Focus and Scope

Verity: International Relations Journal is published by the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of Universitas Pelita Harapan. The journal aims to facilitate the exchange and deployment of scientific ideas by academics and practitioners in the field of International Relations. The topics in Verity consist of International Political Economy, Security Studies, Poverty and Social Gap, International Development, Regional and International Cooperation, International Organized Crime, Human Rights, Nationalism and Conflict, Global Governance, Gender, Globalization, Diplomatic Relations, and Economic Development. Verity has been published since 2009 and it is a bi-annual publication with an issue published between January-June and another between July-December.

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

Manuscripts submitted will go through the evaluation process with a system of double-blind peer review by reviewers selected by the Editorial Board with at least one of whom is a member of the Editorial Board. Reviewers are appointed under consideration of expertise and suitability to the subject. Results of the evaluation will be communicated within 3-4 months. On the basis of reviewers’ comments and recommendations, the Editorial Board will decide whether the manuscript is accepted without revision, accepted with revisions required, or rejected. The revised manuscript should be returned to the Editorial Board within a predetermined time.

1. Submission of Manuscript
• The author submits the manuscript through the Open Journal Systems (OJS). 
• The system confirms receipt and assigns a unique tracking number to the submission.
2. Initial Editorial Screening
• The editor-in-chief or editorial team reviews the manuscript for compliance with the journal’s scope, structure, and formatting requirements.
• Manuscripts that fail to meet basic criteria are rejected or returned for revisions.
3. Assignment to Reviewers
• If the submission passes the initial screening, the editor assigns it to two or more independent peer reviewers with expertise in the subject area.
• The review process is typically double-blind (neither authors nor reviewers know each other’s identity).
4. Peer Review Process
• Reviewers evaluate the manuscript based on criteria such as originality, clarity, methodology, contribution to the field, and coherence.
• Reviewers provide detailed feedback, including suggestions for improvements, and submit a recommendation (accept, minor revisions, major revisions, or reject).
5. Editorial Decision
• The editor reviews the feedback from all reviewers and makes a decision:
• Accepted: The manuscript is accepted as is or with minor changes.
• Revisions Required: Authors must address reviewers' comments and resubmit the revised manuscript.
• Rejected: The manuscript is declined based on reviewers' recommendations.
6. Revision and Resubmission (if applicable)
• The author revises the manuscript according to the reviewers' feedback and resubmits it within the given timeframe.
• The revised submission may be sent back to reviewers for further evaluation or reviewed by the editor directly.
7. Final Decision
• After revisions, the editor makes the final decision to accept or reject the manuscript. If accepted, the manuscript moves to the next stage for publication preparation.
8. Copyediting and Proofreading
• The accepted article undergoes copyediting to ensure grammatical and stylistic consistency.
• The author reviews and approves the final proof before publication.
9. Publication
• The final version of the article is published online or in print.
  
  
  
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Publication Frequency

Verity is published two times a year, first between January – June and then between July - December.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.  This access is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

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...

Author Fees and Publication Charges Policy

This journal does not charge any author processing fees or article submission fees. There are no costs that the author is required to pay.

Author Self-Archiving Policy

This journal permits and encourages authors to post items submitted to the journal on personal websites and institutional or funder repositories after publication. The final published PDF version should be used and bibliographic details that credit the publication in this journal should be included.

Competing Interest Policy

A competing interest is anything that interferes with, or could reasonably be perceived as interfering with, the full and objective presentation, peer review, editorial decision-making, or publication of research or non-research articles" (with acknowledgement and thanks to PLoS).

Competing interests can be financial or non-financial, professional, or personal. Competing interests can arise in relationship to an organization or another person.

Declaring all potential competing interests is a requirement and is integral to the transparent reporting of research.

1) Authors must declare all relevant competing interests for consideration during the review process.

2) Editors (professional or academic, paid or unpaid) and reviewers must declare their own competing interests and if necessary recuse themselves from involvement in the assessment of a paper.

3) Anyone who comments on or rates published papers in Verity must declare their competing interests at the time of posting their comments and/or rating.

Complaints Policy

Complaints should be sent via e-mail to the Editor-in-Chief at verity@uph.edu.  In your complaint, please clearly describe the nature, circumstances, and subject of the complaint.  All complaints will be addressed promptly following the best practice in the ethics of scholarly journal publishing.

Copyright Policy

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike International License (CC-BY-SA 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

Ethics and Misconduct Policy

Verity and its editors will take reasonable "steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, among others." In no case shall Verity or its editors "encourage such misconduct, or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place." In the event that we are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct relating to a published article, we will follow COPE's Guidelines for dealing with allegations. [With acknowledgement and thanks to DOAJ.]

Indexing and Abstracting

Verity is indexed and abstracted by the following services:

Memberships

UPH and Verity are registered with the following organizations:

Plagiarism Policy

As already stated in the above Ethics and Misconduct Policy, Verity and its editors will take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where plagiarism has occurred. Editors and reviewers will use free plagiarism screening tools such as the below to assist in this. 

• Plagiarism Checker: http://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/
• Dustball: http://www.dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker/
• DupliChecker: http://www.duplichecker.com/
• Plagiarisma: http://plagiarisma.net/
• PlagTracker: http://www.plagtracker.com/
• Google:  http://google.com