Publishing System

Manuscripts submitted to the Tauco: The International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Journal will undergo a selection and evaluation process by the Editorial Board to ensure compliance with writing guidelines, focus, and scope, as well as maintaining a very high academic quality. The manuscripts will be reviewed using a double-blind peer review method where both the authors and the reviewers do not know each other's identities.

Desk Review

At the desk review stage, manuscripts will be checked to ensure they meet the writing guidelines, focus, and scope with very high academic quality. If they do not meet the requirements, the authors will be given the opportunity to revise their manuscripts according to the given criteria. However, there is also a possibility that the manuscripts will be directly rejected.

Peer Review

Once the manuscript has passed the desk review stage, it will be forwarded to two reviewers who are experts in the field of the submitted manuscript. The review process will be conducted within 3 weeks. Manuscripts that do not pass the desk review stage will not proceed to this stage.

Reviewers' Decision

The reviewers will provide the following recommendations:

1. Accepted: The manuscript can be accepted for publication.
2. Accepted with minor revisions: The manuscript can be accepted for publication after minor revisions are made in response to the reviewers' concerns.
3. Accepted with major revisions: Substantive deficiencies in the manuscript, such as data analysis, main theories used, and rewriting of paragraphs, need to be revised.
4. Rejected: The manuscript cannot be accepted for publication or the reviews provided relate to very fundamental issues.

The reviewers' decisions will be considered by the Editorial Board to determine the further process of the manuscript.

Revision Stage

After a manuscript has been accepted with minor or major revisions, it will be returned to the authors with a review summary form. For manuscripts accepted with major revisions, authors are given 3 weeks to revise. For manuscripts accepted with minor revisions, authors are given 1 week to revise. When returning the revised manuscript, authors must complete and attach the review summary form.

Final Decision

At this stage, the manuscript will be re-evaluated by the Editorial Board to ensure that the authors have revised it in response to the reviewers' concerns. In this final decision, the manuscript can still be rejected if the authors do not seriously undertake the necessary revisions.

Proofreading

After the manuscript is deemed acceptable by the Editorial Board, it will undergo a proofreading process to maintain linguistic quality.

Publication Confirmation

At this stage, the final layout of the manuscript will be sent back to the authors to ensure that the content matches the authors' writing. At this stage, authors can revise any typographical errors found in the final manuscript. Once the authors' confirmation is given, the Editorial Secretary will process the manuscript for online publication on the website and print publication.

Publication Frequency

Tauco: The International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Journal is published two times a year, in July and January.

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.