Journal of Codicology and Manuscript Research (In persian: Pizhūhish/hā-yi nuskhah/shināsī va taṣḥīḥ-i mutūn)

Peer Review Policy

The Journal of Codicology and Manuscript Research uses double-blind peer review to review manuscripts, so the reviewers do not know the author's identity or vice versa.

 

Reviewers’ Responsibilities  

(https://publicationethics.org/files/u7140/Peer%20review%20guidelines.pdf)

• Confidentiality of article information must be observed in all areas. The article review process is to be done anonymously.
• Reviewers should judge articles at the appropriate time and assist the editorial team in deciding whether or not to accept the article.
• The referees' suggestions regarding the published articles should be submitted as judging forms and in the comment section for the author and editor.
• Reviewers should refrain from judging articles with conflicts of interest and report any such conflicts as soon as possible.
• Reviewers' judgments about the quality and content of articles should be based on professional and objective opinions.

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Peer Review Process

From the moment the article is received on the website until it is published, the paper will go through different stages in the following order:

 

A- The initial review stage ( 7 to 10 days)

To decide whether to publish a paper, an in-house editorial assessment and an external double-blind peer review process are used. All papers are first evaluated by an editorial committee with two or more editorial team members, including the Editor-in-Chief. The primary goal is to make the decision to send a paper for external peer review and make a quick decision about those that are not. Articles that meet the journal's objectives and scope and the required scientific content will be approved in this step. The editorial committee will then choose at least 3 peer reviewers for those articles.

 

B- The Review stage (1 to 3 months)

The articles that passed the first round of approval are forwarded to two or more reviewers who are knowledgeable in the article's topic. Based on the review's conclusion, the articles are grouped into one of three categories:

1. Articles that need no revision and can be published as they are;

2. Articles that can be published after revisions based on reviewer's comments;

3. Articles that are rejected.

The first category articles will be published immediately after paying the acceptance and publishing fee. The second category will be sent to the article's main author to get revised according to the reviewer's comments. The rejected articles will be removed from the review process while informing the article's author. 

 

C- The Revision stage (15 to 20 days)

At this point, the author or authors of the paper have to either amend it in light of the reviews within a maximum of 15 days of receiving it or use the journal website to explain if alterations are not necessary. An article may need to be revised two or three times before its content is deemed acceptable by the journal editors. After the revisions are approved by the editors, the article is referred to the author for payment of admission and publication fee.

 

D- The final acceptance stage

After revising the article based on the reviewer's comments or providing sufficient reasons for not needing revisions and paying the admission and publication fee, the article will be put in the publication queue, and a written letter about the final acceptance and publication of the article will be sent to the author

 

E- Publish

The articles that have been accepted will be placed in the list of articles ready for publication and will be published in the next issues based on the order of publication.

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