PEER REVIEW POLICY

The submitted manuscripts are subject to a peer review process. The purpose of peer review is to assist the Editor / Editor-in-Chief / Section Editor / Editorial Board in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communication with the author it may also assist the author in improving the manuscript.

The suitability and quality of research articles are initially reviewed by the journal editors before the review process is initiated. Manuscripts may be rejected at this stage or returned to authors for resubmission before the review process. All papers will be subjected to a double-blind (peer review) refereeing process. Referees will be drawn from an expert Editorial Board, selected both for their knowledge of African real estate issues and for their knowledge of current real estate research.

The choice of reviewers is at the discretion of the Editor / Editor-in-Chief / Section Editor / Editorial Board. The reviewers must be knowledgeable about the subject area of the manuscript.

All of the reviewers of a manuscript act independently and they are not aware of each other’s identities. If the decisions of the two reviewers are not the same (accept/reject), the Editor / Editor-in-Chief / Section Editor / Editorial Board may assign additional reviewers.

During the review process, the Editor / Editor-in-Chief / Section Editor / Editorial Board may require authors to provide additional information (including raw data) if they are necessary for the evaluation of the scholarly merit of the manuscript. These materials shall be kept confidential and must not be used for personal gain.

The editorial team shall ensure reasonable quality control for the reviews. With respect to reviewers whose reviews are convincingly questioned by authors, special attention will be paid to ensure that the reviews are objective and high in academic standard. When there is any doubt with regard to the objectivity of the reviews or quality of the review, additional reviewers will be assigned.

Members of the editorial team/board/guest editors are permitted to submit their own papers to the journal. In cases where an author is associated with the journal, they will be removed from all editorial tasks for that paper and another member of the team will be assigned responsibility for overseeing peer review.

Publication Frequency

Zede Journal of Ethiopian Engineers and Architects publishes once a year. The journal will publish articles online as they are finalized for publication. These articles will subsequently be assigned to a volume according to the journal's publication schedule. A research article will take on average 20 weeks from submission to publication.