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Experiences of reviewing process in biotechnical field: Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Quarterly journal

This work presents the experiences of a young editor on the journal Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Quarterly (CABEQ) during the last five years. The peer review process in the biotechnical field is special with regard to its exponential growth and its multidisciplinary character. The challenges are to find peer-reviewers with broad scientific interests and the necessary experience in such broad and diverse research area. The editorial and reviewing process is conducted in several stages. The first stage includes editor evaluation in order to check the aim and scope of submitted manuscript. In the second stage, the manuscript is evaluated by voting process by 14 members of the international editorial board (Austria, Croatia, Italy, Slovenia). Decision is brought by majority of positive votes. In the third stage, manuscript is submitted to peer review process by at least two international experts in the field. Selection of the experts is based on Web of Science database with the keywords from the submitted manuscript. The last stage comprises metrological (IUPAC nomenclature and SI system units), English language and technical revisions of the accepted manuscript. On average, each year is received about 300 manuscripts, 85 % of them are rejected. Accepted papers are published online and in the printed version in four issues. Manuscripts are published free of charge and are available according Open Access policy. Based on the experience, guidelines for editorial work are given in order to meet the future needs for biotechnical sciences.

CABEQ; editorial process; peer-review process; open access journal

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