Peer-review process

The process of reviewing articles consists of the following stages:

1. Articles submitted for publication in the "Acta Carpathica" shall be submitted to the Secretary responsible for the initial assessment of compliance with the formal requirements. The article must meet the design requirements. Articles that do not meet the applicable requirements are not accepted for further review.

2. The article is reviewed by one reviewer. The review is carried out confidentially according to the principles of double-blind review (double-blind review, when neither the author nor the reviewer know about each other). The author is informed of the results of the review and the views of the editorial board by email. If the reviewer indicates that certain corrections should be made to the article, the secretary-in-chief sends it to the author with an offer to take into account comments and remarks when preparing the updated version of the article or, in case of disagreement, reasonably refute them.

If the reviewer notes the need to make corrections, the author finalizes the article, taking into account the wishes of the reviewer or exhaustively argues his position. The reviewer should familiarize himself with the corrected version and decide on the possibility of publication. The date of the positive conclusion of the reviewer is considered the date of acceptance of the article for publication.

The final decision on the possibility of publication, indicating the expected publication date, is made by the editor-in-chief (or, on his behalf, a member of the editorial board), about which the author is informed.