Peer Review Process

REVIEW PROCESS

The acceptance of a manuscript implies that it has been reviewed and recommended by at least two reviewers, and one on the Editorial Advisory Board. The manuscript will be checked using Turnitin and authors will generally be notified of acceptance, rejection, or need for revision within 1 to 3 weeks of receipt. The manuscript is rejected if the content is not in line with the journal scope, does not meet the ethical standards (i.e., false authorship, plagiarism, duplicate publication, fabrication of data, and citation manipulation), does not meet the required quality, is written in an inappropriate format or has uncorrected grammar. Manuscripts can also be rejected if the reviewer gives negative notes. The review process was conducted as a double-blind (Anonymous Reviewer/Anonymous Author), where the identities of authors and reviewers were concealed. These processes take 12 weeks for a maximum time. Based on the comments from the Reviewers, the Section Editor and editor-in-chief will decide on the manuscript.