Review Process and Editorial Decision

BJM Chief Editor decides the acceptance or rejection of a manuscript based on it's adherence to the scope of the journal, scientific merit, and recommendations from the Associate Editors and Reviewers .

The review process is double blind where authors and reviewers' identities are kept anonymous.

Failure to comply with the language requirement might result in rejection of the manuscript even though the manuscript has been recommended based on other criteria.

Internal Editorial Review: Upon initial submission, each manuscript is evaluated by an Associate Editor according to its area, scientific merit and suitability for the audience of BJM.

External Review:  If evaluated positively by the Associate Editor, the manuscripts are sent for external reviewers.

Editorial Decision: Depending on the recommendation of the reviewers and Associate Editor for acceptance (with or without revision) or rejection, final decision is made by the Editor-in -Chief.

If considered for revision, the corresponding author is required to submit a revised version with a list of changes and a response letter to all comments from the reviewers. The revised version might be sent to reviewers for further comment. The process continues until the Associate Editor or Editor-in-Chief reaches the Editorial Decision.

Accepted revised versions are sent for copy editing and formatting. Copy edited and formatted manuscripts are sent to the authors for final check.

If all these steps are completed, the manuscript is then uploaded to the website with DOI.

Duration of review process: Depending on the time taken by the reviewers, and time and number of cycles taken to submit revised version(s), the review process takes from four weeks to three months.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.