Peer Review Process

Reviewer policy
The peer review process is essential to maintaining high standards of academic rigour and ensuring the quality of content published in World Journal of Pharmacy and Biotechnology. This policy outlines the procedures and principles guiding the peer review process, ensuring that manuscripts are evaluated fairly, transparently, and objectively. World Journal of Pharmacy and Biotechnology (WJPBT) employs a double-blind peer review process to ensure anonymity and impartiality. In this process, the identities of both authors and reviewers are concealed from each other throughout the review cycle. Each manuscript is evaluated by independent experts who assess the quality, originality, and significance of the research. All manuscripts are peer reviewed following the procedure outlined below.

Initial manuscript evaluation

  • The editorial team conducts an initial screening to ensure the submission meets the journal’s focus, scope, and formatting guidelines.
  • The manuscript is checked for plagiarism, ethical concerns, and compliance with journal policies.
  • Manuscripts that pass this screening are assigned to the editor-in-chief or associate editors for further review.
  • Those that meet the minimum criteria are passed on to at least 2 experts for review. Authors of manuscripts rejected at this stage will be informed.

How the reviewer is selected
Reviewers are matched to the paper according to their expertise. We welcome suggestions for reviewers from the author though these recommendations may or may not be used. The editor-in-chief /associate editors select qualified peer reviewers with expertise relevant to the manuscript’s subject matter. Reviewers are selected based on the following criteria:

  • Expertise in the manuscript’s research area.
  • Prior experience in reviewing scholarly work.
  • Availability and willingness to complete the review within the stipulated timeline.
  • No conflicts of interest with the authors or their affiliations.

Type of Peer Review
Journal employs single blind review, where the reviewer remains anonymous throughout the process/ double-blind reviewing, where both the reviewer and author remain anonymous throughout the process / open reviewing were both the reviewer and author are known to one another.

Reviewer reports
Reviewers are asked to evaluate and select one option:

  • Accept Submission
  • Revision Required
  • Resubmit for Review
  • Resubmit Elsewhere
  • Decline Submission
  • See Comments

Reviewers are not expected to correct or copyedit manuscripts. Language correction is not part of the peer review process.

Final report
A final decision to accept or reject the manuscript will be sent to the author along with any recommendations made by the reviewers, and may include strict comments by the reviewers.

Editor’s Decision is final
Reviewers advise the editor, who is responsible for the final decision to accept or reject the article.

Publication Process of WJPBT
The publication process is consisting with the following steps. The ultimate objectives of this process are quality. 

  1. After receiving the manuscript we will send a submission of acknowledgement e-mail to the author.
  2. Manuscripts will be checked by plagiarism checker software.
  3. Primary quality will be checked by the editor.
  4. The manuscript will be sent for double blinded review.
  5. Based on the double blinded review editor will take decision and the decision will be communicated to the author. Decisions can be three types like accepted without revision, resubmit with major/minor revisions, rejected.
  6. After the final review process if the paper will accepted, we will send a payment request to the author.
  7. Author need to deposit publication fee after the payment request.
  8. After submission of copyright and fee article will publish.