Peer Review Procedure

The contents are reviewed by two prestigious persons from outside Babes-Bolyai University, who have to fill up a review standard form. Their suggestions are sent to the author, for further changes. The reviewers are not aware of the authors’ names, as well as the authors don’t have the information regarding reviewers’ names. ( double blind review system).

Please evaluate the articles submitted to our journal as follows:
1. Written evaluation – critics and comments on the article (1‐5 pages)
2. Evaluation based on the form.

Evaluation form

The Aspect Evaluation
1. The title is clear and reflects the object of study
2. The abstract synthesizes well the content of the article
3. The introduction presents the relevance of the article for the given field and quotes the main results obtained by other authors concerning the subject
4. The article contains a good overview on the previous studies from the same domain
5. The methodology in use is coherently presented and there is a fair justification of it being preferred instead of other existent methodologies
6. The source of the database is reliable (official databases, representative samples, etc)
7. The scientific contribution of the paper is original
8. The conclusions summarize clearly the results and the consequences
9. Recent and well chosen (suitable) bibliography. There is a clear match between the bibliographic references from the end of the article and the ones quoted in the text
10. The vocabulary used is academic, without incoherencies or grammar mistakes

The recommendation for publication:
A. Accepted in the initial form
B. Accepted with minor modifications
C. Accepted with substantial modifications
D. Rejected

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