Peer Review Process

Reviewers of renowned prestige in the field of the sciences of History and of Education or alternatively from other fields related to the articles submitted for review. As this is a scientific journal, they must be doctors, regardless of their professional affiliation.

An open list of candidates will be drawn up, mainly comprising people from outside the Society (non members). Each article received will be submitted to a blind review by 2 experts. Should one of the experts be a member of SHE, it shall be ensured that the other reviewer is not. Should the article submitted to review deal with the terminology of a specific field, it shall be ensured that one of the reviewers, at least, is an expert in this field or in linguistic mediation in this field (terminology, technical writing, translation).

The review is open, in the sense that the reviewers sign their comments.

Estimated time for reviews: 4 weeks.

Ensuring a Blind Peer Review

To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties:

1. The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.
2. With Microsoft Office documents, author identification should also be removed from the properties for the file (see under File in Word), by clicking on the following, beginning with File on the main menu of the Microsoft application: File > Save As > Tools (or Options with a Mac) > Security > Remove personal information from file properties on save > Save.
3. With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.