Journal of "Rural Development Strategies" of the Reviewers of this journal appreciate your willingness to accept this responsibility. In so doing, Journal of "Rural Development Strategies" needs reviewers who can provide helpful comments on submitted manuscripts within the determined period. Maintaining Journal of "Rural Development Strategies" as a scientific journal of high quality depends on reviewers of expertise and an ability to be objective, fair, and insightful in their evaluation of manuscripts.

If  "Rural Development Strategies" Editor-in-Chief has invited you to review a manuscript, please consider the following:

  1. Review manuscript critically but constructively and preparing detailed comments about the manuscript to help authors
  2. Reviewing multiple versions of a manuscript as necessary
  3. Providing all required information within established deadlines
  4. Making recommendations to the editor regarding the suitability of the manuscript for publication in the journal
  5. Reporting possible research misconducts
  6. Treating the manuscript as a confidential document
  7. Not communicating directly with authors (If they know the author/s)
  8. Not passing on the assigned manuscript to another reviewer
  9. Ensuring that the manuscript is of high quality and original work
  10. Informing the editor if he/she finds the assigned manuscript is under review in any other journal

What Should Be Checked ?

  1. Novelty
    2. Originality
    3. Scientific reliability
    4. Valuable contribution to the science
    5. Adding new aspects to the existed field of study
    6. Ethical aspects
    7. Structure of the article submitted and Grammar, punctuation and spelling
    8. References provided to substantiate the content
    9. Scientific misconduct