Review process

Editor-in-Chief is responsible for receiving, registering, coding, and handing over the same to Associate Editor-in-Chief/Managing Editor for pre-assessment of the academic relevance, scope, and appropriateness vis-à-vis style and format of the article in collaboration with the 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 the 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 the decisions/comments of the referees/reviewers whether the article is publishable or not.

If a reviewer identifies a fundamental methodological error or any flaws, ethical violations, etc., that the editor agrees with, the paper will be rejected regardless of other positive feedback.

The reviewers can download the review format by using the following link,

STAR Journal Review Format