For Referees

For such Research Articles, this journal uses the Peer Review System in an effort to ensure that the highest quality articles are published. The process is as follows:

• Author submits article to the journal’s Editor-in-Chief by email attachment.
• The Editor-in-Chief assesses whether the article meets the journal’s areas of interest, and that it is an original work, or makes an original and innovative contribution. At this stage, the Editor-in-Chief decides whether to accept the article for further peer review, or to reject it.
• If the article is accepted for further review, the Editor-in-Chief sends it to the Editorial Board, or to the journal’s external peer reviewers, for an assessment of the article, and a decision on whether to publish.
• A period of two months is needed for the review process to be completed, at the end of which the reviewers send their decision to the Editor-in-Chief. The decision can be of four types: (1) To publish without changes; (2) Publish with minor changes; (3) Publish with major changes such as revising the thesis and arguments, and using new documentary and secondary materials; and, (4) To reject the article.
• Should the decisions of the reviewers differ totally, the Editor-in-Chief may assign another reviewer to evaluate the article.
• The Editor-in-Chief now informs the author about the decision through email, and he sends the details of the reviewers’ comments to the author.
• If the Journal accepts the article for publication, the article is edited and proofread by the journal’s production team, including a final proofreading by the author, and it is then published. If the article is to be revised by the author, the Editor-in-Chief provides the author with helpful and constructive comments on the revisions that are required.

The Editor-in-Chief evaluates these articles of 1,200 to 2,000 words in-house, and makes make a decision on publishing in consultation with the Editorial Board. The decision to publish can be of four types: (1) To publish without changes; (2) Publish with minor changes; (3) Publish with major changes such as revising the thesis and arguments, and using new documentary and secondary materials; and, (4) To reject the article. The Journal takes only a couple of weeks to make a decision on these articles.