The web site of Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment is “http://journal.kswe.org/”.

The journal title is Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment. The abbreviated title is “J. Korean Soc. Water Environ.”

All the manuscripts submitted to Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment undergo editorial peer-review. The manuscripts, considered for possible publication in the preliminary review by the editorial committee, are forwarded to three reviewers for the evaluation of their originality, validity, completeness, and usefulness of the content. The peer review adopts double-blind peer review concealing the authors’ names and affiliations. The reviewers evaluate the submitted manuscript as acceptance without revision or with minor revisions, requirement of the next-round review with major revisions, or rejection. The editorial committee makes the final decision on whether to publish the paper, considering the critiques and recommendation of the reviewers. The finally accepted manuscript is checked by the manuscript editor for the consistency of the format and criteria. The finally revised manuscript is scheduled for publication in a next journal issue. The peer review process of the Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment is described in detail on the page of For Authors and Reviewers, “Link to Authors and Reviewers”.

The governing body is the journal's editorial board.

Upon acceptance of an article, the authors will be asked to complete Copyright Transfer Agreement(Link to Copyright Transfer Agreement). All published papers will become the permanent property of the Korean Society on Water Environment and must not be published elsewhere without written permission from the Society. Copyright information is indicated on all published articles both in the forms of Web URL and PDFs.

The review charges should be paid when a manuscript is submitted, and the publication fees should be paid within the specified period before the paper is published in the journal. The review fees amount to 50,000KRW per manuscript. The publication fees are partially paid by the authors of a manuscript, who shall pay 10,000KRW/page (up to a maximum of six pages) and 20,000KRW for each additional page. For color-printed copies, the authors should pay the extra expenses. 20 copies of offprints of the published manuscript are given to the author(s) free of charge.

When the journal faces suspected cases of research and publication misconduct, such as duplicated publication, fraudulent or fabricated data, misrepresentation of authorship, plagiarism, and other ethical problems, the discussion and decision on the suspected cases are conducted by the Ethics committee, appointed by the board of directors of the Korean Society on Water Environment. The resolution process is closely described in the Enforcement Guidelines of the Ethics is described on the page of Ethics, Link to Ethics.

Please see the Ethics of the Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment is described on the page of Ethics, Link to Ethics, and Item 9. Publication Ethics of Instruction for Authors, Link to Instruction for Authors.

The Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment is published bimonthly on the 30th of every odd month, January, March, May, July, September, and November each year. If necessary, additional (special) editions of each journal can be published separately on agreement of the editorial committee.

Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment is an open access journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. JKSWE provides open access to all the published articles, which are available at https://journal.kswe.org/past/all_list.asp, in both the PDF and XML formats. Subscription Information: Neither registration nor subscription is required to access the electronic version of articles published in Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment.

The journal has been archived and fully accessible without barrier from Korea Citation Index (https://www.kci.go.kr) or National Library of Korea (http://nl.go.kr) even in case that the journal would be no longer published.

Revenue sources of the journal are from the support of the journal publisher (Korean Society on Water Environment) and the government of the Republic of Korea.

Full-text PDF files are available at the website (http://journal.kswe.org/). To order a subscription to the Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment (printed), please contact our editorial office. The Korea Society on Water Environment will send the journal to member institutions freely and to member individuals with the annual subscription fee of 50,000 Korean Won.