1. Accept Only Suitable Review Assignments

Reviewers should accept an assignment only when they have sufficient expertise and knowledge to evaluate the manuscript. Reviewers should decline assignments outside their competence.

2. Complete Reviews on Time

Reviewers should complete their evaluations within the period requested by the editorial team. If additional time is required, reviewers should inform the editor as soon as possible.

3. Maintain Independence

Reviewers must provide independent assessments and must not allow personal, professional, institutional, financial, or other relationships to influence their recommendations.

4. Protect Confidential Information

Reviewers must protect all unpublished information contained in manuscripts and must not use such information for their own research, publication, teaching, or professional advantage.

5. Report Ethical Concerns

Any suspected plagiarism, duplicate submission, fabricated data, manipulated results, citation manipulation, authorship concerns, or other ethical problems should be reported confidentially to the editor.