Peer Review Paper

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Peer review is the process to evaluate the quality of scientific literature submitted by the authors. The process involves the experts in the same field for better assessment of the work done. Peer review process plays a key role in open access publication model and it is essential to maintain the publication standards of the journal and to provide best output to the scientific community.

The Biomedica abides by the peer review standards in order to provide best service to the community with the help of eminent editorial board members and world class peer reviewers. For the best practice, The Biomedica follows “Single Blinded Peer Review Process”. The peer review process by The Biomedica involves the following steps:

1. Initial Review & Plagiarism …show more content…

If any discrepancies are found, the article will be reverted to the author and asked for the required changes.

Editorial Review Process
Once the editorial office satisfies with the initial review of the manuscript, the article will be assigned to an eminent editorial board member by the editor to perform a peer review process. The assigned editorial board member/handling editor should appoint external peers for the review process to get a minimum of two comments to take an initial decision on the manuscript.

Reviewer Recommendations & Revisions
The reviewer may recommend any one of the following based on the analysis of the manuscript:
• Accept without any changes
• Accept with minor changes
• Accept with major changes (the article may be sent for second round of review process)
• Cannot be accepted/rejected

If the recommendation advised to make any changes in the article, then the author will be asked for correcting the article as per the reviewer guidelines and send a revised version of the manuscript to the editorial office for further

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