Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The journal encourages scholars' high-quality discourses and new findings on several branches of social sciences and humanities studies. It aims at social, economic, politics, and global aspects related to Malaysia and international history. MIHR published articles, special articles, reviews and notes that contributed to Malaysia and international historiography.

The journal pursues a bilingual publishing policy, either Bahasa Malaysia or English. Manuscript in Bahasa Malaysia must include title, abstract and five (5) keywords in English.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Research Notes

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Book Reviews

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Manuscripts are subject to a double-blind review process by a minimum two reviewers.

The Managing Editor conducts a preliminary review of all the manuscripts sent to the journal. Manuscripts that are considered entirely inappropriate will be rejected at this stage. Next, the selected manuscripts are allocated to suitable reviewers. All reviews are conducted anonymously, to help ensure the integrity, objectivity, and fairness of the evaluation. The two reviewers will be asked to evaluate the strength of the manuscript based on its theoretical or conceptual framework, methodology, argument, contribution to the field, literature review, prose and style. They will then provide comments for the editor-in-chief, and suggestions for revision for the author where appropriate, within three weeks of receiving the manuscript. Based on their evaluation, reviewers will suggest one of the following:

• That the manuscript be rejected

• That additional reviews are required

• That the author(s) be invited to revise and resubmit the manuscript

• That the manuscript be accepted with minor changes

Reviewer’s comments are forwarded to the author. Where revisions are indicated, constructive suggestions and advice will be provided to the author for revising the manuscript. Manuscripts are rarely accepted without revision.

The decision as to whether or not, or how, to address the reviewers comments are left with the author. If the author decides to submit a revised manuscript, he or she is also expected to provide information describing how they have addressed the reviewer’s comments.

Subsequently, the editors send the revised paper out for review, if necessary. At least one of the original reviewers will be asked to re-examine the article.

When the second review is complete, the editors decide whether the paper is ready to be published; needs another round of revisions; or the paper should be rejected. It should be noted that the final acceptance or rejection entirely rests with the editorial board, who reserve the right to refuse publication on reasonable grounds.


 

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.

 

 

Language Policy

The journal pursues a bilingual publishing policy, either Bahasa Malaysia or English. Manuscript in Bahasa Malaysia must include title, abstract, and five (5) keywords in English.

 

 

Journal payment

There is no submission charge or article processing charge (APC)

 

Indexing and Abstracting

https://myjurnal.mohe.gov.my/public/browse-journal-view.php?id=780

  • Publons by Web of Science Group
https://publons.com/journal/750189/malaysia-and-international-history-review/

 

Ethics Statement

This is the statement of ethics for Malaysia and International History Review (MIHR) published by History Program, Research Centre for History, Politics and International Affairs, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (National University of Malaysia)

This statement was adapted from the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and covers the code of ethics for the chief editor, editorial board members, reviewers and authors.

DUTIES OF AUTHORS

• Have the responsibility of ensuring only new and original work is submitted.

• Must not reproduce work that has been previously published in other journals.

• Must not submit any articles that are being reviewed or considered by the journal to other journals simultaneously.

• Are only allowed to publish their work elsewhere after receiving a formal rejection from the journal or if their request to withdraw their work is officially accepted by the journal.

• Must inform the Chief Editor or the publisher of any inaccuracy of data in their published work so that correction or retraction of article can be done.

• Should make significant contributions and be held accountable for any shortcoming in their work.

DUTIES OF REVIEWERS

• Must disclose any competing interest before agreeing to review a submission.

• Can refuse to review any submission due to a conflict of interest or inadequate knowledge.

• Review all submissions objectively, fairly and professionally.

• Reveal any ethical misconduct encountered while reviewing to the Chief Editor for further action.

• Should ensure the originality of a submission and be alert to any plagiarism and redundant publication.

• Must not discuss the content of the submission without permission.

• Adhere to the time allocated for the review process. Requests for extension to review the submission are at the discretion of the Chief Editor.

DUTIES OF EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS

• Actively contribute to the development and the greater good of the journal.

• Act as ambassadors for the journal.

• Continuously support and promote the journal.

• Review any work assigned to them.

DUTIES OF CHIEF EDITOR

• Evaluate manuscripts fairly and solely on their intellectual merit.

• Ensure confidentiality of manuscripts and not disclose any information regarding manuscripts to anyone other than the people involved in the publishing process.

• Has the responsibility to decide when and which articles are to be published.

• Actively seek the views of board members, reviewers and authors on how to improve/increase the image and visibility of the journal.

• Give clear instructions to potential contributors on the submission process and what is expected of the authors.

• Ensure appropriate reviewers are selected/ identified for the reviewing process.

PLAGIARISM

• Authors should submit only original work that is not plagiarized, and has not been published or being considered elsewhere. Appropriate software may be used by the editorial office to check for similarities of submitted manuscripts with existing literature. Inclusion of fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements are unacceptable. Work and/or words from other publications must be appropriately cited or quoted.

  • MIHR uses the Turnitin service to detect plagiarism.  The similarity of the score must be not more than 30% without citation and references list.

REPORTING

• Authors should state their results clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data manipulation. The methods used in the work should be clearly and unambiguously described so that the findings can be repeated and confirmed by other researchers.

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

• A statement on conflict of interest must be included in the manuscript if authors receive any support that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

AUTHORSHIP AND COLLABORATION

• Name of authors listed in a paper should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the report. Only those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the work must be acknowledged or listed as contributors. It is the duty of the corresponding author to ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper. All co-authors must approve the final version of the paper and agree to the version of the paper before submission.

MULTIPLE OR REDUNDANT

• Authors should not publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research output in more than one journal or primary publication. A similar manuscript should not be submitted to more than one journal concurrently as this constitutes as unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.