All manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Mountain Science (JMS) will be subjected to crosschecking, and then assigned to Scientific Editors (SE) for initial review. SE will make three types of recommendation:(1) Rejection; (2)Revision; (3) sent out for peer-review. After that, the manuscript recommended "sent out for peer-review" will be sent for peer review.
A manuscript may be rejected in the first step--crosschecking. If a manuscript has high similarity with the previously published literature (including the authors' themselves), then it will be rejected directly.
During the initial review stage, the SE will make recommendation to reject a manuscript because of the following reasons:
(1) It is outside the scope of the journal;
(2) The research is the repetition of old knowledge;
(3) The experiment design has serious defects;
(4) The languge is extremely poor that may affect understanding;
(5) The whole article lacks of logic organization.
The peer-reviewer may recommend reject for similar reasons. But peer-reviewers will give more specific comments on a manuscript.