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Peer Review Submission Guide Open Access Financial Conditions

PEER REVIEW POLICY

1. General Principles

Publication of original scientific and overview papers in the Economics and Finance journal is preceded by an independent, single-blind peer review procedure.

The review process takes into account such factors as relevance, soundness, significance, originality, readability, and language quality.

2. Two-Stage Review Procedure

The journal employs a two-stage review process comprising preliminary editorial assessment and final external peer review.

Stage 1 – Preliminary Editorial Assessment

Upon submission, the manuscript is first evaluated by the Editor or a designated member of the Editorial Board. The preliminary assessment verifies the manuscript’s alignment with the journal’s scope, formal compliance, overall scientific merit, and language quality. Manuscripts that do not meet the journal’s minimum standards are rejected at this stage without further external review.

Stage 2 – External Peer Review

Manuscripts that pass the preliminary editorial assessment are sent to at least two independent external reviewers who are not members of the Editorial Board and have no conflict of interest with the authors. Reviewers evaluate the manuscript under a single-blind model (reviewers know the authors’ identities; authors do not know the reviewers’ identities).

The possible results of the external review process include:

acceptance,
acceptance after revisions,
or rejection of the paper.

3. Decision Rules Based on External Reviews

If both reviews are positive, the article is recommended for publication.
If both reviews are negative, the article is rejected.
If at least one reviewer requires the article to be reworked and reassessed, the article must be revised and then sent back for re-evaluation to the same reviewer.
In case one review is positive and the other negative, the evaluation of a third newly appointed reviewer is decisive.

If authors are encouraged to revise and resubmit the manuscript, no guarantee that the revised version will be accepted is given. Rejected articles are not subject to a re-review process.

4. Final Decision

The final decision on publication is made by the Editor-in-Chief based solely on the external reviewers’ reports. The preliminary editorial assessment does not substitute for external peer review and serves only as a quality filter prior to independent expert evaluation.

5. Timeline and Communication

The average length of the full review process (both stages combined) is 30 days. The author will be informed about the result of the review process by the Editor. Articles are accepted continuously.

6. Post-Acceptance Procedures

After the successful review process, the articles are subject to proofreading, graphic preparation for printing, and final author proofing.

7. Supportive Editorial Policy

Reviewers are asked to be as specific as possible in indicating what must be done to make a manuscript acceptable for journal publication. This embodies a primary objective of the journal: to assist authors in the research process. Our Editorial Policy is one which is supportive, rather than critical. We encourage all authors who are not successful in a first attempt to rewrite the manuscript in accordance with the suggestions of the reviewers. We will be pleased to referee future versions and rewrites of manuscripts and work with authors in achieving their research goals.

SUBMISSION GUIDE

Language

The submission language is English only.

Manuscript requirements

Article should not exceed 12 printed pages.
Single-spaced text, tables, and references.
2.5 cm margins (top, bottom, left, and right).
12-point Liberation Serif typeface
No line numbering on any pages.
No page numbers.
Manuscripts that exceed these guidelines will be subject to reduction in length.

Authors must use OpenDocument template to prepare their manuscript. Using the template file will substantially shorten the time to complete copy-editing and publication of accepted manuscripts. Accepted file format: OpenDocument (*.odt)

Paper submission

Editorial correspondence including manuscripts for submission should be addressed to the Editor:
You will be kept informed by our Editor about all necessary details and terms.

OPEN ACCESS INFORMATION

All articles published open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy and distribute. Permitted reuse is defined by licenses Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY): lets others distribute and copy the article, to create extracts, abstracts, and other revised versions, adaptations or derivative works of or from an article (such as a translation), to include in a collective work (such as an anthology), to text or data mine the article, even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit the author(s), do not represent the author as endorsing their adaptation of the article, and do not modify the article in such a way as to damage the author’s honor or reputation.

Property rights

The copyright of articles remains with the authors, who have chosen to make the articles available for reuse under an open license, such as the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY). These licenses permit reuse and adaptation, as long as the original authors are cited.

FINANCIAL CONDITIONS

All articles published in Economics and Finance journal are published in full open access. In order to provide free access to readers, and to cover the costs of peer review, copyediting, typesetting, long-term archiving, and journal management, an article processing charge (APC) of 100 GBP is payable for papers accepted after peer review.
Article should not exceed 12 printed pages. The fee for excess pages is 10 GBP for each page.