The evaluation of the papers will be made by two experts, independent or affiliated with institutions other than those of the authors, who will verify the compliance with the publication rules and will make suggestions and improvement ideas. The evaluation will follow the procedures of double-blind review and will be done accordingly with the evaluation grid.
Both the Editorial Board and the reviewers can make requests for the authors to review the texts and/or the illustrations prior to publication. These issues will be resolved before the actual editing of the materials. Similar requests may be made with respect to the grammatical or linguistic accuracy.
The articles received by the editorial team will be taken over by the editor-in-chief or the editorial office secretary who will send copies of them (paper or electronic copies) to reviewers (experts in the respective field).
The reviewers will evaluate the article according to the grid and will return it to the editorial office, which will send the comments to the author.
The evaluation of the reviewers must include at the end one of the following recommendations for the article analyzed:
If the reports are opposed as a recommendation, the editor may request the opinion of a third referent.
During the review process, the following evaluation criteria will be taken into account (download):
Apart from the evaluation process, the authors will receive one or more corrections, on a case-by-case basis, depending on the problems identified by the editor, in pdf format, where they will see any observations and requests. In this file the authors will insert their own observations, with “comment”.
The submission deadline is 15th of February, current year.
First evaluation done by the editors will take up to three weeks.
If the article is accepted, it will automatically pass onto the next step, the peer-review process. This evaluation could take up to 7 weeks and at the end of it, the authors will receive an answer.
The onlice publication of the accepted manuscripts will be done on the 1st of August current year.
The printed format will be ready on the 1st of October current year.
In order to acces the entire publication schedule, please access the link here, under the headline Publication Schedule.
Authors must ensure that the article sent for publication is original and that follows all the rules and regulations for avoiding plagiarism. The manuscript must contain a bibliography or list of references and cite all the sources accordingly to the norms.
Cercetări Arheologice does not accept any violations of the code of ethics and does not support research misconduct.
Authors must follow the guidelines for publication and citation of other works.
Both authors and reviewers will announce the publication if there is any conflict of interest.
Reviewers must keep the confidentiality of the authors’ information and their respective papers and must be objective during the evaluation process and follow the evaluation grid.
In order to see all the guidelines for the code of ethics and publication, norms for avoiding plagiarism and the obligations that the publication, reviewers and authors are asked to follow, please access the following link.