JDIS applies a single-blind peer review process. All submissions will be evaluated first by an Editor-in-Chief or an Vice Editor-in-Chief who checks suitability for JDIS. Then, research and review articles considered in scope and of sufficient quality will be sent to two or three external reviewers. It usually takes five weeks from when the article is sent out for review to the first decision.

All articles submitted to JDIS will be checked using the iThenticate. Manuscripts that are detected to have a high Similarity Index Percentage and verified not to be caused by the duplication with authors' own preprints will be returned to the authors without further peer review.

JDIS will publish an official retraction of the paper for suspected plagiarism in a published article. The mechanism follows the guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), which can be accessed at https://publcationethics.org/retraction-guidelines