Reviewer plays an essential role in the peer review process. Efforts of reviewers are the key for the
objectives of a fair and timely review process for all of our manuscripts and the publications of only
papers of the highest quality. We greatly appreciate reviewers for their help with meeting these important
objectives.
Fairness of Review
Reviewers shall regard a submitted manuscript as a privileged and confidential document and not
meant to be public, and so should not use, share or disclose unpublished information in a manuscript
except with the permission of the authors. The review process shall ensure that all authors have equal
opportunity for publication of their papers.
Type of Peer Review
All the journals of Academy Publisher employ single blind review, where the referee remains anonymous
throughout the process. To keep reviewer confidentiality, we never disclose the names of reviewers to
authors.
Instructions for Reviewers
The Editor will solicit you with the title and an abstract of the submission via email. Please acknowledge
by email whether you can serve as reviewer. Please, let the Editor know soon. Once you agree to review
the submission, the Editor will send you a file by email. Reviews should be completed preferably in 6
weeks.
Please, download and edit the Review Form and email it to the Editor with your review. Your review will
be sent in a report to authors, usually verbatim. Please provide sound, constructive reviews, expressing
your criticisms with civility. Please remember to acknowledge whatever is good in the manuscript.
Please, keep a copy of the review documents for your use in case a revision is submitted by the authors.
Reviewers have 3 weeks to review a major revision.
Deadlines for Regular Review
Reviewers are given 6 weeks to review the submission.
Reviewers are given 3 weeks to review the major revision.
If you need more time, please let the Editor know when you expect to complete the review.
Conference Version
Submissions previously published in conference proceedings are eligible for consideration provided that
the author informs the Editors at the time of submission and that the submission has undergone
substantial revision. In the new submission, authors are required to cite the previous publication and
very clearly indicate how the new submission offers substantively novel or different contributions beyond
those of the previously published work. Author should supply a copy of the previous version to the Editor,
and provide a brief description of the differences between the submitted manuscript and the previous
version.
The Academy Publisher’s guidelines are that the submission should contain a significant amount of new
material, that is, material that has not been published elsewhere. New results are not required; however,
the submission should contain expansions of key ideas, examples, elaborations, and so on, of the
conference submission. The paper submitting to the journal should differ from the previously published
material by at least 30 percent.
