Peer-review Rules

Pressure Vessel Technology adopts a two-way anonymous peer-review system to ensure an objective and fair evaluation of the academic quality of contributions. The specific regulations are as follows.

1. Review rules

(1) Double blind review (do not disclose the names of reviewers and authors);
(2) Submit the manuscript to the corresponding professional experts for review based on its content;
(3) All submissions are submitted and reviewed online. After the author successfully submits the manuscript, each step of the review process is publicly visible in the submission and review system, and the author can check it at any time;
(4) The editorial department conducts a thorough argumentation of the manuscript based on expert review opinions, and the executive editor in chief makes the final decision on the review opinions;
(5) Regardless of whether the manuscript is accepted or not, the review comments must be fed back to the author, and the author has the right to appeal the review comments. The editorial department and reviewers have an obligation to provide feedback on the author’s appeal.

2. Selection of reviewers

(1) The reviewer and author are not from the same unit and have no close relationship, such as non teachers, non students, non same department, non same unit, etc;
(2) The reviewers mainly come from our journal’s reviewer database, and some reviewers are selected from the reference of the manuscript and database search platforms. It is necessary to ensure that the research direction of the reviewers matches the theme of the manuscript, and to also evaluate their academic achievements;
(3) Dynamically evaluate the credibility of reviewers based on whether they have completed the review on time and the quality of their comments.

3. Review results

(1) The review results are divided into four types: agree to publish, publish after modification, review after modification, and reject the manuscript;
(2) The editorial department attaches great importance to the objectivity and impartiality of review comments, ensuring that the review results of manuscripts are not affected by factors such as religion, political views, gender, and geography;
(3) The editorial department conducts a thorough argumentation of the manuscript based on the review comments, and the executive editor in chief makes the final decision on the review results.