Publishing Regulations of Korea Society of International Relations and Education

Enacted on November 16, 2020

Chapter 1 General Provisions

Article 1 (Purpose) This regulation aims to determine all matters such as reception, review, editing, and publishing of manuscripts in accordance with the publication of the journal of Korea Society of International Relations and Education.

Article 2 (Name) The name of this academic journal is "Journal of the International Relations & Interdisciplinary Education".

Article 3 (Supervision) The Editorial Committee shall be responsible for all matters relating to recruitment, examination, editing, and publishing of the thesis to be presented in this journal.

Article 4 (Issuance and Copyright)

① This journal is published three times a year. April 30, August 31, and December 31 are regular publication dates. If the additional publication is needed, it is decided by the resolution of the editorial committee.

② Publication in academic journals is for unpublished papers, and simultaneous submission or double publication of thesis with the same content in other journals is prohibited.

③ The copyright of the paper published in the academic journal belongs to this society.

④ Other matters related to the publication of academic journals will be determined separately.

Article 5 (Right of Publication)

① The ownership of all publications published by this society belongs to the society, and the profits generated by selling publications belong to the society.

② When using all the materials published by the society, the approval of the society must be obtained, which is decided by the editorial committee.

Chapter 2 Editorial Committee

Article 1 (Structure)

① The editorial committee is composed of a domestic editorial director as its chairman and a few editors appointed by the president of the society among members of the society.

② The editor-in-chief shall be responsible for all matters pertaining to the publishing of the journal.

Article 2 (Function) The editorial committee performs the following roles.

① Establishing a publishing schedule for the journal.

② Deciding whether or not to review the submitted paper.

③ Selecting a reviewer for the submitted paper and requesting the reviewer for review.

④ Editing and publishing the journal.

⑤ Discussing other journal editing-related matters.

Chapter 3 Paper Review

Article 1 (Appointment of judges)

① Editorial committee members recommend experts in the relevant field as judges for submitted papers but should have a doctorate degree in principle.

② The editor-in-chief chairman appoints three judges per thesis, corresponding to the reviewers recommended by the editors, but the contributor is excluded from the reviewers.

Article 2 (Review Procedure) The review of the paper shall be conducted in the first and second rounds.

①    The Editorial Committee sends a “Paper Review Request Form”, a “Paper Review Form,” and a copy of the paper to be reviewed to the commissioned reviewers for review. However, personal information such as affiliation and name of the contributor shall be deleted from the research paper sent to the reviewers for fair review.

②    The first round shall be judged as one of ' Received', 'Received after Revision ', 'Re-review', and ' Rejection ' based on the review criteria, and the basis for the decision is detailed and submitted to the editorial committee.

③    The editorial committee makes the first decision as one of ' Received', 'Received after Revision ', 'Re-review', and ' Rejection ' based on the results of the first three judges.

④    A paper that has been judged as ' Received after Revision ' in the first judgment shall be considered as a ' Received ' provisionally under the condition that the requested amendment is faithfully carried out, and a paper that has received ' Re-review ' shall be subject to a second review.

⑤    The editorial committee collects the “Paper Review Form” submitted by the reviewers along with the first round result and notifies the contributor within 5 weeks from the submission deadline.

⑥    Contributors who are requested to submit revised paper must submit the revised paper and the review answer by the designated date, and the editorial committee confirms and accepts the revised paper and the review answer submitted by the contributor.

⑦    If the results of the first round are ' Received after Revision ', one judge who is not appointed as the first judge of the relevant paper is requested to review the revised paper. The reviewer shall review the opinions of the three primary reviewers, the revision papers of the contributors, and the review answers, and determine them as one of the “Received” or" Received after Revision ".

<Table 1> Paper Review Result Table

3 points for Received / 2 points for Received after Revision / 1 point for Re-Review / 0 point for Rejection

⑧ If the result of the first round is “Re-Review”, a second round of the revised paper is demanded by one reviewer who has not been appointed as the first reviewer for the paper. The re-review committee investigates whether or not the contributor has fulfilled the revised paper based on the three primary review opinions, the contributor’s revised paper, and the review answer, and re-evaluates whether the revised dissertation can be published in the journal, and it is judged as either 'Received' or ‘Rejection'. In addition to the substance of the first round, the 2nd judge may present re-review opinions.

⑨ Papers which have been confirmed as ‘Rejection’ cannot be resubmitted with the same title and content.

⑩ The editorial committee shall notify the contributors of the 2nd round result and the "Paper Review Form" within 3 weeks from the date of notification of the first result.

⑪ The editorial committee confirms the manuscript judged to be “Received” as a published manuscript.

⑫The editorial committee reviews the English abstract only for the papers that have been confirmed to be Received.

⑬The manuscript that has been confirmed as Received will be converted to the subject of publication after the result of the revised English abstract is submitted.

Article 3 (Paper Review Criteria) The reviewers shall review papers according to the review items contained in the paper review form.

①.    Research purpose and clarity of research problems

②.    Appropriateness of research content and logic development

③.    Validity and accuracy of research methods (sampling, data collection, and analysis, etc.)

④.    Objectivity and fairness of research conclusions and suggestions

⑤.    Academic value and social contribution of research results

⑥.    Logicality and readability of the written sentence

⑦.    Table of contents, citations, footnotes, faithfulness of references

⑧.    Originality of research

⑨.    Compliance with research ethics

Article 4 (Exception Processing) In the following situations, independent processing will be carried out regardless of the paper review result.

①   Even though the submitted manuscript is verified as Received, if it is determined that publication is impossible due to violation of the research ethics regulations, the editorial committee will disallow publication regardless of the review result.

②    If the contributor fails to submit the revised paper within the specified deadline without a justifiable reason, the re-review of the paper shall be considered to have been abandoned and the decision may be rejected.

Article 5 (Objection Presenting) The contributor may file an objection within 3 days after being notified of the results of the first round review, and the editing committee shall deal with it.

Chapter 4 Paper Submission

Article 1 (General Provisions) When submitting a manuscript to this journal, the following should be observed.

①    Paper contributors must be at least a regular member of this society, and for collaborative research with two or more researchers, all researchers must be members of this society. However, if a non-member wishes to submit papers to this journal, it must obtain separate approval from the editorial committee.

②   The annual membership fee for this conference is 20,000 won, and 30,000 won should be paid if you wish to receive an academic journal.

③    In the case of several authors, the research director (first author) is indicated first, and if the corresponding author needs to be identified separately, the contributor shall indicate it in the paper.

Article2 (Submission Method and Documents)

① When submitting papers,the manuscript should be written in the form provided by the Society ([KoreaSociety of International Relations and Education] Paper Template.hwp), and thewritten manuscript must be submitted as an attachment to the email.

①   Whensubmitting papers, a request for publication of the paper, a copyrightdelegation agreement, confirmation of compliance with research ethicsregulations, and the result of paper similarity test must be submitted alongwith the paper.