Peer Review Process
RCMOS uses a double-blind peer review process, ensuring that the identity of authors and reviewers remains anonymous. The review process follows the following steps:
- Initial evaluation - technical desk review
Carried out by the Technical Team. It consists of analyzing compliance with the Author Guidelines. Criteria regarding Submission, Metadata, Formatting, Duplicate Authorship are checked. If discrepancies are found, the article is archived, and the authors are notified.
- Next steps - double-blind peer review process
Articles submitted to RCMOS Journal are evaluated for the following items: methodological rigor, grammatical and stylistic aspects, degree of originality and authorship, creativity, as well as alignment with the focus and scope of the journal.
If the submitted work is not suitable for the editorial policy of the Journal, it will be archived, and the authors will be notified.
If the relevance of the submitted work is verified, the evaluation proceeds to the double-blind peer review system. At this stage, ad hoc reviewers will be assigned according to the article's topic. Reviewers are preferably professors and researchers associated with stricto sensu postgraduate programs of national or foreign educational institutions.
Double approval is required for publication. In case of disagreement between the reviewers, the texts will be sent to a third reviewer.
Reviewers may accept the article, request revisions, or reject it. Any of these hypotheses are justified by a review made via a form.
- When we receive two rejections for the work, the article is archived;
- And if both reviewers accept the work, it moves to the next phase.
- Finally, when one or both reviewers request revisions, the work is returned to the author, requesting the reformulation of the article. When the author resubmits the revised text according to the reviewers' suggestions, it is reassessed.
It is up to the editor to decide on the issue where the article will be published.
Articles will be published online in PDF format, at the time of their approval in the Peer Review Process, and then allocated in their own number. After approval in the evaluation process, no changes to the PDFs will be allowed.
