Peer-Review Process
Articles submitted to the Depiction of Health journal are evaluated before peer review process to ensure the structure of the manuscript and compliance of the topics with the aims and scope of the journal.
Articles are reviewed in a double-blind manner, which means that during the review process, the names of the authors are unknown to the reviewers and vice versa. The journal follows a “quick decision” process, with a maximum of two weeks for deciding whether to enter the peer review process and a maximum of six weeks for the peer review process.
Each article is sent to two peer reviewers and a statistician reviewer. The Editor-in-Chief evaluates the comments of reviewers, and in cases of discrepancies, the article is sent to a fourth reviewer for further review. After the Editor-in-Chief reviews and approves the reviewers’ comments, the feedback and the journal’s final decision—accept, revise, or reject—will be sent to the corresponding author. The comments also include feedback on technical requirements and structural errors in the manuscript. The authors must submit the revised version of the response to the reviewers within four weeks.
Reviewed articles with reflected results which are not received a response from the authors within four weeks will be excluded from the review process, and the authors are required to resubmit the article if they wish to publish.
The Editor-in-Chief reviews the revised version of the article for acceptance, rejection, or revision.
The average time from submission to publication in the Depiction of Health is approximately 5 months.