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Scopus Indexing Evaluation and Enhanced Submission Guidelines

The editorial board of the Asian Political Science Review (APSR) would like to inform our contributors, readers, and the wider academic community about the outcome of our recent application for indexing in Scopus.

 

On July 13, 2024, APSR was submitted for evaluation by Scopus. We have now received the results of this evaluation. While APSR was not accepted for indexing at this time, we received valuable feedback from the Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB) regarding areas for improvement. Specifically, the CSAB has suggested improvements to citation performance, article quality, and the connection of our published work to international literature and debates. The CSAB has indicated that APSR may be resubmitted for consideration in February 2027. In light of this feedback and our commitment to enhancing the quality and international standing of APSR, the editorial board is implementing the following enhanced submission guidelines, effective immediately. These guidelines are designed to ensure that APSR is well-positioned for future consideration by Scopus and continues to serve as a valuable platform for scholarly research.

 

Revised Submission Guidelines:

To ensure the highest standards of quality and relevance, all submissions to APSR, particularly those intended for publication from this point forward, must adhere to the following criteria:

  1. Scope Adherence:Submissions must strictly align with the journal's scope, focusing on politics and public affairs Articles falling outside this scope will be immediately rejected, and authors will be notified with a recommendation of alternative Association of Legal & Political Studies (ALPS) journals that may be more suitable for their work.
  2. Length and Referencing:Articles must be at least 5,000 words in length and include a minimum of 15 references. At least one-third of these references must be to articles published in Scopus-indexed journals in relevant fields and/or on related topics. The "Conclusion and Discussion" section must clearly engage with and discuss these references.
  3. Academic Quality:Submissions must demonstrate a high level of academic rigor, presenting clear, compelling, and useful/applicable new insights. Articles should connect with and contribute to the broader body of knowledge, at least at the regional (Asian) level.
  4. Timely Revisions:Authors must complete all required revisions and receive final acceptance from the editorial board within one month of receiving the peer review results from at least three reviewers.

 

Consequences of Non-Compliance:

  • Scope Violations (Guideline 1):Articles that do not meet the scope requirements will be rejected by the Handling Editor in the initial screening stage.
  • Quality and Referencing Issues (Guidelines 2 & 3):Articles that do not meet the quality and referencing requirements will not be accepted for publication.
  • Revision Deadline (Guideline 4):If revisions are not completed within the one-month timeframe, the Handling Editor will reject the submission. Authors may resubmit the article for consideration but will be required to pay a resubmission fee of 3,000 THB (reduced from the standard 5,000 THB) at the time of resubmission. Upon acceptance, the standard publication fee of 5,000 THB will apply.

 

Rationale:

These policy changes are designed to:

  1. Strengthen the rigor of our review process and maintain high standards for published articles.
  2. Enhance the quality and international relevance of APSR, ensuring that our content contributes meaningfully to global scholarly conversations.
  3. Increase the rejection rate to more accurately reflect our commitment to quality and selectivity.

These changes reflect our commitment to improving the journal while maintaining our philosophy of providing opportunities for knowledge dissemination. We believe that these enhanced guidelines will help us achieve our goals and better serve the academic community.

 

We thank you for your continued support of the Asian Political Science Review.

 

 

Sincerely,

 

The Editorial Board

Asian Political Science Review

  • Scopus Indexing Evaluation and Enhanced Submission Guidelines

    2025-03-30

    The editorial board of the Asian Political Science Review (APSR) would like to inform our contributors, readers, and the wider academic community about the outcome of our recent application for indexing in Scopus.

     

    On July 13, 2024, APSR was submitted for evaluation by Scopus. We have now received the results of this evaluation. While APSR was not accepted for indexing at this time, we received valuable feedback from the Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB) regarding areas for improvement. Specifically, the CSAB has suggested improvements to citation performance, article quality, and the connection of our published work to international literature and debates. The CSAB has indicated that APSR may be resubmitted for consideration in February 2027. In light of this feedback and our commitment to enhancing the quality and international standing of APSR, the editorial board is implementing the following enhanced submission guidelines, effective immediately. These guidelines are designed to ensure that APSR is well-positioned for future consideration by Scopus and continues to serve as a valuable platform for scholarly research.

