Review Policy | Syrian Journal for Science and Innovation

About Journal

Syrian Journal for Science and Innovation:

A quarterly, multidisciplinary, online, paid, open-access, refereed electronic journal that publishes distinguished and influential research papers of importance in various scientific fields (health, energy, environment, technology, economics, cultural and social sciences, ...), in addition to opinion articles and scientific analyses for recently published research and books, and prospective visions for science and its development in various fields, and highlights the most important innovations and recent patents, both locally and globally.

The language of the journal is Arabic or English, with priority for publishing in English, especially for medical and engineering specialties, to increase opportunities for promotion and accessibility to research articles. Researchers must adhere to linguistic rules to achieve clarity and precision in language.

Why publishing in the Syrian Journal for Science and Innovation?

The Syrian Journal for Science and Innovation, published by the Higher Commission for Scientific Research, is:

A diversified interdisciplinary journal, that gives the authors an opportunity through which a large audience of readers becomes acquainted with their scientific and research outputs.

It includes articles of opinions, perspectives, and comments on the most important developments in the fields of science and innovation, locally and globally.

The journal has an editorial board of researchers and experts, well-known for their research achievements.

It aims to disseminate the latest information and data to a wide audience of academic readers, economists, businessmen, and decision-makers, this gives the published research quick access to beneficiaries.

It follows a rigorous publishing policy that adheres to the criteria of transparency, integrity, and ethics for scientific research.

The time for reviewing and acceptance or rejection of publication does not exceed three months.

The principle of non-conflict of interest is adopted in reviewing, especially through blind reviewing, and the selection of reviewers from outside the institution or from outside the country, and by not selecting a reviewer who has a relationship or interest with one of the authors, or the institutions they belong to.

Criteria for selecting reviewers:

The reviewers should be from an independent entity outside the entity in which the researcher works.
They should be able to fully and fairly evaluate the scientific and technical aspects of the research paper.
They must have previously evaluated similar research papers.
They should be able to evaluate the research paper on time.

The reviewing process goes through one or several stages:

Approval of publishing the paper without any modification.
Approval of publishing after making some modifications by the authors within a month in response to the reviewer notes, with or without the need to return the manuscripts to the review committee, and after making sure that all the modifications have been taken.
Rejection of the manuscript because the reviewers have a scientific and technical objection, or because the author did not submit the manuscript on correct, sound and logical bases, then authors could submit it elsewhere.

Reviewing Transparency:

The authors will be provided with the evaluation report of the reviewers in case of acceptance or rejection, and the authors can follow the reviewing process on the journal site.

Reviewing speed:

The journal will handle the applications as soon as possible. All manuscripts will be dealt with electronically during the reviewing process, and authors will be informed of the result within a week (7 working days) whether the manuscript will pass to the reviewing phase or not. The reviewers are requested to send their reports within three weeks (21 working days) of receiving the manuscript. The editorial board routinely makes its decision to publish after receiving all of the reviewers' reports within two weeks (14 working days).

Reviewing process and the acceptance or rejection of the manuscript will not exceed three months.