The Workflow of Peer Review Process

Generally, when we talk about peer review we mean pre-publication review, which is performed by an expert in the field after being invited by a journal editor. In below, you can see the major steps of a typical peer- review workflow.    

• Author(s) submits manuscript: an author decides on a journal to submit their manuscript to, checks the journal's website for format and instructions, and then submits their manuscript.

• Editor screens manuscript: an editor does an initial assessment of the manuscript to make sure it aligns with the aims and scope of the journal, if its quality is very poor or if it does not align with the journal's requirements it can be rejected at this stage.

• The Manuscript is sent for peer review: if the manuscript passes an editor's initial screening then the editor will look for experts in the research field, screen them for potential conflicts of interest, and then invite them to review the manuscript.

• Peer review: the manuscript is sent to 2-3 peers who are experts in the topic of the manuscript, they check that the methodology and results are sound, and write a report with everything that the authors need to address before the paper can be published.

• Editorial decision: the editor receives the peer reviewers' reports and their recommendation and makes a decision, either the paper needs to be revised and resubmitted where the editor and the same or new reviewers will check the manuscript again, or it will be accepted or rejected.   

JSESM Journal Plagiarism Policy

JSESM honurs intellectual property and aims at securing and promoting original work of its authors. Manuscripts containing plagiarized material are against the standards of quality, research and innovation. Hence, all authors submitting articles to JSESM are requested to follow ethical standards and avoid from plagiarism, in any form. In case, an author is found to be suspected of plagiarism in a submitted or published manuscript then;

1. JSESM will contact the author (s) to submit his / her (their) reply within two weeks, which may be forwarded to the Journal Editorial Committee (JEC) constituted for the purpose, for further course of action.

2. If JSESM does not receive any reply from the author (s) within the stipulated time period, then the intial review of manuscript will be declined as per the journal regulations.