Journal of Advanced Informatics in Water, Soil, and Structure

Journal of Advanced Informatics in Water, Soil, and Structure

Peer Review Process

Peer Review Policy

Journal of Advanced Informatics in Water, Soil, and Structure (AIWSS), uses the double-blind peer review to review manuscripts. The  AIWSS's aproach in reviewing can be viewed in follows:

  • Confidentiality of article information must be observed in all areas. 
  • Reviewers should judge articles at the appropriate time and assist the editorial team in deciding whether or not to accept the article.
  • Reviewers should refrain from judging articles with conflict of interest.
  • Reviewers should rely on expert and impartial viewpoints to make judgments about the articles' quality and content.
  • Peer reviewers should keep all manuscript and review details confidential (see here for more information).

The essential phases of manuscript reviewing have been described below:

1st stage: Initial review

Manuscripts that have been properly formatted in accordance with the "Guide for Authors" will sent to the journal's editorial board for approval. Manuscripts with acceptable scientific content and in line with the aims and scope of the journal will be first approved, and the editorial board will choose proper reviewers for them (This process usually takes between 7 to 10 days).

2nd stage: Review stage

The manuscripts that have been approved in the previous stage, are sent to at least two reviewers who are experts on the subject of the manuscript. After the review, articles are divided into three categories according to the outcome of the review:

  1. Acceptable: Articles that need no correction and can be published as they are;
  2. Need to revision: Articles that can be published after revisions (Minor or Major) based on reviewer's comments;
  3. Rejected Manuscripts: Articles that are not publishable (The second stage of reviewing takes lower than two months).

3rd stage: Revision

At this stage, the author/authors of the article must make revisions based on the reviews within a maximum of 15 days from the date of receiving the article or explain their reasons for not needing revisions through the journal website. An article may need to be revised two or three times before its content is deemed acceptable by the journal editors (The maximum times for this part will be 20 days).

4th stage: Decision making

After revising the article based on the reviewer's comments or providing sufficient reasons for not needing revisions, the article will be put in the publication queue and a written letter about the final acceptance and publication of the article will be sent to the author.

5th stage: Publish the article:

After acceptance, the article will be sent to the production manager, page designer, and English text editor. The required time for publishing the article depends on the number of accepted articles. After publishing, all articles in PDF and XML formats can be downloaded for free on the website.