Peer Review Process

Cross-Disciplinary Knowledge Systems follows a peer review process to maintain the quality, originality, technical accuracy, and academic relevance of published manuscripts. The review process is intended to ensure that accepted articles meet the journal’s editorial standards and contribute meaningfully to interdisciplinary knowledge systems and related fields.

Initial Editorial Screening

After submission, each manuscript is checked by the editorial team for scope, completeness, formatting, language clarity, originality, ethical compliance, and basic scholarly suitability. Manuscripts that are incomplete, outside the journal scope, poorly prepared, or ethically problematic may be returned to authors or rejected without external review.

Reviewer Assignment

Manuscripts that pass the initial screening may be assigned to suitable reviewers with expertise in the relevant subject area. Reviewers are asked to evaluate the manuscript’s originality, methodology, conceptual clarity, technical quality, relevance of results, adequacy of references, and contribution to the field.

Review Criteria

• Relevance to the journal’s focus and scope
• Originality and contribution to interdisciplinary knowledge systems
• Soundness of methodology, model, framework, or analysis
• Clarity and accuracy of findings
• Appropriate use of figures, tables, models, diagrams, and references
• Ethical compliance and absence of publication misconduct
• Quality of academic writing and structure

Editorial Decision

Based on reviewer comments and editorial assessment, the manuscript may receive one of the following decisions: accept, minor revision, major revision, resubmit for review, or reject. The final decision is made by the editor after considering the review reports, author revisions, and journal standards.

Confidentiality

Manuscripts under review are treated as confidential documents. Reviewers and editors must not disclose, share, or use unpublished manuscript content for personal advantage.