About the Journal

Proceeding Book of The International Conference on Tropical Studies and Its Application (ICTROPS) publishes research results covering the fields of Environmental Technology, Environmental Science, Environmetal Socio-Economy and Environmental Law and Policy. ICTROPS is organized by the University of Mulawarman in collaboration with the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia.

The research article submitted to this online journal will be double blind peer-reviewed (Both reviewer and author remain anonymous to each other) at least 2 (two) reviewers. The accepted research articles will be available online following the journal peer-reviewing process. Language used for full article in this journal is Bahasa Indonesia, abstract in English and Bahasa Indonesia.

For checking Plagiarism, ICTROPS will screen plagiarism manually (offline and online database) on the Title, Abstract, and Body Text of the manuscript, and by using Turnitin plagiarism detection software. If it is found a plagiarism indication, editorial board will reject manuscript immediately.

Review Process:

1. Editor receiving manuscript from author;
2. Editor evaluate manuscript (journal aim and scope, in house style, supplementary data); (Rejected if not meet criteria)
3. Editor screening for plagiarism on offline and online database manually; (Rejected if found major plagiarism, contacted author if found redundancy or minor plagiarism for clarification)
4. Editor send manuscript to reviewer along with review form (double blind review, both reviewer and author remain anonymous to each other);
5. Reviewer send back the review form to Editor (with revised manuscript if necessary);
6. Editor decision (rejected, require major revision, need minor revision, or accepted);
7. Confirmation to the Author.
8. If revision, author revised manuscripts and should be returned to the editor without delay. Returned later than two months will be considered as new submissions.