Peer Review Policy

Submitted manuscripts will be pre-reviewed by the editors, determining whether the manuscripts have conformed to Journal of Private and Commercial Laws submission guidelines. Manuscripts that have conformed to the journals style will be peer-reviewed. Journal of Private and Commercial Law is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal that involves many reviewers of experts in a relevant field of laws. The final decision of manuscript acceptance is solely decided by the editors according to reviewers' comments.

Plagiarism and self-plagiarism are not allowed. Journal of Private and Commercial Law uses Turnitin to screen articles for detecting plagiarism. Detection of overlapping and similar text is used there and so quotations and appropriate citations have to be used whenever required.

Journal of Private and Commercial Law published the only paper strictly following Journal of Private and Commercial Law guidelines and template for the preparation manuscript. All submitted manuscripts are going through a double-blind peer-review process. Those papers are read by editorial members (upon a field of specialization) and will be screened by Managing Editor to meet the necessary criteria of Journal of Private and Commercial Law publication.

Manuscripts will be sent to two reviewers based on their historical experience in reviewing manuscripts or based on their field of specialization.  Journal of Private and Commercial Law has reviewing forms in order to keep the same items reviewed by two reviewers. Then the editorial board makes a decision upon the reviewer's comments or advice. Reviewers give their assessment on originality, clarity of presentation, contribution to the field/science, Journal of Private and Commercial Law has four kinds of decisions:

  1. Accepted, as it is
  2. Accepted by Minor Revisions (let authors revised with stipulated time)
  3. Accepted by Major Revisions (let authors revised with stipulated time)
  4. Rejected (generally, on grounds of the outside of scope and aim, major technical description problems, lack of clarity of presentation)

For checking Plagiarism, Journal of Private and Commercial Law Editorial Board will screen plagiarism with using Turnitin. If it is found plagiarism indication (above 20%), the editorial board will reject the manuscript immediately. Before publishing, it is required to obtain written confirmation from authors in order to acquire copyrights for papers published in the journal.