Reviewing a manuscript written by a fellow scientist is a privilege. However, it is a time-consuming responsibility. Hence, JONASS’s Editorial Board, authors, and audiences appreciate your willingness to accept this responsibility and your dedication. JONASS adheres to a double-blind peer-review process that is rapid, fair, and ensures a high quality of articles published. In so doing, JONASS needs reviewers who can provide insightful and helpful comments on submitted manuscripts in the period of determining time by the editor. Maintaining JONASS as a scientific journal of high quality depends on reviewers with a high level of expertise and an ability to be objective, fair, and insightful in their evaluation of manuscripts.
We gratefully acknowledge the contribution of the following distinguished reviewers who reviewed papers for the JONASS:
| Reviewers in 2021 | ||||
| Last Name | First Name | Position | Affiliation | Publons |
| Aghanajafizadeh | Shirin | Assistant Professor | Department of Environment, Maybod Branch, Islamic Azad University | Publons |
| Almodaresi | Seyed Ali | Professor | Professor, GIS&RS Department., Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran | Publons |
| Eslamian | Saeid | Professor | Professor, College of Water Engineering, College of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran |
Publons |
| Esteghlal | Ahmad | Assistant Professor | Professor (Assistant), Urban planning Department., Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran |
Publons |
| Faramarzi | Marzban | Associate Professor | Rangeland and Watershed Management Group, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Ilam University, Ilam, Iran | Publons |
| Hassanzadeh Nafooti | Mohammad | Assistant Professor | Dept. of GIS-RS and Watershed MGT, Maybod Branch, Islamic Azad University, Maybod, Iran |
Publons |
| He | Songtang | Assistant Professor | Professor (Assistant), Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinses Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, China | Publons |
| Hemati | Atefeh | Instructor | Mine Department., Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran | Publons |
| Jamali | Ali Akbar | Associate Professor | Dept. of GIS-RS and Watershed MGT, Maybod Branch, Islamic Azad University, Maybod, Iran | Publons |
| Khedri Gharibvand | Ladan | Assistant Professor | Remote Sensing Department., Dezful Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran | Publons |
| Lin | Yongming | Associate Professor | College of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, and the Key Laboratory for Forest Ecosystem Process and Management of Fujian Province, China |
Publons |
| Maghsoudlou Kamaali | Bizhan | Assistant Professor | Department of the Environment, Faculty of Natural Resources, Islamic Azad University, Meybod Branch. | Publons |
| Morovati | Maryam | Assistant Professor | Assistant Professor in Environmental Science, Ardakan University, Iran | Publons |
| Motamedvaziri | Baharak | Assistant Professor | Assistant Professor, Department of Forest, Range and Watershed Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. | Publons |
| Nojavan | Mohammad Reaza | Associate Professor | Department of geography, Geomorphology in Environmental Planning, Islamic Azad University, Maybod, Iran | Publons |
| Pirasteh | Saeid | Associate Professor | GIS and RS, Geodata Analytics Lab, University of Waterloo, Canada | Publons |
| Randhir | Timothy O. | Professor | Professor, Graduate Program Director Department of Environmental Conservation University of Massachusetts, USA | Publons |
| Shahzeidi | Somayeh Sadat | Assistant Professor | Geography Dept., University of Guilan, Iran | Publons |
| Talebi | Ali | Professor | Yazd University | Publons |
| Yurtseven | Ibrahim | Associate Professor | İstanbul Üniversitesi Cerrahpaşa Orman Fakültesi Havza Yönetimi Anabilim Dalı Bahçeköy/Istanbul | Publons |
| Zakerian | Malihe | Associate Professor | Geography and urban planning | Publons |
| Zarei | Gholamreza | Assistant Professor | Maybod Branch, Islamic Azad University | Publons |
REVIEWERS’ RESPONSIBILITIES
If JONASS’s Editor-in-Chief or Handling Editor have invited you to review a manuscript, please consider the following:
- Review manuscript critically but constructively and prepare detailed comments about the manuscript to help authors improve their work
- Review multiple versions of a manuscript as necessary
- Providing all required information within established deadlines
- Making recommendations to the editor regarding the suitability of the manuscript for publication in the journal
- Declaring to the editor any potential conflicts of interest with respect to the authors or the content of a manuscript they are asked to review
- Reporting possible research misconduct
- Suggesting alternative reviewers in case they cannot review the manuscript for any reasons
- Treating the manuscript as a confidential document
- Not making any use of the work described in the manuscript
- Not communicating directly with authors, if somehow they identify the authors
- Not identifying themselves to authors
- Not passing on the assigned manuscript to another reviewer
- Ensuring that the manuscript is of high quality and original work
- Informing the editor if he/she finds the assigned manuscript is under consideration in any other publication to his/her knowledge
- Writing review report in English only
- Authoring a commentary for publication related to the reviewed manuscript.
WHAT SHOULD BE CHECKED WHILE REVIEWING A MANUSCRIPT?
- Novelty
- Originality
- Scientific reliability
- A valuable contribution to the science
- Adding new aspects to the existed field of study
- Ethical aspects
- Structure of the article submitted and its relevance to authors’ guidelines
- References provided to substantiate the content
- Grammar, punctuation, and spelling
- Scientific misconduct.