Double Blind Peer Review Process

Editor-in-Chief is responsible to receive, register, coding and handing over the same to Associate Editor-in-Chief/Managing-Editor for pre-assessment of the academic relevance, scope and appropriateness vis-a-vis style and format of the article in collaboration with Editorial Board.

After ascertaining the types of manuscript (Original Research Article, Review Articles, Featured Articles, Research Notes, Commentaries and Book Review) and their respective lengths along with style and flow of the article such as title, authors and affiliation, abstract, introduction, statement of the problem followed by objective, materials and methods, results, discussion and references and format such as text, abbreviations, font size, typeface, headings and subheadings, spacing, page margins, page numbers, equations (if any), computer code, figures, illustrations, graphs and tables, caption etc. associate editor-in-chief will recommend editorial panel and will be sent to two blinded reviewers/referees along with language editor.

The comments of referees/reviewers will be sent to author/s (again blinded). After ascertaining whether comments given by referees/reviewers and language editor are properly taken by respective author/s, editorial board members will suggest additional review, edition and amendments to paper/s based on the comments given by referees/reviewers and language editor; and finally will decide after following decisions/comments of the referees/reviewers whether the article is publishable or not.