Editorial Workflow
The reviewer form is made available in the homepage. When the reviewers submitted their reports, the section editor can make one of the following editorial recommendations:
(1) Acceptance
The manuscript could be e-Published with final Proofreading. We try to reduce this process to maximum two months. Before e-Publication, corresponding author can verify a proof copy of the paper. After e-Publication, paper will be in a queue to be published in one of AJAST upcoming issues. A copyright agreement is made available in the website, all authors will be asked to send a scanned copy of copyright form prior to publication. The duration from acceptance to publication will be a maximum of 30 Days.
(2) Minor Revision
Authors will receive comments via Editor-in-Chief upon their manuscript stating that the two reviewers commented to carryout minor revision, in which the corresponding author will be asked to submit a revised copy along with covering letter and rebuttal letter highlighting the corrections done. Revised manuscript should be submitted in 30 Days after receiving the decision letter. The corrections will be verified by the same reviewers and will be asked for their suggestions. If the reviewers comment positively, official acceptance letter will be issued by the Editor-in-Chief. If the reviewers were not satisfied with the corrections, the paper will be returned back to corresponding author and will be asked for resubmission within 30 Days. If the authors do not submit the revised document within 30 Days, the corresponding author will be asked to resubmit the paper as a fresh submission.
(3) Major Revision
It means a chance to reorganize the manuscript to meet the required scientific criteria for another review process. Authors should pay more attention to reviewers’ comments and focus on their highlighted points. Revised manuscript should be submitted along with covering letter and rebuttal letter highlighting the corrections done in 30 Days after receiving decision letter. The paper will be re-reviewed by the same reviewers and will be asked for their suggestions. If the reviewers comment positively, official acceptance letter will be issued by the Editor-in-Chief. If the reviewers were not satisfied with the corrections, the paper will be returned back to corresponding author and will be asked for resubmission within 30 Days. If the authors do not submit the revised document within 30 Days, the corresponding author will be asked to resubmit the paper as a fresh submission.
(4) Reject
In most cases, methodological and scientific concerns are the main origins of rejection. Causes of rejection will be sent to the authors to provide more chance for them for publication in other journals. Moreover, if two reviewers suggests to make rejection, the Editor-in-Chief will send a rejection mail to corresponding author. Rejected articles are not permitted to resubmit to our journal for the next six months. However, the rejection may be decided based on the comments from two reviewers, hence the Editor-in-Chief may take maximum of 2 months to take a decision towards rejection.
(5) Withdraw
Applicable only for articles in Press which represent early versions of articles and sometimes contain errors, or may have been accidentally submitted twice. Occasionally, but less frequently, the articles may represent infringements of professional ethical codes, such as multiple submission, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, etc. However, the authors have to submit "Article Withdrawal Form" which is made available in "Withdrawal Policy" section in our website. Editor-in-Chief informs the corresponding author regarding confirmation of withdrawal.
Only the Editor-in-Chief can approve a manuscript for publication, whereas editors recommend manuscripts for acceptance to the Editor-in-Chief. No other recommendations from editorial board members will be encouraged towards publication of articles.