Publication
How review works
Nothing publishes automatically. Every record passes through review and a named person makes the decision.
| State | What it means | Waiting on |
|---|---|---|
| Submitted | You have submitted. An editor picks it up. | Editor |
| Screening | Structural and scope checks, plus anything a machine cannot judge. | Editor |
| With reviewers | One or two named reviewers are reading it, each with a due date. | Reviewers |
| Revisions requested | You have one consolidated list of changes to work through. | You |
| Accepted | The decision is made and the record is being prepared. | Editorial team |
| Scheduled | Queued for a publication date. | Editorial team |
| Published | Live, with a permanent URL and an identifier. | Nobody, it is done |
Two states end things: declined and withdrawn. Withdrawing is available to the authors jointly at any point before publication.
A blank comment box produces "looks good" from a busy student. Reviewers answer specific questions instead, each with room for comment:
- Is the research question clearly stated?
- Could someone else repeat the methods from what is written?
- Do the conclusions follow from the data presented?
- Are limitations stated honestly?
- Are figures and tables legible, labeled, and referenced?
- Does the contributions statement match what the paper describes?
The scales on those questions exist to organize a reviewer's thinking. They are never averaged into a score, and no submission is ever ranked against another.
Submitting gives you a private link that shows where your submission is, with dates, and works without logging in. It shows the timeline and nothing else: never a reviewer's identity, never their comments, never an email address. The link can be revoked and reissued, and it is kept out of search engines. Once the record is published, it redirects to the published page.
Signed in, you see everything the tracker shows plus the reviewer comments and whatever action is yours.
Reviewers recommend. The decision belongs to the editor in chief or the faculty advisor, and it is recorded against their name with a date. Corrections, new versions, and retractions each have their own defined route, described on the corrections page.