Peer Review Policy and Guidelines

Peer Review Policy and Guidelines

LLIDS follows a double-blind peer review policy which entails that the identities of both the author(s) and the reviewer(s) are kept confidential from each other. To ensure the same, we enforce that the reviewers are chosen from different institutions than the authors. Reviewers are selected keeping in mind that their subject area as well as their level of educational qualifications match with that of the author. Authors are encouraged to participate in the peer review process.

The Peer Reviewers are to abide by the following guidelines:

1. To be objective and constructive in their reviews, so as to help authors improve upon their work.

2. To refrain from being hostile or inflammatory and from making libellous or derogatory personal comments.

3. To not check the files sent for Peer Review through any plagiarism checker, as they tend to include the uploaded copy in the plagiarism report generated by the LLIDS team, which essentially fudges up the plagiarism results for us.

4. To declare all potential conflict of interests, discussing the same with the LLIDS team if they are unsure whether something constitutes a relevant interest.

5. To respect the confidentiality of the double-blind peer review policy followed by LLIDS, by keeping the contents and details of all submissions as well as their reviews confidential, during and after the peer-review process.

6. To not use information obtained during the peer-review process for their own or any other person’s or organization’s advantage or disadvantage, or to discredit others.

7. To provide LLIDS up-to-date and accurate personal/professional information to LLIDS. This information should include a specific description of their expertise, current university/institute affiliations, graduated/pursuing educational degrees, research interests, and any other information pertaining to academic engagements.