TMS ALGARVE 2022: Sustainability Challenges in Tourism, Hospitality and Management

Peer Review Process

All papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the Scientific Board. Double-blind peer review is the norm adopted by this conference.

Reviewers are essential for the validation of scientific works. Each reviewer will be asked to evaluate following aspects of papers:

1. Originality and relevance of the paper (does the paper address a research gap?)

2. Abstract (does the abstract represent a good synthese of 150-180 words of the paper?)

3. Introduction and Objectives (are they clearly presented?)

4. Literature review (does the paper use relevant and recent literature? Does it cite adequately?)

5 - Methods (are methods appropriate and clearly presented?)

6 - Results (are results clearly presented?)

7 - Discussion (are results discussed and compared to previous studies?)

8 - Conclusions and Implications (are they relevant?)

9 - Scientific Contribution (does the paper make a relevant contribution?)

10 - Quality of the manuscript regarding the academic writing.

11 - OVERALL ASSESSMENT of the paper as a Whole.

Then, the reviewer is asked to take one of the following decisions:

The paper should be REJECTED (explain reasons in the text box below)
The paper can be ACCEPTED without further improvements (please justify in the text box below)
MINOR REVISIONS needed as explained in the text box below
MAJOR REVISIONS needed as explained in the text box below

Besides, the reviewer is asked to write a review report explaining the above. Constructive suggestions for improvement are much appreciated.