Agricultural Engineering - Peer Review Process

Peer Review Policy

Journal of Agricultural Engineering, uses double-blind peer review to review manuscripts. So that the reviewers do not know the author's identity and vice versa.

The editorial team tries to announce the first response to the coresponder author within two months at most.

Peer Review Process

The editorial board carefully examines all the papers submitted electronically to the journal online submission and review Website at http://agrieng.scu.ac.ir/.

The initial review stage

At this stage, articles with the appropriate format (based on the journal guide for authors) are sent to the publication's editorial board after checking for similarity for plagiarism (Hmanandjoo). Articles with appropriate scientific content and consistency with the publication's thematic axes will be initially approved, and suitable reviewers will be selected for them by the editorial board. This step usually takes less than 7 working days.

The Review stage

The articles that have been approved in the previous stage, after paying the review fee, are sent to at least threre reviewers who have an opinion on the subject of the article, and after the review, articles are divided into one of the three categories according to the outcome of the review:

1. Articles that need no correction and can be published as they are;

2. Articles that can be published after revisions based on reviewer's comments;

3. Articles that are not publishable.

Obviously, the first category articles will be published immediately after paying the admission and publishing fee. The second category will be sent to the article's main author in order to get revised according to reviewer's comments, and non-printable articles will be removed from the publication path while informing the author of the article. This stage usually takes 1 to 2 months.

The Revision stage

At this stage, the author or authors of the article must make revisions based on the reviews within a between 15-20 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. After the revisions are approved by the editors, the article is referred to the author for payment of admission and publication fee.

The final acceptance stage

After revising the article based on the reviewer's comments or providing sufficient reasons for not needing revisions, and paying the admission and publication fee, 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.

Publish the article

After acceptance, the article will be sent to the editor and page designer. After that, the authors will receive the final version of the article for Galley Proof. The waiting 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.