Peer Review and Editing

Peer Review and Editing

1. Review Policy: The journal follows a double-blind review process. After submission, the editorial office will conduct a preliminary review of the manuscript. The editorial office will reject the manuscripts which are insufficient in originality, having serious scientific or technical mistakes, lacking valuable information, or not in the scope of the journal. The manuscripts which have passed the preliminary review will be anonymously sent to two or more reviewers. The comments (accept/reject/revise) will be passed to corresponding authors. The authors must respond to the reviewers' every comment and submit the revised version in time. This process would be repeated until the reviewers and editors are satisfied with the manuscript.

2. Self-responsibility: All authors shall be responsible for their own writing. For the accepted manuscripts, the journal may make some technical or wording amendments. If there is any revision involving changing the original meaning, it will be sent to the author for confirmation. If authors do not agree, please state so when returning the manuscript.

3. Timing: The review time of the journal is about 3 months. If the review result has not been received more than 3 months after submission, the authors can contact us via QQ group or call us. The authors cannot re-submit the manuscript to another journal during the process of review unless the submission is withdrawn. If authors do not return the revised manuscript within the set time, the manuscript will be regarded as being withdrawn. The time of publishing cycle is about 6 -12 months (after submission).

4. Submission by Editors: The editorial staff / editors / editorial board members should not be involved in publishing decisions on papers which they have written themselves or have been written by their family members or colleagues. Any such submission should be strictly subject to the journal’s usual editorial process. Peer review should be handled independently from the relevant author/editor and their research groups.

5. Appeal: Authors may make an appeal if they disagree with the comment of the reviewers. Authors need to write an appeal letter (with the manuscript serial number) and send it to dmzzbjb@163.net. Detailed reasons for appealing must be stated, including a comprehensive and reasonable answer to the reviewers’ comment. The appeal letter should also be stamped by the author’s institute. The editorial department will consider whether to change the decision on a case-by-case basis.