Each submission undergoes a thorough quality control and peer-review process before a decision is made. The initial review ensures compliance with various standards, including ethical considerations, financial disclosures, and adherence to FUP’s data availability policy, among other requirements.
Submissions may be returned to authors for queries, and will not be seen by our Editorial Board or peer reviewers until they pass this quality control check.
The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for conducting the Peer-Review Process and for the final decision on the submitted article.
In case the journal operates double-blind peer review, you must remove all the author details, alongside any funding details and acknowledgements that could identify the author. All this information can be provided in a separate document during the submission.
Once the submission process is concluded, your paper will be assigned a manuscript ID: using this identification number, you will be able to track the status of your paper through all the editorial stages. Furthermore, this ID number enables the unequivocal identification of your work in any correspondence during the peer review.
The DOI will be assigned only after the final approval and inclusion in the published issue or upon publication as “Just Accepted.”
We encourage authors to provide their ORCiD IDs when submitting a manuscript. For more information, visit the Official ORCiD page.