Publication Process

The DRJ uses the Open Journal System, which is an open-source journal management and publishing software developed, supported, and freely distributed by the Public Knowledge Project under the General Public Licence (GNU). All articles received through the DRJ website are evaluated by members of the Editorial Team for preliminary checking based on the aims and scopes of the journal. The submission can be rejected without resorting to an external peer review process if the manuscript is below the required level of quality, lacks adherence to the submission guidelines, or does not follow the required ethics consideration for publication, which includes evidence of plagiarism or fraud. Manuscripts that pass the initial stage of the evaluation process are then submitted to more than two peer reviewers who are specialists in the field and evaluated under the "double-blind" peer review system. The peer reviewers must not belong to the same institution where the article came. The peer reviewers assess the quality of the paper based on their conceptual rigor, academic relevance, originality, and clarity of presentation. Once the reviewed paper is returned by the peer reviewers, the Editor-in-Chief will decide based on the decision of the peer reviewers to accept or reject the authors' works and then send the paper back to the authors for minor revision, major revision, or rejection, depending on the reviewers' comments and decision. Once the paper is revised by the authors and sent back to the journal together with the answers to the questions, the Editor-in-Chief will decide on its final acceptance. Once the Editor-in-Chief decides in favor of its acceptance, the authors will receive a certificate of acceptance. Then the article goes to the production stage, e.g., proofreading, plagiarism checking, correction of style, design, layout, and publication.