Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to this journal must follow the Focus and Scope and Author Guidelines of this journal. Submitted manuscripts must meet scientific value or novelty in accordance with the focus and scope of this journal. The work may not be published or submitted for publication elsewhere.

All submitted manuscripts must be free from plagiarism content. All authors are advised to use plagiarism detection software to perform similarity checks (please use Turnitin or Ithenticate to check similarities). The editor will also check the similarity of manuscripts in this journal using Turnitin or IThenticate software. Manuscripts submitted to this journal will be double blind reviewed by a minimum of 2 (two) or more expert reviewers. Reviewers provide comments of scientific value to improve the contents of the manuscript. Sometimes (if necessary) a third peer-reviewer is needed to provide critical comments on the submitted manuscript. The review process used in this journal is a double blind review system.

The final decision on manuscript acceptance is made entirely by the Editor-in-Chief/Regional Editor (Handling) (together with the Editorial Board if necessary) based on the reviewers' critical comments. The final decision on the manuscript is based solely on the Editor's final review which considers peer-reviewer comments (but not only by Reviewers). Publication of accepted articles, including assignment of articles to published publications, will be carried out by the Editor-in-Chief taking into account the order of acceptance dates and the geographic distribution of authors and thematic issues.