Make sure the article you have been asked to review truly matches your expertise
The Editor who has approached you may not know your work intimately, and may only be aware of your work in a broader context. Only accept an invitation if you are competent to review the article.
Avoid a potential conflict of interest
A conflict of interest will not necessarily eliminate you from reviewing an article, but full disclosure to the editor will allow them to make an informed decision. For example; if you work in the same department or institute as one of the authors; if you have worked on a paper previously with an author; or you have a professional or financial connection to the article. These should all be listed when responding to the editor's invitation for review.
Check that you have enough time
Reviewing an article can be quite time consuming. The time taken to review can vary greatly between disciplines and of course on article type, but on average, an article will take about 5 hours to review properly. Will you have sufficient time before the deadline stipulated in the invitation to conduct a thorough review?
Understand what it means to accept to review and manage deadlines
Deadlines for reviews vary per journal. The editors will provide information on deadline expectations with the review request. Let them know within a day or two that you got the request. They will appreciate being informed in a timely manner if you are able to complete the review or not. There are no consequences for refusing to review a paper.
If you feel the review will take you longer to complete than normal, please contact the editor to discuss the matter. The editor may ask you to recommend an alternate reviewer, or may be willing to wait a little longer (e.g., if the paper is highly specialized and reviewers are difficult to find). As a general guideline, if you know you will not be able to complete a review within the time frame requested, you should decline to review the paper.
List of Reviewers:
Some reviewers of the journal are listed as below:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Canterbury, 20 Kirkwood Ave, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, 8041, New Zealand
Young Researches and Elite Club, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran
Department of Mechanical engineering, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran
Department of Biosystem Engineering, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran
Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, South Korea
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Tallinn University of Technology, Ehitajate tee 5, 12616, Tallinn, Estonia
Electrical Engineering Department, Sunlife Company, Baku, Azerbaijan
Arian Company, Yerevan, Armenia
School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, ZhouKou Normal University, Zhoukou , 466000, China
Department of Ship and Marine Engineering, JiangSu Shipping College, Nantong 226010, China
Water Resources Engineering Department, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran
Department of Civil Engineering, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Department of Civil Engineering, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Professor of Computer Science, Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia
Department of Computer Engineering, Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University
College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Zhengzhou University of Industrial Technology, Zhengzhou 451100, Henan, China
Pontificia Univ Catol Rio Janeiro, Dept Engn Civil Ambiental, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Henan Institute of Technology, Xinxiang, Henan 453003, China
School of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environment, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan 430068, China
Hebei Normal University of Science & Technology, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
School of Architecture, Shangqiu Polytechnic, Shangqiu, Henan, 476000, China
Slovak Univ Technol Bratislava, Radlinskeho 11, Bratislava 81368, Slovakia
Univ Thessaly, Dept Informat & Telecommun, Papasiopoulou 2-4, Lamia 35131, Greece
Guilin University of Aerospace Technology; Guilin Guangxi 541004 China
Inst Engn Sistemas & Comp Invest & Desenvolviment, INESC ID, Lisbon, Portugal
Key Research Project of the Anhui Provincial Education Department, China
College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Chizhou University, Chizhou 247000, China
Faculty of Computer Science, Bialystok University of Technology，Wiejska 45A, 15-531, Bialystok, Poland
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Mount Zion College of Engineering and Technology, Pudukkottai, 622507, Tamil Nadu, India
Univ Modena & Reggio Emilia, Dept Engn Enzo Ferrari, Modena, Italy
Iraqi Ministry of Education Qadisiyah, Dewanyah, 58001, Iraq
Univ Cape Town, Dept Mech Engn, BISRU, ZA-7701 Cape Town, South Africa
Huzhou Vocational and Technical College, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province,313000, China
Univ Republica, Engn Fac, Comp Sci Inst, Montevideo 11300, Uruguay
Univ Western Macedonia, Dept Commun & Digital Media, Fourka 52100, Kastoria, Greece
Logistics Department, Taizhou Vocational & Technical College, Taizhou, Zhejiang, 318000, China
Univ Cape Town, Dept Mech Engn, BISRU, ZA-7701 Cape Town, South Africa
Professor, School of Electrical and Information Engineering,University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa
Faculty of Environment and Labour Safety, Ton Duc Thang University,Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
College of Information Engineering，Jiaozuo University, Jiaozuo, Henan 454100, P. R. China
Dell Medical School, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Young Researchers and Elite Club, Dezful Branch, Islamic Azad University, Dezful, Iran Kimia Andimeshk Petrochemical Industries Company, Khuzestan-Iran
Univ Coll Dublin, Sch Civil Engn, Struct Dynam & Assessment Lab, Dublin, Ireland
Osaka Univ, Grad Sch Engn, Div Elect Elect & Infocommun Engn, Suita, Osaka 5650871, Japan
Department of Electrical Engineering, Liaoning University of Technology, Jinzhou, Liaoning,121001, China
Indian Inst Technol, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India
Reviewers Role
Reviewers are the main members contributing for the benefit of the journal being a peer reviewed (double-blind referee) journal they are insisted not to disclose their identity in any form.
A reviewer should immediately decline to review an article submitted if he/she feels that the article is technically unqualified or if the timely review cannot be done by him/her or if the article has a conflict of interest.
All submissions should be treated as confidential, editorial approval might be given for any outside person’s advice received.
No reviewer should pass on the article submitted to him/her for review to another reviewer in his own concern, it should be declined immediately.
Reviewers being the base of the whole quality process should ensure that the articles published should be of high quality and original work. He may inform the editor if he finds the article submitted to him for review is under consideration in any other publication to his/her knowledge.
There are no hard and fast rules to analysis an article, this can be done on case-to-case basis considering the worthiness, quality, and originality of the article submitted.
In general, cases the following may be checked in a review