General Peer-Review Process

In short, all manuscripts submitted for publication in our journals are strictly and thoroughly peer-reviewed. The review process is Double blind. If the manuscript is accepted for full review, it will be reviewed by a minimum of two external reviewers.

Submitted manuscripts will undergo a detailed initial check including a Plagiarism Check in the Editorial Office. An Editor – usually the Editor-in-Chief or a board member of the journal – together with the Editorial Office takes charge of the peer-review process. It starts with a Preliminary Review by the Editor (finished no more than 3 days after manuscript submission).

After a manuscript is accepted for full review, the Editor will collect at least two review comments and prepare a decision letter based on the comments of the reviewers (finished no more than 3 weeks with the preliminary review). The decision letter is sent to the Corresponding Author to request an adequate revision (peer-reviewed again whenever necessary). The author will be asked to format the manuscript according to PIJSSH template before it goes into typesetting and proofreading with the publisher. The author will receive the paper in PDF produced by PIJSSH for checking before it is published online.

 

Flowchart of the Generic PIJSSH Peer Review Process

The flowchart of the Generic PIJSSH Peer Review Process shows the review process followed in by the PIJSSH Editorial Board.

Figure 1: PIJSSH Peer Review process

The Editor assigned to a manuscript invariably bears the responsibility for all core activities and decisions in the review process of this manuscript. These core activities and decisions are:  preliminary review, reviewing decision (pre-rejected), reviewer selection, Determining the manuscript status (accepted, to be resubmitted, to be revised, rejected) .