Peer review process

All proposals to be submitted for publication must be forwarded to internal and external ad-hoc consultants for consideration, in a blind peer review process.

Two reviewers, members of the advisory board, will issue an opinion on the work, approving it, suggesting the changes they deem necessary or disapproving. In the event of a favorable opinion and another contrary, the work will be sent to a third member of this board.

After analysis, the works will be returned to the authors, together with a copy of the opinions. Papers that require changes will be forwarded to the authors to make the suggested changes and then electronically send the duly corrected text to the BEJOM journal within 15 calendar days from receipt.

After the return of the work corrected by the author(s), the editor of the section responsible for this process, should forward the work, preferably, to the referees designated in the 1st round, so that they can verify that the corrections, insertions and/or or requested modifications were satisfactorily carried out and reassess the conditions for accepting the work.

Upon completion of the 2nd stage of evaluation, the section editor, responsible for this work, must inform the author(s) of acceptance or rejection of the manuscript. In case of acceptance, the editor of this article must ask the author(s) to send the final work, with the identification/affiliation of the author(s), in Word or LaTex format, via the SEER platform, to the BEJOM journal.

Articles submitted to the BEJOM journal will undergo investigation procedures for possible plagiarism by checking similarities, and, in the event of finding plagiarism, the editors will reject and/or make recommendations to the authors regarding the manuscript.