Submission Preparation Checklist

Before submission

Authors must confirm that the manuscript is within the journal’s scope; is original and not under simultaneous review; follows the Author Guidelines; contains complete authorship, affiliation and ORCID information in the submission system; and includes all required ethics, consent, competing-interest, funding, contribution, data-availability, AI-use and related-work declarations.

 

Anonymized manuscript

For double-anonymized review, the review file must not contain author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, identifiable file properties or self-references that unnecessarily reveal identity. Author information and declarations are entered in the submission system or a separate title page.

 

Editorial handling and peer review

Following submission, the editorial office conducts an initial technical, ethical, and scope assessment. Manuscripts that pass this assessment are assigned to a qualified, non-conflicted handling editor, who coordinates double-anonymized peer review by at least two independent expert reviewers. The handling editor administers the review process and does not replace or count as one of the required independent reviewers.

 

Conflicts

An editor with a personal, professional, institutional, supervisory, collaborative or financial conflict must recuse and must not access the file, select reviewers or influence the decision. Submissions from journal personnel and Thamar University colleagues are handled independently under the Recusal Policy.

 

Files and reporting

Figures and tables must be cited and supplied in the required format; references must be accurate; reporting guidelines must be used where applicable; and supplementary files must not contain confidential or identifying information unless required and protected.

 

Fees and license

The author has read the current Publication Fees and Waiver Policy, Open Access Statement, Licensing Policy and Copyright Policy. No submission fee is charged. Any publication fee becomes payable only after formal acceptance, subject to an approved waiver or discount.

 

Final confirmation

Submission confirms agreement with the Author Declaration and responsibility for the accuracy of all metadata and files.