Peer review
Upon submitting a manuscript to The Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes, the author is immediately notified via email of its successful upload onto the journal platform.
Submissions are first reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief for compliance with the aims and scope of the journal, relevant scientific standards, as well as required structuring and formatting. This part of the reviewing process lasts about two weeks.
If initially approved, blinded manuscripts are sent to two independent reviewers, experts in the field the submission belongs to. Reviewers are first contacted for confirming or declining acceptance the paper for inspection. The Journal possesses its own data base of reviewers worldwide, yet in special cases of a scientific field uncovered by their expertise, the Editor-in-Chief may ask for suggestions regarding contacting and inviting new reviewers. The review lasts about four weeks. Reviewers work in full accordance with COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers, they do not disclose or use any information regarding the paper they are reviewing, and do not undertake to review papers for which there is a conflict of interest.
Reviewers fill in the journal standard reviewing form and send it to the author for clear and concise explanation regarding their decision, which may be acceptance, asking for major/minor revisions, declining the paper.
Open Access Statement
The Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes is purposefully designed and run as an open access journal which reflects the profound belief of everyone involved in its successful running that knowledge is to be freely shared. Therefore, journal content is freely accessible without any charges for both readers and authors. Upon online publishing of an issue, we have hard copies printed and sent to authors at the expense of the publisher – the University of Niš, Serbia.
Publication Ethics
The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board strictly adhere to COPE code of ethics in publication - COPE code of conduct and best practice guidelines for journal editors.
The Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes takes minute care not to have any paper with a breach of antiplagiarism, and therefore process all papers through iThenticate software for which the University of Niš has the license of use.
In cases where mistakes are made, The Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes exercises its right to withdraw a paper or make a corrigendum, in line with the COPE guidelines on retraction.
Authors' rights & permissions
The Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes is dedicated to enhancing the impact of the papers published.
The Letter of Submission implies the consent of the author(s) regarding the copyright ownership of the accepted submitted article, as well as all versions in any known or later developed format to The Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes. In this way, the author(s) original work is protected from being used without their permission. It subsumes that in order to refer to an article in this journal necessarily means crediting the author(s) of it, thus so increasing its impact.
The Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes adopts Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International License, which precisely instructs how authors, publishers and the wider general public can use, publish and distribute articles. Authors may: read, print and download the articles, redistribute or republish the final article (e.g. display in a repository), translate the article for private use only and not for distribution, download for text and data mining purposes, reuse portions or extracts from the article in other works, not sell or re-use the article for commercial purposes.
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