• Journal of Sustainable Development in Social and Environmental Sciences is a quarterly peer-reviewed open-access journal. Articles submitted for publication in the journal undergo a double-blind peer-review process, in which reviewers cannot know the identities of authors and authors cannot find out the identities of reviewers during the review process.
• The journal administration deals with the names of reviewers and their reports, as well as the names of authors and their data, in strict confidentiality.

Stages of Peer Review Process:

The process of peer review of articles aims to assess the originality and quality of the scientific material, and to propose recommendations for its improvement. This process is necessary to examine the contents of articles and to ensure the publication of research of a high scientific level. The review takes place in successive stages as follows:

• The journal administration chooses two reviewers specialized in the field of research.
• The article file is sent to the reviewers with a commitment to applying the confidential (blind) peer review policy and making sure that the file sent to them does not contain any data indicating the author. The review form of the journal is also attached to the reviewers with the article file.
• The reviewers examine the article, and submit the final report to the editor-in-chief with the proposed recommendation. It is possible to recommend that the article be published in its current state, or to recommend substantial or minor amendments to it based on the type of problems found in it, indicating all the points that need to be reconsidered. If substantial problems are found, then it may be recommended to refuse publishing the article.
• The editor-in-chief looks at the review reports, and in the event of a discrepancy in the opinions of the reviewers, the research is referred to a third reviewer for preference before reaching the final decision on the article.
• The author is notified of the required amendments and recommendations and is committed to making them within the specified period.
• The article is returned to the reviewers when the recommendations are substantial to find out the extent of the author's commitment to making the amendments. When the recommendation is to make minor amendments, the journal administration undertakes the review.
• The article is accepted to be published in the journal when the amendments are verified, or upon the arrival of the reviewers’ reports stating that the article has been accepted for publication after making the required amendments. Then the author is granted a letter of acceptance for publication.