All articles submitted to the editorial staff will go through an Initial Review process by the Editorial Board. Afterwards, the articles will be sent to peer reviewers for the next stage of selection through a Double-Blind Review Process.

As soon as the double-blind review process is completed, the articles will be returned to the authors for revision. These processes may take approximately 1 to 2 months. Each manuscript will be peer-reviewed in terms of both substantial and technical aspects.

Authors whose manuscripts are accepted, revised, or rejected will be informed of the results based on the reviewers’ comments and the editorial decision.

The steps for the reviewing process are illustrated in the following figure.

1. Manuscript Submission by the author. Step 1
2. Manuscript Check and Selection by the journal manager and editors. Editors have the right to directly accept, reject, or send the manuscript for review. Prior to further processing, a plagiarism check using Turnitin is applied to each manuscript. Step 2
3. Manuscript Reviewing Process by reviewers. Steps 3–4
4. Notification of Manuscript Acceptance, Revision, or Rejection by the editor to the author based on reviewers’ comments. Step 5
5. Paper Revision by the author according to the reviewers’ and/or editors’ suggestions.
6. Revision Submission by the author based on the reviewers’ suggestions, following a similar flow to the initial submission. Step 1
7. Notification of Acceptance by the editor if the reviewers are satisfied with the revision. Step 6
8. Galley Proof and Publishing Process before the article is published. Steps 7–8

Steps 1 to 5 are considered one round of the peer-review process. The reviewing process in Babakti: Journal of Community Engagement generally goes through at least two rounds of review, depending on the manuscript quality, reviewers’ recommendations, and editorial decision.

The journal editor or editorial board considers the feedback provided by peer reviewers and arrives at a decision. The following are the most common editorial decisions:

1. Accept without any changes: The journal will publish the paper in its original form.
2. Accept with minor revisions: The journal will publish the paper after the author makes small corrections.
3. Accept after major revisions: The journal will publish the paper provided that the authors make the changes suggested by reviewers and/or editors.
4. Revise and resubmit: The journal is willing to reconsider the paper in another round of decision-making after the authors make major changes.
5. Reject the paper: The journal will not publish the paper or reconsider it, even if the authors make major revisions.