Peer - Review Regulations
1. Object
This regulation is aimed to promote quality improvement of Journal of the Korean Geo-Environmental Society (hereinafter 'Journal') along with the equitable review.
2. Basic Review
① The chairman of Journal committee requests a committee person to review whether the submitted manuscript qualifies the format regulation of the Society. In this review, the reviewer should refer to the checklist written by author.
② The reviewer should return the result of basic review to the Society within 7 days.
③ The comment of basic review should be sent to the author for revision. If there is not a comment, the manuscript is referred to official review.
3. Peer-review
① The chairman appoints 3 related experts as the reviews based on the recommendation of the basic reviewer.
② Chief editor should send the official request letter for review, manuscript, and evaluation paper to the reviewers. After the completion of the review, 20,000 won should be paid for a general review and 50,000 won should be paid for an urgent review to the reviewers.
③ The reviewer should return the result of the review within 2 weeks from the requested date. The reviewers can be changed only if the review decision of the paper has not returned until 2 weeks away from the deadline for general review and 1 week away for urgent review without any notice.
④ Manuscript can be returned to the author for revision when the result from all 3 reviewer is submitted.
4. Review Standards
The review result comply with the clauses below;
① Adoption : The manuscript corresponding to 1-1 and 1-2 is published in the Journal.
1-1)In the first review, in a case two or more reviewer determined 'Adoption without revision' or 'Adoption after revision'.
1-2)In the second review after author's revision, in a case two or more reviewer determined 'Adoption without revision' or 'Adoption after revision'.
② Return : manuscript corresponding to 2-1, 2-2 and 2-3 is considered as non-publication and returned to the author.
2-1)In the first review, in a case two or more reviewers determined 'non-publication' or 'recommended as technical document'.
2-2)In the second review after author's revision, in a case two or more reviewer determined 'non-publication' or 'recommended as technical document'.
2-3)In case two or more reviewers determined the manuscript is lack of creativity, or the subject is straying from the theme of the Journal or the manuscript includes a purpose for profit of specific individual or group.
③ The committee decides to re-peer-review in a case the manuscript is determined as 'Re-review after revision' over two times.
5. Claims
The author can appeal only in a written paper when the manuscript is determined as 'non-publication'. The chairman reviews and the committee deliberates on the appeals.
6. Others
All the criteria is based on the manuscript regulation and committee's rule.
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