Peer Review Process

The review process for GS Spark: Journal of Applied Academic Discourse consists of six levels of review, including editorial and blind peer review. Research and review articles received from open call and individual invitation are peer-reviewed, double-blind, before publication. The production team sends original research and review articles to Section Editors for initial review of the work’s relevance to the journal. They submit draft decisions to the Editor-in-Chief for the final decision about further review or rejection. Based on decision of chief editor, the managing editor or chief editor himself will send the article for further double blind peer review. With a view to identify subject expert cooperation with review board will be done. The identity of peer reviewer would be accessed to managing editor or editor in chief and the paper of managing editor and chief editor would not be considered for publication to avoid conflict
of interest though advisors, reviewers and even section editor would have no issue for submission in the journal for publication after double blind peer review. The initial review process will be short and not last longer than six weeks. Perspectives, including case studies and interviews, are reviewed by Section Editors and cleared with the Editor-in-Chief. These are not subject to double-blind peer review

The six levels of review are as follows:
1. Checking Paper structure by production team.

2. Checking & Detailed Checking Plagiarism (Less than 10%, No paragraph should have half to full paragraph plagiarism). Also check for Unique Title by searching the title in Google, Google scholar, & plagiarism checker result by production team.

3. Checking Grammar and Typographic mistakes using integrated Grammarly software by production team

4. Checking Review of Methods, Format, Title, Keywords, Tables & Figures, and Citations by the section editor

5. Review of Analysis/Results/ Novelty, Further improvements, Journal to be considered, Area, Type, etc by double blind peer review

6. After Journal formatting, DOI, Checking Page Numbers, Glancing on PDF before final publication by editor and Author proofreading Please direct all editorial inquiries to the journal editorial team at journal@192.168.0.82. GS Spark frequently publishes calls for papers on various topics. Please visit each section’s homepage for calls for papers specific to the relevant section.