Peer Review Process in The Splendid Journals

What is Peer Review…?

Peer review is an evaluation process involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility. In academic field, peer review is often used to determine an academic paper’s suitability for publication. In case of blind peer review, the identity of the authors would not be revealed to reviewer/referee till the paper is published in The Splendid Journals. Peer review exists to ensure that journals publish good research work. This benefits the entire scientific and research community. Sometimes researchers find the peer review process intimidating because it can lead to the rejection of their manuscript but the revisions suggested and improvements described are a part of the publication process and actually help to raise the quality of your research manuscript.

Why Peer Review…?

It is difficult for the authors and the researchers, whether individually or in a team, to spot every mistake or flaw in a complicated piece of work. This is not necessarily a reflection on those concerned, but because with a new and perhaps with eclectic subject, an opportunity for improvement may be more obvious to someone with special expertise or who simply looks at it with a fresh eye through different angle. Reviewing of the research of others can identify the possible weaknesses / flaw, thus quality would be improved.

Peer review is a positive process.

Peer review is an integral part of the scholarly Journal publishing that confirms the validity of the research work. Peer reviewers are experts who volunteer their time to help improve the journal manuscripts they review-they offer authors free advice. Through the peer review process, manuscripts  become:

  • More useful: Peer reviewers consider the importance of your paper to others in your field.
  • More robust: Peer reviewers may point out gaps in your paper that require more explanation or additional experiments.
  • Easier to read:  If parts of your paper are difficult to understand, reviewers can tell you so that you can fix them.

Also, in addition to offering authors advice, another important purpose of peer review is to make sure that the manuscripts that publishes in The Splendid  Journals are of high quality. If any journal publishes too many low-quality manuscripts, its reputation and number of readers will decline.

The Splendid Journals publish original and high quality research / technical papers only. Every Manuscript submitted to The Splendid Journals  will be subjected to  rigorous process as follows.

Step 1:  Author ==> Editor

Author has to submit his / her manuscript to the Editor through online Submission

Step 2: Editor / Review Members

Determines the quality and originality of the submitted manuscript content by doing Plagiarism (two times by two independent people).

The manuscript would be sent to two individual review members for the comments. Editor / Review Members gives his / her first opinion on particular manuscript, it is accepted / rejected.

Step 3: Editor

~ If manuscript accepted, the Editor will send it to two individual reviewers

~ If manuscript rejected, the Editor regret message to the authors.

Step 4: Reviewer ==> Editor

Reviewer team will evaluate the manuscript and gives the status to the Editor as follows:

  1. Manuscript may be Accepted
  2. Manuscript may be Accepted with minor changes
  3. Manuscript may be Accepted with major changes
  4. Manuscript may be Rejected

Step 5: Editor

Editor sends the evaluation report to author through an E-Mail

Editor also gives Publishing fee details and bank account details for publication fee, if manuscript is accepted.

Step 6: The corresponding Author

The corresponding author should take one of the following actions according to the evaluation report

  1. Accepted

~ Deposit publication fee to the given bank account by thoroughly checking with bank at the time of deposit. Misconception will not be entertained.

~ Sends final manuscript, Copyright form and Payment details (scanned copy of payment slip / online transaction details) to editor in chief.

  1. Accepted with changes

~ Make changes in manuscript and re-submit to editor through E-Mail.

  1. Rejected for revision/re-submission

~ Do the revision, make changes in manuscript and re-submit to editor

  1. Rejected

~ Author can submit a new article for forthcoming issues.

Step 7: Editor ==> Publisher

Editor will send the final manuscripts to Publisher to publish in the current issue

Step 8: Publisher

Publisher will publish the accepted manuscript in the current issue.

Step 9: Editor

Editor gives the published information to the corresponding authors by E-Mail.