Review procedure

REVIEW PROCEDURE OF MANUSCRIPTS APPROVED BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD

The review of the materials submitted for publication goes through several stages, with the aim of selecting the most valuable works, thus ensuring the quality of the published material.

At the first stage, the scientific or synthesis article, received at the editorial office by the editor-in-chief for publication, passes the “Plagiarism detection software” test.

The primary evaluation is carried out by editor-in-chief or the scientific editor and draws attention to the main components for a scientific article, if the name is reflected in the content of the article, if the abstract reflects the content, the keywords correspond to the content, if the literature analysis, the description of own research , the experiment carried out is correctly reported, the conclusions are drawn, the bibliography is written according to ANACEC requirements. Attention is paid to the originality and topicality of the results presented, they are sufficiently new and interesting to justify publication; if the research is of interest to scientists as well as practitioners. The article is rejected if it does not meet the general requirements, submitted for scientific articles.

At the second stage, after finding that the article corresponds to the requirements of scientific articles, the editor-in-chief, proposes the article for review to two people with a scientific title, selected by the Scientific Council of the journal, competent in the given field. When analyzing the content of the article by the reviewer, each element is taken into account, checking whether: the title fully reflects the content of the article; if the summary clearly reflects the content of the article; keywords express content landmarks; the introduction is concise and describes the state of affairs, the importance of the study; how well the addressed problem is known in the specialized literature, with what new data the current research complements the addressed problem. The actual content of the paper supports arguments, the need for research, emerging from the analysis of the literature in the field, the correctness of the figures, tables, the results of the research are explained and if they are presented clearly and in a logical sequence.

At the third stage, after the peer-review evaluation by two experts in the field, the material and references received from the referents are presented for verification to the scientific editor and the editorial board, who make recommendations for the final decision. The author will be notified by the editor-in-chief if the article meets the requirements and will be edited or needs to be revised. In case of both negative reviews – the article is rejected.

 

Materials are not returned to the author.

The editor-in-chief notifies the author about the decision to publish or the need to redo/complete the article.