Review rules

All submitted manuscripts are peer-reviewed by experts in corresponding research areas. Editors can choose a reviewer from the editorial board or ask an independent expert to register on the website and become a reviewer for the manuscript.

Decision on assigning certain reviewers for submitted manuscripts is made at editorial meeting, accounting for the reviewers proposed by the manuscript authors. Based on this decision, the Editor send review requests to the chosen reviewers, asking to give a reply within two weeks. If there is no reply from the reviewer, the Editor send a reminder (after 7 days) and a final reminder (after 14 days). If none of the reviewers reply within one month, editorial assigns new reviewers.

Received reviews are examined by the Editor, estimationg the quality of the reviews. Based on the reviewers comments, the editorial makes decision on accepting, rejecting, or revising the manuscripts. New reviewers are assigned for the manuscript in the case of controversial comments.

When revised manuscript is received, the editorial can either accept it or send it to a reviewer for repeated revision. The editorial sends notifications to the authors about all changes of their manuscript. The editorial board informs the authors about all status changes of their manuscript: about successful submission, assigning reviewers, revision request, acceptance or rejection.