PEER REVIEW POLICY
The
Veterinary Practitioner adopted peer review policy to ensure good quality
publication. The Editorial board of Veterinary Practitioner and associated
referees play a vital role in maintaining the high quality and standards of publication and
all manuscripts are peer reviewed by the team.
Primary
evaluation: The submitted manuscript is evaluated
by the editors to meet the minimum criteria like originality, scientific
blemish, grammatical or language flaw and relation to aim and scope of the
journal. The submitted manuscripts that passed the minimum criteria are sent to
experts/referees for review.
Selection
of referee: The persons having expertization in relevant topic/subject is
select as a referee
and manuscripts are to be sent to the for their review and asked for expertise
comments on originality, any typographical mistakes, methodological soundness,
clear presentation and used references etc.
Time
of review process: The
required time for review process is one month but it dependents on the response
of the referees. The sought comments of referee about acceptance or rejection
of the manuscripts if not received on time then it sent to another expert.
After getting expert comments and Chief Editor’s convincing, the article is accepted
for publication. If manuscript gets bad comments then it returned to authors
for revision on the basis of referee’s report and if not get sufficient corrections
then manuscript is rejected.
Editor’s decision: The final decision about acceptance or
rejection of manuscript is reserved with the Chief Editor.