Peer Review Process

  1. Registration needs to be completed by the author(s) before the submission of their manuscript.
  2. Editor in chief would conduct initial reviews with these points as major considerations, (1) Conformity of manuscript with focus and scope; (2) Significance and novelty of manuscript; (3) Conformity to guidelines of the manuscript; (4) Similarity check of the manuscript; (5) Copyright transfer agreement and statement of originality form availability.
  3. A decision is made by the editor in chief in initial review with some of these decision types, (1) A rejected to peer-review process: here, the manuscript would be sent back to the author(s) with attached comments; (2) A revision to the peer-review process: here, the manuscript is sent back to the author(s) with attached comments. The comments would direct the author(s) on what they need to before they re-upload to the system; (3) Accepted to peer-review process: here, the manuscript would be sent to the section editor for reviewers' selection.
  4. Section editor would take out time to select the best reviewers for the manuscript. Once they are done, the manuscripts would be external reviewers for the double-blind peer-review process.
  5. The external reviewer gives insightful comments for the manuscript with the following recommendations, (1) Accepted as it is; (2) Minor revision; (3) Major revision; (4) Completely rejected.
  6. From this point, section editor and editor in chief would consider reviewers’ recommendations and comments before making the following decisions, (1) Completely rejected: manuscript failed the consideration process for publication; (2) Accepted as it is: there are no revisions to the manuscript, and everything has been accepted the way it is; (3) Minor revisions: the manuscript has to be revised concerning the minor comments of the reviewer; (4) Major revision: the manuscript has to be revised based on the major comments of the reviewer.
  7. If the section editor and editor in chief accept the manuscript, then the manuscript would be sent to the copyeditor for typesetting and copyediting before it is sent back to the author(s) for a final overall check.
  8. If the necessary changes needed by author(s) having major and minor revisions are made before resubmission back into the system, then the section editor would determine whether would go to the next round of revision or not.
  9. If the manuscript is rejected by the section editor and editor in chief, the author(s) would be notified that the manuscript failed to be considered for publication. This decision is followed with detailed comments.
  10. Once the layout is completed, the letter of acceptance is sent to the author(s) alongside the manuscript version.