Regulations for Referees

• The referee must notify the Journal on her/his approval to evaluate the research work submitted for publication therein.
• The referee must notify the Journal on her/his disapproval to evaluate the research work sent to her/him if there is a mismatch with her/his area of specialty or a conflict of interests by virtue of personal or intellectual relations, etc. with the author(s).
• The referee must complete the evaluation process within a maximum period of two weeks, and send a detailed report on the research final evaluation including the result thereof, by way of filling, as requested, a form prepared for this purpose and available on the Journal's website, to be sent off to the author(s) to comment thereon and duly carry out the required amendments.
• The referee must comply with the confidentiality standards related to the refereeing process by refraining from leaking any information relevant to the research work sent to her/him- be it on the researcher's name or the research's title.
• The referee must comply with the standards of objective refereeing by fully dropping off their subjective mask during the process of refereeing. Also, she/he should not offend or insult the researcher regardless the referee's opinion on the research level of quality.
• The referee must show the reason of rejection or the amendment requirements, be they major or minor, alongside with their respective correction.
• The referee must reveal any point of intersection with other research works, be they partial or full, together with the justifications thereof (due to plagiarism or the like).
• The Journal (Editorial Board) is committed with varying the referees by setting up information bank on a list of renowned impartial and highly-competent ones.
• The Journal (Editorial Board) does not send research works to unqualified referees, particularly those who clearly show inability to explain why a research work is rejected or accepted.
• The referee must provide the Journal with a bank statement and complete personal information in order to give her/him an honorarium of (60) Jordanian Dinar (or equivalent in US dollars) in return for the refereeing process.