     

    Revised Submission Guidelines:

    To ensure the highest standards of quality and relevance, all submissions to APSR, particularly those intended for publication from this point forward, must adhere to the following criteria:

    1. Scope Adherence:Submissions must strictly align with the journal's scope, focusing on politics and public affairs Articles falling outside this scope will be immediately rejected, and authors will be notified with a recommendation of alternative Association of Legal & Political Studies (ALPS) journals that may be more suitable for their work.
    2. Length and Referencing:Articles must be at least 5,000 words in length and include a minimum of 15 references. At least one-third of these references must be to articles published in Scopus-indexed journals in relevant fields and/or on related topics. The "Conclusion and Discussion" section must clearly engage with and discuss these references.
    3. Academic Quality:Submissions must demonstrate a high level of academic rigor, presenting clear, compelling, and useful/applicable new insights. Articles should connect with and contribute to the broader body of knowledge, at least at the regional (Asian) level.
    4. Timely Revisions:Authors must complete all required revisions and receive final acceptance from the editorial board within one month of receiving the peer review results from at least three reviewers.

     

    Consequences of Non-Compliance:

    • Scope Violations (Guideline 1):Articles that do not meet the scope requirements will be rejected by the Handling Editor in the initial screening stage.
    • Quality and Referencing Issues (Guidelines 2 & 3):Articles that do not meet the quality and referencing requirements will not be accepted for publication.
    • Revision Deadline (Guideline 4):If revisions are not completed within the one-month timeframe, the Handling Editor will reject the submission. Authors may resubmit the article for consideration but will be required to pay a resubmission fee of 3,000 THB (reduced from the standard 5,000 THB) at the time of resubmission. Upon acceptance, the standard publication fee of 5,000 THB will apply.

     

    Rationale:

    These policy changes are designed to:

    1. Strengthen the rigor of our review process and maintain high standards for published articles.
    2. Enhance the quality and international relevance of APSR, ensuring that our content contributes meaningfully to global scholarly conversations.
    3. Increase the rejection rate to more accurately reflect our commitment to quality and selectivity.

    These changes reflect our commitment to improving the journal while maintaining our philosophy of providing opportunities for knowledge dissemination. We believe that these enhanced guidelines will help us achieve our goals and better serve the academic community.

     

    We thank you for your continued support of the Asian Political Science Review.

     

     

    Sincerely,

     

    The Editorial Board

    Asian Political Science Review

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  • Acceptance/Rejection Rates for 2024

    2025-02-17

    The acceptance/rejection rate serves as one of the most widely recognized indicators for assessing the quality of an academic journal. The editorial team of the Asian Political Science Review (APSR) acknowledges the necessity of transparency in journal publishing and has been gathering, analyzing, and disclosing this information since 2023. In the year 2024, a total of 24 articles were submitted for review, of which 18 were accepted for publication and 6 were rejected. Consequently, the acceptance rate for articles submitted to APSR in 2024 is 75.00%.

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  • Enhancing the Quality of APSR by Clearly Identifying the Contribution and Novelty of Each Submitted Article

    2025-02-05

    The Asian Political Science Review (APSR) has been assessed and certified by the Thai Journal Citation Index Center for inclusion in the TCI database, categorizing it in Tier 1 (the highest tier) for the evaluation of journal quality within the TCI database, Round 5, effective from January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2029, the journal aims to elevate its quality further in preparation for assessment by international databases such as Scopus and WoS. The editorial board, therefore, requires that every article submitted for consideration for publication in APSR must clearly identify the "contribution" and "novelty" of each article in at least two sections: 1) at the end of the "Abstract" and 2) at the "Conclusion and Discussion" section. This should be presented as a narrative rather than as separate subheadings. Articles that do not comply with this requirement may be asked to make revisions before the editor assigns them for review by external reviewers. Furthermore, if, at the final stage, the editor-in-chief finds that the authors have not sufficiently addressed these elements, those articles may ultimately be rejected for publication in APSR. The judgment of the EIC shall be final, and authors will not be able to request a refund of the article processing charge.

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  • APSR Scopus CiteScore / TCI Impact Factor 2024 (Q4)

    2025-01-06

    Asian Political Science Review values measuring the journal's quality by acknowledging and referencing articles published in the journal to expand the academic community's knowledge. Therefore, APSR monitors the number of times its articles are cited by articles published in journals indexed in national and international databases.

    In 2020-2023, articles published in APSR were cited in journals whose index in Scopus totaled 26 times, while APSR published 35 articles during the same period. Therefore, its CiteScore for 2023 is 0.74. As of December 31, 2024, the CiteScore tracker 2024 (Q4) will likely remain constant at 0.74.

