Guidelines for reviewers

Review process

The full text of paper including figures, tables and summary is sent to at least two independent Reviewers for double-blind review. Reviewers are selected from active national and international scientific community. During Reviewers selection the Editor-in-Chief and the Volume Editor take into account the Reviewer’s competence related tothe subject of the submitted paper as well as the lack of links that could possibly affect the independent nature of the evaluation both in a positive and negative sense, including different affiliation of Reviewer and Author.
Reviewers fill in a peer-review form by evaluation of the article in scoring from 0 to 30 points and recommending

• acceptance of the paper without correction or with some minor editorial corrections,
• acceptance with correction that require consideration by the authors and eventual re-review
• rejection of the paper

In case of two reviews with different recommendations, the decision is made by the Editor-in-Chief in consultation with Thematic Editors. Editor-in-Chief may also designate a third reviewer to provide another opinion. The corresponding author is informed by Editorial Office about the result the review process. The text of the manuscript is sent by e-mail for eventual correction according to comments provide by Reviewers, Linguistic and Statistical Editor.

– review form editable version (docx)

– review form non-editable version (pdf)