Peer-review process

The peer-review process, of the articles proposed for publication in the Acta Terrae Septmcastrensis is going on in a similar way with the international usual procedures.
Thus, an article proposed for publication and transmitted to the editorial committee, will be selected and sent by the editorial committee, simultaneous, at two members of the scientific committee with competences in the field in which the paper is integrated. If one of the two reviewers, in the course of 7 days, declines his competences or refuses from other reasons to peer-review the article, this is sent to another reviewer.  
The peer-reviews are transmitted in the term of a month to the editorial committee and this communicates the result of each peer-review to the author(s).
The two reviewers evaluate the paper after an instruction guide of peer-review, presented below, which contains 4 essential chapters for the achievement of a high scientific level of the paper :
1.       The practical importance and the actuality of the theme proposed in the paper.
2.       Original and resulted contributions
3.       The scientific level of the paper
4.       Recomandations for the author(s)
 Each of these chapters has scores which decrease from 5 to 1, function of the quality and the excellent level respectively none or not suitable of the paper.
Each peer-review is ending with the fifth chapter, of conclusions, in which the reviewer has 3 variants for the answer:
a)       he can accept his paper in its initial form;
b)      to accept it after the author(s) reviewed the paper using the recommendations of the reviewers 
c)       to  reject  the paper
If the two peer-reviewers propose, both of them, one of the variants a) or b), the paper is accepted for publication in its initial form – if both the reviewers propose variant a) - or after the reviewing of the paper by the author(s) in term of a month from the date of sending the conclusions of the two reviewers, if one of them proposes variant b).
If one of the two reviewers proposes variant c), then the paper is rejected.

Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis
The Scientific Committee
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Reviewer’s Name:
Affiliation:
Date:

Manuscript number:
Track:
Title:
Authors:
1.      1.      The practical importance and the actuality of paper
       5-Exceptional, 4- Significant, 3-Minor, 2-Questionable, 1-None or not suitable
       (Comments:  ……………………………………………………………………………….…………….)
2.   The original contributions and results (comments)
       5-Exceptional, 4- Significant, 3-Minor, 2-Questionable, 1-None or not suitable
       (Comments:  ……………………………………………………………………………….…………….)
3.    The scientific level
       5-Exceptional, 4- Significant, 3-Minor, 2-Questionable, 1-None or not suitable
      (Comments:  ……………………………………………………………………………….…………….)
4.        4.        Recommendations to author(s)
(Template, language, style, graphical materials, mathematics, etc.
Note: any correction can be made directly on the text in red pen)……………………………………………
5.        5.        Conclusions
For publication
       For publication after the paper has been reviewed