Peer Review

There are two review processes for each article in Bank Parikrama:

(I) Preliminary Review: Editorial Committee checks the suitability of the paper for Bank Parikrama and similarity index of the paper with a plagiarism software.

(II) Double Blind Peer Review: Editorial Committee selects two reviwers for each article who are renowned for the related area in national or international level. There is a token of honorarium for reviwing each article. In order to maintain uniformity of standard in review, reviewer(s) may kindly base his/her evaluation and comments on the following Review Sheet.

1. Review Criteria (please circle the applied number)

Criteria	(Low)      (Medium)       (High)
1. Clarity of the Research	1	2	3	4	5
2. Uniqueness of the Research	1	2	3	4	5
3. The Importance of the Research, and Contribution to the Field	1	2	3	4	5
4. Adequacy of Research Methodology	1	2	3	4	5
5. Adequacy of Literature Review and References	1	2	3	4	5
6. Clarity of Conclusions	1	2	3	4	5
7. Clarity of Structure and Logic	1	2	3	4	5
8. Readability	1	2	3	4	5
TOTAL	40

2. Acceptance/ Rejection of the Manuscript

Please classify the manuscript into one of the following categories:

_____Accept as is, no areas of improvement.

_____Revise and resubmit, the manuscript needs to make major revisions before it would be acceptable for publication (please list these revisions).

_____Reject, the manuscript is not publishable (please comment the reasons of the rejection).

3. Comments (Please provide comments on the strengths of the paper, the areas of weakness and areas for improvement. Authors will get an anonymous copy of your comments.)

4. Strengths of the Paper:

5. Areas of Weakness:

6. Areas for Improvement: