The journal is supported by a distinguished and diverse editorial board comprising internationally recognized scholars, researchers, and subject experts from multiple countries. This multinational composition ensures a broad academic perspective, enhances the quality of editorial decisions, and promotes global standards in scholarly publishing.
All submitted manuscripts undergo a rigorous and transparent peer-review process conducted by qualified reviewers with expertise relevant to the subject area of the manuscript. The journal adopts a fair and unbiased review system, ensuring that each submission is evaluated on the basis of originality, scientific merit, methodological rigor, and contribution to the field.
By engaging experienced editors and reviewers from different regions and academic backgrounds, the journal maintains a high level of integrity, objectivity, and academic excellence, while fostering international collaboration and knowledge exchange.
Editorial Decision and Revision
All articles, reviews, and communications published in GIMS journals go through the peer review process and receive at least two review reports. An in-house editor will discuss each step of the process with an external Academic Editor and communicate decisions to authors regarding the following:
- Accept in Present Form: The paper is accepted without any further changes.
- Accept after Minor Revision: In principle, the paper will be accepted after the authors revise based on the reviewers’ comments. Authors are given five days for minor revision.
- Reconsider after Major Revision: The acceptance of a resubmitted manuscript depends on the revision. The authors need to provide a point-by-point response or rebuttal if some revisions based on the reviewers’ comments cannot be made. A maximum of two rounds of major revision per manuscript is normally provided. Authors will be asked to resubmit the revised paper within ten days, and the revised version will be returned to the reviewers for further comments.
- Reject and Encourage Resubmission: An article for which additional experiments and extensive revision are needed to support the conclusions will be rejected, and authors may choose to resubmit their manuscript to the same journal in their own time upon the completion of comprehensive revision. Revised manuscripts submitted to the same journal will be assigned a new manuscript ID and linked to the original submission in our submission system (SuSy). Following resubmission, the editorial process will continue as normal (https://www.GIMS.com/editorial_process). To ensure an efficient and effective peer review process, the same reviewers will be invited to review the resubmitted manuscript.
- Reject: An article containing serious errors and making no original contribution will be rejected, with no offer of resubmission to the journal.
