Instructions for Reviewers

We are strongly committed to upholding integrity in reviewing papers submitted to our journal. We, therefore, view the peer review process and the quality of the reviewers as areas that should not be compromised. As a result, we carefully select reviewers based on their knowledge of subject matters and the weight of their contributions to the subject areas.

The criteria for choosing a reviewer include possessing:

• PhD degree, being at least a senior lecturer, and not having any relationship, including institutional, with the author to whose paper the reviewer has been assigned. In a situation where the reviewer has a relationship with the author but is unknown to the journal, the reviewer must reject the offer to review such a paper;
• The reviewer shall maintain strict confidentiality of the paper assigned;
• The reviewer shall maintain strict confidentiality of the paper assigned.;

A reviewer can only be assigned to a maximum of two papers per journal edition. The maximum period required for reviewers to submit their report is two weeks after receiving papers from the journal.