Reviewers’ Guidelines:
Referees are asked to consider the criteria listed below when evaluating a manuscript.
Introduction
The review process in peer-review journals is an important step of the publication process of a manuscript. It helps an editor in making decision on an article and also enables the author to improve the manuscript.
Before accepting to review a manuscript reviewers should ensure that:
Confidentiality
Manuscripts are trusted materials given to a reviewer in trust for the sole purpose of critical evaluation. Reviewers should ensure that the review processes is totally confidential. The details of the manuscript and the review process should keep confidential.
Plagiarism
Reviewers are seriously asked to control plagiarism. ‘The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own’ Oxford Dictionaries
Other criteria
Reviewers should not be influenced by:
• The origin of the manuscript
• Religious, political or cultural viewpoint of the author
• Gender, race, ethnicity or citizenry of the author
Reviewer’s report