Peer Review Procedure

The peer review process requires each paper to be refereed by two independent reviewers   under following rules:

  • The reviewer is a specialist on the topic, subject of the article submitted for publication;
  • The two reviewers evaluate the article independently. Reviewers have not information about each other’s.
  • The reviewer is anonymous to the author.
  • The reviewer has complete information about the author of the article.
  • The reviewer is not from the same institution as the author of the paper.
  • The reviewer was not a co-author of the article’s author in the last 2 years.
  • The reviewer cannot be suggested by the author of the paper.

From one hand the purpose of the review process is to assist the editorial board in taking decision whether to accept or to reject the article. From the other hand, the purpose of the review process is to assist the author in achieving higher quality of the publication.