About the Journal
Peer Review Process
REVIEW ONLINE
The Reviewer is selected by the Section Editor to review a submission. Reviewers are asked to submit reviews to the journal's web site and are able to upload attachments for the use of the Editor and Author. Reviewers may be rated by Section Editors.
REVIEWER'S ROLE
The Reviewer is invited by email to review a submission, which includes its title and abstract, as well as the journal's URL and a username and password for the Reviewer to use to enter the journal. The journal has the option of using a reviewer option that sends the submission as an email attachment to the Reviewer along with an invitation to review. In this case, the Reviewer then responds by email. What is described here is the principal method for reviewing (and ensuring complete records of the process), which involves the Reviewer conducting the Review on the journal's web site.
» POLICY FOR CONCURRENT/MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS
Manuscripts submitted to Annals of Spiru Haret University. Economic Series should not be currently published or being considered for publication at another scientific journal or similar outlet. Likewise, does not accept multiple submissions of essentially the same work. That is, every submitted article should be substantially original in content, relative to other works currently published or under review. Manuscripts that violate these requirements will be automatically rejected, and the author of the respective manuscript may be excluded from future submissions to this journal. Moreover, a manuscript may be rejected at any time, upon discovery that it does not comply with the policy stipulated herein, even if the author had previously been notified of the manuscript s acceptance .
» PREVIEW PROCESS - BLIND PEER REVIEW
All manuscripts received by Annals of Spiru Haret University. Economic Series undergo the following review process. Upon receipt, each manuscript is assigned a content editor who is responsible with its evaluation.
The blind peer review process is generally completed within a timeframe of 30 to 60 days, depending on the journal's editorial workflow.
The evaluation proceeds with the following major steps:
1. The content editor must ensures that chosen reviewers are independent of the authors (i.e. not affiliated with the same institution. The manuscript may be rejected without a peer review if the content editor establishes that it does not conform to the basic requirements of Annals of Spiru Haret University. Economic Series editorial policy, including authenticity, originality, formatting, submission guidelines, etc. Likewise, a content editor may reject the manuscript if he/she believes that the content of the manuscript is not appropriate for the topics and interests of Annals of Spiru Haret University. Economic Series, or if it is established that the manuscript clearly lacks in scientific quality to the extent that the probability of it being accepted through the blind peer review would be too low to justify the waiting time for the author.
2. If the manuscript is rejected at the initial review, the content editor notifies the author of this decision. Otherwise, the content editor forwards the manuscript (with the authors name removed) to two peer reviews for evaluation and notifies the author that the manuscript has been accepted for a blind peer review.
3. Each peer reviewer evaluates the manuscript and submits to the content editor a referee report along with one of the following recommendations:
- Accept submission - publishable without revisions
- Revisions required - conditionally publishable with minor revisions
- Resubmit for review- potentially publishable with major revisions (revise and resubmit)
- Decline submission - not publishable
- Resubmit elsewhere - not publishable
- See comments
4. The content editor weighs the recommendations of the two peer reviewers and takes a decision on whether to accept the manuscript for publication as is, reject the manuscript without further review, or proceed with soliciting the revisions recommended by the referees. The content editor communicates the decision along with the referee reports (with the reviewers name removed), and if applicable conditions for revisions, to the author.
5. If it is decided that the manuscript requires revision, the author makes such revisions in accordance with the conditions/recommendations of the content editor and referees, and upon completion, resubmits the manuscript directly the content editor. Upon receipt of the revised manuscript, the content editor may decide to approve it for publication automatically or resubmit it the peer reviewers for reevaluation. In addition to the two original peer reviewers, the content editor may also solicit the opinion of an additional (third) reviewer.
6. Once the manuscript is deemed publishable in its current form, the author is notified of the decision and is provided with a copy of the manuscript in its final publishable form, for approval. Aside from the final approval, the author is required to transfer the copyright to the manuscript to Annals of Spiru Haret University. Economic Series, before the manuscript can be published. We provide a Single Blind Review. Please fill in our registration form, use the article template and then upload your paper without authors'names.
