REVIEWERS PAGE
Reviewing a manuscript written by a fellow scientist is a privilege. However, it is a time-consuming responsibility. Hence, JCCJ’s Editorial Board, authors, and audiences appreciate your willingness to accept this responsibility and your dedication. JCCJ adheres to a double-blind peer-review process that is rapid, fair, and ensures a high quality of articles published. In so doing, JCCJ needs reviewers who can provide insightful and helpful comments on submitted manuscripts with a turn around time of about 4 weeks. Maintaining JCCJ 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.
REVIEWERS’ RESPONSIBILITIES
(International Criminal Law - Reviewers (iclj.ir)
If JCCJ’s Editor-in-Chief has invited you to review a manuscript, please consider the following:
- Reviewing manuscript critically but constructively and preparing detailed comments about; the manuscript to help authors improve their work;
- Reviewing multiple versions of a manuscript as necessary;
- Providing all required information within established deadlines;
- Making recommendations to the editor regarding the suitability of the manuscript for publication in the journal;
- Declaring to the editor any potential conflicts of interest with respect to the authors or the content of a manuscript they are asked to review;
- Reporting possible research misconducts;
- Suggesting alternative reviewers in case they cannot review the manuscript for any reasons;
- Treating the manuscript as a confidential document;
- Not making any use of the work described in the manuscript;
- Not communicating directly with authors, if somehow they identify the authors;
- Not identifying themselves to authors;
- 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 consideration in any other publication to his/her knowledge;
- Writing review report in English only;
- Authoring a commentary for publication related to the reviewed manuscript.
WHAT SHOULD BE CHECKED WHILE REVIEWING A MANUSCRIPT?
- 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.