Peer-Review
Peer review is organised by the Editorial Board. All articles are submitted to the Editorial Board at journal@viko.lt.
The Editor-in-Chief of the Journal shall conduct a preliminary assessment of the articles in accordance with the requirements. Only pre-selected articles are submitted for review. Articles submitted to the Journal are reviewed by two reviewers selected by the Editorial Board from among experts in the author’s field of research. The reviewers are appointed on a confidential basis (the reviewers do not know who the authors of the article under review are; the authors do not know who reviewed the submitted article). The time allowed to prepare the review is 2 weeks from the date of submission to the reviewer.
After peer review, the article may be returned to the authors for revision, subject to comments. The time allowed for correcting the article, depending on the number of comments made by the reviewers, is between 2 and 4 weeks from the date the article is returned to the author. The revised manuscript should be submitted to journal@viko.lt (corrections should be marked in a different colour and may include a reasoned reply to the reviewer in a separate document).
The final decision on whether to publish the article or to appoint an additional reviewer will be taken by the Editor-in-Chief (Editorial Board in the case of conflicts submitted by the Editor-in-Chief), after taking into account the recommendations of the reviewers and the author’s corrections.
