Review Process

Submission of Manuscripts

Upon the arrival of a manuscript submission to Clepsydra, this undergoes a preliminary evaluation by both the Editorial Board and the Management Team.

If its admission is deemed pertinent, the article will be assigned to an editor, who will oversee the process of double-blind peer review and subsequent phases until the completion of the entire editorial process.

Double-Blind Peer Review

If the section to which the submission is assigned requires evaluation, the editor will designate two or more reviewers to issue their respective recommendations.

If the manuscript, in light of the reviewers’ recommendations, requires modifications, the editor will request the author to improve his/her article according to the reviewers’ indications. In the case that the recommended modifications are of a major nature, the manuscript may undergo another review round.

During the evaluation process, the journal will ensure the anonymity of both the authorship and the review team.

Submission of Improvements by Authors

In the case that the manuscript requires corrections and/or amendments, the author will be informed by the editor responsible for overseeing the process to incorporate the recommended improvements into the manuscript.

Once the modifications to the text are made, the author must submit his/her revised version.

Additional Reviewer Check

In order to ensure more accurate compliance with the reviewers’ recommendations, the process includes the creation of an additional review round to enable a further assessment of the revised manuscript following the author’s corrections. For this final evaluation, external reviewers will use a simplified form to provide their comments on the revised version of the manuscript.

If the reviewers consider that the corrections are satisfactory, the manuscript will proceed within the editorial workflow to the Editorial and Production stages.

If, on the contrary, further modifications are required, and these are deemed appropriate by the editor responsible for the manuscript, it will be submitted to an additional round of blind peer review, involving the same reviewers.