Presented on 20 October 2015, as invited speaker at UniSZA.

1. Moderasi Pembikinan Jurnal FBK
Establishing a journal at FBK
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Saadiyah Darus
adi@ukm.edu.my
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2. 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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3. 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/submi
ssions#authorGuidelines
• Read a few published papers and see the
structure and language standard
• Follow through
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4. OJS publishing system
• http://ejournal.ukm.my/akademika/about/ab
outThisPublishingSystem
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6. 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
Presented at UniSZA, 20 October 2015

7. 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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8. 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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9. 9
2) STEP Score Sheet2) STEP Score Sheet
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10. 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