einstein (São Paulo) uses an online submission system for management of editorial process.

Articles are first received by our journal editorial office that is responsible for checklist, check quality of images, tables and graphs, and authors’ ORCID IDs.  If any document does not comply with our journal instructions for authors, the corresponding author will be notified via e-mail to provide the document by a given deadline.

Both the editor-in-chief and scientific editor assess articles. After this initial approval, articles are evaluated by associated editors, experts in the topic or related areas discussed in the article, on the basis of their importance, originality, clarity and relevance to the field. Associate editors will send for review or recommend rejection based on their evaluation. Articles are forward for review by at least two referees.  No more than 5 reviewers can be indicated in the online submission system.

After peer review, the associate editor returns the manuscript for authors to respond the referees’ comments. When the revised version of the article is received, it is either reviewed by the associate editor or forwarded to referees for confirmation depending on the nature of the referees’ requested changes.

Based on recommendations of reviewers the associate editor forwards their recommendation to the editor-in-chief. The editor-in-chief makes the final decision. The corresponding author is notified by e-mail of this final decision.

After this process, accepted articles are copyedited, and forwarded for typesetting and formatting.

 

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