both the author and the reviewer doesnt know each identity

A Brief Review Process:
  1. The editor receives the manuscript from the author

  2. The editor evaluates all manuscript and can reject them if they do not meet the criteria (Pre-review)

  3. The editor send manuscript to the reviewer with the review form

  4. The reviewer send back the review form to Editor with necessary revision manuscript

  5. The Editor decision (rejected, need a major revision, needs a minor revision, or is accepted)

  6. Confirmation to the author. If there is revised, the authors revise the manuscript and must be submitted to the editor on scheduled. Returns for more than one month will be considered as as a new submission.

  7. Flow Chart Review

Pre-review process:

  1. Is the manuscript content according to the focus and scope of the journal?

  2. Is the content of abstract, keywords, and/or figures or tables incomplete?

  3. Does the language meet the standard of scientific language?

  4. Is the presented data insufficient?

  5. Is there any novelty?

  6. Is the writing based on the Author Guidelines and Manuscript Template?

  7. Is the manuscript indicated falsification, fabrication, plagiarism?

  8. Is the research method unclear?

  9. Do 80% of Bibliography contains primarily reference (journal)? Do 80% of Bibliography references contains with the last 10 years for books and the last 5 years for the journals?

Review Process:

  1. Title: Is the title effective, clear, conscise, and informative?

  2. Abstract: Does the abstract contain objectives, methods, important research findings, and conclusions?

  3. Introduction: Are the introduction arrangements written in an effective, clear and organized? Does the introduction contain a state of the art overview of previous studies/researches? Does the introduction contain clear gap analysis statements to show the new contributions and show differences from previous studies? Does the introduction contain clear and specific research objectives?

  4. Research Methods: Is the methodology description written clearly and completely? Is the research methodology appropriate and successful to resolve research questions? Does the author need to put other materials in supporting research data?

  5. Results and Discussion: Do the research data and discussion have a logically connection to conclusions? Are tables, figures, and schemes clear? Are additional experimental data or additional analysis needed? Is there a comparison between the results of this study with previous studies which presented in introduction?

  6. Conclusions: Are conclusions valid based on research findings? Do they answer the research objectives? Are conclusions supported by research and analysis data? Do the sentences contain repetition? It should be noted that conclusions are different from Abstract. 

  7. References: Are the references relevant to the discussion? Are all citation sources in the text written in footnotes?

  8. Overall comment: Is this manuscript original, shows novelty or new contributions, and has significance to develope scientific fields in the focus and scope of the journal Societas Dei?

  9. Do the manuscripts need to be revised (major or minor)? Is it good to publish?

Post-review process:

  1. Does the manuscript still contain of the ethic violate element in Publications (plagiarism, falsification, fabrication, or being reviewed in another journal)? The tolerance limit in Ithenticate is a 25% maximum of all manuscript contents in references and citations sentences.

  2. Are there the manuscript parts that have not been corrected according to the corrections of the two reviewers?

  3. Does the language aspect show any improvement?

  4. Is the reference still not based on Author Guideline?

 

Publication Frequency

Societas Dei: Jurnal Agama dan Masyarakat publishes two times in a year, in April and October.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Ethics Statement

The ethics of scientific publications include: (i) Neutrality, which is free from conflict of interests in managing publications; (ii) Justice, fulfill the right of authors; and (iii) Honesty, i.e. clear from duplication, fabrication, falsification and plagiarism in publications.

 

Duties and Responsibilities of Author:

  1. Responsible for the work and the article content including the method, analysis, and details.
  2. Explain the limitations in the research
  3. Respond to the review comment made by peer reviewers in a professional and timely manner.
  4. Inform to the editor if he will withdraw his manuscript.
  5. Submit the Statement of Ethical Writing in Scientific Journals.

Duties and Responsibilities of Editor :

  1. Mediating the needs of readers and authors / writers,
  2. Improving the quality of publications,
  3. Implement a quality assurance process of manuscript that will be published,
  4. Promoting freedom of opinion,
  5. Maintaining the integrity of the author's academic track record,
  6. Delivering corrections, clarifications, withdrawals, and apologies if needed,
  7. Responsible for the style and format of the journal,
  8. Actively ask an opinions to authors, readers, reviewers, and editorial board members to improve the quality of publications,
  9. Facilitating writers so that they can make improvements to the good manuscript

Duties and Responsibilities of Peer Reviewer :

  1. Obtaining the task of the editor to review the manuscript and submit the review results to the editor. The result are used to determine the eligibility of a manuscript to be published.
  2. The reviewers are not permitted to review his/her manuscript, both directly and indirectly
  3. Maintaining the authors privacy by not disseminating the results of corrections, suggestions, and recommendations for the manuscripts he reviewed
  4. Encourage the author to make improvements to the paper
  5. Review the paper that has been revised by author in accordance with the specified standards.
  6. The paper is reviewed in a timely manner according to the style of the Societas Dei: Jurnal Agama dan Masyarakat based on scientific principles (data collection methods, author's legality, conclusions, etc.)