    In 2022-2023, articles published in APSR were cited in journals whose index in TCI totaled 21 times, while ACSR published 21 articles during the same period. Therefore, its impact factor for 2023 is 1.00. As of December 31, 2024, the IF tracker 2024 (Q4) will likely decline to 0.72.

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  • APSR 2024 Peer Review Metrics

    2024-10-16

    Submission to First Decision: Manuscripts are reviewed by the editorial team, assessed for quality by peer reviewers, and the editorial team sends the first decision back to the authors so that they can improve the quality according to suggestions (if any), including formatting as required by the journal. This takes approximately 31.68 days.

     

    First Decision to Acceptance: The authors have improved the quality of the manuscript according to the recommendations of reviewers, and formatted it as specified by the journal until it is complete and accurate according to the journal's standards, including being accepted for publication in approximately 21.21 days.

     

    Acceptance to Publication: The production process after the manuscript has been accepted and published takes approximately 10.63 days.

     

    The operational efficiency of APSR's editorial team in 2024 is much better than the previous year. The original time spent throughout the process from article submission to publication was 199.80 days, reduced to only 63.53 days. However, the editorial team is committed to reducing the time period to comply with the editorial team's policy that from article submission to acceptance should not take more than 45 days. The editorial team will try to gradually reduce the time period in the article review process by reviewers to no more than 28 days by 2025 and no more than 14 days by 2027.

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  • Changing the article sorting format from “page numbers” to “article number”

    2024-10-12

    In order to accommodate the increasing volume of articles in the journals under the responsibility of the Association of Legal & Political Studies (ALPS), the association has decided to change the article sorting format of all journals (AISR, ACSR, APSR, AAMR, AELR, & TISR) from “page numbers” to “article number” as used in the case of Procedia of Multidisciplinary Research (PMR), starting from the first issue of 2025 onwards.

     

    The format of writing article citation information according to the format of the American Psychological Association (APA), 7th edition, is as follows:

    Citation Information: Maneenin, P., & Kamphaengdee, S. (2025). Factor Analysis of Community Enterprises Producing Processed Agricultural Products in the Three Southern Border Provinces. Thai Interdisciplinary and Sustainability Review, 14(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.14456/tisr.2025.1

    Parenthetical Citation: (Maneenin & Kamphaengdee, 2025)

    Narrative Citation: Maneenin & Kamphaengdee (2025)

     

    Source: APA Style - Journal Article References (https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples/journal-article-references#2)

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  • APSR Scopus CiteScore / TCI Impact Factor 2023 (Q3)

    2024-10-04

    Asian Political Science Review places importance on measuring the quality of the journal through acknowledging and referencing articles published in the journal to expand knowledge by the academic community. APSR therefore monitors the number of times its articles are cited by articles published in journals indexed in both national and international databases.

    In the period 2020-2023, articles published in APSR were cited in journals whose index in Scopus totaled 26 times, while APSR published a total of 35 articles during the same period. Its CiteScore for 2023 is therefore 0.74. As of September 30, 2024, the CiteScore tracker 2024 (Q3) is likely to decline to 0.72.

    In the period 2022-2023, articles published in APSR were cited in journals whose index in TCI totaled 22 times, while APSR published a total of 21 articles during the same period. Its impact factor for 2023 is therefore 1.05. As of September 30, 2024, the IF tracker 2024 (Q3) is likely to decline to 0.60.

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  • APSR Scopus CiteScore / TCI Impact Factor 2023

    2024-07-01

    Asian Political Science Review places importance on measuring the quality of the journal through acknowledging and referencing articles published in the journal to expand knowledge by the academic community. APSR therefore monitors the number of times its articles are cited by articles published in journals indexed in both national and international databases.

    In the period 2020-2023, articles published in APSR were cited in journals whose index in Scopus totaled 25 times, while APSR published a total of 35 articles during the same period. Its CiteScore for 2023 is therefore 0.71. As of June 30, 2024, the CiteScore tracker 2024 is likely to decline to 0.70.

    In the period 2022-2023, articles published in APSR were cited in journals whose index in TCI totaled 19 times, while APSR published a total of 21 articles during the same period. Its impact factor for 2023 is therefore 0.90. As of June 30, 2024, the IF tracker 2024 is likely to decline to 0.36.

