JSUCIT Peer Reviewing Policy

Here is a summary of key timelines

JSUCIT journal uses a process whereby scientific experts from the field evaluate a manuscript and provide an assessment of its quality and suitability for a particular journal and offer a recommendation to the relevant Editor. Such experts are external to our Editorial staff. All manuscript which undergoes peer-review and are accepted to the journal, will be badged as peer-reviewed when published.

Once submitted, a manuscript is initially screened with the cover letter, plagiarism report and article reviewed to ensure its within scope and complies with our editorial policies. If so, the article is then sent for external peer-review (double-blind). Once sufficient peer-reviews are in (we aim for three), the article will be assigned to an Editor who will then make a decision on whether to accept, reject or offer revision.

A manuscript will be reviewed for possible publication with the understanding that it is being submitted to JSUCIT alone at that point in time and has not been published anywhere, simultaneously submitted, or already accepted for publication elsewhere. The journal expects that authors would authorize one of them to correspond with the Journal for all matters related to the manuscript. All manuscripts received are duly acknowledged. Following an initial check from our Editorial Office to ensure all required components have been submitted, three independent external expert peer reviewers will be invited for comment through a single blind process. Some letters, editorials and commentaries may fall outside this review process if they were invited by the Editor.

Manuscripts received from the JSUCIT Editors and Editorial Board members are sent to external peer reviewers. The Editors and Editorial Board members who are authors of these manuscripts are excluded from related review and publication decisions.

Following peer review, every manuscript is assigned to an Editor who will make a decision based on the comments from the reviewers and their own assessment. The comments and suggestions (acceptance/ rejection/ acceptance with minor/major amendments) received from reviewers are conveyed to the corresponding author. If required, the author is requested to provide a point-by-point response to reviewers’ comments and submit a revised version of the manuscript. This process is repeated until reviewers and editors are satisfied with the manuscript.

JSUCIT Review Process.

All accepted manuscripts are copy edited for grammar, punctuation, print style, and format. Page proofs are sent to the corresponding author. The corresponding author is expected to return the corrected proofs within three days. It may not be possible to incorporate corrections received after that period. The whole process of submission of the manuscript to the final decision and sending and receiving proofs is completed online. To achieve faster and greater dissemination of knowledge and information, the journal publishes articles online as and when they are ready, ahead of allocation to an issue.

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All papers submitted to JSUCIT go through plagiarism checking using: