Once the manuscript is submitted for publication, it is checked by the editorial team to ensure that it is suitable to go through the peer review process. Once it is done, the manuscript is sent to an appropriate subject expert editor.

If the subject expert editor finds that the manuscript may not be of sufficient quality or that the subject of the manuscript is not appropriate for the journal’s scope, the manuscript shall be rejected with no further process.

If the subject expert editor finds that the manuscript is suitable and falls within the scope of the journal, we will assign the manuscript to external reviewers. The reviewers will then submit their reports on the manuscripts along with their recommendations of one of the following actions to the Editor:

•     Accepted with no changes
•     Consider after Minor Revisions
•     Consider after Major Revisions
•     Rejected

When all reviewers have submitted their reports, the Editor can make one of the following editorial recommendations:

•     Publish Unaltered
•     Consider after Minor Revisions
•     Consider after Major Revisions
•     Rejected

If the Editor recommends “Publish Unaltered,” the authors will be notified the acceptance of the manuscript.

If the Editor recommends “consider after minor revisions,” the authors are notified to prepare and submit a final copy of their manuscript with the required minor changes suggested by the reviewers. The Editor reviews the revised manuscript after the minor revisions have been made by the author. Once the Editor is satisfied with the final manuscript, the manuscript can be accepted.

If the Editor recommends “consider after major revisions,” the authors should revise their manuscript in accordance with the reviewer’s comments and to submit their revised manuscript in a timely manner. Once the revised manuscript is submitted, the original reviewers are asked to review it again. Along with their review reports on the revised manuscript, the reviewers make a recommendation which can be “accepted unaltered,” or “consider after minor revisions,” or “consider after major revisions,” or “Reject.” Then, the Editor can make an editorial recommendation which can be “publish unaltered,” or “consider after minor changes,” or “reject.”

If the Editor recommends rejecting the manuscript, the rejection is immediate. Also, if the majority of the reviewers recommend rejecting the manuscript, the rejection is immediate.

The editorial workflow gives the editors the authority to reject any manuscript because of inappropriateness of its subject, lack of quality, or incorrectness of its results. The Editor cannot assign himself/herself as an external reviewer of the manuscript. This is to ensure a high-quality, fair, and unbiased peer-review process of every manuscript submitted to the journal. Any manuscript must be recommended by one or more (usually two) external reviewers along with the Editor in charge of the journal in order to be accepted for publication in the journal.