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• How do we keep the review process on time?

• The reviewers of your manuscript will be given 4 weeks to complete their reviews, depending on the situations below.
• When we send out your manuscript to reviewers, we allow 4 weeks for them to return their review reports and ask them to confirm if they can meet this deadline.
• One week later we will send a request for confirmation to those who did not reply.
• Another week later we will send a request for confirmation to those who did not reply.  If any reviewer does not confirm within 24 hours, we will send your manuscript to another reviewer and ask for confirmation again.  This new reviewer will also have 4 weeks to review.
• On the due date, we will send a reminder to those who did not return their review reports.  This reminder will be repeated until all reviewers return the reports.
• If  any reviewer declines to review the paper at this late stage, we will immediately find an alternate reviewer and repeat the aforementioned review process.  In order to protect the authors and minimize the occurrence of this situation, a reviewer who declines to review at this late stage will be removed from our reviewer list and the institution in which the reviewer works will be formally notified, unless the reneging reviewer has a compelling reason for declining the commitment to review.
• Finally, if for some reason you do not hear from the editor after 8 weeks, please e-mail your paper ID to the editor-in-chief and explain the situation so that proper action could be taken immediately.