Peer Review Process

Section Policies

Articles

•  Open Submissions
•  Indexed
•  Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

All submitted manuscripts are subject to a blind review process, through an online system. The review process takes 6-8 weeks, and its primary focus is the novelty of the manuscripts and their contributions to the economic science development.

Peer review procedures

1. The corresponding author submits the manuscript through ECOTOUR's online system
2. The ECOTOUR Editor Board will identify the quality of manuscript and the possibility of cases of scientific misconduct including authorship, ownership, and plagiarism. 
3. The Editor Board notifies the submissions and informs the authors if the papers are suitable for the journals. Therefore, the manuscript will be sent to two reviewers for reviewing process.
4. All of the contributions of the ECOTOUR are subject to a double-blind peer-review, which means that neither the author(s) nor the reviewers know the identity of the other.
5. At least two reviewers review every submitted paper. The review process is an online process and contains a clear referees' statements concerning paper's publishing approval or its rejection
6. Reviewer’s decision. The reviewers will provide the following recommendations:
   Accepted without revisions; means that the manuscript is acceptable for publication.
   Accepted with minor revisions; implies that the manuscript is acceptable for publication once it is revised in response to the reviewers’ concerns.
   Accepted with major revisions; means that substantive inadequacies in the manuscript, such as data analysis, the main theory used, and rewriting of paragraphs, need to be revised.
   Rejected; means that the manuscript is not acceptable for publication or the given reviews relate to fundamental issues.
   The reviewer’s decision will be considered by the Board of Editors to determine the ensuing process of the manuscript. In case of review results with revisions, the article is sent to the author(s) together with a referee's opinions. The authors are asked to respond to the referees' comments and make the appropriate adjustments in the text. Then, the authors send back the corrected version. If in the revision period, the article is not returned (or the editorial board is not informed about any delay) – the article is considered to be refused.
7. The Editorial Board makes the final decision on publication. At this final decision, the manuscript may still be rejected if the author did not seriously conduct the revisions necessary.
8. Confirmation to be published. After going through the editing process, at this stage, the final layout of the manuscript will be resent to the author to ensure that the content is in accordance with the author’s writing. At this stage, the author may revise any typographical error found in the final manuscript. Once confirmation from the author is given, the Editorial Team will process the manuscript for online publication on the journal's website.

Publication Frequency

The International Journal of Economic and Tourism (ECOTOUR) is published fourth a year, January, April, June, 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...

Complaint Policy

This procedure applies to complaints about the policies, procedures, or actions of the ECOTOUR editorial staff. We welcome complaints as they provide an opportunity and a spur for improvement, and we aim to respond quickly, courteously, and constructively. Please write your complaint with journal title, volume number., issue number, paper ID, paper title, page number.

Criteria of a Complaint

Our definition of a complaint is as follows:

• The complainant defines his or her expression of unhappiness as a complaint.
• We infer that the complainant is not simply disagreeing with a decision we have made or something we have published (which happens every day) but thinks that there has been a failure of process – for example, a long delay or a rude response – or a severe misjudgment.
• The complaint must be about something that is within the responsibility of the ECOTOUR and content or process.

ECOTOUR is aware of the complaints stated below:

• Authorship complaints
• Plagiarism complaints
• Multiple, duplicate, concurrent publication/Simultaneous submission.
• Undisclosed conflicts of interest
• Reviewer bias or competitive harmful acts by reviewers.

Policy for Handling Complaints:

• If the Journal receives a complaint that any contribution to the Journal break intellectual property rights or contains material inaccuracies or otherwise unlawful materials.
• Investigation may include a request that the parties involved substantiate their claims.
• The Journal will make a good faith determination whether to remove the allegedly wrongful material.
• All the investigations and decisions are to be documented by the Journal.
• We strive to ensure that ECOTOUR is of the highest quality and is free from errors. However, we accept that occasionally mistakes might happen.

Editorial Complaints Policy

The Managing Editor and staff of that ECOTOUR will make every efforts to put matters right as soon as possible in the most appropriate way, offering right of reply where necessary. As far as possible, we will investigate complaints in a blame-free manner, looking to see how systems can be improved to prevent mistakes occurring.

How to Make a Complaint

Complaints about editorial content should be made as soon as possible after publication, preferably in writing by email to: admin1@hmedupustaka.or.id, indrairyantonurhidayat@hmedupustaka.or.id