Proofreading Criteria

Acta Medicinae et Sociologica is an edited journal. All manuscripts received by the editors are preliminary screened by the editors, and if they are formally correct, are sent to two independent external peer reviewers (Double blind review). The reviewers receive the manuscripts without the authors' names. Only if both reviewers give a favourable opinion, which is composed according to a set of criteria provided by the AMS, will the paper be published. The reviewers' opinion, without their name, will be sent to the authors together with the reviewing criteria, furthermore, the manuscripts, which are needed to be corrected or improved, will be returned to the authors for revision. The manuscript will not be published in the case of a unanimous rejection by both reviewers, and an additional reviewer will be invited for a decisive review in the case of one supportive and one rejective opinion.

If a manuscript is submitted to the journal by the Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editor-in-Chief or members of the Editorial Committee, three independent external peer reviewers will be involved in the peer review process.

Our editors are academically qualified researchers and experts who are acknowledged nationally and internationally. Researchers and experts from different institutions are invited to review the submitted manuscripts. When reviewing a manuscript from abroad, the invited reviewers are researchers from two different countries.

 

1. The manuscript is written in a clear, accurate and straightforward way. YES/NO
2. The manuscript uses impeccable professional language. YES/NO
3. The manuscript has a proper structure. YES/NO
4. There is/are part(s) to be compressed, merged or left out (e.g. repetitive parts) in the text, between the charts, tables and quotations. YES/NO
   (If yes, please sign it/them in the manuscript possibly at this review criterion.)
5. There is/are part(s) to be specified in the text. YES/NO
   (If yes, please sign it/them in the manuscript possibly at this review criterion.)

6. The manuscript contains original, new professional/methodological scientific results. YES/NO
7. The manuscript covers a currents topic. YES/NO
8. The manuscript is original. YES/NO 
   (It has not been published before.)

9. The manuscript reaches the international level of papers of the same genre. YES/NO
   (It does not contain improper, unprofessional, unsupported, speculative or unproved hypotheses.)
10. It will raise great professional interest. YES/NO

11. It contains persuasive reasoning, grounded and logical implication. YES/NO
12. The quotations are relevant, punctual and reasonable. YES/NO
13. There is/are unnecessary reference(s), reference(s) necessary for the topic is/are missing. YES/NO
    (If yes, please sign it/them in the manuscript possibly at this review criterion.)
14. The applied charts, tables and illustrative parts are necessary and fit. YES/NO
15. The title is quite informative and covers the content of the manuscript. YES/NO
16. The abstract is quite informative and expresses the content of the manuscript. YES/NO

1. in the submitted form without any changes
   
2. after minor modifications, corrections
3. after modifications and well thought out compression