Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The scope of EcoDev are:

  • Water, air, and soil pollution
  • Natural resource management
  • Energy management
  • Ecology, ecosystem service, and biodiversity conservation
  • Pollution and health
  • Indutrial ecology and cleaner production
  • Environmental technology innovations
  • Environmental economic valuation
  • Global warming and climate change
  • Adaptation, mitigation, resilience
  • Environmental policy, law, and education

 

Section Policies

Research Article

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Article Review

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Short Communication

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to this Ecodevelopment Journal (EcoDev) must follow Focus and Scope and Author Guidelines of this journal. The submitted manuscripts must fulfill scientific merit or novelty appropriate to the focus and scope of this journal.

All manuscripts submitted to this journal must be written in good English. Authors for whom English is not their native language are encouraged to have their paper checked before submission for grammar and clarity. English language and copyediting services can be provided by Science Editing. The work must not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.

All submitted manuscripts must be free from plagiarism contents. All authors are suggested to use plagiarism detection software to do the similarity checking (please use Turnitin or iThenticate to check the similarity). Editors will also check the similarity of manuscripts in this journal by using a Turnitin or iThenticate software.

The submitted manuscripts to this journal will be peer-reviewed at least 2 (two) or more expert reviewers. The reviewers give scientific valuable comments improving the contents of the manuscript. Sometimes (if required) a third peer-reviewer is needed to give critical comments to the submitted manuscript. The review process used in this journal is blind review system.

Final decision of manuscript acceptance is solely made by Editor in Chief according to reviewers critical comments. The final decision of manuscript is solely based on the Editors final review which considering peer-reviewers comments (but not solely by Reviewer).

Publication of accepted articles including the assigning the article to published issue will be made by Editor in Chief by considering sequence of accepted date and geographical distribution of authors as well as thematic issue.

 

Publication Frequency

EcoDev is a Journal published online twice a year in the middle of the year (July) and in the end of the year (December).

 

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. Free access to the full text of all published articles without charge readers or their institutions for access.

  1. This journal has been indexed by CrossRef and all articles have DOI number.
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