Peer review

To ensure the quality of papers, PANORAMA ECONOMICO use peer review model in the manuscripts uploaded to the journal.

Peer review play an importan rol ensuring the integruty and quality of submissions. Peer review models process is a selection of two o more experts (also called examiner) to review/verify manuscripts submitted to research journals. These experts in all the process, unknown authors of the manuscript, comunication between authors and experts is made through editor. If this process could be thougt as slow, it is looking for ethical transparency, impartiality, avoid bias, responsability, quality and scientist rigour. In any moment experts known about the authors or vice versa.

Authors who has been benefit from editorial process  has a moral and ethical compromise with the peer review process. In addition, it is courteous, respond to an invitation to peer review even if cannot undertake the review.

In general, the process follows the next step:

  1. Editor check manuscript in order to see if journal guidelines are fulfilled, interesting or topics according to journal.
  2. After manuscript prereview, two experts from the journal in the manuscript topic are selected. This experts usually were beneficied from peer review previously.
  3. Manuscript are shared with the experts (manuscrit without authors information, ie, anonimous). Experts has a moral and ethical responsability in their review, however, in case that they can not undertake the review inform to the edit their reasons. If you are interesting in principal reasons check ethical code.
  4. Experts review the manuscript in an exhaustive way, looking for quality, integrity and real information. This review may conduct to a few situations:
    • Manuscript accepted. Experts after review, consider that, manuscript have quality and solid ideas for publication.
    • Suggestions are made. In this case, experts consider that manuscript have potential but correction and suggestions need to be made. In this step, experts made suggestions to the editor who send (in anonimous form) this suggestion to the autor. After modifications from author, manuscript is submitted another time to peer review with the same experts, also, in anonimous way.
    • Manuscript rejected. When experts consider that manuscript is not enought quality, suggestion are to big, inconsistent information o any other problem related to topics in the journal, the manuscript is rejected. In this case, comments about their manuscript reject are send to author (in anonimous text).

In all time, author has the decision about to resubmit their manuscript o send him to other journal.

In case one expert accept the manuscript and the other rejected, manuscript is send to a third expert who decided about manuscript situation.