Duties of Reviewers

1. Confidentiality: Reviewers should keep all information regarding papers confidential and treat them as privileged information.

2. Acknowledgement of Sources: Reviewers must ensure that authors have acknowledged all sources of data used in the research.

3. Standards of Objectivity: Reviews should be conducted objectively, with no personal criticism of the author.

4. Supporting Argument: Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments

5. Plagiarism, Fraud and Other Ethical Concerns: Reviewers should let the editor know if you suspect/find that a manuscript is a substantial copy of another work, citing the previous work in as much detail as possible.

6. Relevant Work: Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.

7. Conflicts of Interest: Reviewers should not review submissions 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.

8. Promptness: In the event that a reviewer feels it is not possible for him/her to complete review of manuscript within stipulated time then this information must be communicated to the editor, so that the manuscript could be sent to another reviewer