Submissions

Peer Review Policy

Initial manuscript evaluation The Editor first evaluates if the submitted manuscript will be considered for publication in the journal. Manuscripts rejected at this stage would be insufficiently original, have serious scientific flaws, have poor grammar or English language, or are outside the aims and scope of the journal. If the manuscript meets those minimum criteria, the editor will invite at least two experts for the review. Reviewers are matched to the paper according to their expertise.

Type of Peer Review The Internation Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Design employs single blind reviewing, where reviewers know the identity of authors, but authors don’t know the identity of reviewers.

Reviewer feedback Reviewers are asked to evaluate whether the manuscript:

• Is original
• Is methodologically sound
• Follows appropriate ethical guidelines
• Has results which are clearly presented and support the conclusions
• Correctly references previous relevant work.

Language correction is not part of the peer review process, but reviewers may, if so wish, suggest corrections to the manuscript.

How long does the review process take? The time required for the review process depends on the response of the reviewers. Should the reviewers reports contradict one another or a report is unnecessarily delayed, a further expert opinion will be sought. The reviewers will recommend a rejection, major revision, minor revision or acceptance. Based on the reviewers recommendations, the editor will make a decision. This decision will be sent to the author(s) along with any recommendations made by the reviewers. Revised manuscripts might be returned to the initial referees who may then request another revision of a manuscript.

Editor’s Decision is final Reviewers advise the editor, who is responsible for the final decision to accept or reject the article The Editor first evaluates if the submitted manuscript will be considered for publication in the journal. Manuscripts rejected at this stage would be insufficiently original, have serious scientific flaws, have poor grammar or English language, or are outside the aims and scope of the journal. If the manuscript meets those minimum criteria, the editor will invite at least two experts for the review. Reviewers are matched to the paper according to their expertise.

Conflict of interest

To ensure a reliable and open publication process, all authors, reviewers, and editors are required to declare any interests that could appear to compromise, conflict, or influence the validity of the publication.

Privacy statement

This journal does not collect information from non-registered users. The data collected from registered users of this journal falls within the scope of the standard functioning of peer -reviewed journals. It includes information that makes communication possible for the editorial process; it enables collecting aggregated data on submissions and publications, as well as tracking geopolitical and social elements of scholarly communication. This journal’s editorial team uses this data to guide its work in publishing and improving this journal. Data that will assist in developing this publishing platform may be shared with its developer Public Knowledge Project in an anonymized and aggregated form, with appropriate exceptions such as article metrics.

The data will not be sold by this journal or PKP nor will it be used for purposes other than those stated here.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. SCAD is an open access journal that does not charge any subscription fees or article processing charges.

Articles published in SCAD are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Licence (CC-BY 4.0). This licence allows researchers to download, copy, share, transform, extend, or republish, as long as the original author and publisher are cited. The copyright remains with the author.

Types of article

Original papers and review articles: Please ensure that you select the appropriate article type from the list of options when making your submission. Authors contributing to special issues should ensure that they select the Special Issue article type from this list.

Discussions: Any comment on or discussion of a published paper should be emailed directly to the Editor, not submitted via the electronic submission system. It must be received by the Editor within three months of the online publication of the paper under discussion.

Corrections: Authors wishing to submit a corrigendum should please contact the Editor-in-chief with their corrections as well as the Journal Manager

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