Editorial Process and Peer Review

This journal follows a double anonymized review process. Your submission will initially be assessed by our editors to determine suitability for publication in this journal.

If your submission is deemed suitable, it will typically be sent to a minimum of two reviewers for an independent expert assessment of the scientific quality. The decision as to whether your article is accepted or rejected will be taken by our editors.

Upon receipt of the reviewers’ comments, the Editor consolidates the feedback and provides recommendations regarding revision or editorial decision. Authors are required to address the reviewer comments and, where applicable, submit a revised version of the manuscript.

The Chief Editor or Managing Editors then conducts the final evaluation, making a decision based on the reviewers’ assessments and the quality of the revised submission. If the manuscript is accepted, it undergoes copyediting and formatting by the internal team to ensure compliance with publication standards. Finally, the authors can expect to see the final layout for the manuscript’s publication before it is published in the upcoming issue of the journal.

Our editors are not involved in making decisions about papers which:
- they have written themselves.
- have been written by family members or colleagues.
- relate to products or services in which they have an interest.
Any such submissions will be subject to the journal's usual procedures and peer review will be handled independently of the editor involved and their research group.