Review Guidelines
Reviewer Guideline
Invitations for reviewing will be carried out by emailing the reviewers that are already listed in our database. Reviewer will receive a link that takes him/her to the review process. The first page in the review process has two icons, one for acceptance the reviewing and the other for declining the reviewing. Your acceptance of reviewing in our journal is highly appreciated. Our journal publishes peer-reviewed articles including original and/or valuable work using a single-blind review style. The manuscript is sent to you because your expertise is in the research topic of the submitted manuscript. If you think that the topic of the manuscript does not match your specialty, please let us know that ASAP. If you suggest another reviewer that you think he/she is a better match, then this will be a great suggestion. The information bellow is meant to describe our reviewing criteria.
Double Blind Peer Review Process
The journal follows a double-blind-peer reviewed process to assure the quality of the publicatinos. All the manuscripts are submitted through our online manuscript management system.
The process starts by the user registering on our system as an author and then submitting the manuscript. TurnItIn is used for similarity checking by the editorial team prior to sending the manuscript to external reviewers. The author will be notified within 3 to 4 weeks about their manuscript via our system. The KJCS relies on reviewers from Iraqi and other international universities all around the world.
The review process can be ordered as follows:
1- The author submits the article in the submission phase.
2- The editorial team, removes the authors' name and assigns a random-unique-id. In this step, the submitted manuscript is checked for plagarism using TurnItIn
3- The manuscript is passed then to the review phase and is assigned a section editor.
4- The section editor, based on the journal's topic, assigns at least three reviewers.
5- The review, process starts and the reviewes are collected. The review is double-blind at this point.
6- Once, the reviews are submitted to the section-editor, he makes a decision, major revision, minor revision, accept or reject.
7- When accepted, the journal passes to phase-3 where the copyediting process is started.
8- Once the copy-editing phase is completed, the manuscript is passed to the fourth and final phase, production where it is combined with other manuscripts to form an issue.
Reviewer Decision
Your recommendation is what we are looking for. The editors will rely on this recommendation to make the final decision. Your revisions will also help the authors in improving the presentation of their work.
Confidentiality
To maintain the integrity of the reviewing process, please do not discuss the content of the manuscript you are reviewing outside the editorial board. In case you need to discuss the content with one of your colleagues for the purposes of improving the review process, you will need the permission from the editorial board before you contact that colleague.
Deadline
We are looking for a fast review. You will be kindly asked to review the manuscript as quickly as possible. The deadline is two weeks, but earlier is better. If you have decided to decline the review for any reason, please click on the “decline reviewing” icon as soon as possible.
