Peer Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to this journal must follow the focus and scope, and author guidelines of this journal. The submitted manuscripts must address scientific merit or novelty appropriate to the focus and scope. All manuscripts must be free from plagiarism content. All authors are suggested to use plagiarism detection software to do the similarity checking. Editors check the plagiarism detection of articles in this journal by using Turnitin software. 

The research article submitted to this journal will be double-blind reviewed by at least 2 (two) reviewers. The reviewers give valuable scientific comments improving the contents of the manuscript. Duration of peer review each round: 4—6 weeks.

Editors will make the final decision of article acceptance according to reviewers' comments. Publication of accepted articles, including the sequence of published articles, will be made by Editor in Chief by considering the sequence of accepted date and geographical distribution of authors and thematic issues.

Review Process:

  1. Editor receiving manuscript from author;
  2. The editor evaluate manuscript (journal aim and scope, in house style, supplementary data); (Rejected if not meet criteria)
  3. Editor screening for plagiarism on offline and online database manually; (Rejected if found major plagiarism, contacted author if found redundancy or minor plagiarism for clarification)
  4. Editor sends the manuscript to reviewer along with review form (double-blind review, Both reviewer and author remain anonymous to each other);
  5. Reviewer send back the review form to Editor (with revised manuscript if necessary);
  6. Editor decision (rejected, require major revision, need minor revision, or accepted);
  7. Confirmation to the Author.
  8. If a revision, the author revised manuscripts and should be returned to the editor without delay. Returned later than two months will be considered as new submissions.