Editorial Decision

Acceptance decisions on manuscripts can be taken by the Editor-in-Chief after double blind peer review once a minimum of two review reports have been received. When making a decision, the Editor-in-Chief checks the following:

• The suitability of selected reviewers;
• Adequacy of reviewer comments and author response;
• Overall scientific quality of the paper.

The Editor-in-Chief can select from the following options: Accept in current form, accept with minor revisions, reject but encourage resubmission and ask author for revision and reject and decline resubmission,.

Reviewers make recommendations, and the Editors-in-Chief is free to disagree with their views. If s/he do so, s/he should justify the decision for the benefit of the authors and reviewers. In some cases, the Editor-in-Chief could support a decision of manuscript acceptance despite a reviewer recommendation to reject.

To protect the academic integrity and to avoid ethical issues all submissions are automatically screened by software Ouriginal (combined expertise of Urkund and PlagScan’s plagiarism detection solution).

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