Description of the proofreading process

The participants of the proofreading process: four scientifically qualified (e.g. PhD) reviewers take part in the proofreading process of an article. Two of them are public reviewers, and the other two reviewers take part in the process of blind peer-reviewing. 

The role of the public reviewers is: they are involved by the Author, and they help the work of the author until the submission of the article. Their names will be published in the journal. They do the proofreading as volunteers without payment.

The role of the reviewers of the blind peer-reviewing process: they are invited by the Editorial Board of the Journal, and they proofread the article after its submission. Their names will be unknown to the authors and the readers.

The reviewers are required to be researchers from several institutions and multiple countries.

 The script of the proofreading process is:

Phase I: steps before submission of an article

Step 1: authors invite two public reviewers, and they send their articles to the public reviewers before submission.

Step 2: public reviewers give suggestions to the authors, and they work together until the final and submittable version of the article.

Step 3: public reviewers fill in the statement of proofreading. This statement contains the next points: 1) name of the authors, 2) title of the article, 3) recommendation about the publishing of the article, 4) a statement that the journal is not required to pay for proofreading, 5) a statement that their name may appear in the paper as the reviewers of the article, 6) name of the public reviewers,  7) affiliation of the public reviewers (e.g. name of their workplace), 8) contact data of the public reviewers, 9) signatures of the public reviewers, 10) date.

Step 4: authors fill in the statement of authors. This statement contains the next points: 1) name of the authors, 2) title of the article, 3) a statement that the journal is not required to pay for creating the article, 4) a statement that their names may appear in the paper as the authors of the article, 5) a statement that authors want to publish their articles in the journal,  6) affiliation of the authors (e.g. name of their workplace), 7) contact data of the authors, 8) signatures of the authors, 9) date (see: copyright notice).

Step 5: authors submit the article (editable .doc or .docx format) and the statements of authors and public viewers (its format can be .jpg or .pdf or paper).

 

Phase II:  steps after submission of an article

Step 1: editorial board invites two proofreaders for peer-reviewing before publishing the article. They are called anonymous reviewers below.

Step 2: anonymous after submission of an article reviewers give suggestions to the authors, and they work together until the final and publishable version of the article. The editorial board mediates between authors and anonymous reviewers.

Step 3: anonymous reviewers fill in the statement of proofreading. This statement contains the next points: 1) name of the authors, 2) title of the article, 3) recommendation about the publishing of the article, 4) a statement that the journal is not required to pay for proofreading, 5) a statement that their name may not appear in the paper as the reviewers of the article, 6) name of the anonymous reviewers,  7) affiliation of the anonymous reviewers (e.g. name of their workplace), 8) contact data of the anonymous reviewers, 9) signatures of the anonymous reviewers, 10) date.

Step 4: anonymous reviewers submit their statements (its format can be .jpg or .pdf or paper) to the editorial board.

This is the end of the proofreading process. Lead time is max. 3 months.

An article can be publishable if the editorial board has got the editable (.doc or .docx format) version of an article, the statements of authors, two public reviewers, and two anonymous reviewers.