Focus and Scope

Melayunesia Law mainly focuses on Customary law in the world. Detailed scopes of articles accepted for submission to Melayunesia Law are:

  • The Malay Customary Law
  • Law and Human
  • Customary Law
  • The Law That Developed In Society


 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

The research article submitted to this online journal will be peer-reviewed. The accepted research articles will be available online (free download) following the journal peer-reviewing process. The language used in this Journal is English. Detail information about reviewing, download Reviewer Kit.

Reviewing a manuscript written by a fellow scientist is a privilege. However, it is a time-consuming responsibility. Hence, Melayunesia Law Editorial Board, authors, and audiences appreciate your willingness to accept this responsibility and your dedication. Melayunesia Law adheres to a blind peer-review process that is rapid and fair, and also ensures a high quality of articles published. In so doing, Melayunesia Law needs reviewers who can provide insightful and helpful comments on submitted manuscripts with a turn around time of about 4 weeks. Maintaining Melayunesia Law as a scientific journal of high quality depends on reviewers with a high level of expertise and an ability to be objective, fair, and insightful in their evaluation of manuscripts.

If Melayunesia Law Editor-in-Chief has invited you to review a manuscript, please consider the following:

  1. Reviewing manuscript critically, but constructively and preparing detailed comments about the manuscript to help authors improve their work
  2. Reviewing multiple versions of a manuscript as necessary
  3. Providing all required information within established deadlines
  4. Making recommendations to the editor regarding the suitability of the manuscript for publication in the journal
  5. Declaring to the editor any potential conflicts of interest with respect to the authors or the content of a manuscript they are asked to review
  6. Reporting possible research misconducts
  7. Suggesting alternative reviewers in case they cannot review the manuscript for any reasons
  8. Treating the manuscript as a confidential document
  9. Not making any use of the work described in the manuscript
  10. Not communicating directly with authors, if somehow they identify the authors
  11. Not identifying themselves to authors
  12. Not passing on the assigned manuscript to another reviewer
  13. Ensuring that the manuscript is of high quality and original work
  14. Informing the editor if he/she finds the assigned manuscript is under consideration in any other publication to his/her knowledge
  15. Writing a review report in English only
  16. Authoring a commentary for publication related to the reviewed manuscript.

Here list of items that need to be reviewed:

  1. The novelty of the topic
  2. Originality
  3. Scientific reliability
  4. A valuable contribution to the science
  5. Adding new aspects to the existed field of study
  6. Ethical aspects
  7. Structure of the article submitted and its relevance to authors’ guidelines
  8. References provided to substantiate the content
  9. Grammar, punctuation, and spelling
  10. Scientific misconduct

 

Publication Frequency

Melayunesia Law Journal publication schedule biannually in June and December.

 

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.

 

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

Melayunesia Law Journal is fully funded by Faculty of Law, Universitas Riau, hence, no article submission or processing charges apply to the author.