Submission and Reviewing

From the engineering journal Survey, administrative information concerning the submission process was collected. Reference the following table.

• Of the 33 journals represented in the survey, only one of them requires a submission fee to initiate the review process.
• The majority of the journals send papers to three reviewers, with one journal using one reviewer and another using four reviewers.
• The preferred transparency is a single-blind process which implies the authors do not know their reviewers. Eighteen percent of the journals surveyed utilized a double-blind process wherein the authors' names are shielded from the reviewers and vice versa. It should be noted that the survey did not explicitly define the selection option "neither". As such, the 23% that selected "neither" could imply complete transparency or lack of a journal policy.