Peer Review Process

All papers are fully peer-reviewed. We only publish articles that have been reviewed and approved by qualified researchers with expertise in a field appropriate for the article. We used single blind peer-reviewing process. In short, the steps are:

  1. Manuscript Submission (by author)
  2. Manuscript Check and Selection (by editors). Editors have a right to directly accept, decline, or review. Prior to further processing steps, plagiarism check using Turtitin is applied for each manuscript.
  3. Manuscript Reviewing Process (by reviewers). This process takes 1-2 weeks.
  4. Notification of Manuscript Acceptance, Revision, or Decline (by editors to author based on reviewers comments)
  5. Paper Revision (by author)
  6. Revision Submission based on Reviewer Suggestion (by author)
  7. If reviewer seems to be satisfied with revision, notification for acceptance (by editor)
  8. Galley proof and publishing process.

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

1. Accept without any changes (Acceptance): the journal will publish the paper in its original form

2. Accept with minor revisions (Acceptance): the journal will publish the paper and asks the author to make small corrections

3. 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

4. Revise and resubmit (conditional decline): the journal is willing to reconsider the paper in another round of decision making after the authors make major changes

5. Decline (outright decline): the journal will not publish the paper or reconsider it even if the authors make major revisions.