The contribution of a reviewer is an essential part of the publication process. The expertise in the field and updated knowledge of the reviewer is utilised for thriving science through high quality scientific publications. The objective of the review, by a reviewer is to assess the novelty and quality of the manuscripts for publication.
The Editorial Scholar is an online portal to access and track the manuscript allocated to reviewers and their recommendation. The online portal has a webpage containing the following tabs for navigation:
Guidelines contain a document about the expectation from a reviewer concerned for critical commenting, suggestions and overall improvement of the manuscript submitted to the journal.
The document is a part of the manuscript that contains only the title, abstract, body of the manuscript, references, tables and figures for review process. The documents can be considered for review as single blinded document, double blinded document and open review document, based on the review policy of the journal.
This tab contains the space to key-in general comments to the authors after the review of the manuscript. There is space for confidential comments addressed to the editorial office about the manuscript. The reviewer can provide ratings for the manuscript and recommendations for the future course of action.
Manuscript Ratings: Excellent, very good, good, average, poor, very poor
Your Recommendation: Revise (major revision), Revise (minor revision), Accept with revision, Accept manuscript, Accept manuscript (online only), Reject
The Recommendation should be substantiated with relevant opinions of the reviewers that is confidentially communicated to the editorial office.
This tab facilitates the submission of the reviewed manuscript, containing the review comments and complete the submission of the reviewed manuscript.
The information about the manuscript for review, entrusted to the reviewer, should be kept confidential. This confidentiality of the manuscript should be maintained by the reviewer during and after the completion of the review.
The reviewer is expected to be unbiased and should not be influenced by the type of research study, the geographical location mentioned in the manuscript, religious, cultural and political opinion of the author.
A few significant aspects to be considered for review of manuscripts.
Note: On successful completion of the review process, if the reviewed manuscript gets accepted by the journal, the reviewer will be felicitated with a certificate that can be downloaded from the reviewer portal. After receiving the communication regarding the acceptance of the manuscript, kindly login and download the certificate.