Политика за рецензиране

All submissions are first reviewed for completeness and only then sent for single-blind peer review. Editors will consider the peer-reviewed reports when making a decision, but are not bound by the opinions or recommendations therein. A concern raised by a single peer reviewer or the Editor themself may result in the manuscript being rejected. Authors receive peer review reports with the editorial decision on their manuscript. Where an Editor is on the author list or has any other competing interest regarding a specific manuscript, another member of the Editorial Board will be assigned to oversee peer review.

All submissions will be reviewed against relevance, originality, significance, soundness, and clarity. Authors are responsible for the opinions expressed by them and for the plausibility of their data. All submissions are crosschecked against plagiarism. If an author used any source without citing it, this will be consider as plagiarism and the submission will be rejected.

Reviewers are expected to observe the COPE ethical guidelines for peer reviewers.

Review process

  • Manuscripts are initially screened by the Editorial Board Secretary for completeness and adherence to the formal aspects of the Author Guidelines and Instructions on formatting the manuscripts submitted for publication. Manuscripts may be returned to authors to remedy issues before progression to the Editors’ desk.
  • The Editor-in-Chief and/or the Editors assess submissions and decide whether they are suitable for progression to the next stage of the review process on the basis of fit to the scope of journal and publishing standards.
  • Papers that pass the Editors’ desk will be assigned an Associate Editor with the requisite subject area expertise (depending on the particular subject area of the manuscript). The Associate Editor assesses the manuscript and decides if it warrants progression to the peer review stage and if so, selects reviewers and oversees the subsequent review process.
  • Based on the reviewer reports, the Associate Editor will recommend to the Editors a decision on the manuscript.
  • The final decision rests with the Editors.

Special cases

  • Editors are excluded from publication decisions when they are authors or have contributed to a manuscript. In such cases the review process and publication decision will be overseen by an alternate Editor.
  • The review process for UNCTAD Insights articles adheres to the same rigour as for externally submitted papers, but it is adjusted to reflect the nature of UNCTAD Insights (see Editorial Statement). The review is overseen by the Editors. Articles are typically assessed in the first instance by a member of the editorial team and then peer reviewed by experts with requisite subject and technical expertise drawn from UNCTAD, other international organizations and academia.

Communications with authors

At each stage of the review process, authors will be provided reasoned and constructive feedback about the decisions on their manuscript.

Conflicts of interest

Assigned reviewers should inform the Editors of any potential conflicts with the assigned manuscript, for instance, resulting from competitive, collaborative or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies or institutions. In such instances they should inform the editors and recuse themselves from the review process.

Confidentiality

Manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. The confidentiality of participants in the review process is protected.

Appeals

Appeals against editorial decisions require a formal appeal letter with point-by-point evidence supporting the appeal. In line with generally accepted standards, appeals are considered only on the basis of (i) reviewers’ potential technical errors in their assessment of the manuscript, (ii) new information or data that has come to light since submission of manuscript, and (iii) evidence as to potential conflicts of interest of reviewers. Appeals against an editorial decision must be submitted within 7 days of the decision notice.

One appeal per manuscript is allowed. The Editor-in-Chief will consult the editorial team. The decision of the Editor-in-Chief is final.

Appeal letters should be addressed to the Editor-in-Chief and should be submitted to the editorial office (smb@math.bas.bg).

The corresponding author will be responsible to ensure the consent for publication of all the other authors. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to obtain all necessary copyright release permissions for the use of any copyrighted materials in the manuscript prior to the submission.

Authors of manuscripts accepted for publication will be asked to sign a warranty and copyright agreement upon acceptance of their manuscript, before the manuscript can be published. At least one author should attend the Annual Spring Conference of the Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians to present the paper (more information about the conference is available at: http://www.math.bas.bg/smb/.

A fee of BGN 90 (EUR 44) is charged for publishing an article of up to 6 pages, which includes also the participation fee of one author for the Annual Spring Conference of the Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians. For each subsequent page a fee of BGN 15 (EUR 7.70) is charged.