Peer review

PEER REVIEW

The “Akademos” journal applies the procedure of double-anonymous peer review, meant to ensure the objective assessment of the manuscripts in terms of originality and quality of the carried-out research.

The editor is in charge of the review organization of each article on the basis of the collegiality criterion. In this context, for each article, two rigorous experts are appointed, among the journal's Expert database, on whose behalf the article is sent electronically.

The editor ensures the anonymity of the review: the authors do not know the identity of the experts, and the experts do not know the identity of the authors.

Although the names of the reviewers are not disclosed, their opinions are sent to the authors by the publisher for review.

Based on objective and competent reviews, the reviewers help both the publisher to make the correct editorial decisions and the authors to improve the quality of the articles.

The reviewers will be required to thoroughly evaluate the manuscripts, thus contributing to the highest scientific quality of each one and of the journal as a whole.

The article is accepted if both reviewers give a positive feedback. If the two references have different opinions on the article in question, a third reference is used. If both reviewers give a negative feedback, the article is rejected.

The author of the rejected article has the right to propose for publication other articles or an improved version of the rejected article in the next issue of the journal.

For a complex evaluation The reviewers` file has been developed. The file gives the reviewers the opportunity to expose themselves on all standard criteria submitted to a scientific article. Thus, the reviewers will expose and argue their position on a series of formal criteria (the structure inherent of a scientific article, the style of expression, the graphic presentation etc.), as well as under the aspect of the scientific quality of the article, its original character, the used bibliographic sources.

The expert will draw attention to the scientific errors committed by the author, will identify relevant bibliographic sources that the author should consider.

Each manuscript submitted to the editorial office will be treated as a confidential document. The reviewers will keep the confidentiality of the scientific results and ideas from the manuscripts they examine and will not use them in their own interest.

The reviewers will avoid reviewing the manuscripts if they are in a conflict of interest with the author, resulting from competitive relationships, collaboration and so on.

The editor and reviewers have the right to reject, without reviewing, articles in which they have found plagiarized and self-plagiarized ideas or which do not comply with the technical requirements contained in the Instructions for Authors.