- Articles submitted to the Publishing House of the Internal Security Agency are subject to content-related evaluation by at least two reviewers.
- Authors and reviewers are anonymous to each other (double-blind review process).
- The process of review is conducted via the editorial tab (after the reviewer has received an e-mail form the Publishing House of the Internal Security Agency including link to the editorial tab). The reviewers complete the Review form of the article submitted for publication in the scientific journal „Terrorism – studies, analyses, prevention”
- In exceptional cases reviewers may be required to submit Reviewer’s declaration of no conflict of interest between the reviewer and the author of the article in the scientific journal “Terrorism – studies, analyses, prevention” in its electronic version (scan) via the editorial tab.
- During the process of evaluation, reviewers analyse the original and creative presentation of issues, the relevance of article’s content, comprehensibility and consistency of theses and conclusions, article’s structure, its applicability to current research methods, topics and cited literature as well as the references applied.
- Reviews unequivocally state whether an article should be accepted for publication (without changes or including changes suggested by reviewers) or not.
- In case of receiving two mutually exclusive reviews, the Publishing House of the Internal Security Agency appoints another reviewer (or other reviewers). On the basis of all the reviews the Publishing House of the Internal Security Agency decides whether the article should be published or not.
- The author obtains the access to the Review form… and is obliged to refer to each reviewer’s comments. After that the article may become subject to a subsequent review.
- In case of the contrary positions of the reviewer and the author it is the Editor-in-Chief together with the members of the Academic Editorial Board who decide on the future of the article.
- The list of reviewers cooperating with the journal is published both in its printable and electronic versions as well as on the Internal Security Agency official website once a year.