Reviewer guidelines

Editor and Reviewer guidelines

The purpose of peer review is to improve the quality of the manuscript under review, and of the material that is eventually published. Conscientious peer review is a time‌-consuming task but is essential to assure the quality of scientific journals. IJCCMIF feels very grateful for the time and effort you invest in the review process. IJCCMIF adheres to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines (http://publicationethics.org). We strive to ensure that peer review is fair, unbiased and timely. Decisions to accept or reject a manuscript for publication are based on the manuscript’s importance, originality and clarity, and the study’s validity and its relevance to the remit of the journal. We use a wide range of sources to identify potential reviewers, including the editorial board, personal knowledge, author suggestions, and bibliographic databases. Reviewers’ evaluations play a major role in our decision as to whether to accept a manuscript for publication.

Reviewers responsibilities

1. Reviewers should keep all information regarding papers confidential and treat them as privileged information.

2. Reviews should be conducted objectively, with no personal criticism of the author

3. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments

4. Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.

5. Reviewers should also call to the Editor in Chiefs attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

6. Reviewers should not review manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

The editor plays a sole responsibility in maintaining the quality of the manuscript and improving the reputation of a journal. Editor ensures that the journal’s aims, scope and content respond to any changes of direction in the field of study to incorporate newly-emerging work. The editor works closely with the journal’s publishing staff to ensure that it is strategically developed in line with market evolution.

Editor Responsibility

1. Editors have complete responsibility and authority to reject/accept an article.

2. Editors are responsible for the contents and overall quality of the publication.

3. Editors should always consider the needs of the authors and the readers when attempting to improve the publication.

4. Editors should guarantee the quality of the papers and the integrity of the academic record.

5. Editors should preserve the anonymity of reviewers.

6. Editors should ensure that all research material they publish conforms to internationally accepted ethical guidelines.

7. Editors should only accept a paper when reasonably certain.

8. Editors should publish errata pages or make corrections when needed.

9. Editors should have a clear picture of a research funding sources.

10. Editors should base their decisions solely one the papers importance, originality, clarity and relevance to publication scope.

11. Editors should not reverse their decisions nor overturn the ones of previous editors without serious reason.

12. Editors should act if they suspect misconduct, whether a paper is published or unpublished, and make all reasonable attempts to persist in obtaining a resolution to the problem.