After an author submits an article on the IDSCI submission system, the submission system will assign an assistant editor to the author, who will complete the basic work such as author identity audit, email audit, etc., and then the editor will be responsible for the preliminary review on the content. After the preliminary review is completed, the editor will send review invitations to the corresponding reviewers according to the specific conditions of the article. After single-blind or double-blind peer review, the reviewers will make decisions and suggestions for revisions (if any), and the article will be submitted to the editor-in-chief for a final acceptance decision after final revisions are made, and the article will be proofread, edited in English, and finally published after the acceptance decision is received.
In IDSCI's review process, the publication of all articles is subject to a peer-review process and receipt of at least 2 review reports. After discussion between internal and external editors, we may communicate the following decisions to authors:
Accepted: the paper is accepted without any revision
Accepted with minor revisions: the paper is accepted in principle with minor revisions, which should be completed within 5 days.
Reconsideration with major revisions: the acceptance of the paper depends on the outcome of the revisions. Each manuscript is allowed a maximum of two rounds of major revisions, and authors are required to resubmit the paper within ten days, then back to the review process for a further comments. If revisions are expected to take more than two months, authors are advised to withdraw their manuscripts in order to ensure that all manuscripts are adequately revised.
Reject and encouragement to resubmit: If the article needs more experimental data to support the authors will face rejection. We encourage the authors to resubmit the article after conducting more experiments.
Reject: Articles with serious flaws will be rejected and not accepted for resubmission.