Peer Review Process and Policy
Peer Review Process and Policy
- Each paper submitted to the Journal of Economic Policy and Management Issues will be first evaluated by the Editor for its suitability in terms of relevance, rigour and depth.
- Papers found to be suitable will be sent to carefully selected experts for peer review.
- Reviewers will be given four weeks to submit their reports to the Editor-in-Chief for a final decision. Where a member of the editorial board has been appointed as an associate editor to manage the peer review process, the reviewers will be expected to submit their reports to the editorial member concerned.
- The journal adheres strictly to a double-blind peer review policy, where neither the author nor the reviewer knows each other’s identity.
- The reviewers will be expected to give comments on the originality of the paper, the scope and the contribution thereof.
- The reviewers are expected to make the following recommendations:
- Accept as is
- Accept subject to minor corrections
- Accept subject to major corrections
- Reject
- Authors with recommendations (i) to (iii) will be invited to make the necessary corrections and resubmit their papers for further consideration.
- Although the editor-in-chief will in most cases rely on the reviewers’ comments to make a final decision, the Editor-in-Chief may decide to seek further review from other subject experts before accepting or rejecting a paper if s/he deems it necessary.
