PEER REVIEW PROCESS

Peer Review Process

  1. Editor receiving manuscript from author;
  2. Editor evaluates manuscript (journal aim and scope, in-house style, supplementary data); rejects if it does not meet criteria.
  3. Editor screening for plagiarism on offline and online database manually (Rejected if found major plagiarism, contacted author if found redundancy or minor plagiarism for clarification)
  4. The editor sends the manuscript to reviewer along with review form (double blind review; both the reviewer and author remain anonymous to each other);
  5. The reviewer sends back his review form to Editor (with revised manuscript if necessary);
  6. Editor decision (rejected, require major revision, need minor revision, or accepted);
  7. Confirmation to the author.
  8. If there is a revision, the author revised manuscripts, which should be returned to the editor without delay. Submissions returned later than three months will be considered new submissions.