College and department faculty have a hard time defining the academic journal review process followed by different academic journals. What exactly does editorial review, blind review, blind-peer review, and double-blind peer review mean?
Editorial review = first stage of review when the Chief Editor vets a paper to see if it is broadly suitable for the journal. Then he/she sends it for peer review. (In some journals there is only the editorial review stage, but these are journals far less prestigious than peer reviewed journals.)
Blind review = where the author does not know the names/positions of the reviewers (This is typically done by peers, so see below).
Blind peer review = review of a paper by anonymous peers in the field ('experts' ) drawn from a world-wide repository of journal reviewers. The author does not know their names/position/institution (hence "blind").
Double-blind peer review = same as blind peer review except the reviewers also don't know the name of the author (s). (So reviewers could reject a paper by a world famous author -- and occasionally they do.)
To this I would add:
Administrative review = review by a journal admin person who vets a paper for word length, etc before it is sent to the Chief reviewer.
Editorial review = first stage of review when the Chief Editor vets a paper to see if it is broadly suitable for the journal. Then he/she sends it for peer review. (In some journals there is only the editorial review stage, but these are journals far less prestigious than peer reviewed journals.)
Blind review = where the author does not know the names/positions of the reviewers (This is typically done by peers, so see below).
Blind peer review = review of a paper by anonymous peers in the field ('experts' ) drawn from a world-wide repository of journal reviewers. The author does not know their names/position/institution (hence "blind").
Double-blind peer review = same as blind peer review except the reviewers also don't know the name of the author (s). (So reviewers could reject a paper by a world famous author -- and occasionally they do.)
To this I would add:
Administrative review = review by a journal admin person who vets a paper for word length, etc before it is sent to the Chief reviewer.
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