reviewer guidelines

The International Journal of Advanced Fertility and Reproductive Sciences relies on qualified reviewers to maintain the scientific quality, originality, and integrity of published research. Reviewers are expected to provide fair, objective, confidential, and constructive evaluations of submitted manuscripts.

  • Reviewers should assess manuscripts objectively and focus on scientific quality, originality, methodology, ethical standards, clarity, and relevance to the journal.
  • Reviewers should maintain strict confidentiality and must not share, reproduce, or use unpublished information from a manuscript.
  • Reviewers should disclose any personal, professional, financial, or other conflict of interest before accepting an assignment.
  • Reviewers should evaluate the research methodology, study design, analysis, interpretation of results, and conclusions carefully.
  • Reviewers should identify unsupported claims, significant errors, inappropriate citations, and potential ethical concerns.
  • Reviewers should provide clear and constructive comments that can help authors improve the quality of their manuscript.
  • Reviewers should avoid personal criticism, discriminatory language, or comments unrelated to the scientific content of the manuscript.
  • Reviewers should inform the editorial team if they identify suspected plagiarism, duplicate publication, fabricated data, or other forms of research misconduct.
  • Reviewers should complete evaluations within the agreed timeframe or inform the editorial team if additional time is required.
  • Reviewers should not recommend citations solely to increase their own citation count or that of another individual or journal.
  • Reviewers should base their recommendation on the quality and suitability of the manuscript and should not be influenced by the authors' identity, institution, nationality, or personal characteristics.

The final publication decision remains the responsibility of the editorial team. Reviewer recommendations are considered carefully as part of the overall editorial assessment.