Review Policies

Inorganic Chemicals Industry adopts double blind peer review mode. The description below provides a brief general overview of the peer review process of the journal. The specific peer review process and submission turnaround time may vary according to different sub-fields.

All submitted manuscripts are reviewed initially by an editor of Inorganic Chemicals Industry. After the initial review, manuscripts will be sent for peer review. Peer review should be based on the following criteria:

●Materials are original and timely;

●The manuscript is written clearly in accordance to the instructions for authors;

●Appropriate methods have been used;

●Data used in manuscripts are valid;

●Conclusions are reasonable and well supported by the data;

●Information contained in manuscripts is significant and meets the publishing scope of the journal.

If the manuscript meets the publication criteria indicated above, it will enter the final review process. If not, the manuscript shall be transferred to other reviewers.

For each manuscript, it shall be ensured to have at least two reviewers and sometimes more reviewers are invited. Peer reviewers are selected based on their expertise to provide high quality, helpful, and fair reviews. For research articles, editors may, in addition, seek opinions from a statistical expert.

Manuscripts under review is not revealed to anyone other than peer reviewers and editorial staff. Peer reviewers are required to maintain confidentiality about the manuscripts under review and must not divulge any information about a specific manuscript or its content to any third party without prior permission from editors. Information of submitted manuscripts may be systematically collected and analyzed to help improve the quality of the editorial or peer-review processes. Final decisions regarding the publication of manuscripts are made within the Editorial Team.

Peer Review Workflow

1.Scientific editors and editorial directors undertake pre-review;

2. After pre-review process, depending on the topic of submitted manuscripts, articles are assigned to related experts for preliminary academic review;

3.Qualified articles are assigned to editorial members with related expertise or recommended external reviewers. The recommendation of external reviewers may be carried out via a literature search. External experts review manuscripts and then decide if the reviewed manuscript is qualified for acceptance;

4.Final decisions on manuscripts are made by the editor-in-chief in editorial board meetings: acceptance, minor revision, major revision, or rejection.

Submission Process and Turnaround Time

●In-house and preliminary academic review: nearly 7 workdays;

●External peer review: 7~20 workdays;

●Final decision: nearly 7 workdays;

●Manuscripts acceptance: Notify the author to pay the layout fee by E-mail;

●Charge confirmation: the invoice and receipt would be sent to authors, and a notice of acceptance would be sent in E-mail to authors;

●Editorial manuscript confirmation: authors shall confirm the edited version of article after polished by the responsible editor;

●Issue arrangement: articles enter the publishing sequence and wait for publication;

●Proofread confirmation: authors shall reconfirm the typeset proofs;

●Formal publication: copies of issues would be sent and royalties would be paid to authors.

Editor Submission

The editorial staff/editors/editorial board members should not be involved in publishing decisions on papers which they have written themselves or have been written by their family members or colleagues. Any such submission should be strictly subject to the journal’s usual editorial process. Peer review should be handled independently from the relevant author/editor and their research groups.

Appeal

Authors may make an appeal if they disagree with the comment of the reviewers. Authors need to write an appeal letter (with the manuscript serial number) and send it to book@wjygy.com.cn. Detailed reasons for appealing must be stated, including a comprehensive and reasonable answer to the reviewers’ comment. The appeal letter should also be stamped by the author’s institute. The editorial department will consider whether to change the decision on a case-by-case basis.