This Journal adopts the "three-review" process, i.e. internal review, peer review and final review, Papers published shall be processed in the following link: submission → internal review → peer review → final review, all of which are conducted online and offline submission is not accepted.

In order to build the rigorous study style, prevent the academic misconducts and practically improve the academic quality of this Journal, reviewers and editors shall strictly abide by the Review Criteria when examining and approving papers.

1. Rules of peer review

1) A double-blind peer review process is adopted for this journal. All submissions, including featured articles, special issues, editor-in-chief invited contributions, editor-invited papers, and free submissions will be reviewed by two or more experts.

2) Reviewers shall comprehensively evaluate papers from the aspects of topic, research methods, research results, conclusion, writing level and material citation. They shall give the final review conclusion of papers by considering the originality, novelty, scientificity, importance, interest and expressiveness.  Reviewers shall objectively put forward the problems in papers one by one, and try to give suggestions to help authors improve the papers.

3) If reviewers' comments are too general and broad to clarify the specific problems in papers, these comments shall be regarded as invalid.

2. Review period

1) Internal review: It shall be completed within 10 working days from the date of submission.

2) Peer review: From the date of submission for external review, reviewers shall give comments within one month. If the reviewers fail to give comments, the Editorial Department shall contact the reviewers and ask them to give comments as soon as possible. The papers required to be reexamined shall also be reviewed according to the above period.

3) Final review: It shall be completed within 5 working days from the date when authors submit the papers modified through external review.

3. Manuscript Review Process