Reviewer Guidelines

Reviewers for VARIA HUKUM: Jurnal Forum Studi Hukum dan Kemasyarakatan must evaluate manuscripts objectively, constructively, confidentially, and within the agreed timeframe. A reviewer should accept an invitation only when they have sufficient expertise and can provide an impartial assessment.

Reviewers must disclose competing interests before accepting and must notify the editor if a conflict becomes apparent later. They must not contact authors directly, use unpublished material for personal advantage, disadvantage others, or share the manuscript with another person without prior editorial permission.

A reviewer who involves an approved co-reviewer or trainee must obtain permission in advance, preserve confidentiality, and ensure that the contributor is appropriately recorded.

Reviews should address the manuscript's scholarly contribution, methodology or reasoning, evidence, presentation, ethics, and reproducibility where relevant. Personal attacks, discriminatory comments, defamatory statements, coercive citation requests, or comments unrelated to scholarly evaluation are unacceptable.

If a reviewer suspects plagiarism, data fabrication, image manipulation, duplicate publication, ethical problems, authorship concerns, or peer review manipulation, the reviewer should confidentially inform the editor and should not conduct a private investigation or contact the authors.