Manuscript Review Stage

General Concerns:

  1. Editor-in-chief has the authorization to accept or reject a manuscript;
  2. Editorial boards do pre and post-review of the manuscripts;
  3. At least two peer-reviewers reviews the manuscripts;
  4. Editor protects all materials submitted to the journal and all communications in this process;
  5. Editor checks for plagiarism using Ithenticate. If there is plagiarism indication, the submitted manuscript will be rejected;
  6. Manuscripts are double-blind reviewed in which reviewers do not know the author's identity, and vice-versa.

Pre-review Process:

  1. Do the title and content of the manuscript suit the vision, focus, and scope of Verbum Christi?
  2. Does the abstract contain at least: research objectives, research methods, and results?
  3. Introduction:
    1. Does the background of the problem relate to the title or abstract?
    2. Does the manuscript provide a literature review from other journal articles?
    3. Does the author state the research gap and novelty in the manuscript?
    4. Does the author include the organization of the manuscript?
    5.  Has the research objective been stated?
    6. Has the thesis statement been stated?
  4. Research Method:
    1. Is there any rationalization for the application of the research method?
    2. Does the author explain the data analysis process?
  5. Discussion:
    1.  Does the discussion follow the manuscript's organization, described at the end of the Introduction chapter?
    2. Did the author analyze following the explanation in the Research Method chapter?
  6. Conclusion:
    1. Are the research results able to respond to the research objectives?
    2. Is the thesis stated justifiable?
  7. Is the manuscript written scientifically? Furthermore, does it have correlations between paragraphs?
  8. Does the manuscript follow the Author's Guidelines and Manuscript Template?
  9. Does the manuscript indicate falsification, fabrication, and plagiarism (with a maximum 25% similarity in Ithenticate of the article's content, excluding footnotes, bibliography, and in-text citations)?
  10. References:
    1. The ratio of primary sources should compare to other sources (i.e., journal/proceedings of at least 80%);
    2. Up-to-date (i.e., from all journals in the bibliography, at least 80% sourced from scientific journals within the last ten years);
    3. Active footnotes and bibliography link;
    4. Correspondence between footnotes and bibliography;
    5. Journal articles must be followed by Digital Object Identifier (DOI).

Review Process:

  1. Title effectiveness
  2. Abstract conciseness
  3. Introduction:
    1. State of the art
    2. Novelty
    3. Thesis/argumentation
  4. Research method compatibility
  5. Results and Discussion:
    1. Validity
    2. Discussion between research result and theory or concept
  6. Conclusion clarity
  7. Reference sources' relevancy and accountable

Post-review Process:

  1. Does the manuscript contain elements of ethical violations, such as plagiarism, forgery, and fabrication, or are they being reviewed in other journals?
  2. Is any part of the manuscript not revised according to the reviewer's and editorial boards' corrections?
  3. Is it following the Author Guidelines and Manuscript Template of Verbum Christi?