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All the manuscripts submitted for publication to the Editorial Board of the Revue Roumaine de Géologie / Romanian Journal of Geology undergo a double-blind peer review procedure, necessary for assessing the quality of scientific information, the relevance to the field, the appropriateness of scientific writing style, the compliance with the style and technical requirements of our journal, etc.
The reviewers are selected from the national and international members of the editorial and scientific board who assess the draft of the articles, commenting and making first recommendations. The reviewers should be objective and should not have any conflict of interest with respect to the research, the authors, and/or the research funders. All the articles should be treated confidentially. One important responsibility of the reviewers is to alert the editor to any published or submitted content that is substantially similar to that under review.
Manuscripts submitted to the Revue Roumaine de Géologie / Romanian Journal of Geology are subject to the following review procedure:
- the initial review by the Editorial Board;
- the double-blind review process for the selected articles. The reviewers send their suggestions to the authors and their recommendations to the editors. If at least one of the reviewers considers that the article does not fulfill the scientific terms of publication, the Editorial Board can ask a third reviewer for an opinion or refuse its publication;
- the acceptance or the rejection on the basis of the objective judgment of reviewers.
Evaluation procedure
In order to take the most correct decision regarding the manuscripts submitted to the Revue Roumaine de Géologie / Romanian Journal of Geology, the Editing Board is asking the reviewers to respond and comment to the following questions concerning:
- the content of the paper: its significance for the journal’s profile, the clarity of the research objectives formulated by the author(s), the novelty and the importance of the results necessary to be published, the aspects concerning the methodology, the relevance of the references;
- the writing style: concordance between the title and the content of the manuscript, the ability of the abstract to summarize the main aspects of the paper, the structure of the paper, the clarity and the fairness of the terminology, the relevance of the conclusions;
- additional comments, the confidential remarks to the editors (if existing), and
- the final recommendations: the reviewers should indicate their own opinion on whether the paper is acceptable for publication or not, by selecting one of the possibilities “accepted in the present form”, ”accepted with minor revisions”, “accepted with major revisions” or “not accepted”.
Copyright Information
The submission of a manuscript carries with it the author's assurance that it has not been copyrighted or published elsewhere (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, or thesis); that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere; that its publication has been approved by all coauthors, if any, and, after being accepted by our journal, it will not be published in another journal.
Review and Publication Time
The average period of time from manuscript submission to online publication is 4-5 months (average value for papers published in the previous 5 years).
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