IJAUP uses Double-blind peer review. The peer review process is conducted through an online manuscript submission for at least one round. After a manuscript is submitted to the online system, the system immediately notifies the editorial office.
A preliminary review of the article to check compliance with the journal format, the relevance of the subject of articles with the topics of the journal, and review of the initial scientific value will take a maximum of ten days. After passing an initial quality check by the editorial office, the manuscript is assigned to a minimum of two independent expert reviewers. Reviewers are asked to declare their competing interests, if any.
 After receiving reviewers’ comments, the editorial team member makes a decision. Since reviewers do not agree with each other, occasionally, the final decision sent to the author may not exactly reflect recommendations by any of the reviewers.
The decision after each round of peer review may be one of the following:
  (1)accept, (2) minor revision, (3) major revision, or (4) reject. The reasons for the decision will be communicated to the authors.