Privacy and Policies

All journal submissions are double blind, peer reviewed by members of the Editorial Review Board. First, the journal Editor reviews papers for appropriateness, and uses a plagiarism verification tool to ensure the work has not been plagiarized. Then the Editor sends out the manuscript to two reviewers, without disclosing the identities of the authors or other reviewer. The review results are confidentially delivered to the Editor, who then reviews the reviewer feedback to ensure the comments are relevant and non-discriminatory before sending the comments back to the authors. Authors are given a chance to make revisions to their manuscripts based on the feedback they receive. Revised papers are sent back to the Editors who send the revised paper back to the original reviewers. Feedback from the second round of reviews are processed the same way. In rare cases, authors are given a second chance to revise and resubmit their papers should they not be found acceptable after the first revision.

Plagiarism screening

All submitted manuscripts are subjected to plagiarism scanning software to analyse the extent and source of content duplication. Further processing of the manuscript is based on COPE guidelines.

Copyright and licensing terms

• Articles are published under Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY-NC [4.0] with non-commercial terms.
• Author retains the copyright of the published article. The publisher holds the license for publication and distribution.