The Netherlands Journal of Critical Care (Neth. J. Crit. Care) is committed to maintaining high standards of scientific quality, editorial integrity, and publication accuracy. Our efficient and rigorous peer-review, editorial assessment, and production processes are designed to ensure that published content meets the journal's academic and ethical standards.

Editorial Quality Control

All submitted manuscripts undergo an initial editorial assessment to evaluate their relevance, originality, scientific quality, ethical compliance, and suitability for the journal.

Peer-Review Quality Control

Manuscripts considered suitable for external evaluation undergo the journal's single-blind peer-review process. Qualified reviewers assess the scientific validity, methodology, originality, relevance, clarity, and ethical aspects of the work.

Plagiarism and Originality Checks

Manuscripts may be screened using Turnitin or an equivalent similarity-detection system to identify potential plagiarism, duplicate publication, and inappropriate reuse of published material.

Ethical and Research Integrity Checks

The editorial team evaluates compliance with relevant research-ethics and publication standards, including appropriate ethical approval, informed consent, conflict-of-interest disclosure, authorship, data integrity, and other applicable requirements.

Editorial and Production Quality

Accepted manuscripts undergo proofreading, copyediting, formatting, reference checking, and other production checks before publication. Authors may be provided with proofs to identify and correct errors before final publication.

Final Quality Assessment

Before publication, the editorial and production teams conduct a final review to ensure that the article is complete, accurately formatted, properly referenced, and consistent with the journal's publishing standards.

Through this rigorous peer-review and production process, the Netherlands Journal of Critical Care strives to maintain the high quality, reliability, integrity, and consistency of its published research and to provide readers with trustworthy scholarly content.