Editorial Procedures, Decision and Peer-Review

All the articles published in NAUBJOST go through the peer-review process and receive at least two reviews. The editorial Secretary will communicate the decision of the academic reviewer to the author, which will be one of the following:

All the articles published in NAUBJOST go through the peer-review process and receive at least two reviews. The editorial Secretary will communicate the decision of the academic reviewer to the author, which will be one of the following:

Accept after Minor Revisions: The paper is in principle accepted after revision based on the reviewer’s comments. Authors are given five days for minor revisions.

Reconsider after Major Revisions: The acceptance of the manuscript would depend on the revisions. The author needs to provide a point by point response or provide a refutation if some of the reviewer’s comments cannot be revised. Usually, only one round of major revisions is allowed. Authors will be asked to resubmit the revised paper within a suitable time frame, and the revised version will be returned to the reviewer for further comments.

Reject and Encourage Resubmission: If additional experiments are needed to support the conclusions, the manuscript will be rejected and the authors will be encouraged to re-submit the paper once further experiments have been conducted.

Reject: The article has serious flaws, and/or makes no original significant contribution. No offer of resubmission to the journal is provided.

All reviewer comments should be responded to in a point-by-point fashion. Where the authors disagree with a reviewer, they must provide a clear response.

Author Appeals

Authors may appeal a rejection by sending an e-mail to the Editorial Office of the journal. The appeal must provide a detailed justification, including point-by-point responses to the reviewers' and/or Editor's comments. The Editorial Secretary of the journal will forward the manuscript and related information (including the identities of the referees) to the Editor-in-Chief or the Editorial Board members. The academic reviewer being consulted will be asked to again give an advisory recommendation on the manuscript and may recommend acceptance, further peer-review, or uphold the original rejection decision. A reject decision at this stage is final and cannot be reversed.