Reviewer Guide

Ethical guidelines for peer reviewers

Peer reviewers are asked to make every reasonable effort to adhere to the following ethical guidelines for Bahterania Journal of Cultural Development articles they have agreed to review:

  • Reviewers must give unbiased consideration to each manuscript submitted for consideration for publication and should judge each on its merits, without regard to race, religion, nationality, sex, seniority, or institutional affiliation of the author(s).
  • Reviewers must keep the peer review process confidential; information or correspondence about a manuscript should not be shared with anyone outside of the peer review process.
  • Reviewers should provide a constructive, comprehensive, evidenced, and appropriately substantial peer review report.
  • Reviewers should make all reasonable effort to submit their report and recommendation in a timely manner, informing the editor if this is not possible.
  • Reviewers should inform the editor for any significant similarity between the manuscript under consideration and any published papers or submitted manuscripts of which they are aware.

Ethical guidelines for editors

All editors are asked to make every reasonable effort to adhere to the following ethical guidelines for Bahterania Journal of Cultural Development articles that seem worthy of peer review.

  • Editors should give unbiased consideration to each manuscript submitted for consideration for publication and should judge each on its merits, without regard to race, religion, nationality, sex, seniority, or institutional affiliation of the author(s).
  • Editors must keep the peer review process confidential; information or correspondence about a manuscript should not be shared with anyone outside of the peer review process.
  • Editors may reject a submitted manuscript without resort to formal peer review if they consider the manuscript inappropriate for the journal and outside its scope.
  • Editors should make all reasonable effort to process submitted manuscripts in an efficient and timely manner.
  • If an editor is presented with convincing evidence that the main substance or conclusions of an article published in Bahterania Journal of Cultural Development are erroneous, the editor should facilitate publication of an appropriate erratum.
  • Any data or analysis presented in a submitted manuscript should not be used in an editor's own research except with the consent of the author.