In short, all manuscripts submitted for publication in our journals are strictly and thoroughly peer-reviewed. The review process is simple blind. If the manuscript is accepted for full review, it will be reviewed by at least two external reviewers, who must follow the "Guidelines for Reviewers - Biofarma".

Submitted manuscripts will undergo a detailed initial check including a Plagiarism Check in the Editorial Office. An Editor – usually the Editor-in-Chief or a board member of the journal – together with the Editorial Office takes charge of the peer-review process. It starts with a Preliminary Review by the Editor (finished no more than 10 days after manuscript submission).

After a manuscript is accepted for full review, the Editor will collect at least two review comments and prepare a decision letter based on the comments of the reviewers (finished no more than 4 weeks after preliminary review). The decision letter is sent to the Corresponding Author to request an adequate revision (peer-reviewed again whenever necessary). The author will be asked to format the manuscript according to BIOFARMA’s template before it goes into typesetting and proofreading with the publisher. Your article will then, after being accepted by the reviewers, be published within 45 to 90 days, no longer than that.

Flowchart of the peer-review process