Manuscript Selection

Conscientia Beam has a rigorous peer review process and in most cases this consists of a single blind assessment of the paper with at least two independent reviewers and a final decision on acceptance or rejection by the Editor who is responsible for the academic quality of what is published.

Pre-Editing Check

As soon as a paper is submitted, the managing editor checks to assess the suitability of the manuscript, the qualifications and backgrounds of the authors and to reject any manuscripts that do not comply with submission guidelines or required quality. The editor for the journal will then be notified of the submission and invited to check and recommend reviewers.

Peer Review

The process is a single-blind assessment for most journals, where the author does not know the identity of the reviewer, but the reviewer knows the identity of the author. Some journals use a double-blind peer review process. At least two review reports are required for each submitted paper. The reviewers are required to verify that they hold no conflict of interest with the authors including having published with them within the last five years, hold a PhD, have recent publications in the same field as the submitted paper, and have not been recently invited to review other papers for any Conscientia Beam journals. Reviewers are given two weeks to write their review.

Editor's Decision

Acceptance decisions on manuscripts, after peer review, are made by an academic editor, either the Editor-in-Chief, a Guest Editor, or another suitable Editorial Board member. The academic editor has to check the suitability of reviewers, the adequacy of reviewer comments and author responses and the overall scientific quality of the paper. Editorial independence is extremely important, and Conscientia Beam does not interfere with editorial decisions.

Revision

In cases where only minor revisions are recommended, the author is usually requested to revise the paper before it is referred to the external editor. Papers are usually allowed to have two rounds of major revision each unless there are exceptional circumstances.

Production

Professional editing staff carry out the different services needed in production on all papers including language and copy editing and proofreading. Production processes include copy editing, editing for English, formatting it into XML, producing final PDFs and proofreading the final work prior to publication.

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