The Reviewer Guidelines page provides guidance to reviewers who have been invited to evaluate manuscripts submitted to The Compass. It outlines the responsibilities, ethical expectations, review criteria, and best practices to ensure a fair, objective, constructive, and timely peer review process.
The Compass greatly values the contribution of its reviewers. Peer- reviewers play an essential role in maintaining the quality, integrity, and scholarly standards of the Journal by providing independent, objective, and constructive evaluations of submitted manuscripts.
The purpose of these Reviewer Guidelines is to support reviewers throughout the peer review process by outlining their responsibilities, ethical expectations, evaluation criteria, and best practices. By following these guidelines, reviewers help ensure that every manuscript receives a fair, confidential, timely, and academically rigorous assessment.
Before agreeing to review a manuscript, reviewers should consider whether they :
Reviewers are requested to evaluate manuscripts with respect to :
If unable to review, reviewers are requested to inform the Editor promptly.
Reviewers are requested to evaluate manuscripts with respect to:
Review reports should:
Begin with a brief summary of the manuscript.
Highlight the strengths of the work.
Identify areas requiring improvement.
Provide specific, constructive, and respectful comments.
Clearly distinguish between major and minor revisions.
Support recommendations with academic reasoning.
Reviewers must :
Destroy or delete manuscript files after completing the review, where appropriate.
Reviewers should decline a review invitation if they have any financial, professional, institutional, or personal relationship that could influence their judgement. Any potential conflict of interest should be disclosed to the Editor immediately.
Reviewers should notify the Editor if they identify :
Reviewers should not upload confidential manuscripts to publicly available Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools or services. AI tools may be used only where permitted by the Journal and must never replace the reviewer's independent academic judgement. Reviewers remain fully responsible for the content, recommendations, and confidentiality of their review.
Upon completing the evaluation, reviewers should recommend one of the following editorial outcomes. These recommendations assist the Editor in making an informed publication decision.
Editorial Decision: Reviewer recommendations are carefully considered during the editorial process. The final decision regarding acceptance, revision, or rejection rests solely with the Editor.
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