The process of accepting articles

The process of judging articles

The Journal of Water Research in Agriculture uses an anonymous two-way review process to judge articles. So that the referee does not know the author's identity and vice versa.

Review process

A- Article registration and initial review (one week)

After submitting the article by the author, the initial evaluation will be done by the executive director so that the article is considered in terms of compliance with the format of the magazine and the accuracy of the documents submitted by the authors. Then the original article is sent to the editor and criteria such as the relationship of the article with the topics and goals of the magazine. Appropriate quality is considered in terms of content. If the article is approved in the initial review, it will be sent to the editorial board members to select a referee. Once the referee is selected, the author will be informed to pay the referee fee. After paying the fee, the article will be sent to three selected referees.

The initial review of articles is done in the following process:

Registration of the authors and initial submission of the article by the responsible author on the journal website and completion of the authors' specifications and information (by the author with a star)
Submit the article for structural/formatting changes (if any) to the author
Announcing the opinion of the editor of the journal regarding the initial criteria of the article and sending it to the editorial members
B- anonymous two-sided arbitration up to one month

Articles that are not rejected in the initial review stage, after paying the review fee, will be sent to professional referees through the following steps, keeping confidentiality and without the authors' names:

Sending the article to three referees with expertise in the field of the article. These referees are not necessarily the referees proposed by the author.
Judging the article and sending comments along with completing the evaluation form of the judges and editor's comments in order to improve and edit the article to the author within one month.
C- Initial decision making

According to the judges' suggestion in the evaluation of the article, the initial decision will be made based on one of the following:

If the article is rejected by two of the three appointed referees, the article will be removed from the journal's acceptance process and the author will be notified.
In case the referees request for total or partial revision of the article, the article will be returned to the authors for revision.
If the referees did not evaluate the article in the stipulated time or their evaluation was not in line with the improvement of the article, a new referee/s will be appointed and the review process will continue.
Comments will be evaluated by the editor and the initial decision will be made. (one week)
If the article is not rejected, the reviewers' comments will be sent to the authors.
Submitting the revised version of the paper and responding to the reviewers' comments by the authors
If the article needs to be re-examined by comparative review, the articles will be sent to the reviewer for evaluation of the new version of the article (20 days).
If the article is rejected, the author will be informed, and if it is accepted, the peer reviewer will go to the stages of preparing the draft in the editorial office.
If the acceptance is finalized in the editorial meeting, the acceptance letter will be sent to the author
After accepting the article, it will be ready for publication in the articles section
D. After accepting the article

After accepting and paying the printing fee, the abstract of the article is sent to the editor for editing the Persian and English abstract, and the article is sent to the page for typesetting. After completing the edited abstract, it will be sent to the authors, during which, confirmation of organizational affiliation and authors' specifications (without change in number), approval of amendments to the article's abstract will be requested. Once the authors have completed this step, the article will be processed for publication and "Volume and number" are assigned to the article. Then the article is finalized online.

The waiting time for article printing depends on the number of accepted articles. However, the articles will be available in the "Articles ready for publication" section of the journal website upon final acceptance. At this stage, a DOI number is assigned to each article. After completing the articles of each volume, all articles in PDF format can be downloaded for free on the magazine's website.

Article review fee

The arbitration stage is one million Rials

The stage of acceptance and printing of one million Rials