Peer Review Process

 Manuscript Acceptance Process in Foreign Relations Quarterly

 

Registration and submission of the article in the journal system by the corresponding author based on:

Objectives, article style and format, and required files of the article as well as similarity.

 

Preliminary review of the article by the journal expert according to the style and format standards, components of the article and required files such as: similarity check, commitment of the authors and conflict of interest.

 

Returning to the corresponding author for correcting article bugs or fixing the required files defects.

Rejecting the article due to irrelevant subject or high percentage of similarity and then informing the corresponding author.

 

Rejecting the article due to its irrelevance to the goals of the journal, the Article quality or research violations and then informing the corresponding author.

 

Preliminary review of the article by the editor based on the objectives and topics of the journal, the article quality, and evaluation of similarity results.

 

Conditioned acceptance

 

 Conclusion

 

Review of two referees

 

Conditioned acceptance, correcting bugs and notifying the corresponding author.

 

Disagreement between the two judges in whether rejecting or accepting the article

 

Rejecting the article due to methodological errors, data analysis, article content, inconsistency of data results and finally informing the responsible author.

The review and plan of the editorial board and editor

 

The opinion of the third referee

 

Conditioned acceptance, correcting bugs and notifying the corresponding author.

 

Rejecting the article because of the content or low quality of the article and informing the corresponding author.

 

literary editing by Literary editor

 

Article layout in the journal, Printing and publishing