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  • APSR Editor’s Pick Vol. 8 No. 1 (Jan - Jun 2024)

    2024-06-06

    We are pleased to announce that the following paper has been selected as the Editor’s Pick.

    Title: ​ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR OF THAILAND’S PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE PERSONNEL AND THE POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT

    Author(s):​ Puthisat NAMDECH, Samanan RATTANASIRIVILAI and Wanlop RATHACHATRANON

    Available online:​ https://so01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/APSR/article/view/270215

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  • Acceptance/Rejection Rates for 2023

    2024-03-25

    This is because the acceptance/rejection rate is one of the most popular indicators used to consider the quality of a journal. The Asian Political Science Review (APSR) editorial team recognizes the importance of transparency in journal publishing and has collected, analyzed, and disclosed such information starting in 2023 onwards. In the year 2023, there were 16 articles submitted for consideration. There were 13 articles accepted for publication. There were 3 rejected articles. Therefore, the APSR article acceptance rate for 2023 is equal to 81.25%.

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  • Guidelines for detailing human research ethics in research articles

    2024-02-17

    According to the Association of Legal & Political Studies (ALPS), the Institutional Review Board (IRB) has been established to consider and approve human research ethics for the research projects of the association's researchers and external researchers. From now on, all research manuscripts that will be submitted to be considered for publication in the association's journals, research must be given importance and conducted in strict accordance with ethical standards for human research.

    All research articles involving human subjects should receive human research ethics approval from a human research ethics committee of a reputable agency. Those articles must include details of human research ethics certification, including the name of the certifying agency and committee and the certification number. For research articles that have not previously received human research ethics approval, detail the conditions for exemption from approval and the procedures the researcher has used to ensure that the research complies with the ethical standards of human research must be clearly stated. All these details, both in certified and non-certified cases, are set out in the Research Methodology section.

    The editors may consider and decide to reject any submissions that do not provide these details, especially those that may not comply with ethical standards for human research.

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  • APSR 2023 Peer Review Metrics

    2024-01-25

    Submission to First Decision: Manuscripts are reviewed by the editorial team, assessed for quality by peer reviewers, and the editorial team sends the first decision back to the authors so that they can improve the quality according to suggestions (if any), including formatting as required by the journal. This takes approximately 28.5 days.

    First Decision to Acceptance: The authors have improved the quality of the manuscript according to the recommendations of reviewers, and formatted it as specified by the journal until it is complete and accurate according to the journal's standards, including being accepted for publication in approximately 119.8 days.

    Acceptance to Publication: The production process after the manuscript has been accepted and published takes approximately 51.5 days.

    Although the operational efficiency of APSR's editorial team in 2023 is considered to have improved somewhat from the previous year, from the previous 246.50 days it took for the entire process from submission to publication, it decreased to 199.8 days. But it still doesn't meet the goal. The editorial team has therefore set a goal to reduce the time in the second step, from first decision to acceptance, to within 30 days only.

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  • APSR 2022 Peer Review Metrics

    2023-11-24

    Submission to First Decision: Manuscripts are reviewed by the editorial team, assessed for quality by peer reviewers, and the editorial team sends the first decision back to the authors so that they can improve the quality according to suggestions (if any), including formatting as required by the journal. This takes approximately 173 days.

    First Decision to Acceptance: The authors have improved the quality of the manuscript according to the recommendations of reviewers, and formatted it as specified by the journal until it is complete and accurate according to the journal's standards, including being accepted for publication in approximately 24.92 days.

    Acceptance to Publication: The production process after the manuscript has been accepted and published takes approximately 48.58 days.

    APSR aims to improve the work process in the future to be more efficient, intending to reduce the time from submission to acceptance from 197.92 days in 2022 to within 45 days, in line with the editorial board's policy. The editorial team will try to improve the work process in the future to be more efficient by trying to expedite the consideration of articles by reviewers to no more than 28 days and the production process to no more than 30 days.

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  • APSR Editor’s Pick Vol. 7 No. 1 (Jan - Jun 2023)

    2023-09-09

    We are pleased to announce that the following paper has been selected as the Editor’s Pick.

