Peer review process
Reviewers assist Editor in-Chief and the editorial board in reviewing the content of the submitted papers to increase their quality.
Reviewers are free to deny the evaluation process, which subsequently is gratuitous.
Reviewers have 7 days to decide whether they are willing to review the paper or not. Reviewers who accept to review the paper are given one month to send their comments to Editor-in-Chief. If comments are not received within this time, the editorial office sends reminders to Reviewer. In case Reviewer does not respond to two reminders, Editor-in-Chief assigns a new reviewer.
Reviewers should not accept reviewing papers with which he/she has principal disagreement which may affect fairness of his/her decision. Reviewer should not accept reviewing papers whenever there is a conflict of interests between the reviewers and authors or institutions they represent or personal relations. Reviewer should not accept reviewing papers to which he/she contributed either in writing, giving ideas, acquiring experimental evidence, analyzing etc.
Review of the paper should be based on scientific argumentation, free from emotions and personal, racial, religious or other preferences. Reviewer points out strong and weak points of the paper and suggests solutions for revision of the paper.
Reviewer should keep all the information in the paper confidential and can not disclose its content to others. Before publication of the paper, the reviewer can not use its ideas for or against his own or other studies, or to criticize the author. After publication, the reviewer can not reveal his/her dispute with the authors beyond what is presented in the journal.
Any case of Research and Publication Misconduct detected by Reviewer should be immediately reported to Editor in-Chief and backed up by sending the related documents.
Reviewer is not allowed to commission his/her task to anyone such as his/her assistant or graduate student without a written permission of the Editor in-Chief. Anyone assisting in reviewing the article should be mentioned in the review report and the journal documents.
Reviewer is not permitted to contact the authors of the reviewed paper unless it is made through the editorial office.
The paper is sent to at least two reviewers.
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