Peer reviewers play a central role in maintaining the quality, credibility, and integrity of the International Journal of Fundamental Research (IJFR). Reviews should be fair, confidential, constructive, evidence-based, and completed within the agreed timeframe.
Manuscripts and review materials are confidential. Reviewers must not share, distribute, copy, publish, or use unpublished information from a manuscript for personal advantage.
Reviewers should not contact authors directly regarding a manuscript under review unless specifically authorized by the editorial office.
Is the work sufficiently original and does it make a meaningful contribution?
Does the manuscript fit the aims and scope of IJSSI?
Are the methods appropriate, adequately described, and logically applied?
Are the results, arguments, data, and interpretations adequately supported?
Is the manuscript clearly organized, written, and presented?
Are important and relevant sources appropriately cited?
Reviewers should:
Reviewers should notify the editor if they identify possible plagiarism, fabricated or falsified data, duplicate publication, suspicious authorship, inappropriate citation practices, or other ethical concerns.
Reviewers must protect the confidentiality of manuscripts. Unpublished manuscript content should not be uploaded to external artificial intelligence tools or other third-party systems where confidentiality, privacy, or intellectual-property protections cannot be adequately assured.
At the end of the review, the reviewer may recommend one of the following:
Reviewer recommendations assist the editorial team but do not by themselves determine the final decision. The editor retains responsibility for the final editorial decision.
Last Updated: August 2026
