Editorial and Peer Review Processes
The peer-review process and editorial scrutiny are the main mechanisms for ensuring the quality of published articles. To this end, the submitted articles are rigorously peer-reviewed to ensure the high quality submissions are accepted and published; these published articles reflect the up-to-date research findings, with reliable and sound results, objective and unbiased discussion of the results. The journal’s editorial board is composed of research scientists and medical specialists with rich research and publication experiences.
1) Manuscript submitted via the journal online submission system.
2) Primary manuscript check by the editor against the check list, to check if components of manuscript are complete and conforming to the submission requirements, and cross-check if there is duplicate submission, plagiarism. If manuscript does not meet the submission requirements, then the manuscript will be returned to the authors for corrections and resubmission.
3) If the manuscript meets the submission requirements, the editor will assign this manuscript to 2-3 external reviewers for peer-reviewing.The reviewers are choosed from the editorial board.
4) If the article lacks sufficient quality or the topic is not well within the journal scope, the editor will reject the submission without further consideration.
5) The peer-reviewers will send back the review comments with their recommendations as: accepted unchanged; minor revision; major revision; or rejected.
6) Based on the reviewers’ comments and recommendations, editors will make editorial decision.
7) The peer-review process is double blinded with the reviewers do not know whom the authors of the manuscript are, the authors do not know who the reviewers are.