Peer review is of paramount importance both for the journals and for the researchers who author the papers. Peer reviewing procedure not only elevates the standards of scholarly communications in manuscripts but also supports the authors to improve the quality of their papers. In fact, the outcome for publication is the result of incessant attempts of the reviewers who assess and refine each paper before publication. However, expert knowledge of editor-in-chief in each scientific journal cannot be compatible with the topic of every article submitted. Therefore, the constructive comments and feedbacks of various reviewers, meticulously selected for each topic, guarantee the quality of the published papers and accelerate the process of decision making by the editor-in-chief. Avicenna Research Institute (ARI) as the publisher of two medical journals, Journal of Reproduction and Infertility (JRI) and Avicenna Journal of Medical Biotechnology (AJMB), adheres to such systematic procedure and is committed to apply double-blind peer reviewing process based on the COPE’s Code of Conduct and Best Practices and ICMJE's Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work.

The decision to publish a paper is mainly based on an editorial assessment. After the submission of the paper, the editor-in-chief verifies the relevance of the article to the journals’ policy for publishing and then assigns associate editors for initial evaluation. The prime purpose is to decide whether to select the paper for blind reviews and to make a swift decision for non-eligible manuscripts. Papers which do not meet basic requirements or are unlikely to be published because of their lack of novelty or irrelevance to the discipline may be rejected at this point in order to avoid delays to authors who may wish to seek publication elsewhere.

Assigned associate editors and reviewers should inform the editor-in-chief of any potential conflicts with the submitted manuscript; for instance, any conflicts resulting from competitive, collaborative or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies or institutions should be announced. Apart from declaring conflicts of interests, authors must specify any sources of funding (institutional, private and corporate financial support) for the work reported in their paper. Any suppliers of materials should be named and their location (city, country) included if appropriate. Moreover, the identity of reviewers is confidential unless having permission to unfold them. Authors, reviewers, and editors must mutually make their correspondence confidential unless explicitly stated otherwise. Authors who trust our publisher agree to retain copyright and publishing rights. They give the permission to the publisher to publish and distribute the work under a final agreement that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship.