Reviewers or Mitra Bestari of  JGDD are competent in the fields of Indonesian educational policies and practices and are able to work professionally by upholding the ethical code of scientific publications as reviewers. The peer-review process of the JGDD manuscript is as follows:

  1. Peer-reviewers review manuscripts in accordance with their scientific background. If the manuscript does not comply with peer-reviewers proficiency, the peer reviewer is entitled to refuse to review a manuscript and transfer it to other reviewers who are more competent;
  2. The review process uses a double-blind review, i.e. the reviewer does not know the identity of the author and vice versa;
  3. The process of reviewing one manuscript is done by at least two reviewers and steps of the process follow the E-Journal system;
  4. Reviewers review the manuscript within a maximum period of 6 weeks after the manuscript is assigned to review. The review process is based on the substance (quality) of the manuscript, among others,
  • to review whether the title, background, questions, objective, theory, methods, discussion, and conclusion in accord to each other;
  • to review the clarity of images and tables;
  • to review the updated references used in the manuscript;
  • to review the validity of facts;
  • to evaluate the contents of manuscript;
  • to review the originality of information;
  • to review whether the manuscript was published elsewhere
  • to review the comprehensiveness of the author's knowledge

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  1. If the review of the manuscript has not been completed within 6 weeks, the reviewer must confirm to the Editor in Chief for the delay;
  2. During the review process, the reviewer provides assessments by filling in a review form/checklist available online. If it is difficult to access the website, reviewers can manually fill in the form/checklist in MS. Word format sent by a Section Editor or the Secretariat;
  3. The reviewed manuscript is returned to the corresponding Section Editor or the Secretariat;
  4. Reviewers make the decision on the reviewed manuscript:
  • Accept Submission
  • Revisions Required
  • Resubmit for Review
  • Resubmit Elsewhere
  • Decline Submission
  • See Comments