Peer Review Process

Your manuscript will go to the blind review. You can check the status of your manuscript anytime from your account in the OJS
https://proceeding.unesa.ac.id/index.php/icobiosfs/login
We will notify you too via email when the review process is finished.

We invite all our partners to be highly vigilant on the quality of the articles selected and the peer-review process. Articles must fullfil the following criteria :

A. Articles

  • Good scientific quality
  • Peer-reviewed by at least one expert in the field
  • Strictly in the scope of the journal
  • Written in proper English; the abstract and title present key information about the subject and include important keywords
  • Include various international collaborations
  • Longer than an abstract or a short report (3-4 pages min) – there is no maximum limit of pages
  • Checked in a plagiarism tool (this service is provided if you opt for our SAGA submission tool). Determining acceptable levels of plagiarism/duplication: see COPE advice on https://publicationethics.org/cope-positions#plagiarism

B. References

  • The article must contain timely, accurate, and relevant references. Ensure that a set of references doesn’t excessively point to the same author(s) or the same publication with the intention to artificially increase the citations of certain authors. This precaution applies to a single article or a series of articles. Our team will carry out additional checks to eliminate any risk of citation manipulation that could affect the integrity and image of the journal.
  • Examples for Journal articles:
    A. Nicolas, J.-L. Barrat, J. Rottler, Effects of inertia on the steady-shear rheology of disordered solids. Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 058303 (2016)
  • If available, author(s) must add the DOI number of the article.
    A. Lohrasebi, T. Koslowski, Modeling water purification by an aquaporin-inspired graphene-based nano-channel. J. Mol. Model. 25, 280 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00894-019-4160-γ
  • References must contain the full title of the cited article
  • A maximum of 15 references per article is allowed, with only a maximum of 3 citations to proceedings articles (this rule does not apply to EPJ WOC). Please note that article exceeding this quota can be excluded from the publication by the production team.

C. Authors

  • The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors (and no inappropriate co-authors) are included in the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version for publication. There is no limit to the number of authors per article as long as they all fully participated in the work. Ideally, they can be requested to provide a certificate of contribution detailing how the authors contributed to the publication.
ICOBIOSFS Conference Workflow Diagram