Peer Review Process

The steps for the reviewing process are in the following figure.

In short, the steps are:

1. Manuscript Submission (by author) (route 1)

2. Manuscript Check and Selection (by manager and editors) (route 2). Editors have a right to directly accept, reject, or review. Prior to further processing steps, plagiarism check using turtitin is applied for each manuscript.

3. Manuscript Reviewing Process (by reviewers) (route 3-4)

4. Notification of Manuscript Acceptance, Revision, or Rejection (by editor to author based on reviewers comments) (route 5)

5. Paper Revision (by author)

6. Revision Submission based on Reviewer Suggestion (by author) with similar flow to point number 1. (route 1)

7. If reviewer seems to be satisfied with revision, notification for acceptance (by editor). (route 6)

8. Galley proof and publishing process (route 7 and 8)

The steps point number 1 to 5 is considered as 1 round of peer-reviewing process (see grey area in the figure). And, our reviewing process at least goes through 2 round of reviewing process.

The journal editor or editorial board considers the feedback provided by the peer reviewers and arrives at a decision. The following are the most common decisions:

(i) accept without any changes (acceptance): the journal will publish the paper in its original form

(ii) accept with minor revisions (acceptance): the journal will publish the paper and asks the author to make small corrections

(iii) accept after major revisions (conditional acceptance ): the journal will publish the paper provided the authors make the changes suggested by the reviewers and/or editors

(iv)revise and resubmit (conditional rejection): the journal is willing to reconsider the paper in another round of decision making after the authors make major changes

(v) reject the paper (outright rejection): the journal will not publish the paper or reconsider it even if the authors make major revisions