This instruction is for professional reviwers who have accepted the review of articles for Arman Process Journal (APJ) and announces the basic considerations for the standard review process.

APJ Editorial Board, authors, and audiences appreciate your willingness to accept this responsibility. In so doing, APJ needs reviewers who can provide helpful comments on submitted manuscripts within the determined period of time by the editor. Maintaining APJ as a scientific journal of high quality depends on reviewers with a high level of expertise and an ability to be objective, fair and insightful in their evaluation of manuscripts.

General considerations:

• Review manuscript critically but constructively and preparing detailed comments about the manuscript to help authors
• Review multiple versions of a manuscript as necessary
• Providing all required information within the requested deadlines
• Declaring to the editor any potential conflicts of interest with respect to the authors or the manuscript they are asked to review
• Reporting possible research misconducts
• Treating the manuscript as a confidential document
• Not communicating directly with authors (If they know the author/s)
• Not passing on the assigned manuscript to another reviewer
• Ensuring that the manuscript is of high quality and original work
• Informing the editor if he/she finds the assigned manuscript is under review in any other journal
• Writing comments in Original or English language.
  

Review Process:

• Log in to your personal page, using your username and password.
• In the user role panel, select the word referee to enter the review page.
• Click on the article code to get the details of the main article file.
• In the reviewing section, it is possible to send comments to the editor and the author. Please do not mention your name in the comment section to the author.
• In the next step, there are general questions and scoring of the article, please complete it.
• Finally, finish the review process by choosing the appropriate option and sending the result.

What Should Be Checked ?

• Novelty
• Originality
• Scientific reliability
• Valuable contribution to the science
• Adding new aspects to the existed field of study
• Ethical aspects
• Structure of the article submitted and its relevance to authors’ guidelines
• References provided to substantiate the content
• Grammar, punctuation and spelling
• Scientific misconduct

 
Registering in the review database of Web of Science (publons):
In order to improve and standardize the journal's reviewing activities and records, dear reviewer, please send the link of your Web of Science profile page to the journal's manager. If you are not a member of this database, please register in the database through the link below and send the address (URL) of your profile in this database.  Thank you for your cooperation with the journal, please register your Publons profile. Register Web of Science (publons)

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