AJME - Academic Journal of Manufacturing Engineering

PEER REVIEW PROCESS

All submitted manuscripts received by the Editorial Office will be checked by a professional in-house. Executiv Editor to determine whether they are properly prepared and whether they follow the ethical policies of the journal.

Once a manuscript passes the initial checks, it will be assigned to at least two independent experts for peer-review. A single-blind review is applied, where authors' identities are known to reviewers.

External review will take three weeks including one week for accept the review from reviewers (for each article the reviewer has three working day for accept the review- their availability and interest in reviewing ). The reviewers use a separate sheet for review which is submitted with the body of article. The evaluation sheet contains 8 evaluation criteria, which will be appreciated by reviewer for each article:

  • - The paper is within the topics of the journal;
  • - The paper presents an original contributions;
  • - The paper is clear and well organized;
  • - The title and keywords are appropriate;
  • - The abstract is well structured;
  • - All the essential information is included;
  • - Appropriate reference have been cited;
  • - The figures are legible.

Peer review comments are confidential and will only be disclosed with the express agreement of the reviewer.

The final decision concerning the papers publication belongs to the editor-in-chief or managing editor. And their comments will be returned to the author. There are four possible outcomes:

  • a) Accept: the paper will be published without any revision;
  • b) Minor revision;
  • c) Major revision;
  • d) Reject: the paper will not be published.

Upon acceptance, the author will receive an acceptance letter sent by the editor or executiv editor and be required to prepare the paper in MS Word using the template of AJME.