For Reviewers

Reviewers must give unbiased consideration to each manuscript submitted. They should judge each on its merits, without regard to race, religion, nationality, gender, seniority, or institutional affiliation of the author(s).

Reviewers must declare any conflict of interest before agreeing to review a manuscript. This includes any relationship with the author(s) that may bias their review.

Reviewers must keep the peer review process confidential. They must not share information or correspondence about a manuscript with anyone outside of the peer review process without the explicit permission of the editor.

They must not enter unpublished manuscript files, images or information into databases or tools that do not guarantee confidentiality, are accessible by the public and/or may store or use this information for their own purposes (for example, generative AI tools like ChatGPT).

Reviewers must prepare their report by themselves, unless they have permission from the journal to involve another person. They must also not impersonate others during the review process.

Reviewers must not use artificial intelligence tools to generate manuscript review reports, including LLM based tools like ChatGPT.

Reviewers must avoid making statements in their report which might be interpreted as questioning any person’s reputation.

Reviewers should make all reasonable effort to submit their report and recommendation on time. They should inform the editor if this is not possible.

Reviewers should call to the journal editor’s attention any significant similarity between the manuscript under consideration and any published paper or submitted manuscripts of which they are aware.

Submitted manuscripts are reviewed for originality, significance, adequacy of documentation, reader interest and composition. Manuscript not submitted according to instructions will be returned to the author for correction prior to beginning the peer review/process. Revised manuscripts are judged on the adequacy of responses to suggestions and criticisms made during the initial review. Each manuscript will be check for technical, epidemiological, statistical, and ethical and language corrections. All parts of accepted manuscripts are subject to editing for scientific accuracy and clarity by the office of the Editor. The editorial board of JRLMC holds the right to a final decision of accepting or rejecting any article from publication in the journal, at all stages including the editorial review.

A brief account of minimum requirements by "International Committee of Medical Journal Editors" is given in guidelines. However, the full text can be read at www.icmje.org.