Open Access Policy

Catatan Riset dan Studi (CARS) 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.

Its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. This is in accordance with Budapest Open Access Initiative.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

Publication Frequency

Catatan Riset dan Studi (CARS) published four times a year:

• July
• December

Peer-Review Policy

The journal implements the peer review policy as a means to ensure the quality of the publication in the journal. The peer-review process consists of initial review, double-blind review, and the decision by the editor.

Initial Review: The editor evaluates the submitted manuscript to determine if the content suits the journal. The manuscript is also subjected to a similarity check procedure to identify any indication of plagiarism. Manuscripts with contents unsuitable for the journal or with a high similarity percentage will be returned immediately to the author(s).

Peer Review: Submitted manuscripts that have passed the initial review are subjected to double-blind review, where both authors and reviewers remain anonymous during the review process. A minimum of two reviewers are assigned to evaluate and provide the recommendation for a manuscript. In assigning the reviewers, the editor is responsible for avoiding the conflict of interest during the review process.

Decision: The editor makes the final decision on the acceptability of a manuscript based on the comments and recommendations of the reviewers.

Plagiarism

Authors should submit only original work that is not plagiarized and has not been published or being considered elsewhere. Turnitin or other software will be used by the editorial team to check for similarities of submitted manuscripts with existing literature. The maximum allowed similarity index is 25%.

Article Processing Charges 

This journal charges the following author fees.

Article Submission: 0.00 (IDR)

Authors are NOT required to pay an Article Submission Fee.

Article processing charges (APCs) / Article Publication Fee: 150,000.00 (IDR) (applicable in 2025)

This journal charges the article publication fee for supporting the cost of wide open access dissemination of research results, managing the various costs associated with handling and editing of the submitted manuscripts, and the Journal management and publication in general, the authors or the author's institution is requested to pay a publication fee for each article accepted. The fee covers:

• DOI registration for each paper., 
• Checking the article similarity by Turnitin; the final result will be sent to authors (by request).
• Layout Editing according to template and journal standards.

If you do not have funds to pay such fees, you will have an opportunity to waive each fee. We do not want fees to prevent the publication of worthy work.