All submissions to AIMS Press journals are subject to a rigorous review. The process is single-blind, meaning the reviewers’ identities are not revealed to authors, while the referee is aware of the authors’ identities. The standard peer review procedure is:

•  All submissions are reviewed by AIMS Press editors to ensure their adherence to the requirements of AIMS Press journals, including its English composition, scientific values, and ethical issues.

•  Then the submission will be assigned to a academic editor who will invite referees to review the manuscript.

•  Once conclusive referees’ reports are received, the academic editor will make the first decision on the manuscript as Acceptance, Revision or Rejection.

•  Upon receiving a revision together with documented explanations, in consultation with the referees the academic editor (includes Editors-in-Chief,  Senior Editors, Associate Editors and Guest editors in the case of Special Issue submissions) will make the final decision on the manuscript.  Acceptance can be issued only when detailed and conclusive reports are in place to confirm the manuscript’s value and contribution in the fields.

•  For submissions from Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors, Guest Editors and other journal Board members, we ensure that the paper is handled confidentially by a different team member.

•  For submissions to Special Issues, if there are conflicts of interest between the GE(s) and authors, the submissions will be handled by another academic Editor from Editorial Board who will manage the peer review process and make the decision whether to accept or reject the paper after peer review.

•  All papers accepted by Guest Editors of Special issues will be supervised by Editor in Chief or Editorial Board member in the related field.

AIMS Press provides a review report form (template) to make the process systematic and streamlined. The referees should focus on the quality of both the scientific side and the presentation, of the manuscript, and aim at providing constructive comments to bring the manuscript to its best quality. This dictates a fair, rapid, comprehensive and comparable assessment of the research within.

AIMS Press is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and takes publication malpractice and conflicts of interest very seriously. All of authors, AIMS Press editors and referees are required to disclose any conflicts of interest.

The reviewing process is strictly confidential and should be treated as such by the referees s.  R eferees s must not take any confidential information they have gained in the reviewing process and take advantage of it before the manuscript is published.

At AIMS Press we firmly believe that an efficient editorial process that results in timely publication provides a valuable service (value-added editorial process) to both the authors and the scientific community at large.