Invitation to the group of reviewers

Review Form

Review System

Instructions for reviewers

Scientific articles undergo the following review conditions:

1. Articles are reviewed through the recruitment and reviewing system.

2. Articles are reviewed on a review form used in the Publishing House of the University of Economics.

3. A reviewer of an article published in a scientific journal is an independent researcher dealing with the scientific area which is the subject of the publication (in justified cases it is acceptable to derogate from this rule).

4. There is no conflict of interest between the author of an article and a reviewer, which is considered to include direct personal relationships (consanguinity kinship, legal ties, conflict), professional subordination relations, direct scientific cooperation in the last two years.

5. An article is reviewed by two independent reviewers.

6. A review shall be regarded as negative if at least one of the following three criteria of the article assessment fails:

– test methods used,

– substantive level,

– selection and use of subject literature.

7. The condition for accepting the article for publication is to obtain two positive reviews.

8. In justified cases an article may be referred to the third review if two earlier reviews in at least one of the following assessment criteria:

– test methods used,

– substantive level,

– selection and use of subject literature included extreme grades (fail – very good).

9. The family names of reviewers of an article included in the journal are not known to the person concerned (an author).

10. A list of reviewers of the journal is published in the last issue of the journal in a given year.

Review process

A reviewer should review article within 3 weeks.