Peer Review Process

Makassar Natural Product Journal (MNPJ) published the only paper strictly following our guidelines and template for preparation manuscript. All submitted manuscripts are going through a double-blind peer review process. Those papers are read by editorial members (upon field of specialization) and will be screened by Managing Editor to meet necessary criteria of MNPJ publication. Manuscripts will be sent to one reviewers based on their historical experience in reviewing manuscript or based on their field of specialisation. MNPJ has reviewing forms in order to keep same items reviewed by one reviewers. Then editorial board make a decision upon the reviewers comments or advice. Reviewers give their assessment on originality, clarity of presentation, contribution to the field/science, we have four kind of decisions:

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