The Journal of Islamic Art Studies uses expert reviewers in the field of research to submit articles. To access the responsibilities of the reviewers, please consider the following link:
(http://publicationethics.org/files/u7140/Peer%20review%20guidelines.pdf)
To improve the level of review, please pay attention to the following points:
- Review manuscript critically but constructively and preparing detailed comments about the manuscript to help authors improve their work
- Review multiple versions of a manuscript as necessary
- Providing all required information within established deadlines
- Making recommendations to the editor regarding the suitability of the manuscript for publication in the journal
- Declaring to the editor any potential conflicts of interest with respect to the authors or the content of a manuscript they are asked to review
- Reporting possible research misconducts
- Suggesting alternative reviewers in case they cannot review the manuscript for any reasons
- Treating the manuscript as a confidential document
- Not making any use of the work described in the manuscript
- Not communicating directly with authors, if somehow they identify the authors
- Not identifying themselves to authors
- Not passing on the assigned manuscript to another reviewer
- Ensuring that the manuscript is of high quality and original work
- Informing the editor if he/she finds the assigned manuscript is under consideration in any other publication to his/her knowledge
- Writing review report in English only in English manuscripts
- Authoring a commentary for publication related to the reviewed manuscript.
What should be checked while reveiewing a manuscript?
- Novelty
- Originality
- Scientific reliability
- Valuable contribution to the science
- Adding new aspects to the existed field of study
- Ethical aspects
- Structure of the article submitted and its relevance to authors’ guidelines
- References provided to substantiate the content
- Grammar, punctuation and spelling
- Scientific misconduct.
