If you are interested in serving as a peer-reviewer/referee for WEFE, please contact our Editor-in-Chief at nsp@naturalspublishing.com with your full contact information, your area of expertise and a list of your recent publications. If you are selected to be a reviewer/referee, your name will be included in our list of potential referees. When a manuscript submitted to WEFE matches your interests, one of our editors will contact you with the paper. Please respond promptly to the Editors message asking whether you are willing to referee the paper. If you have other commitments and cannot referee the paper in six (6) weeks, let him or her know immediately so that another referee can be chosen. If you can referee the paper, please confirm. We would like to express our sincere thanks to our peer reviewers who helped to ensure the high standards of the Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences. The informed opinions of referees, relayed in a timely manner, are critical to our editorial process. Review Steps All manuscript will be assigned to more than one reviewer through 5 steps. As soon as we receive an article, the Editorial office will Pre-Review your manuscript in one week. The officer will check whether the manuscript is valid and language is fluent and necessary factors are all included. The officer will also cross check the article in crossref database in order to avoid plagirsm. The following is a formal review process accomplished by other official reviewers for one month. It is decided by Editor-in-Chief in one week whether your manuscript is accepted or not. All submitted papers will be reviewed in about six weeks. Type of Peer Review This journal follows blind reviewing process, where both the referee and author remain anonymous throughout the process. Formal Conditions of Acceptance Each article submitted to us will be reviewed by at least 2 reviewers. Moreover the papers will be checked for linguistic consistency. Thematic review will decide whether to accept or reject according to the originality, significance for theory and practice, quality of content and presentation of submitted paper. |