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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The paper was prepared in strict accordance with Authors Guidelines and you used template.
  • You prepared paper versions for editors and for blind review. Please, check before you submit that version for blind review does not contain any author's details.
  • The paper is original, which means it has not been published in another peer-reviewed journal. If you have already submitted your manuscript to another journal, please be sure to respect any contingent exclusivity condition.
  • You claim to have read the copyright notice published on the website.

Author Guidelines

Article Originality

The paper must be an original work, which means it has not been published in another peer-reviewed journal. We accept final versions of articles whose preliminary version has been accepted and published at a conference, since peer review and contribution is part of the refinement process in writing academic articles.

Article length and text requirements

The full text of the article should have 5000-8000 words, including references, 12, 1,5 spaced, Times New Roman

The manuscript should contain:

an abstract with up to 150 words; 

3-5 keywords related to the article.

The article's text must have structure, including an introduction, conclusion, and references, as compulsory elements.

References and in-text citations must use APA Citation Style.

Please use the template provided to help you out.

Articles can be written in co-authorship (up to 4 authors).

International co-authorship is mostly welcome.

At least one author must have a Ph.D. or an equivalent academic degree.

Large Language Models (LLMs), including tools such as ChatGPT, do not meet the journal’s authorship criteria. Authorship implies intellectual contribution, accountability, and responsibility for the integrity, accuracy, and originality of the work, all of which must be attributable to identifiable natural persons. As LLMs cannot assume legal, ethical, or academic responsibility, they cannot be listed as authors or co-authors. Any use of LLMs is therefore limited to auxiliary functions (such as linguistic or stylistic assistance) and must be transparently disclosed, with full responsibility remaining with the human author(s).

Author contributions

For transparency, we encourage authors to submit an author statement file outlining their contributions to the paper using the relevant CRediT roles (Contributor Roles Taxonomy: see at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/leap.1210): Conceptualization; Data curation; Formal analysis; Funding acquisition; Investigation; Methodology; Project administration; Resources; Software; Supervision; Validation; Visualization; Roles/Writing - original draft; Writing - review & editing. Authorship statements should be formatted with the names of authors first and CRediT role(s) following.

Term Definition
Conceptualization Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims
Methodology Development or design of methodology; creation of models
Software Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components
Validation Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/ reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs
Formal analysis Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data
Investigation Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection
Resources Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools
Data Curation Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later reuse
Writing - Original Draft Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation)
Writing - Review & Editing Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre-or postpublication stages
Visualization Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/ data presentation
Supervision Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team
Project administration Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution
Funding acquisition Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication

 

Peer Review Policy and Statement

The journal adopts a double-blind, editorial-led peer review process, designed to ensure academic rigor, impartiality, transparency, and efficiency.

All submissions undergo an initial editorial desk review to assess compliance with the journal’s aims and scope, originality, ethical standards, and author guidelines. Manuscripts that meet the minimum criteria proceed to peer review.

Each manuscript is evaluated by two independent author-reviewers, selected based on subject-matter expertise, and one editorial reviewer. In the double-blind process, the identities of both authors and reviewers are concealed throughout the review stage.

Author-reviewers assess the manuscript’s scholarly contribution, originality, methodological soundness, and relevance to the field. The editorial reviewer evaluates coherence, clarity, citation standards, and compliance with ethical and editorial requirements. Editorial tools, including AI-assisted analysis, may be used in a supportive capacity to enhance quality control, consistency, and integrity checks, without replacing human editorial judgment.

Based on reviewer reports and editorial assessment, manuscripts may be:

  • accepted without revision;
  • accepted subject to minor or major revisions; or
  • rejected due to substantive deficiencies.

When revisions are required, authors must submit a revised manuscript that addresses all reviewer and editorial comments, along with a response detailing how each point was addressed. Revised submissions are reassessed before a final editorial decision is made.

All editors and reviewers must declare any actual or potential conflicts of interest prior to participation in the review process. Individuals with conflicts related to the authors, institutions, funding sources, or subject matter are excluded to preserve independence and impartiality.

The journal aims to ensure an efficient review process. The initial desk review is typically completed within 7–10 days, peer review reports are generally returned within 3–4 weeks, and authors are usually granted 2–4 weeks to complete revisions, depending on the scope.

Special issues will undergo the same peer review standards.

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Copyright Notice

Copyright in all manuscripts published in this journal remains with the respective author(s). Authors retain full copyright without transfer of ownership and grant the journal a non-exclusive license to publish, distribute, and make the work publicly available in accordance with the journal’s open-access and publication policies.

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