Peer Review

Every article that goes to the editorial staff will be selected through Initial Review processes by the Editorial Board. Then, the articles will be sent to the Mitra Bebestari/ peer reviewer and will go to the next selection by Blind Review Process. After that, the articles will be returned to the authors to revise.

These processes take a month for a maximum time. Every manuscript was reviewed by at least 2 reviewers. In the manuscript, Mitra Bebestari/ peer reviewer will be rated from the substantial and technical aspects. Mitra Bebestari/ peer reviewer that collaboration with Jurnal HIKARI is the experts in the linguistics, literature and art area and issues around it. The editors then make a decision based on the reviewer's recommendation from among several possibilities : rejected, revision required, or accepted. The editor has the right to decide which manuscripts submitted to the journal should be published. Review Process :

  1. Author submit the manuscript 
  2. Editor Evaluation (some manuscripts are rejected or returned before the review process) 
  3. Bind peer review process 
  4. Editor Decision 
  5. Confirmation to the author