Peer Review Process

All papers submitted to the International Conference on Community Engagement for Sustainability (ICoCES-2026) will undergo a peer review process to ensure the quality, relevance, originality, and academic integrity of the manuscripts before acceptance and publication in the conference proceedings.

The review process consists of several stages. First, all submitted papers will be screened by the conference committee to ensure that they comply with the conference scope, submission format, and basic ethical requirements. Manuscripts that do not meet these initial requirements may be returned to the authors or declined before the review stage.

After the initial screening, eligible papers will be assigned to reviewers or members of the scientific committee with relevant expertise. The reviewers will evaluate each manuscript based on its relevance to community engagement and sustainability, clarity of research objectives, methodological appropriateness, originality, contribution, quality of discussion, and overall presentation.

Based on the reviewers’ comments and recommendations, the conference committee will make one of the following decisions: accepted, accepted with revision, or rejected. Authors whose papers require revision must address the reviewers’ comments and submit the revised manuscript within the specified deadline.

The final acceptance decision will be made by the conference committee after considering the review results, the quality of the revised manuscript, and its alignment with the objectives of ICoCES-2026. Only accepted papers that have completed the required revision and registration process will be included in the official conference proceedings.

ICoCES-2026 is committed to conducting the review process in a fair, objective, confidential, and constructive manner. Reviewers are expected to provide professional feedback, while authors are expected to respond to the review results responsibly and ethically.