Moderasi Pembikinan Jurnal FBK

Establishing a journal at FBK

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Saadiyah Darus

adi@ukm.edu.my

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Editor receives an

article

Screening

process

Resend to

author for

revision

Editor checks

whether revision

is satisfactory

Reviewer 1

Reviewer 2

Revised article

Reports from 2

reviewers

Resend to author for

revision

Revised paper

Editor checks

revised article

If satisfactory –

copyedit and publish

If not satisfactory

– further revision

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Review process

• Double-blind review

• May take up to 6 months

• Editors do not deal with drafts

• Read the journal’s submission guidelines

• http://ejournal.ukm.my/akademika/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

• Read a few published papers and see the structure and language standard

• Follow through

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OJS publishing system

• http://ejournal.ukm.my/akademika/about/ab

outThisPublishingSystem

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Selecting reviewers

• Reviewers are people who are expert in their own area

• Usually they are academics

• Authors can suggest names of 3 or 4 reviewers outside their own institution

• No conflict of interest

• Ethics statement

• http://ejournal.ukm.my/akademika/pages/view/Ethics

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Formatting articles

• Decide on one type of format for your journal

• Akademika uses UKM Press House Style

• http://ejournal.ukm.my/akademika/pages/vie

w/formatting

• GEMA Online Journal uses APA

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Sharing of experience

• Editor-in-chief for GEMA Online Journal of

Language Studies

• 2006-2012

• Indexed in Scopus in 2009

• Challenges 2006-2008

– To publish on time

– To get enough good quality papers

– Being able to fulfill the requirement of Scopus

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Sharing of experience

• Indexed in Scopus in 2009

• Challenges 2009-2012

– How to screen the papers quickly - hundreds of

papers in a year

– How to make editors aware that this is an

important job

– Ensure a healthy ‘store’ of papers in the pipeline

– Publish on time

Presented at UniSZA, 20 October 2015