The information for this journal was last updated on July 27, 2021.
Timing and selectiveness
At what stage of the publication process does review take place?
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Post-publication review |
Pre-publication review |
No review takes place |
Pre-submission review (including registered reports) |
What quality criteria does your journal use for peer review?
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Methodological rigour and correctness |
Anticipated impact (either within or outside of science) |
Novelty |
Fit with journal's scope |
Other
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What type of reviewers are included in your journal's peer review process?
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Commercial review platforms |
Editor-in-chief |
Wider community / readers |
Editorial committee |
External reviewers suggested and selected by editor(s) |
External reviewers suggested by authors |
To what extent are authors anonimised in your journal's review process?
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Author identities are blinded to editor and reviewer |
Author identities are blinded to reviewer but known to editor |
Author identities are known to editor and reviewer |
To what extent are reviewers anonimised in your journal's review process?
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Reviewers are anonymous (both to authors and other reviewers as well as to readers of the published manuscript) |
Reviewer identities are known to other reviewers of the same manuscript |
Reviewer identities are known to the authors |
Reviewer identities are known to the readers of the published manuscript |
To what extent are review reports accessible?
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Review reports are accessible to authors and editors |
Review reports are accessible to other reviewers |
Review reports are accessible to readers of the published manuscript |
Review reports are publicly accessible |
To what extent does your journal's review process allow for interaction between reviewers and authors?
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No direct interaction between authors and reviewers is facilitated apart from communicating review reports and author responses via editors |
Interaction between reviewers is facilitated |
Author's responses to review reports are communicated to the reviewer |
Interaction between authors and reviewers is facilitated (on top of formal review reports and formal responses to review reports) |
To what extent is your journal's review process structured?
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Structured: Review occurs through mandatory forms or checklists to be filled out by reviewers |
Unstructured: reviewers are free to choose how to organise their review and are not presented questions or criteria for judgement |
Semi-structured: Reviewers are guided by some (open) questions or are presented several criteria for judgement |
To what extent does your journal's review process use specialist statistical review?
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Not applicable (statistics does not play a role in my journal's research area) |
No special attention is given to statistical review |
Incorporated in review (assessing statistics is part of reviewer's and editor's tasks) |
Statistical review is performed by an additional, specialist reviewer |
Statistics review is performed through automatic computer software |
To what extent does your journal accept or use reviews from external sources?
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No reviews from external sources are used |
Reviews from other (partner) journals accompanying manuscripts rejected elsewhere are used |
Reviews from commercial review platforms are used |
Reviews performed by the wider community (i.e. not by invited or targeted reviewers) are used (e.g. reviews on public forums) |
Other
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What forms of digital tools are used in your journal's review process?
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No digital tools are used |
Digital tools to check references are used (e.g. to check for references to retracted articles, or references to articles published in predatory journals) |
Plagiarism detection software is used |
Digital tools to assess validity or consistency of statistics are used |
Digital tools to detect image manipulation are used |
Other
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To what extent does your journal's review process allow for reader commentary after publication of a manuscript?
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No direct reader commentary is facilitated |
Reader commentary is facilitated on the journal's website |
Out-of-channel reader commentary is facilitated (e.g. by providing links to commentary on other platforms such as PubPeer) |