Journal

Quoted Text of Journal’s
Paper Submission Policy
Statement

No Comprehensive Blind Review
Policy:
367 = 55.52%

Only
Prepare
Paper for Author-Anonymous Review:

122=18.45%

Explicit Unspecified Blind Review:
43 = 6.5%

Explicit Author-Anonymous Review:
15 = 2.26%

Explicit Double-Blind Review:
113 = 17%

Explicit
Strict Blind Submission Procedure:
1 = 0.0151%

Abstracta

“We practice blind selection and blind review. So authors are required to submit their work in the following format: The author's name and institutional affiliation are not to appear in the manuscript. References to the author's own work must be cast in such a way that they do not reveal the author's identity. Acknowledgements that could allow a reader to deduce the author's identity must be removed for the initial review. In a separated file there must be the author’s name, the article’s title, keywords, the author’s e-mail address and the author’s institutional affiliation.”

 

 

 

 

 

The Acorn

“Papers about which there is some question regarding either quality or appropriateness are presented for blind review to members of our editorial board.”

 

 

 

 

 

Acta Analytica

“In order to accommodate anonymous refereeing, the author’s name and address should appear on a separate sheet and should not be repeated in the text.

“Blind title page A page giving only the title without the authors' names should be provided for use in the review process. Do not include author(s) name(s) in the text or page header.”

 

 

 

 

 

Acta Biotheoretica

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Acta Philosophica

“The works received will be submitted by the Editorial Board to the judgment of blind referees.

“Article submissions should include a brief curriculum of the author and should be addressed to the Editorial Office of «Acta Philosophica»…. Ordinarily it is sufficient to email the collaborative file in Word or RTF format. The Editorial Secretary will then submit these files to the blind referees and inform the author within three months, in writing, if the article has been accepted for publication.”

 

 

 

 

 

Acta Philosophica Fennica

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

African Journal of Business Ethics

“For purposes of quality assurance all manuscripts received are subjected to a double blind peer review process.”

 

 

 

 

 

Aesthetic Investigations

“Peer Review Process

“1. Upon a text's submission the secretary to the editor checks to see whether the text complies with the style-sheet. The secretary's criteria: correct English, relevant subject matter, intelligible argument, ready for anonymous refereeing.

“Submission Preparation Checklist

”7. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring Anonymous Review have been followed.” The link to this page does not work.

In Philos-L announcement:

“It is Open Access and anonymously reviewed.

“Our website facilitates that articles be submitted in anonymised form, for the sake of blind reviewing, and that biographical details and a 150 words abstract are provided in a separate file.”

 

 

 

 

 

The Age of Human Rights Journal

“At least two anonymous referees will evaluate the unsigned manuscripts submitted for publication to The AHR Journal.”

 

 

 

 

 

Agriculture & Human Values

“Double-blind peer review

“This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit:

   A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided.

    A separate title page, containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page.”

 

 

 

 

 

AI & Society

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Aisthema

No fully accessible English language website. From the Philos-L announcement: “Aisthema (from the Greek  αἴσθημα, "perception") is a new open access electronic Journal, based on a blind peer-reviewed process, etc.”

 

 

 

 

 

AJOB Neuroscience

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly

“Manuscripts are blind reviewed. Those that pass an initial review by the Editor or an Associate Editor will be sent to one or more external referees.”

 

 

 

 

 

American Dialectic

“Manuscripts should be prepared for blind review, and should include a brief abstract on the title page along with your name, contact information, and institutional affiliation.

 

 

 

 

 

American Journal of Bioethics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

American Journal of Jurisprudence

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

American Journal of Philology

“The Journal follows a policy of blind and anonymous reviewing. Authors are asked to prepare their manuscripts so that their own identities are not revealed to editorial readers. The first two pages should be unnumbered: (1) a cover page with the title of the manuscript, the author’s name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address; and (2) an abstract of 100 or fewer words (repeat the title of the article on the abstract page to identify it).”

 

 

 

 

 

American Journal of Physics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

American Journal of Semiotics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

American Journal of Theology & Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

American Philosophical Quarterly

“In both cases [Articles and Discussions], there will be double-blind refereeing, as described in the Editorial Procedures.

“In order to ensure anonymity of submissions, authors using Word are advised to go to "File...Properties..." and delete all author-identifying information, under all tabs.

“Submissions should be sent to the editor as an email attachment, with the prefix APQ in the subject line of the message.”

 

 

 

 

 

Analecta Hermeneutica

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Analecta Husserliana

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Analyse & Kritik

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Analysis

“We practise triple anonymity: the Editor receives the submissions in anonymous form, as do referees, and authors are not informed of the identity of referees.

“Manuscripts should be sent in anonymous form, and include an abstract of no more than 100 words and a list of keywords, which will be published only in the online version. A separate file/sheet should give the author’s details, including the email address.”

