To evaluate an article sent from the system, follow the steps below:

• Login with your ID and password.

• Enter the Journal Panel of the Journal of Business Science from the My Journals section.

• Log in to the reviewer panel.

• Click the article's title from the new invitation section for peer review.

• Acceptance or denial of the peer review will ask you on the page that will pop up.

Please click “Accept the Review” in the green section for peer review acceptance.

• You will see the full article in the “Documents” after accepting the review.

• After reviewing the article, please fill out the “Reviews” form. Upload the review file if there is one.

• Lastly, click the button “Send the Review” that spots the right side of the page.

In the Journal of Business Science, the referees are selected from among the experts on the subjects covered in the articles. All selected referees are informed about the responsibilities of the referees and the ethical principles, article evaluation criteria and procedure of the Journal of Business Science.

• Reviewer must take into account after accepting peer-reviewing on the system “Responsibilities of the reviewer and ethical principles to be followed” and “Reviewing Processes”.

• Reviewers should only accept reviewing of articles for which they have the necessary expertise to perform an appropriate review, can respect the confidentiality of blind peer review, and keep the details of the article confidential at all times.

• Reviewers invited for article review are expected to submit their decision to accept or reject the review within 7 days. The reviewer who does not make a decision at the end of this period is deemed to have rejected the review, and the editor appoints a new reviewer. The reviewers who accept the review are expected to express their opinions within 15 days from the date of invitation acceptance. An additional period of up to 7 days is given to the referee who does not complete the review process within this period, if the reviewer requests. If the referee does not request additional time, a new referee can be appointed.

• Each reviewer who accepts the invitation to review is asked to fill in a review form and declare the acceptance or rejection opinions about the article by providing concrete reasons.

1. Title and Content Consistency

2. Language and Expression of the Article

3. Systematic Compliance with Scientific Criteria

4. Defining Scope and Conceptual Framework

5. Subject Integrity

6. Defining the Problem

7. Review of the Previous Studies (Literature Review)

8. Research Method

9. Presentation, Organization and Consistency of Information

10. Critical Perspective

11. Access to Primary Sources

12. Accessing New Scientific Studies

13. Mastery of the Terminology of the Field

14. Originality of Study

15. Getting Results

16. Consistency of the Presented Arguments and Rational Relation to Results

17. Contribution to the Field

The reviewers give an opinion on these issues by choosing one of the options Adequate, Not Sufficient, Partially Sufficient, and Mostly Sufficient. The referees do not need to approve these issues to publish the article. However, in the review form, the suggestions regarding the parts given as Not Sufficient and Partially Sufficient, and other suggestions to the author, should be stated in the "Note to the Author" section.

o Revise Manuscript (Major Revision)

o Revise Manuscript (Minor Revision).

o The article is not suitable for publication (Reject).

o The article can be published as it is (Accept).

• Journal of Business Science (JOBS) conducts two external peer-reviewers outside of the editorial board of the journal. 

• If one of the peer review reports is positive and the other is negative, the article is sent to a third reviewer.

• A single peer review report is sufficient to reject a manuscript, but at least two are required for its acceptance.

• If one of the peer review reports "Accept" or "Minor Revision" and the other "Major Revision" and the editor's opinion favours the acceptance of the article, the manuscript is sent to the same reviewer after the author makes the corrections. The article is rejected or sent to a third peer reviewer depending on the reviewer's opinion who has issued the report with the "Major Revision" requirement.

• The reviewer requesting revision may request to re-evaluate the article after revision. An additional 15 days are given to the reviewer for this evaluation.

• Reviewers can contact the editor via the DergiPark messages section for further guidance or report any suspected violations. Correspondence here is not seen by the authors.

• The data of the articles based on field research or data analysis can be requested from the editor by the referee for a healthy review of the analyses in the article. The journal editor communicates with the author and transmits the data to the reviewer.

• Reviewers should not have any conflicts of interest regarding the research, authors and/or research funders. When a conflict of interest is foreseen, the referee should contact the editorial board and indicate a possible conflict of interest. The Conflict of Interest Framework published by COPE will be considered in any conflicts of interest. 

• Reviewers cannot use the data of the articles they have reviewed before they are published or share this data with others.

• The names of the reviewers who make evaluations in the journal are not disclosed/published.