PEER-REVIEW PROCESS
This journal follows a single-blind review process. After acceptance by the Scientific Committee, the Scientific Editor sends the submitted papers to the external reviewer, chosen by the Scientific Committee
The reviewer will support the Scientific Editor and Editorial Board in making a decision, according to the procedure described below.
Reviewers are independent scholars, with expertise on the subject of the submitted articles, and do not come from the same institution of the authors. They are selected according to the subject of the manuscript in the fields of Near Eastern and Middle Eastern Archaeology, Levantine and Mediterranean Archaeology, Epigraphy and History of Art. Reviewers must produce a written evaluation of the articles (maximum 500 words), corroborating their votes with a synthetic vote evaluation based on five concise judgement parameters:
- completeness and reliability of data base;
- bibliographic accuracy and updating;
- inner coherence of the paper;
- rank of innovation;
- impact in the field of study.
After the reviewers evaluation, the Scientific Editor and the Committee accept the papers with the following possibilities (A to D):
A) Ready to be published
B) To be published with minor corrections
C) To be published after a major revision (needs a second reading by the same reviewers after)
D) Rejected
Afterwards, articles elected to publication are again examined by the Editorial Board, for formal assessment and editing.
Peer reviewers assist the Scientific Editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist anonymously the author in improving the paper.
Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript should notify the Scientific Editor and retreat himself from the process.
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.
Authors can reject a referee in case of conflict of interest or any kind (religious, gender of political) of discrimination. In this case, the Scientific Editor with the Scientific Committee will appoint a new reviewer.
PUBLICATIONS ETHICS
The policies and guidelines provided on this page are in order to protect the quality and integrity of scholarly practice and research and the scientific attainment of the Journal Quaderni di Vicino Oriente.
Manuscripts are evaluated for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, as well as scientific, academic, or political orientation of the authors.
EDITOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Scientific Editor, Scientific Committee and Editorial Board members are central to the publishing process.
The main responsibilities of the Scientific Editor, Scientific Committee and Editorial Board members are:
- To handle all submissions fairly and in a timely manner, acknowledging submissions and communicating decisions made after peer review, including any help of advice that can be provided by the reviewers or the editors themselves
- To ensure that all submitted manuscripts are treated confidentially. Equally, the identity and details of all reviewers should be treated confidentially
- To act objectively, making decisions, following the indication of reviewers in a single-blind system, about papers based entirely on their relevance, importance, and quality
- To ensure that, should any suspicions of scientific or publishing misconduct occur, they are treated reasonably, sensibly, and confidentially, and to deal fairly with any author appeals
REVIEWER RESPONSIBILITIES
It is the responsibility of all reviewers to deal with requests from Scientific Editor to review papers, and make those reviews, in a timely manner, with care, consideration and above all objectivity, exercising confidentiality at every stage. It is appreciated by authors when reviewers explain and support their judgements so that comments may be fully understood. Reviewers should not retain copies of any article that they review.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
If a reviewer believes that his/her relationship to an author, if known, or the subject matter of an article, may constitute a conflict of interests for any reason, this must be disclosed to the Scientific Editor.
DUPLICATION SUBMISSION OR PLAGIARISM
Articles submitted for publication must be original work of the author/s and do not have to be published in any form (even online on the web) before submission to Vicino Oriente.
If a reviewer suspects for any reason that the author may have submitted the paper in the same or similar form to another publication, or suspects that plagiarism has occurred, then this should be discreetly brought to the attention of the Scientific Editor.
Reviewers must take great care to maintain confidentiality in all cases as accusations, whether suspicions are proven or disproven, can have a serious and damaging effect on the career and reputation of the individual(s) concerned. Any communication with the Scientific Editor must be balanced, carefully argued and suitably qualified such that reviewers do not leave themselves, the Scientific Editor, or the publisher open to accusation of libel, which may occur whether or not the case is proven.
All procedures will be carried out in a sensitive and confidential manner.
AUTHOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Authors should present original research.
Authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately quoted.
If there are two or more authors, the corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper, having agreed to its submission for publication. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in the published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal and cooperate with the Scientific Editor to retract or correct the paper.
COPYRIGHT
The journal allows authors to retain the full publishing rights of their papers without restrictions.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION ETHICS (COPE)
Quaderni di Vicino Oriente journal supports the ethical principles set out by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). A number of useful resources, such as guidelines, discussion papers and the COPE Code of Conduct, are available on the COPE website.
OPEN ACCESS POLICY
Quaderni di Vicino Oriente journal provides open access to the tables of contents (TOC) and abstracts according to the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. The journal performs without article processing charge (APC) or other publishing fees.
Users are allowed to read and download TOC, abstracts, articles or volumes in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or author as long as acknowledge the original author as stated in Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) licence from Creative Commons. Users are free to share giving appropriate credit, and indicate if changes were made (Attribution), may not use material for commercial purposes (NonCommercial), may not distribute the modified material if remixed, transformed or built upon it (NoDerivatives).
ONLINE SUBMISSION
Please, before submitting read the Author Guidelines:
- Author Guidelines General: PDF / DOC
- Author Guidelines Template: PDF / DOC
Before proceeding with the submission of the article you must be in possession of the copyright or the permission to publish the images that you want to publish. Quaderni di Vicino Oriente journal is not responsible for the improper use of images.
To submit a monographic volume, proceedings or reports, please, contact the Editorial Board at info@journal-vo.it.
SCIENTIFIC EDITOR
Lorenzo Nigro, Sapienza University of Rome, lorenzo.nigro@uniroma1.it
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Paola Buzi, Sapienza University of Rome, paola.buzi@uniroma1.it
Rita Francia, Sapienza University of Rome, rita.francia@uiroma1.it
Ana-María Niveau-de-Villedary y Mariñas, University of Cádiz, anamaria.niveau@uca.es
Andrea Polcaro, University of Perugia, andrea.polcaro@unipg.it
EDITORIAL BOARD
Federico Cappella, Sapienza University of Rome, federico.cappella@uniroma1.it
Daria Montanari, Sapienza University of Rome, daria.montanari@uniroma1.it