Peer Review Workflow

The Academic Science Journal (ASJ) follows a structured editorial and peer-review workflow designed to ensure the quality, integrity, originality, and academic value of all published manuscripts. The workflow is based on fair editorial assessment, double-blind peer review, ethical screening, and transparent editorial decision-making.

1. Manuscript Submission

Authors submit their manuscripts through the journal’s official submission system. The submitted manuscript must comply with the journal’s aims and scope, author guidelines, formatting requirements, and publication ethics policies.

The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the manuscript is complete and that all authors have approved the submitted version.

2. Initial Technical and Editorial Screening

The editorial office conducts an initial screening to check whether the manuscript meets the journal’s basic requirements. This screening may include:

Relevance to the journal’s aims and scope.
Compliance with the journal template and formatting guidelines.
Completeness of manuscript sections, figures, tables, and references.
Clarity of language and presentation.
Presence of required declarations, where applicable.
Basic scientific quality and suitability for peer review.

Manuscripts that do not meet these requirements may be returned to the authors for correction or rejected before peer review.

3. Similarity and Ethical Check

All submitted manuscripts are screened for similarity using recognized similarity-checking tools. The editorial office also checks for possible ethical concerns, including plagiarism, duplicate submission, redundant publication, inappropriate authorship, data concerns, undeclared conflicts of interest, or missing ethical approval where applicable.

Manuscripts with unacceptable similarity or serious ethical concerns may be returned to the authors for clarification, rejected, or referred for further ethical assessment.

4. Assignment to an Editor

Manuscripts that pass the initial screening are assigned to the Editor-in-Chief or a qualified handling editor with relevant subject expertise. The assigned editor oversees the peer-review process and ensures that the manuscript is evaluated fairly, confidentially, and according to the journal’s editorial standards.

5. Selection of Reviewers

The assigned editor selects qualified independent reviewers with expertise in the relevant field. ASJ normally seeks reports from at least two reviewers.

The journal applies a double-blind peer-review system, in which the identities of both authors and reviewers are kept confidential throughout the review process.

6. Peer Review Evaluation

Reviewers evaluate the manuscript according to its:

Originality and scientific contribution.
Relevance to the journal’s scope.
Soundness of methodology.
Validity of results and analysis.
Clarity of presentation.
Quality of figures, tables, and references.
Ethical compliance.
Strength of conclusions and their support by the results.

Reviewers provide constructive comments to help authors improve the manuscript and submit a recommendation to the editor.

7. Editorial Decision

Based on the reviewers’ reports and the editorial assessment, the editor may recommend one of the following decisions:

Minor Revision.
Major Revision.
Resubmission after substantial improvement.

The editorial decision is communicated to the corresponding author together with reviewers’ comments, where applicable.

8. Author Revision

If revision is requested, authors must address all reviewer and editorial comments carefully and submit:

A revised manuscript.
A detailed response letter explaining how each comment was addressed.
Any additional files requested by the editorial office.

Revised manuscripts may be assessed by the editor or returned to the original reviewers, depending on the nature and extent of the revisions.

9. Final Editorial Decision

The final decision on acceptance or rejection is made by the Editor-in-Chief or the assigned editor. This decision is based on the scientific merit of the manuscript, reviewers’ recommendations, the quality of revisions, ethical compliance, and the journal’s publication standards.

Acceptance is granted only when the manuscript satisfies the journal’s scientific, ethical, and editorial requirements.

10. Copyediting and Proofreading

Accepted manuscripts undergo editorial processing, which may include copyediting, formatting, reference checking, and proofreading to ensure clarity, consistency, and compliance with the journal’s publication style.

The corresponding author may receive the proof version of the manuscript for final checking before publication. Only necessary corrections are allowed at the proof stage.

11. Publication

After final approval, the article is published online in the Academic Science Journal. Published articles are made freely available under the journal’s open-access policy and are assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), where applicable.

The published article becomes part of the journal’s permanent scholarly record and is available for reading, downloading, citation, and academic use according to the journal’s open-access license.