ATOM INDONESIA JOURNAL

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Associate Editor's Report

Article No. :470

Title of Paper : Fate of ¹³⁷Cs Activity in the Sayung Waters, Demak, Indonesia Associate Editor Name :

Comment on Descriptions

Criteria Evaluation

Associate editor's evaluation

Yes No Comments

1. Originality of the article

 Free of Plagiarism/Similarity (max

20%) X

 New article/not yet Published (presented/ in proceeding max 30%)

X

2. Related to nuclear/atomic science

and technology X

3. Reference

 The number of references at least

10 X

 The use of recent references 80%

(maximum 5 years ago)

 A minimum of 22 references should be current (published within 5 years).

 Please add more current references or reduce the number of references to account for the 80% current references requirement.

 Type of the references (primarily,

secondary etc.) 85% from journal X

Please include the page number for ref [1]

 Cross link reference (traceable) X

 Reference style standard: Elsevier

numeric without title X

 When reference has more than 3

Authors, write only 3 name, et al. X

Refs [2,4,9,12,17,19,24] have more than 3 authors, so please use et al instead of stating all the author names.

 Article follows the Atom Indonesia

template and guidelines X

 Table (clear, without vertical line) X

 Figure (clear, min 300 dpi) X

 Figure 1 is not clear and does not fit the available frame. Thus it requires resizing.

 Figure 2(a) and (b): please use bigger font size for R² values so that they are more readable.

 Figure 2(b): the decimal values in the y- axis should use points (.) instead of commas (,).

 Similarly, Figure 3: the decimal values

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in the y-axis should use points (.) instead of commas (,).

Final recommendation:

1. Continue review process [ ] 2. Return to the Author [X]

3. Reject [ ]

Comments:

The authors should revise some issues as stated above before this manuscript is lodged for review process