Editors Guideline

All submissions must receive an answer from the Editor-in-Chief/Editor, either if the manuscript is rejected, considered for publication, or accepted. Regularly, an article should be processed in less than 3 months from the date of submission by the author to the date of the communication of the editors’ final decision.

The Editor-in-Chief/Editor of the journal is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. Both may be guided by the editorial policies of the journal and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editor-in-chief may confer with the members of the Editorial Board or reviewers in making this decision.

Editor-in-Chief/Editor is responsible for the overall quality of the publication. Editors always consider the needs of the authors and the readers when attempting to improve the publication. Editors should ensure that all published research material conforms to internationally accepted ethical guidelines. Editors shall accept or reject a manuscript based only on its scientific content, and they will not consider the authors’ nationality, gender, race, age, or institutional affiliation. Only manuscripts considered for publication will be sent for blind peer review. Editor-in-Chief/Editor will choose appropriate reviewers considering the manuscript’s content. The editor or editorial staff will not reveal the author’s identity to reviewers during the peer review process.

Editors will expose information about a submitted manuscript only to the corresponding author, reviewers and other editorial advisers, except in the case of a manuscript suspected of double submission. The editor may ignore any material that breaks legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism.

The editors must defend the integrity standards of the journal. They will notice and decide about any misconduct on behalf of authors or reviewers. If an editor suspects an article’s authenticity, its publication is delayed until any doubt is clarified.

Confidentiality: The Editor-in-Chief, Editor, the members of the Editorial Board, and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the authors of the manuscript, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest: Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript will not be used in the research of the Editor-in-Chief/Editor or the Editorial Board members without the author’s express written consent.