Information for Referees
Reviewers
should be independent and should accept to review a paper only in the
absence of any conflict of interest. Types of conflict of interests
include: belonging to the same institution or research group of the
author(s), having collaborated with the authors in the past 3 years,
being relatives or personal friends of the author(s), being in a
situation in which the reviewer would take some personal or
professional advantage in accepting or rejecting the paper, as well as
any other situation that would prevent the reviewer to judge the
quality of a paper in purely scientific and technological terms.
TAAS does
not have a pre-defined review form. Referees will be asked to
thoroughly analyse the paper and report
on: relevance to the journal, originality, clarity, technical
soundness, quality of reported results, appropriateness of references
and of related work. In addition, reviewers should provide suggestions
about how the author(s) can improve the paper. Eventually, reviewers
should suggest to the TAAS editor one of the following actions: reject
the paper, accept after a major revision, accept after a minor revision
or accept without any changes.
TAAS tries
to enforce a very quick review process.
The
EIC will
commit to assign a paper to an AE within two weeks from its reception.
The
AE must commit to send back his/her report to the EIC within three
months from the original reception of the paper. Reviewers must commit
to send back reviews to the AE within six weeks.