Peer Review Process

Peer Review Process

This journal employs a double-blind peer review system, where authors are unaware of the peer reviewers and vice versa. Once the Managing Editor receives submitted papers, these are acknowledged and then checked for formatting, rigor, or novelty to be published in the journal. If the paper is deemed publishable and requires additional changes, the authors are asked to make the necessary revisions before it is sent for peer review. After the peer review of the evaluators, the paper is sent back to the journal for acceptance with no revision, acceptance with minor revision, acceptance with major revision, or rejection. In the case of revision, the authors are asked to revise their papers based on the comments of the reviewers, and once the manuscript meets all the requirements of the peer reviewers, it will be checked by the Editor-in-Chief for publication. In the case that the article is rejected, and does not meet the minimum standards for publication, the judgment of the peer reviewers, with the concurrence of the Editor-in-Chief, will be final. In the case that an accepted paper took time to be revised, the authors' paper will be scheduled for another issue or volume, as it did not meet the deadline for production. If the authors meet the deadline for production and make the necessary corrections, then the article will be published online.

Figure 1. Peer review process of the Davao Research Journal (DRJ).

Notification

The Editorial Team will respond promptly to email correspondence made by authors and reviewers. The journal through the managing editor will provide notices to the authors on the status of their manuscripts once the peer review results are available.