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Preliminary Assessment

Articles that do not meet the objectives and scope of this Journal will be rejected. Quality issues include inappropriate research questions, insufficient rigor, and insufficient intellectual depth. Additionally, papers written in language and grammar that do not meet scientifically accepted standards are likely to be rejected.

Initial assessment also includes plagiarism checks using Turnitin. Manuscripts with a similarity index without references exceeding 25% will be rejected at this stage. The initial review will be conducted by the editor or section editor. The manuscript can be sent directly for review or returned to the author for revisions. Additionally, the initial assessment is also based on the article's compliance with writing guidelines and templates, as well as the cover letter.

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Peer Review Process

All submitted manuscripts will undergo a double-blind peer review process thru an online system. The review process takes 1-2 weeks, and the main focus is on the novelty of the manuscript and its contribution to the focus and scope of this journal.

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Review Process

The manuscript will be reviewed using a double-blind approach. The editor or section editor will request at least two reviewers to review the manuscript for two to three weeks. During this process, the author must not submit the manuscript for public consideration in other journals or conferences. After the reviewer completes the review process, the results will be sent to the corresponding author. The decision regarding the manuscript can be one of the following:

·   Accept Submission: The submission will be accepted without revisions.

·   Revisions Required: The submission will be accepted after minor changes have been made.

·   Resubmit for Review: The submission needs to be reworked, but with significant changes, it may be accepted. It will require a second round of review, however.

·   Decline Submission: The submission will not be published with the journal.

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Revision Process

Manuscripts sent back to the authors after revision should be returned to the editors or section editors within a week. The revised manuscript should be uploaded to the Online Submission Interface in the "Upload Author Version" from the Review task window. If OJS doesn’t work properly, revised documents should be sent to jombinovojs@v-learnov.com.

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Editing Process

The final version of the revised manuscript will be screened one more time for plagiarism using iThenticate. This screening is aimed to ensure the final version that will be published is free from a maximum of 25% similarity. The corresponding author may be asked to make final minor revision when the similairity index reach the threshold.

After revision, the manuscript will be sent to a copyeditor for the copyediting process. In this such, some revisions may occur for some grammatical matters and reference entries. The corresponding author should response to the copyeditor once copyediting proccess finished.

The copyedited manuscript will be sent to the layout editor. In this stage, a layout editor will format the manuscript using proper software and provide a Galley version of the manuscript. Once it completed, the Galley version will be sent to corresponding author for proofreading proccess.

The corresponding author should take a look at the Galley version carefully and notify a proofreader for any mistakes to be corrected. The corresponding author should make sure that all authors of the manuscript agree with the Galley version.

The proofreader will finally check the proofreading comments from the corresponding author. The comments from the corresponding author and additional proofreading from the proofreader will be used by layout editor for revision of final version of the Galley.

After the editing process, the Galley version of the manuscript will be published in an issue. At this stage, the manuscript has become a journal article. A DOI will be assigned to the article. The author(s) can and is(are) recommended to share the article in the social media, personal blog or website, and institusional repository to improve article reach in the academia.