32.2 Review Process Back end

When you submit an article

• Plagiarism check

• Repeat submission check

• An editor reviews the paper for suitability (might be desk-reject)

• An area/associate editor is assigned

• Reviewers (2-3) are assigned

Reviewers are chosen based on

• your reference list

• your suggested list of reviewers

• the editor’s knowledge of the domain

• Candidate reviewers that declined to review

• web search

• a publisher’s database