All submitted manuscripts will be selected through initial review process by editor. Only manuscripts that seem most likely to meet our editorial criteria are sent for double-blind reviews. The editors then make a decision based on the reviewer's recommendation from among several possibilities: rejected, require major or minor revision, or accepted. The Editorial Board of Akuntabilitas has the right to decide which manuscripts submitted to the journal should be published.
All manuscripts submitted to Akuntabilitas must follow focus and scope, and author guidelines of this journal. The submitted manuscripts must address scientific merit or novelty appropriate to the focus and scope. All manuscripts must be free from plagiarism contents. All authors are suggested to use plagiarism detection softaware to do the similarity checking. Editors check the plagiarism detection of articles in Akuntabilitas by using a Turnitin software.
The review process of Akuntabilitas has the following stages:
- Editorial initial review process (checking for guidelines, language, and plagiarism)
- Editorial board evaluation (some manuscripts are rejected or returned before the review process)
- Double-blind review process
- Editorial board decision
- Confirmation to the authors