International Journal of Social Forestry



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Board of Editors and Peer Reviewers

Contributed by admin on Feb 23, 2008 - 04:24 PM

IJSF is an international journal; hence, the members of the Board of Editors come from many countries. At this time, their countries of origins are Indonesia, Canada, Italy, Japan, the Philippines, Pakistan, and Germany.
The main roles of the Board of Editors are to make guidelines or policies for IJSF, to decide which accepted articles to be published in certain editions, and to edit the accepted articles (language, contents, layout).
The names and brief resumes of the members of the Board of Editors, can be viewed here.

As far as the reviewers/referees are concerned, their roles are of crucial as they could play as a judge in deciding whether the article should be accepted or rejected to be published in IJSF. IJSF selects two reviewers to review any article. In case the decision is difficult to make, the third reviewer could be requested to review such an article.

The peer reviewers are scientists selected by the Board of Editors, and in the reviewing process, the submitted article will be blind-reviewed by the reviewers, with the reviewers’ names held by the editors.