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Author Guidelines

Initial Check and Review
The Managing Editor will review submitted papers received by the Editorial Board to ensure that they are adequately prepared and adhere to the journal’s ethical policies. Manuscripts will be rejected before peer-review if they do not comply with the journal's principles or meet its requirements. Manuscripts will be returned to the researchers for revision and resubmission if they are not properly prepared. Following the reviews, the Managing Editor will confer with the journal’s Editor-in-Chief to determine if the contribution is within the publication’s scope. At this time, no assessment of the work’s potential impact will be made. The Editor-in-Chief will double-check any rejection decisions made at this stage.

Peer-Review
Following the initial review, three experts will conduct a double-blind peer review of the manuscript, where the authors’ identities will be kept hidden from the reviewers. These experts will include faculty members from within and outside the University, industry experts, and the journal’s Editorial Board members. Reviewers should not have published any research works with any of the co-authors in the last five years, and they should not be working or collaborating with the co-authors’ department or college at the moment.

Editorial Decision and Revision
Following the peer-review process, the managing editor will inform the researchers of the decision of the editor-in-chief as follows:

  • Accept with Minor Revisions: Based on the reviewer's suggestions, the article is in principle approved after minor changes have been made. Authors have five to ten days to complete the minor changes.

  • Reconsider after Major Revisions: The manuscript's acceptance would be dependent on the revisions made by the author/s. If part of the reviewer's comments cannot be amended, the author must respond in detail or present a rebuttal. Just one round of major revisions is allowed. Within 20 days, the authors must resubmit the revised work, and it will be given back to the reviewer for additional feedback.

  • Reject and Encourage Resubmission: The manuscript will be rejected if more analysis and experiments are necessary to support the study’s findings. The authors will be urged to resubmit the manuscript after the additional analysis is finished.

  • Reject: The article has multiple inaccuracies and/or makes no significant original contribution. There will be no invitation to resubmit to the journal.

All the reviewers’ comments should be addressed in a table that contains the comment, the author's (s) reaction or action, and the related page where the comment was made. When the authors disagree with a reviewer, they must express their disagreement clearly and concisely.

Submission Preparation Checklist

  • The manuscript does not contain any of the author(s) name.
  • The manuscript is in Word DOC/DOCX format. 
  • The manuscript complies with the journal’s publication guideline and ethical policies.
  • The submission has not been published previously or submitted to multiple journals at the same time.
  • Any conflicts of interest have been disclosed.
  • Authors have truthfully described research results and provided an objective analysis.
  • Data and methods are explained in sufficient detail to allow replication.
  • All borrowed information is properly referenced, with quotation marks where original wording is used.
  • Figures or images from previously published works include copyright holder’s permission.

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