Ethical Responsibilities of Reviewers

• Providing a detailed, constructive, and unbiased evaluation promptly on the scientific content of the work.
• Indicating whether the writing is relevant, concise, and clear and evaluating the originality as well as scientific accuracy.
• Maintaining the confidentiality of the complete review process.
• Notifying the journal editor about any financial or personal conflict of interest and declining to review the manuscript when a possibility of such a conflict exists.
• Notifying the journal editor of any ethical concerns in their evaluation of submitted manuscripts such as any violation of ethical treatment of animal and/or human subjects or any considerable similarity between a previously published article and any reviewed manuscript.