Peer Reviewer Eligibility Criteria
The following criteria are used to determine the acceptance of a peer reviewer for SERDEC Education Journal:
- Knowledge and experience in a particular scientific field of interest of SERDEC Education Journal (SEJ).
- An individual researcher, who accepts standards, guidelines publication ethics of SEJ
- An individual capable of speaking English smoothly for English papers and Arabic language for Arabic papers.
Publication Criteria
Publication articles of SERDEC Education Journal should meet the following criteria:
- Originality that will contribute to the base of scientific knowledge.
- Findings reported have not been published elsewhere.
- Statistics and other analyses are performed to a high technical standard and are described in sufficient detail (if applicable).
- The paper meets the guidelines and publication ethics of SEJ.
- The paper meets the scientific Methodology for writing scientific articles
- The interest of readers and researchers.
- Contemporary life and current issues
Peer Review Process
- When SEJ receives the article, a verification e-mail will be sent to the author.
- All papers will be checked by an advanced plagiarism tool before being sent to the reviewers.
- All papers will be peer-reviewed by two or three reviewers.
- The reviewers will not know author details as will themselves remain unidentified to the author.
- Eight weeks after the submission, the author will receive an e-mail notification whether the article has been accepted or rejected.
Types of Peer Review and Editorial Decision Making
- Return without review;
- Recommend transfer to another journal;
- Send the manuscript for peer review;
- Accept in its present form;
- Accept with minor revisions;
- Accept with major revisions;
- Revise and resubmit, and
- Reject