REVIEWERS PAGE
Reviewing a manuscript written by a fellow scientist is a privilege. However, it is a time-consuming responsibility. Hence, IJHST’s Editorial Board, authors, and audiences appreciate your willingness to accept this responsibility and your dedication. IJHST adheres to a double-blind peer-review process that is rapid, fair, and ensures a high quality of articles published. Therefore, IJHST needs reviewers who can provide insightful and helpful comments on submitted manuscripts with a turn around time of about 30 days. Maintaining IJHST as a scientific journal of high quality depends on reviewers with a high level of expertise and an ability to be objective, fair, and insightful in their evaluation of manuscripts.
REVIEWERS’ RESPONSIBILITIES
(http://publicationethics.org/files/u7140/Peer%20review%20guidelines.pdf)
If IJHST’s Editor-in-Chief has invited you to review a manuscript, please consider the following:
- Reviewing manuscript critically but constructively and preparing detailed comments about the manuscript to help authors improve their work
- Reviewing multiple versions of a manuscript as necessary
- Providing all required information within established deadlines
- Making recommendations to the editor regarding the suitability of the manuscript for publication in the journal
- Declaring to the editor any potential conflicts of interest with respect to the authors or the content of a manuscript they are asked to review
- Reporting possible research misconducts
- Suggesting alternative reviewers in case they cannot review the manuscript for any reasons
- Treating the manuscript as a confidential document
- Not making any use of the work described in the manuscript
- Not communicating directly with authors, if somehow they identify the authors
- Not identifying themselves to authors
- Not passing on the assigned manuscript to another reviewer
- Ensuring that the manuscript is of high quality and original work
- Informing the editor if he/she finds the assigned manuscript is under consideration in any other publication to his/her knowledge
- Writing review report in English only
- Authoring a commentary for publication related to the reviewed manuscript
WHAT SHOULD BE CHECKED WHILE REVIEWING A MANUSCRIPT?
- Novelty
- Originality
- Scientific reliability
- Valuable contribution to the science
- Adding new aspects to the existed field of study
- Ethical aspects
- Structure of the article submitted and its relevance to authors’ guidelines
- References provided to substantiate the content
- Grammar, punctuation and spelling
- Scientific misconduct
Selected Reviewers
Name | Affiliation |
Joseph Arul | Québec, Canada |
Acram Taji | Queensland university, Australia |
Pedro Martinez-Gomez | UC Davis, California |
Nafiye Adak | Akdeniz University, Turkey |
C. Van Dijk | wageningen University, The netherland |
Ramesh Pokharel | Colorado State University, USA |
Nripendra Singh | Maharashtra, India |
J. Pablo Fernandez-Trujillo | Technical University of Cartagena, Spain |
Jaap Van Tuyl | Wageningen University, The Netherland |
Dejan Prvulovic | University of Novi Sad, Serbia |
Louise Ferguson | UC Davis, California |
Geert-Jan De Klerk | Wageningen University, The Netherland |
Joseph Arul | Québec, Canada |
Chieri Kubota | University of Arizona, Tucson |
Sasan Aliniaeifard | University of Tehran, Iran |
Saeid Eshghi | Shiraz University, Iran |
Zohreh Jabbarzadeh | Urmia University, Iran |
Navid Yazdani | University of Tehran, Iran |
Naser Askari | University of Jiroft, Iran |
Shahriar Hesami | Karaj, Iran |
Soheil Karimi | University of Tehran, Iran |
Azizollah Kheiry | University of Zanjan,Iran |
Azizolah Khandan-Mirkohi | University of Tehran, Iran |
Majid Azizi | Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran |
Bijan Kavoosi | Yasoj, Iran |
Hassan Sarikhani | Bu-Ali Sina University of Hamedan, Iran |
Ebrahim Dorani | University of Tabriz, Iran |
Mojtaba Nouri Hoseini | Khorasan razavi, Iran |
Mansour Montazeri | Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Iran |
Ali Soleimani | University of Zanjan, Iran |
Maryam Haghighi | Shiraz University, Iran |
Bahaman Zahedi | Lorestan University, Iran |
Mohammadali Alizadeh | Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Iran |
Mehdi Rezaee | Shahrood University, Iran |
Bijan Kavousi | Agricultural Research Education and Organization, Yasoj, Iran |
Farid Moradinezhad | University of Birjand, Iran |
Khalil Alami Said | Khuzestan Agriculture and Natural Resources University, Iran |
Ali Izadi darbandi | University of Tehran, Iran |
Kourosh Vahdati | University of Tehran, Iran |
Jaber Panahandeh | University of Tabriz, Iran |
Javad Shaterian | seed and plant certification and registration institude, karaj, Iran |