Peer Review Process
All new submissions are screened for completeness and adherence to the journal's aims and scope, publication ethics, and instructions for authors. Authors are advised to complete the submission checklist to ensure their manuscript is ready. Manuscripts may be rejected without peer review if they contain insufficiently original content, plagiarism concerns, methodological flaws, poor English language, or are outside the relevant scope. Additionally, incomplete submissions for over 3 months regarding requested corrections or accompanying documents may be rejected.
Manuscripts that pass the initial screening undergo a double-blind peer review process conducted by at least 3 reviewers with no conflicts of interest. The editorial decisions for each manuscript (ie, accept, minor revision, major revision, and reject) depend on the reviewers' recommendations and the discretion of the editor-in-chief or an assigned editor.
Revised manuscripts are returned to the authors for modification and are subjected to another round of review by the editor or reviewers before a final editorial decision is made. The authors are kept informed about the final decision. All accepted manuscripts proceed to production, including formatting according to the journal's style, artwork preparation, proofreading by the authors and journal staff, and publication in the next available issue.