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Reviewer Guidelines
The Review Process
Desk rejections
When a manuscript is first received, the editor
makes an initial judgment (sometimes with the assistance of an expedited blind
review) about the suitability of the manuscript for IJMS. Manuscripts deemed not
to fit within the aim and scope of IJMS (e.g., no empirical data) or to be
extremely weak (e.g., containing fatal methodological flaws or no incremental
theoretical or empirical contribution) may be rejected at this point.
Normal review process
For each manuscript that passes the initial review
stage, the editor assigns an action editor (either him- or herself or an
associate editor or guest editor) and three reviewers. The
manuscript's action editor makes publication decisions about it. However, these
decisions are made in conjunction with approvals provided by members of the
Journal's Editorial Board or other qualified reviewers. All submissions will be
blind reviewed; manuscripts prepared in a way that compromises blind review may
be returned for revision prior to being reviewed. The guidelines for reviewers
are available on the IJMS Website. The Manuscript Evaluation Form used by
reviewers can be viewed here.
The Journal strives to provide constructive and
developmental feedback to authors within approximately two months. However, the
initial quality of the manuscript can dramatically influence both the efficiency
and effectiveness of the review process. The better developed a manuscript and
the ideas it contains, the easier it will be to review, and the better the
feedback its author will receive. Therefore, manuscripts should always be
reviewed by your scholarly colleagues prior to submission to the Journal.
Manuscripts that are inappropriately prepared tend
to be less favorably reviewed, and may be returned to the author for revision
prior to submission to the full review process.
Technical note: Authors who use the tracking
facility of the reviewing tool in working on successive versions of their
manuscripts should be aware that the latest versions of Word (e.g., those using
Windows XP) show corrections to previous versions if the “Showing Markup” option
is clicked when the Reviewing tool bar is activated. To prevent showing
corrections before submitting your manuscript you should (1) click on “Final,”
(2) select the entire document, and then (3) save this version as a new file
under a new name. Submit this “clean” version.
To submit a manuscript, first make sure you have a
Word file from which the title page and all author-identifying references have
been removed. Then, go to the web site at
http://qc.ut.ac.ir and follow the directions. Acknowledgements of others’
help in preparing the paper for submission should be included in the letter to
the editor that is featured as part of the web-based submission process. If you
need assistance uploading your paper, please send your questions to
jandaghi@ut.ac.ir
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