The responsibilities of reviewers are taken from the COPE ethical guidelines for peer reviewers:
*Authors who are benefitted by the peer review process can be considered for taking the responsibility for this work as a part of their profession.
* Peer reviewers are selected based on the scope of the manuscript and their expertise should get matched.
* Peer reviewers should agree in keeping the confidentiality of the manuscript or any other related works of the review process and should provide the unbiased comments over quality and improvement of the manuscript handed over.
* Reviewers should not have any competing interests of personal, financial, intellectual, professional, political or religious in nature. Reviewers should not have any association with the authors' institutions or any type of recent or past three years of collaboration. Reviewers should not agree to review just to take the insight of the manuscript or they have the same content related manuscript for the preparation.
* Reviewers who take the accountability of the timeline provided by the editorial team are appreciated and they can inform the team in case of any emergency or anything due to which they want to deny taking the project. In that case they are requested to suggest the reviewers who match with the expertise.
*Considering the confidentiality of the work, reviewers should not use any data from the manuscript for their purposes neither they can take the help of anyone else for reviewing without the consult of the editor in charge of the Journal. Names of the reviewers who are used to help in reviewing the manuscript should be given for the transparency and the recognition of their works.
* If the assigned reviewer finds any concurrent submission of the similar manuscript in another journal, he has to notify the editor.
*In case of procrastinating the submission of report; the editor has the right to submit the comments to the manuscript transparently.
Note:We recommend you to go through the website of COPE for the clear understanding and also feel free to contact our editorial team for the assistance if any.
