Warning! Due to some of the most incredible incompetence I have ever seen in academic publishing, the domain for this journal has gone 'dead'. What this means is all the papers published over many years at www.apssr.com are now 'lost' and any attempt to access their published URLs returns an error message. It is inconceivable how someone could be this stupid.
Although some human being in the Philippines thinks they were very smart by moving the journal under DLSU's university domain, they did not understand (not care?) that all the 100s of paper previously published under the apssr.com domain would be lost when they let their old domain expire.
(Please note that if you have a VPN turned on, you will be unable to reach the journal. They were made of this problem in 2019, but took no steps to correct it.)
Journal Name:
Asia-Pacific
Social Science Review
Short
name: APSSR
Subject Area and Category: Topics
concerning the Asia-Pacific region.
Country: Philippines
Review date: 2021.04.22 Updated: 2021.06.21
SJR Quartile: Dropped to SJR Q2 in 2021. Was SJRQ1. Back to Q1 in 2023.
ISSN: 01198386
Publisher: De la
Salle University
Email:
| joseph_velasco@dlsu.edu.ph |
APC: No submission fee or APC.
Editor(s): Up to 2021, Professor Dr. Romeo Lee was editor. After
Dr. Lee’s retirement in 2020, Joseph Ching Velasco took
over as Interim Editor-in-Chief. Mr. Velasco was replaced as EIC by Dr. Torneo in August 2021.
Ador Torneo
Editor-in-Chief
De La Salle University, Philippines
asiapacificsocialsciencereviewjournal@dlsu.edu.ph
Beall Listed: NO
Scopus
Discontinued List: NO
Frequency: 4 times a year.
Template: None.
Authors may include a maximum of five tables and high-resolution figures in a manuscript. These should be placed in their exact locations within the manuscript rather than at its end or in a separate file. Tables, figures, in-text citations, and references should abide by the rules of the American Psychological Association 7th Edition (APA); click this link to see an example
Style: APA 7th Edition format
Copyright: Yes
Similarity threshold: 20%
Submission
process: New online submission
system.
Comments:
comments: RB and RA papers. No DOI
assignment. APSSR’s ScholarOne™ Submission
Platform is excellent. According to
APSSR’s website, “Overall, more than 95% of the accepted manuscripts are
published in the APSSR in less than 12 months”. The following are screen captures from 2021.06.21, two years after Scopus lowered their SJR tier to SJRQ2 (see above), and again on 15 April 2023. SJR has returned them to Q1 status as of May 2023.
Your English, however, must be perfect as well as your attention to detail, especially in APA use.
We have also discovered that 2021 submissions are now having their Turnitin reports saved to the central database. What this means is if your paper is rejected, and you try and take your APSSR paper to another journal, the new journal’s Turnitin report will think your paper has already been published by APSSR (see screen capture below). In our opinion, this is highly unethical. It is also interesting to note that we are aware of only 3 journals in the world that do this, 2 are sister journals in the Philippines from DLSU university, and the other is a journal in Cyprus which was discontinued by Scopus for ‘publication concerns’. As an additional note, several years ago emails were sent to the DLSU B&E Review (APSSR’s sister journal) in an attempt to get the journal to remove the paper from Turnitin (with no success) and to determine if this had been done by mistake. Subsequently, it was determined that the journal did this intentionally and continues to do this in 2021 to all their submissions. By so doing, they and Turnitin have effectively taken ownership of your research although they will claim otherwise. In cases like these, the old expression of “possession is 9/10ths of the law’ is very applicable.
Therefore, we strongly suggest you do not send your paper to APSSR or the DLSU B&E Review in the Philippines or the European Research Studies Journal in Cyprus because of this reason.
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