Reviewing must be carried out in accordance with the following steps and requirements:
- The main task of the reviewer is to analyze and evaluate the article regarding its relevance, structure, and compliance with the scientific focus of the journal. All articles should be reviewed as confidential material, and the reviewer is forbidden to communicate directly with the authors of the article regarding the article`s material.
- The article is reviewed anonymously, and its authors communicate through "author – editor – reviewers" channel via an automated platform "Submit".
- Regarding the material of the analyzed article, the reviewer communicates with the editor-in-chief or the executive secretary of the journal via an automated platform "Submit" through the “reviewers – editor – author” channel.
- The reviewer should be an expert in the field to which the scientific journal and article relate.
- The reviewer must be objective and inform the editor-in-chief or the executive secretary of any deficiencies found in the article manuscript.
- During the analysis of the article manuscript, the reviewer evaluates:
- the content of the manuscript and its conformity to the journal's profile and the name of the article;
- presence of the necessary structural elements of the article;
- the aim of the study;
- research methods and results obtained;
- discussion of the research results and conclusions drawn;
- references and its conformity to the requirements of the journal.
- Based on the analysis of the manuscript, the reviewer concludes that the article can be:
- published without a revision;
- published with a minor revision;
- published with significant revision;
- cannot be published in this journal.
- If the article has been submitted to the author for revision, the reviewer can then request to review the corrections and evaluate them.
- The reviewer's recommendations for accepting or rejecting the article should be substantiated and based on clearly formulated arguments.
The reviewer provides a comment that substantiates his decision. He may indicate a wish after which the article may be published.