1, first trial
After receiving an article, the paper/editor-in-chief is usually required to make a preliminary review of the format and materials of the paper. The first trial is mainly to review whether the manuscript meets the requirements of this journal, review the author's qualifications and unit information, and then see whether the author's information is complete and whether the article format meets the requirements.
2. Review
After the preliminary examination, it will be sent to the editor-in-chief. The editor-in-chief will comment after reading it. If he thinks the article meets the basic requirements of our society, he will hand it over to the editorial board in similar fields.
The editorial board invites reviewers (peer review) according to the theme of the paper. There are generally about 2-3 reviewers in China, and there are at most about 5 SCI journals (the higher the quality, the more reviewers and professional authority).
After the reviewers give feedback, the editorial board makes suggestions to the editor-in-chief (the editor-in-chief can't read all the articles by himself, and usually adopts the opinions of the editorial board).
Generally speaking, the better the journal, the more reviewers there are, and the easier it is to be rejected.
There may be many reasons for the slow review: the guidance of periodical editors is not clear enough; Slow peer review; Increase in the amount of donations; The amount of data per paper increases and so on.
When reviewing the manuscript, if there are comments from social peers, the manuscript will be returned to the author for revision, and the manuscript will be accepted after the revision meets the requirements, and the manuscript will be rejected if the revision does not meet the requirements.
3. Final review
Generally speaking, at this point, if there is no big problem, the manuscript will not be rejected. After reviewing the title, layout and content, the editor-in-chief puts forward suggestions for modification or approval, and the contributor can finally make modifications according to the requirements of the magazine. The requirement is generally to send the source files such as pictures and tables in the article to editors for typesetting and the like.
The author went to the editor-in-chief for a preliminary review, indicating that the problem was not serious, but he did not rule out the possibility of withdrawing the manuscript at the final review.