All manuscripts submitted to the Journal are subject to a double-blind peer review (the identities of the Authors and the Reviewers are not disclosed). Two external Reviewers will assess manuscripts initially accepted by the Editors after a technical screening and verification of the thematic scope.

Reviewers submit their reviews in writing, with the declaration of potential conflicts of interest and whether they discovered the Authors’ identity.
Reviewer form is available at .

The review is anonymous and confidential.

If the review is unsatisfactory, Editors may invite additional reviewers or discuss the case internally. The Editor-in-Chief always makes the final decision on any material to be published in the Journal.

The standard peer review applies to all full-length articles and review articles.

The conference materials will be published only if they meet the criteria of non-prepublication (see the paragraph Prepublication) and will be subject to the standard peer review procedure.

Conference materials of special interest for the journal audience (subject to the Editorial Office opinion) can be published (not more than 10 in an issue) for articles providing positive decisions after a standard peer review process.

Articles written by Editors, members of the Editorial Office and Editorial Board, or anyone else having a potential conflict of interest with the Journal (that needs to be disclosed) will be subject to the standard peer review procedure conducted by the Board members and Reviewers who do not have such correlation with the Authors.

In the case of articles authored by the Editor-in-Chief, the review process is managed by the Deputy Editor, who also makes the final decision.

All the decisions are impartial, independent, and based only on the quality of the submitted material, also in the case of special issues or supplements.

The Journal publishes a list of Reviewers on the website without disclosing details of the reviewed articles.

Depending on the nature of the supplementary material, such material may also be subject to the peer review process.

As the Journal operates on a double-blind review principle, the Authors are requested to prepare their manuscript with masked authorship details (the names of Authors, their affiliations, funding, acknowledgement, etc.) that otherwise might disclose their identity.

Any special issues and supplements are subject to the standard peer review procedure.

Non-scientific material that is excluded from the external peer review procedure includes:
– introductions,
– editorials,
– speeches,
– memories of contemporary witnesses of history;
– book reviews,
– in memoriam statements,
– society updates (academic events, awards, etc.).

The evaluation of these materials will be performed by the Editorial Office.