SUBMISSIONS
On logging in to the journal, the Reviewer arrives at the User Home page. By clicking on the role of Reviewer (as a Reviewer may be enrolled under other roles, such as an Author), the Reviewer is led to the Submissions page. This page lists the submissions which the Reviewer has been invited to review or is currently in the process of reviewing. The Submissions queue also notes what round the review is, as some reviews may have entered a second round of reviewing, following the Section Editor's decision that the submission must be "resubmitted for review." This page also provides access to past reviews which the Reviewer has completed for the journal
REVIEW
The Reviewer is invited by email to review a submission, which includes its title and abstract, as well as the journal's URL and a username and password for the Reviewer to use to enter the journal. The journal has the option of using a reviewer option that sends the submission as an email attachment to the Reviewer along with an invitation to review.
In this case, the Reviewer then responds by email <link>. What is described here is the principal method for reviewing (and ensuring complete records of the process), which involves the Reviewer conducting the Review on the journal's web site.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Journal History
The magazine Annals of Spiru Haret University – Economic Series was founded in 2000 at the initiative of two professors of Spiru Haret University: professor Ph. D. Gheorghe Zaman – also corresponding member of the Romanian Academy and professor Ph. D. Constantin Mecu. Between 2004 - 2010 the magazine is headed by professor Ph. D. Constantin Mecu, as editor in chief and associate professor Ph.D. Aurelian A. Bondrea, as deputy editor, both of them vice-rectors of the university. In 2011, associate professor Ph.D. Aurelian A. Bondrea, rector of the university, takes over the presidency as editor in chief and leads the magazine untill present.
The Annals of Spiru Haret University – Economic Series is issued annually starting the year 2000, until 2009. In 2007, the Annals of Spiru Haret University – Economics Series obtained the B quotation of The National Council of Research in Higher Education in Romania, becoming a publication of real scientific interest.
Starting 2010, the annals have a new format, with a four-annual issuance exclusively in English, with both redaction and review conditions comparable to the most rigorous international requirements.
In its pages, the members of the teaching personnel - professors, associate professors, lecturers and teaching assistants active in six economics faculties and distinct specialty departments, as well as in the Central Scientific Research Institute, functioning within Spiru Haret University - present the results of their scientific research. The publication also hosts many studies of professors and researchers from other universities and research institutes all over the world.
The theme of the publication firstly reflects the concern for the modernization of teaching economic science in University: marketing, management, finance, banking, accounting, audit, international economic relations, trade, business, tourism, administrative data processing, politic economy, commercial law, cybernetics, environmental economics, statistics, ethics in economics, insurance, advocacy & lobby , economic philosophy, econometrics etc.
In the published materials are analysed theoretical and practical issues of edification and consolidation of the Romanian market economy, as well as the fundamental directions of the technical and scientific progress, the actual state and ways of its promotion in the Romanian economy, the issue of developing the new world economy, the directions of globalization and contemporaneous economic integration and Romania’s participation to these processes. Also, there are hosted articles that refer to different aspects of economic phenomena from all over the world.
The editing team and the scientific advisors are Romanian intellectual personalities - members of the academy, professors, and specialists in different fields of the practical economic and social activities. As reviewers have been engaged in scientific committee different professors and personalities in economic field coming from economics and academic institutions in our country, like : Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest, West University from Timisoara, The National Scientific Research Institute for Labor and Social Protection Bucharest, The Romanian Court of Auditors, The Body of Expert and Licensed Accountants of Romania – CECCAR, Institute of National Economy and The Economic and Legal Sciences Department from Romanian Academy, etc. Among them, we also find members of the academia, professors and researchers from other countries of the world : United Kingdom, France, Italy, Norway, North Ireland, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Turkey, Slovenia, Republic of Macedonia, Australia, etc.
As a response to the public interest, the publication is sent to libraries in Bucharest and Romania as well as to other universities and economic faculties abroad.
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