About the Journal

Journal Description

Asian Political Science Review is an electronic open access journal published twice a year in English by the Association of Legal & Political Studies (Thailand) and White Tiger Legal Business and Research Consultants Co., Ltd. (Thailand) in cooperation with the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Muhammadiyah University of Makassar (Indonesia) and Publication Research Institute and Community Service, Universitas Muhammadiyah Sidenreng Rappang (Indonesia). The aim of APSR is to provide a platform for disseminating strong, current, and interdisciplinary academic proposals and research findings on politics and public affairs in Asia, including comparisons between countries in the region and other regions. APSR accepts both research and review article and has an open review format by at least 3 experts before publication.

 

Scopes

Asian Political Science Review is an “interdisciplinary” journal, accepting papers from all fields of study, both science-technology and humanities-social sciences, which are related to Asia, including comparisons between countries in the region and other regions regarding “politics” and “public affairs” includes but not limited to the following:

1) Politics and public policies, such as politics and government, parties and elections, political communication, public administration, and public policy.

2) International politics and conflict research, such as international relations, international organization, international conflict and civil wars, international law and human rights, and foreign policy.

3) Other topics related to politics and public affairs, such as ASEAN, e-government, political economy, public organization, and political methodology. 

 

Article Types

APSR accepts 2 types of articles to be considered for publication: research articles and review articles.

 

Publication Frequency

There are 2 volumes each year and each volume will be published every 6 months namely:

• 1st Volume, from January-June
• 2nd Volume, from July-December

 

Peer Review Process

All papers included in this journal were open peer reviewed by at least three suitably qualified experts. All publication decisions are made by the editors on the basis of the reviews provided.

 

Languages

English

 

Copyrights

Asian Political Science Review is an fully open-access publication: in accordance with this definition, all copyright holders of the scholarly works published in APSR grant usage rights to others using an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) open license allowing for immediate free access to the work and permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose. Users of APSR content must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the work and indicate if changes were made.

 

Journal History

 

Ownership and Management

Asian Political Science Review (APSR) is owned by the Association of Legal & Political Studies (Thailand) and White Tiger Legal Business and Research Consultants Co., Ltd. (Thailand). It is published under the academic cooperation of both institutions with the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Muhammadiyah University of Makassar (Indonesia) and Publication Research Institute and Community Service, Universitas Muhammadiyah Sidenreng Rappang (Indonesia). ALPS is primarily responsible for academic operations, while the WTLBRC is primarily responsible for management and finances. UNISMUH and UMS Rappang have the main duties of supporting academic operations, such as serving as editors/reviewers and providing suggestions to improve the quality of the journal.

 

Revenue Sources, Advertising, and Direct Marketing Policy

Asian Political Science Review (APSR) operates without funding from any government or private sector. Association of Legal & Political Studies and White Tiger Legal Business and Research Consultants Co., Ltd. shared all costs of publishing the journal until it was able to earn enough money from article processing charges to cover expenses. This means that APSR's current source of revenue is primarily the fees it collects from authors who submit their articles.

APSR maintains a policy of not accepting advertisements from any external entities.

In promoting the journal and publications to the public, APSR attempts to avoid actions detrimental to other parties (e.g., spreading spam) and to avoid misleading information between prospective authors and the publishers.