Information for Reviewers

Reviewers for Economic Thought Journal are guided in their work by the Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

 

Contributing to the decisions of the Editorial Board

Reviews guide editorial decisions and facilitate communication between authors and editors to improve manuscripts. As an essential component of scholarly communication, the Editorial Board of Economic Thought Journal believes that scholars who submit to academic journals have a responsibility to participate in the peer review process.

Preparedness

Any person selected as a reviewer who feels inadequately qualified to review the research underlying a manuscript, or knows that they cannot meet the review deadline, should notify the Editorial Board immediately and not commit to writing the review so that it can be assigned to another reviewer.

 

Confidentiality

All manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. Under no circumstances may they be shown to or discussed with others except with the permission of the Editor-in-Chief (in exceptional and extraordinary circumstances). This obligation also applies to persons invited as reviewers who have declined to write a review.

 

Standards of objectivity

Reviews should be written in compliance with standards of objectivity. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate and unacceptable. Reviewers should express their views clearly and provide relevant arguments in favour of their opinions.

 

Reference to sources

Any claim that an observation, theoretical conclusion, or argument has already been described in the scientific literature must be accompanied by a relevant citation. In addition, the reviewer must notify the Editorial Board of any significant similarity or overlap between the manuscript under review and other published material personally known to the reviewer.

 

Disclosure and prevention of conflicts of interest

Strictly confidential information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and may not be used for personal gain. Reviewers should recuse themselves when conflicts of interest exist due to competition, collaboration, or other relationships with authors, their organisations, or institutions connected to the manuscript.