Scifiniti Publishing operates a rigorous, fair, and transparent editorial process guided by COPE’s Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. Editorial decisions are made independently by the Editor-in-Chief and/or the designated Academic Editor in accordance with journal policies and academic merit. Manuscripts normally undergo an initial pre-check, external peer review by at least two independent reviewers, revision where required, and a final editorial decision.
All manuscripts must be submitted through Scifiniti Publishing’s online submission system at https://scifiniti.jams.pub/login Authors can track the complete status of their manuscript throughout the publication process via this platform.
Before submitting a manuscript, the authors are strongly encouraged to review the Author Guidelines carefully and ensure that the submission fully complies with Scifiniti Publishing’s requirements and criteria.
After manuscript submission, the editorial process is followed as below:
Upon submission, the Editorial Office conducts a technical and administrative assessment to confirm compliance with the journal’s requirements. This review may include:
If any required element is incomplete, unclear, or non-compliant, the manuscript may be returned to the authors for correction before further processing.
As part of the pre-check, Scifiniti Publishing may also carry out integrity and authorship verification procedures, including:
Material reproduced from preprints, theses, dissertations, or other sources must be properly cited. Manuscripts with excessive similarity, unverifiable authorship information, or insufficient disclosure may be returned for clarification, revision, or rejection, depending on the nature of the concern.
Once the manuscript has passed the technical and integrity checks, the Editor-in-Chief or designated Academic Editor conducts an editorial assessment. This stage may consider:
Minor technical issues may be addressed alongside revision where appropriate; however, no manuscript proceeds to production until all mandatory technical, ethical, and quality requirements have been fully satisfied.
Manuscripts that fall outside the journal’s scope or do not meet the minimum academic or ethical standards may be rejected or, at the author’s discretion, transferred to another relevant journal during the editorial pre-check stage, without external peer review.
Scifiniti Publishing operates a single-blind peer-review model. Reviewers are aware of the authors’ identities, but reviewer identities are not disclosed to the authors unless a journal’s stated policy provides otherwise.
Manuscripts that pass editorial pre-check are normally sent to at least two independent reviewers with expertise relevant to the subject matter. In some cases, an additional reviewer may be invited when further specialist input is needed.
Reviewer selection is made by the Editor-in-Chief, the designated Academic Editor, or another authorised handling editor. Every reasonable effort is made to avoid conflicts of interest between authors, editors, and reviewers. Reviewers with an actual, potential, or perceived conflict of interest - including recent collaboration, institutional overlap where relevant, or competing personal or professional interests - will not be assigned to the manuscript.
Where the Editor-in-Chief, a Guest Editor, an Editorial Board member, or any other editor is an author on the manuscript, or has a conflict of interest in relation to it, that individual will take no part in the editorial handling or decision-making for that submission. Full responsibility will instead be assigned to another qualified and independent academic editor.
After the peer-review reports are received, the handling academic editor evaluates the reviewers’ comments and recommendations and issues an editorial outcome. The usual post-review outcomes are:
For a more detailed description of the journal’s reviewer workflow and operational procedures, readers may refer to Scifiniti Publishing’s dedicated Peer Review Workflow page.
Where revision is requested, the authors must submit a revised manuscript together with a detailed point-by-point response to the reviewers’ and editors’ comments within the applicable timeframe.
Alongside reviewer comments, the Editorial Office may also communicate any additional quality or compliance issues identified during processing, including matters relating to formatting, ethical documentation, figures, references, duplicate references, citation relevance, or excessive self-citation.
Revision timelines are normally applied as follows:
Minor Revision
Major Revision
A manuscript will normally undergo no more than two rounds of revision. If no response is received within the permitted period and no extension has been granted, the submission may be administratively closed. Any later resubmission may be treated as a new manuscript.
After each round of peer review or revision, the handling academic editor reviews the manuscript, the authors’ responses, and the reviewer reports before reaching a decision.
Although reviewer recommendations are considered carefully, the final decision rests with the Editor-in-Chief or designated Academic Editor. Where necessary, the editor may request further clarification, invite an additional review, or issue a final decision based on the available record and the journal’s standards.
Possible decisions include acceptance, further revision, or rejection.
Editorial Office staff and publisher staff support the process administratively, but they do not determine whether a manuscript is accepted or rejected.
After acceptance, each manuscript is published online as an early access version in line with Scifiniti’s continuous publication model, allowing timely dissemination of the research.
A unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is generated and assigned to the article, making it fully citable.
The manuscript then proceeds to the production stage, which includes language editing, typesetting, proofreading, figure and table preparation, and verification of citations and references.
Scifiniti is committed to ensuring that all published manuscripts meet high standards of English language clarity and readability. While authors are encouraged to review their manuscripts carefully and may choose to use professional language editing services before submission, all manuscripts that reach the acceptance stage undergo complimentary in-house English editing by our professional editorial team.
This process ensures that grammatical, typographical, and scientific language issues are corrected, enhancing the clarity and presentation of the research. Authors may also opt for additional professional language editing services at discounted rates if desired. Please contact us for a quote and further details.
Layout Editing
After passing through the language editing stage, the manuscript proceeds to Layout Editing, which involves formatting the manuscript according to the journal guidelines. This includes:
The final layout version is then sent to the authors for proofreading. Authors are strongly recommended to provide their responses and corrections within 48 hours to ensure timely progression of the manuscript through the production process. This step allows authors to identify and correct any errors or inconsistencies that may have occurred during the conversion
Proofreading
This is the final stage where the manuscript undergoes a thorough check for any errors. Any corrections pointed out by the authors after layout editing are also reviewed, and the authors are provided with another version of the corrected manuscript for their final approval. Our experienced proofreaders ensure that the final version is now free of errors. They however don’t make any extensive changes in the content or style. This is the last quality check before publication to identify any small errors that might have been missed during previous editing stages.
Editorial decisions are made independently by the Editor-in-Chief and designated academic editors on the basis of scholarly merit, peer-review evidence, ethical compliance, journal scope, and editorial policy.
The publisher and Editorial Office provide administrative, technical, and production support, but they do not interfere in acceptance or rejection decisions.
Editors, Guest Editors, and Editorial Board members may not handle their own manuscripts. Any submission affected by an actual, potential, or perceived conflict of interest is reassigned to an independent academic editor, and the conflict is managed in accordance with journal policy and recognised publication-ethics standards.