Some policies in the review of International Journal of Public Administration and Policy:

1. Reviewers will review any submitted paper. There will be at least one reviewer or more who will review the submitted paper.
2. The review process employs Single-blind Review the reviewer does not know the author's identity, and the author does not know the reviewer's identity.
3. In the review process, reviewers consider the correspondence of title, abstract, discussion (findings) and conclusions. In addition, reviewers also consider the novelty, scientific impact, and references used in the paper.

The response of the reviewers will be the basis for the Editor to conclude:

1. Accept Submission
2. Revisions Required
3. Resubmit for review
4. Resubmit elsewhere
5. Decline Submission

An article was rejected for publication due to various considerations, including:

1. The article does not fit the scope of the journal.
2. The article does not follow the rules of writing scientific papers or author guidelines.
3. The fundamental methodological errors.
4. The author refuses to make suggestions for improvements provided by the reviewer without a logical basis.
5. There are indications of plagiarism of more than 25%.

The accepted research articles will be available online (free download) following the journal peer-reviewing process. The final decision of article acceptance will be made by the Editors according to Reviewers' comments. The articles sent back to the authors for revision should be returned to the editor immediately. The revised article returned after 20 days will be considered a new submission. The revised article can be sent to the editorial through the Online Submission Interface on our online Journal website.

All articles published in Open Access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. We continuously work with our author communities to select the best license options, currently defined for this journal as Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.