    Title: ​Social Return on Investment of the Biodiversity Offset Action Plan of Khung Bangkachao, Thailand

    Author(s):​ Kanlaya NAKLUNGKA, Srinath CAICHOMPOONOPPAKUL, Suwanna TEERSUWAN, Chairut BOONNAK and Sarawut NAPATALUNG

    Available online:​ https://so01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/APSR/article/view/263869

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  • Announcement of the Thai-Journal Citation Index Center on " Ethics and Code of Conduct Evaluation of Thai Academic Journals in the TCI Database 2023"

    2023-07-25

    According to the Thai-Journal Citation Index Center issued an announcement titled "Ethics and Code of Conduct Evaluation of Thai Academic Journals in the TCI Database 2023", APSR's editorial board would like to inform everyone as follows.

    1) The work of APSR's editorial board is in all respects and is in line with the framework of this announcement.

    2) In order to fully comply with the aforementioned framework, APSR's editorial board decides to terminate the fast-track peer review service immediately.

    Download: https://tci-thailand.org/?p=10478

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  • White Tiger Legal, Business and Research Consultants Co., Ltd., Thailand will become the co-publisher of APSR

    2023-05-18

    To support the expansion of the number of articles submitted for publication in APSR and to strengthen the journal for assessment to enter the international database, such as Scopus and WoS, White Tiger Legal, Business and Research Consultants Co., Ltd., Thailand will become a co-publisher of APSR from 1 June 2023 onwards.

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  • What is Open Peer Review?

    2022-09-07

    As all of you probably know that all 6 journals of PSAKU have changed their quality assessment model from “double-blind peer review” (DBR) to “open peer review” (OPR) since the middle of the year. However, this new model is still not widely known, especially in Thailand, which makes many people unfamiliar with doubts. Therefore, the editorial team would like to collect articles and videos that have been prepared and published by major publishers around the world for you to read and understand.

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  • APSR offers waivers and discounts for article processing charges for papers whose corresponding authors are based in low-income countries.

    2022-08-09

    APSR offers APC waivers to papers whose corresponding authors are based in countries classified by the World Bank as low-income economies.

    Low-income countries: Full APC waiver

    [Ref.: https://data.worldbank.org/country/XM]

     

    Papers whose corresponding authors are based in countries with lower-middle-income economies are eligible for a 50% discount.

    Lower-middle-income countries: 50% APC discount

    [Ref.: https://data.worldbank.org/country/XN]

     

    Please request your waiver or discount at the point of submission.

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  • APSR indexed in TCI – Tier 1

    2022-07-01

    Asian Political Science Review already received the results of the quality assessment of the academic journals in the 4th round of the Thai-Journal Citation Index Centre (TCI) database. APSR has been indexed in the Tier 1 of the TCI database, effective from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024.

    We would like to thank editor in chief, editorial board and staff, reviewers, and all researchers for their kind contribution and support to APSR.

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  • Universitas Muhammadiyah Sidenreng Rappang, Indonesia will become the co-publisher and the Rector will be the co-editor of APSR

    2022-04-29

    To support the expansion of the number of articles submitted for publication in APSR and to strengthen the journal for assessment to enter the international database, such as Scopus and WoS, Universitas Muhammadiyah Sidenreng Rappang, Indonesia will become a co-publisher and Professor Dr.Jamaluddin Ahmad, the Rector, will become a co-editor of APSR from 1 July 2022 onwards.

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  • APSR will change its peer review model to open peer review in the second half of 2022:

    2022-04-05

    Perspectives on the peer review process have shifted from anonymity between authors and reviewers as a means of preventing bias to transparency to allow members of the academic community to jointly review the process. As a result, we found that many of the world's largest and most well-known publishers such as Springer Nature, Frontiers, MDPI, and BMJ have all switched their traditional review models to open peer review.

    Therefore, in order to make the article quality assessment process of APSR more efficient, we have decided to change the peer review model of articles submitted for publication in our journal to open peer review from Vol. 6 No. 2 (July-December 2022) onwards. This means that the names of the handling editor, reviewers, and authors will be disclosed to each other throughout the review process. Also, the name of the handling editor and reviewers will also be mentioned in the article once it has been published.

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  • APSR 2021 Peer Review Metrics

    2022-03-17

    Submission to Acceptance: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a full-review decision provided to authors approximately 146.2 days after submission.

    Accept to Publish: acceptance to publication is undertaken in 1.8 days.

    *** APSR aims to speed up the review process in 2022. We intend to reduce the time from submission to acceptance to 27 days and keep the period from acceptance to publication to be within 3 days.

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