Journal of Community and Preventive Medicine

The submitted article is assigned to reviewers according to proficiency and research contribution to the discipline. The assigned reviewers are supposed to submit their comments to Editorial office by inclining to one of the below decision, the final decision maker is the Editor in chief of the journal.

• Accept
• Minor revision
• Major revision
• Reject

Information for Reviewers

1. Timely Decision: Timeline to send review comments is 10 days from assigning date. Reviewers can request editorial office if they need to extend the review period.
2. Unbiased Comments: The Peer review comments provided by reviewers must be transparent, even-handed and should not involve personal or professional conflicts.
3. Quality of Article: The comments given reviewer must relevant and support to increase the quality of manuscript. Minor corrections like grammatical errors can be corrected by reviewer itself. Be explicit and detail while giving the comments. Reviewer can suggest new research ideas to authors to insert in the manuscript which would augment quality of the article.
4. Confidential Comments: The comments provided ought to be confidential, should not let the comments to others (Authors) except Editorial office. Never disclose the assigned paper’s results or videos/images or any of the supplementary material to others. Reviewers are requested not to use any information of the assigned data unless they have the written statement of the authors.
5. Reasons to Reject: Please mention the appropriate reasons to reject the article and please suggest what can be done to improve further.

Note: Any kind of conflicts can be resolved at editorial office