Editorial Policies

Section Policies

Articles

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Peer Review Process

All articles submitted to the journal are subject to strict, editorial review and double-blind peer review. We send articles to the subject experts and take their objective opinion on the quality of contentarticle structure and language correctness.

All manuscripts are reviewed in fairness based on the intellectual content of the paper regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenry nor political values of the author(s).

Any observed conflict of interest during the review process must be communicated to the Editor.

Final decision of articles acceptance will be made by Editors according to reviewers comments. Publication of accepted articles including the sequence of published articles will be made by Editor in Chief by considering sequence of accepted date and geographical distribution of authors as well as thematic issue.

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;

All information pertaining to the manuscript is kept confidential. Any information that may be the reason for the rejection of publication of a manuscript must be communicated to the Editor.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.