Review policy

All submitted manuscripts go through peer review process. It contains few steps.

First of all a manuscript can be accepted for consideration only if the same work has not been published or submitted for publishing elsewhere.

The second one is to make sure if the manuscript fits Focus and Scope of the Journal.

The next step is to verify that the paper is prepared according to the rules described in Author Guidelines.

The peer review process consists of the following steps:

  • The Editor-in-Chief assigns a Section Editor responsible for reviewing the paper.
  • The assigned Section Editor independently reviews the article internally and determines whether it is subject to further double external reviews. The first decision is made within one month of receipt of the manuscript. If the decision is positive, then the Section Editor sends the paper to two independent external reviewers.
  • Two single blind external referee reports are requested. By defaults, the Editorial Board gives three months for external reviewers to write review from the date of receiving consent for review. Reviewers have the right to request an extension of the deadline.
  • Based on the reviewers' reports, the Section Editor makes a recommendation to the Editor-in-Chiefs.
  • By this recommendation and the reports, the Editor-in-Chief takes a decision that is sent to the author.

 Editors and referees reads the manuscript closely and provides the individual critiques in a form of a report which contains comments, remarks, and recommendations such as “Accept Submission”, “Revisions Required”, “Resubmit for Review”, “Reject Submission” etc.

The editorial board sends three reports (1 internal and two external) to author(s) by e-mail either with a final decision, or with a revision request, which in turn can be accepted or declined by the author(s). Once the editors and referees is satisfied with a latest version, it can be accepted for publication by the editorial board.

This process is single blinded. It means that the referees know author(s) of the manuscript, but not vice versa.