Reviewers Role
What should be checked while reviewing a manuscript?
- Innovation and originality
- Scientific reliability
- Ethical aspects
- Providing all required information within established deadlines
- Structure of the article submitted and its relevance to Authors’ Guidelines
- Review the article in terms of authors' use of new references
- Grammar, punctuation, spelling, and referencing and citation style of APA
- Reporting possible research misconducts
- Not identifying themselves to authors
- Ensuring that the manuscript is of high quality and original work
- Reviewing a manuscript critically but constructively and preparing detailed comments about the manuscript to help authors improve their work
- Making recommendations to the editor regarding the suitability of the manuscript for publication in the journal
- Reporting possible research misconducts (Plagiarism)
- Treating the manuscript as a confidential document
- Not communicating directly with authors, if somehow they identify the authors
- Informing the editor if he/she finds the assigned manuscript is under consideration in any other publication to his/her knowledge
- Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions
- Reviewers through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.
- The referee has to inform the editor in chief concerning the considerable similarities and overlapping among the articles under reviewing or any other published article which he/she has encountered before.
- Each referee who thinks that he/she seems to be unqualified to review an article, the topic of the article falls outside his/her area of expertise, does not have enough time because of the long process of reviewing, has no access to adequate facilities, and so on. He/ She has to inform the editor in chief and resigns from the process of reviewing the article.
- Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.
- Confidentiality: Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.
- Standards of Objectivity: Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
- Acknowledgment of Sources: Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
- Disclosure and Conflict of Interest: Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.
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Reviewer Name Specialty Affiliation Ali Azar Urban Planning Department of Urban Planning & Architecture,Maragheh Branch,Islamic Azad University,Maragheh,Iran pakzad azadkhani Urban Planning Assistant Professor, Department of architects and Urban Planning University of Bakhtar, Ilam, Iran Issa Ebrahimzadeh Urban Planning Professor ,Department of Geography and Urban Planning,University of Sistan & Baluchestan, Iran ,Iran Hossin Ebrahimzaheh Asmin Urban Planning Associate Professor ,Department of Social Sciences,University of Sistan & Baluchestan, Iran ,Iran MOHAMMAD EBRAHIMI Urban Planning Lecturer, Department of Geography, Hormozgan University Abazar Ashtari Mehrjerdi Social Planning Faculty member of Science and Technology Studies Group, Institute of Cultural and Social Studies, Ministry of Science, Tehran, Iran Mahmod Akbari Char rah Ghashtin Urban Planning Department , Geography and Urban Planning,University of Yasoj Saeid Amanpour Urban Planning Associate Professor Department of Geography & Urban Planning, Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran Mohammad Reza Amiri Fahliani Regional & urban planning, Urban Planning PhD in Geography and Urban Planning Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran Ferydon Babaei Aghdam Urban Planning Associate Professor Department of Geography and Urban planning, Faculty of Geography and planning,University of Tabriz, Iran Aminallah Balideh Urban Planning Isfahan University Amir Bastami Nia Urban Planning PhD in Geography and Urban Planning, Yazd University, Iran Fazlulah pezhvak Urban Planning Department of Horticultural Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University of Khuzestan, Mollasani, Iran. Hossin Hataminejad Urban Planning Associate Professor Department of Geography & Urban Planning,Faculty of Geography,University of Tehran, Iran Karim Hoseinzadeh Dalir Regional & urban planning Professor Department of Geography and Urban planning, Faculty of Geography and planning,University of Tabriz, Iran Mahnaz Hosseinisiahgoli Urban Planning PhD in Geography and Urban Planning, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran Nabi Hosseini Sah Parian Rural Planning, Urban Planning PhD student in Geography and Urban Planning, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran Seyed Reza Hosseini Kahnoj Rural Planning PhD student in Geography and Urban Planning, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran Ali Hidari Urban Planning Department of Geography and Urban Planning, University of Yasoj Foroogh khazaeeNezhad Urban Planning Assistant Professor in Geography and Urban Planing, kosar university of Bojnord,Iran Safiyeh Damanbagh Urban Planning PhD. Student of Geography & Urban Planning, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz Daryosh Rahimi Physical geogeaphy Associate Professor ,Physical Geography ,Isfahan University,Iran Mohamad Reza Rohani Urban Planning Geograhy and Urban Planning,PhD Nader Zali Urban Planning Associate professor , Department of Urban Planning ,University of Gilan,iran Ali Zeynali Azim Urban Design Postdoctoral student of Urban Design, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tarbiat Dabir Shahid Rajaei, University, Tehran, Iran. Mohammad Salavarzi Zadeh Urban Planning Faculty member, Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of Engineering, Ilam University, Ilam, Iran Zahra Soltani Rural Planning department of Geography and Urban PlanningوShahid Chamran University of Ahvaz,Iran Masoud Safaeepour Urban Planning Professor Department of Geography & Urban Planning, Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran Mojtaba Abbasian Urban & Regional Economic Department of Economics, Faculty of Management and Humanities, Chabahar University of Maritime and Marine Sciences, Chabahar, Iran Heeva Elmizadeh Town and country planning (Spatial Organization) Assistant Professor of Geomorphology, Department of Marine Geology, Faculty of Natural Resources, Khorramshahr University of Marine Sciences and Technologies, Khorramshahr, Iran fahime fadaei jazi Urban Planning PhD student in Geography, Urban Planning, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran. Mohammad Faraji Darabkhani Urban Planning Assistant Professor Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Payame Noor University,Tehran,Iran. ghasem farahmand Urban Planning Department of Natural Geography, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Tehran Mohammad Ali Firuzi Urban Planning Professor Department of Geography & Urban Planning, Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran Sohrab Ghaedi Physical geogeaphy Department of geography & Urban Planning,Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz,Iran Elham Ghasemi Far Physical geogeaphy PhD in Satellite Climatology, Faculty of Human Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran Siros Ghanbari Rural Planning, Urban Planning Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Rural Planning, Faculty of Geography and Environmental Planning, Sistan and Baluchestan University Mostafah Kabolizade geographical information system Department of Remote Sensing and GIS of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz Akbar Kiani Urban Planning Associate professor Geography and Urban Planning ,,, Department of Geography, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran Majid goodarzi Urban Planning Associate professor ,Geography & Urban Planning, Shahid Chamran university of Ahvaz Maryam Majidi Urban Design Department of Architecture, South branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. Mostafah Mohammadi DehCheshmeh Urban Planning Associate Professor Department of Geography & Urban Planning, Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran Hoshang Moradi Urban Planning Researcher and student of PhD in Geography and Urban Planning, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz Saeed Maleki Urban Planning professor ,Geography & Urban Planning, Shahid Chamran university of Ahvaz,Iran Mohammad Maleki Urban Planning PhD in Geography and Urban Planning Lecturer at Payame Noor University of Ilam Elias Mavedat Urban Planning Assistant Professor of Urbanization, Jundi-Shapur University of Technology, Dezful, Iran Mir Najaf Mosavi Urban Planning Professor of Geography & Urban Planning,Urmia University,Iran Hossin Nazm Far Urban Planning Professor of Geography & Urban Planning,University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Iran Hassan Houshyar Urban Planning Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran Hamid Reza Varesi Urban Planning Professor of Geography & Urban Planning, Isfahan University