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Peer review guide


A guide of how we, at edith cowan journal publishers conduct our peer review process before your manuscript or paper is published .

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Peer Review Guide

Review Process

Our Peer Reviewer policy

This is an objective based process and is carried out on all reputable scientific journals globally. Our referees therefore play a vital role in maintaining the high standards of journal articles and all manuscripts are peer reviewed following our procedure below.

Evaluation

Editors evaluates all manuscripts. It is rare, but it is entirely feasible for an exceptional manuscript to be accepted at this stage. Those that meet the minimum criteria are passed on to other experts(2 or more) for review. Authors of manuscripts rejected at this stage will be informed by email.

Type of Peer Review

We employ single blind review, where the reviewer remains anonymous throughout the process/ double blind reviewing, where both the reviewer and author remain anonymous throughout the process/open reviewing were both the reviewer and author are known to one another.

How the reviewer is selected

Reviewers are matched to the paper according to their expertise and field of study. We also consider the reputation of the institution they are affiliated to in terms of excellence.

Review Reports

Reviewers are asked to evaluate whether the manuscript :

Reviewers are not expected to correct or copy edit manuscripts. Language correction is not part of the peer review process. Copy editing is done at a later stage.

Final Report

A final decision to accept or reject the manuscript will be sent to the author along with any recommendations made by the reviewers, and may include strict comments by the reviewers which MUST be corrected.

Editor’s Decision is Final

Reviewers advise the editor, who is responsible for the final decision to accept or reject the article.

Our Publication Process

The ultimate objectives of this process are quality and relevancy. The publication process is consistent with the following steps.

1. After receiving the manuscript we will send a submission of acknowledgement e-mail to the author.

2. Manuscripts will be checked by plagiarism checker software.

3. Primary quality will be checked by the editor.

4. The manuscript will be sent for double blinded review.

5. Based on the double blinded review editor will take decision and the decision will be communicated to the author. Decisions can be three types like accepted without revision, resubmit with major/minor revisions, rejected and send back

6. After the final review process if the paper is accepted we will send a payment request to the author.

7. Author need to deposit publication fee after the payment request.

8. After submission of copyright and fee article will be publish and indexed