Peer Review Process

• The Egyptian Statistical Journal (ESJ) follows a double-blind peer review process, where the reviewers do not know the names or affiliations of the authors, and the reviewer reports provided to the authors are anonymous. Your work will be evaluated solely on scientific merit, ensuring a fair and unbiased review process. 

• •  Final responsibility for editorial decisions rests with the Editor-in-Chief of the journal.  

  • Editorial team/contact information: Contact details for the editorial team can be found on the journal homepage.

  • Queries may also be directed to the editorial team via: (fgssr_jour@cu.edu.eg)

• Our editors conduct a meticulous initial assessment of the manuscript to determine its suitability for publication in the journal. If the manuscript meets our standards, it will be sent to at least two reviewers for an independent expert assessment of the scientific quality, originality, and validity, ensuring that your work is carefully considered at every step. 

• Editors of ESJ take every measure to identify, detect, and stop these types of practices: Instances of misconduct include data fabrication, authorship abuse, falsification, image manipulation, unethical research, plagiarism, biased reporting, duplicate publication, and unreported conflicts of interest.

• Our editors are not involved in making decisions about manuscripts which:

  • They have written about themselves.

  • Have been written by family members or colleagues.

  • Relate to products or services in which they have an interest.  

• ESJ routinely evaluates its policies to ensure they do not create exclusionary environments and actively encourages broad engagement with their content.
•  Each manuscript is evaluated by a minimum of two independent reviewers. Acceptance for publication requires a positive recommendation from at least two reviewers. In cases of discrepancy in the reviewers’ assessments, particularly when two or more reviewers express conflicting or negative opinions, the editor’s opinion will be considered, and the manuscript may either be sent to a another reviewer or rejected. The Editor is responsible for the final decision on acceptance or rejection of manuscripts. 
• Editorial decisions are based solely on scholarly merit, free from bias related to authors' nationality, ethnicity, political beliefs, race, or religion.
• As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors who do not adhere to these guidelines.
• Reviwers:
  • Reviewers are expected to choose one of the options, such as Accept, Reject, Major Revision, and Minor Revision.
  • Reviewers should not use the information in the study for their own benefit before the manuscript is published, as stated in the Publication Ethics section of the ESJ website.
  • To ensure reviewer confidentiality, disclosing a reviewer's identity, whether in the review report or through track changes—is strictly prohibited.
• Speed
  

  • Time to first editorial decision (median days): 5 working days

  • Review time (median days): 37 working days

  • Submission to acceptance (median days): 75 working days