Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society 2015 Volume 80, Issue 7, Pages: 959-969
https://doi.org/10.2298/JSC150306036N
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A survey on the Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society publishing policies: On the occasion of the 80th volume
Nedić Olgica (Institute for the Application of Nuclear Energy (INEP), Belgrade)
Dekanski Aleksandar (Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy, Department of Electrochemistry, Belgrade)
Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society (JSCS) is an official journal of the
Serbian Chemical Society and this year we are celebrating 85 years of its
publishing and the 80th volume. After so many years of publishing, the idea
of the Editorial board of the JSCS was to investigate what do authors,
reviewers and Sub-editors think about the journal and whether their
evaluation and suggestions can help to improve it. Questionnaires were sent
to the three investigated groups as an e-mail link. Responses were analyzed
and only the most general and the most important data are presented in this
article. Grades, comments and suggestions have shown that most of the
contributors are satisfied with the present handling and publishing policy
of the JSCS, but certain technical aspects should be improved. After
thorough inspection of the data, the Editorial Board decided to introduce
fully automatic on-line system, to speed-up the peer review process, to
improve Instructions to authors and Reviewer’s report form. All these
novelties started from March 2015.
Keywords: peer review, publishing, questionnaire, evaluation