Guide for Reviewers
Reviewing a manuscript is a privilege. However, it is a time-consuming responsibility. Hence, JCARME’s Editorial Board, authors, and audiences appreciate your willingness to accept this responsibility. In so doing, JCARME needs reviewers who can provide helpful comments on submitted manuscripts with a turn around time of about 4 weeks. Maintaining JCARME as a scientific journal of high quality depends on reviewers with a high level of expertise and an ability to be objective, fair, and insightful in their evaluation of manuscripts.
Reviewers’ Responsibilities
If JCARME’s Editor-in-Chief has invited you to review a manuscript, please consider the following:
- Reviewing manuscript critically but constructively and preparing detailed comments about the manuscript to help authors
- Reviewing multiple versions of a manuscript as necessary
- Providing all required information within the requested deadlines
- Declaring to the editor any potential conflicts of interest with respect to the authors or the manuscript they are asked to review
- Reporting possible research misconducts
- Treating the manuscript as a confidential document
- Not communicating directly with authors (If they know the author/s)
- Not passing on the assigned manuscript to another reviewer
- Ensuring that the manuscript is of high quality and original work
- Informing the editor if he/she finds the assigned manuscript is under review in any other journal
- Writing comments in English only
Attention 1:
Please carefully evaluate whether all cited references are directly relevant to the manuscript’s topic and whether they properly support the referenced statements.
Attention 2:
The review report must be based on the reviewer's own evaluation and original writing, prepared without the use of any generative AI or AI-assisted technologies. JCARME reserves the right to investigate and reject any report found to have been prepared using AI tools.
What Should Be Checked?
- Novelty
- Originality
- Scientific reliability
- Valuable contribution to the science
- Adding new aspects to the existed field of study
- Ethical aspects
- Structure of the article submitted and its relevance to authors’ guidelines
- References provided to substantiate the content
- Grammar, punctuation and spelling
- Scientific misconduct