Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Advance Sustainable Science, Engineering and Technology (ASSET) is a peer-reviewed open-access international scientific journal dedicated to the latest advancements in sciences, applied sciences and engineering, as well as relating sustainable technology. This journal aims to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of sciences, engineering, and technology.

The Scope of ASSET Journal is:

  • Biology and Application
  • Chemistry and Application
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Physics and Application
  • Information Technology
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Mathematics
  • Pharmacy
  • Statistics

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Advance Sustainable Science, Engineering and Technology (ASSET) journal is an international journal published by by Science and Technology Research Centre Universitas PGRI Semarang. The research article submitted to this online journal will be peer-reviewed. 

The practice of peer review is to ensure that only good science is published. It is an objective process at the heart of good scholarly publishing and is carried out by all reputable scientific journals. Our referees play a vital role in maintaining the high standards ASSET and all manuscripts are peer reviewed following the procedure outlined below. 

Initial manuscript evaluation

The Editor first evaluates all manuscripts. Manuscripts rejected at this stage are insufficiently original, have serious scientific flaws, have poor grammar or English language, or are outside the aims and scope of the journal. Those that meet the minimum criteria are normally passed on to at least 2 experts for review. 

Type of Peer Review 

ASSET employs single blind reviewing, where the referees remain anonymous throughout the process. Referees are assigned to the paper according to their expertise and our database is constantly being updated. 

Referee reports 

Referees are asked to evaluate whether the manuscript: - Is original - Is methodologically sound - Follows appropriate ethical guidelines - Has results which are clearly presented and support the conclusions - Correctly references previous relevant work. Language correction is not part of the peer review process, but referees may, if so wish, suggest corrections to the manuscript. 


Final report 

A final decision to accept or reject the manuscript will be sent to the author along with any recommendations made by the referees, and may include verbatim comments by the referees. 

Editor’s Decision is final 

Referees advise the editor, who is responsible for the final decision to accept or reject the article.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Articles are freely available to both subscribers and the wider public with permitted reuse.

All articles published Open Access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. We are continuously working with our author communities to select the best choice of license options: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA). Authors and readers can copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, as well as remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially, but they must give appropriate credit (cite to the article or content), provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

The Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that if accepted for publication, copyright of the article shall be assigned/transferred to Advance Sustainable Science, Environmental Engineering and Technology (ASSET) and Science and Technology Research Centre Universitas PGRI Semarang as the publisher of the journal.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...