 

 

 

 

 

Analysis and Metaphysics

“Anonymity

We do not release reviewers’ identities to authors or to other reviewers, except when reviewers specifically ask to be identified. Unless they feel strongly, however, we prefer that reviewers should remain anonymous throughout the review process and beyond. Before revealing their identities, reviewers should consider the possibility that they may be asked to comment on the criticisms of other reviewers and on further revisions of the manuscript; identified reviewers may find it more difficult to be objective in such circumstances. We ask reviewers not to identify themselves to authors without the editor's knowledge. If they wish to reveal their identities while the manuscript is under consideration, this should be done via the editor, or if this is not practicable, we ask authors to inform the editor as soon as possible after the reviewer has revealed his or her identity to the author. We deplore any attempt by authors to confront reviewers or determine their identities. Our own policy is to neither confirm nor deny any speculation about reviewers' identities, and we encourage reviewers to adopt a similar policy.

“Double blind peer review

All papers in this journal have undergone editorial screening and anonymous double-blind peer review. All material submitted to our journal will be reviewed by the Editorial team. Papers may be rejected without full peer review, remaining papers will be sent for external peer review. Our journal operates a double-blind peer review process and aims to provide rapid peer review with papers receiving a first decision within an average of 30 days.”

 

 

 

 

 

Analytic Philosophy

“Submissions should be prepared for blind review.”

 

 

 

 

 

Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis

“Articles should be approximately 4000-8000 words, e-mailed as a word document or RTF, and prepared for ‘blind-review’ (with author’s name and institutional affiliation appearing on a separate page).”

 

 

 

 

 

αnalytica

“All unsolicited submissions will be refereed anonymously.

“- please make sure that all identifying information has been omitted.”

 

 

 

 

 

Ancient Philosophy

“Since Ancient Philosophy has adopted the policy of ' blind review ', information identifying the author should only appear on a separate page.”

 

 

 

 

 

Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities

“Peer Review Policy:

All research articles published in General Issues of the journal have undergone peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees. Articles published in Special Issues of the journal are normally on invitation.”

 

 

 

 

 

Annales Philosophici

“Contributions to Annales Philosophici will be subjected to review by referees at the discretion of the Editorial Office.

“Neither the name(s) of the author(s) nor any institutional affiliation may be shown in the paper itself, and all references to an author’s own work(s) must be disguised (e.g. by being made in an impersonal and neutral form) or omitted. Extravagant acknowledgments of gratitude must likewise be omitted. Self-identifying references may be restored after the evaluation process is complete.”

 

 

 

 

 

Annals of Pure and Applied Logic

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Annals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Anthropology of Consciousness

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Anthropos?

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Apeiron

Website inaccessible. “For inquiries regarding submissions please contact Luis Salas at apeiron@austin.utexas.edu .

 

 

 

 

 

Applied Ontology

No mention of blind review,

 

 

 

 

 

Appraisal

“All articles will be subject to blind review.”

 

 

 

 

 

Arabic Sciences and Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Archai

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Archive for Mathematical Logic

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Archives of the History and Philosophy of Medicine

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Argument: Biannual Philosophical Journal

“All articles in the journal are double blind-refereed.”

 

 

 

 

 

Argument & Computation

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Argumentation

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics

“To ensure anonymity in the review process, the author’s name should appear only on the cover page, and nowhere else in the body of the article or the footnotes (self-references should be camouflaged).”

 

 

 

 

 

Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume

“The Society is unusual in that most of the papers it publishes are the result of direct invitations to particular individuals. However, the Society is also willing to consider replies and discussion notes, which will undergo a process of refereeing.

”Papers submitted for blind review should include a cover sheet with the title, author's name, institution, post, e-mail and phone contact details. Wherever possible, there should be no self-identifying references in the text.”

 

 

 

 

 

Ars Disputandi

“Blind review procedures

“To guarantee the quality of published material, all papers will be subjected to blind review.

“All contributions should be submitted as attachments to email-messages addressed to arsdisputandi@uu.nl.”

 

 

 

 

 

Artificial Intelligence

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Artificial Intelligence and Law

“Double-blind peer review

This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit:

    A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided.

    A separate title page, containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page.”

 

 

 

 

 

Asian Journal of Business Ethics

“Double-blind peer review

This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit:

    A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided.

    A separate title page, containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page.”

 

 

 

 

 

Asian Philosophy

“Peer Review Policy:

All research articles published in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.

“Submissions will be seen anonymously by two referees.”

 

 

 

 

 

Augustinian Studies

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Augustinianum

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Auslegung

“Auslegung opposes all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, gender, creed, and national origin.  So the journal subscribes to a blind review policy; the author’s name and academic institution should appear only on a separate cover sheet.”

 

 

 

 

 

Australasian Journal of Logic

“The blind refereeing process requires that the editor send the referees an anonymous manuscript. We use PDF (Portable Document Format) files in the refereeing process. To submit an article for publication to the journal, therefore, we must receive an electronic copy of your manuscript.

“Please ensure that your document is thoroughly anonymous, so that the refereeing process can be truly blind. (In particular, check the ‘Document Properties’ of any PDF file you produce. These may reveal the name of the author.)

“The author who submits the paper to the journal will be treated as the corresponding author of the manuscript, and, in the case of a multiply authored article, this author will be responsible for communicating with the other authors.”

 

 

 

 

 

Australasian Journal of Philosophy

“ScholarOneManuscripts* offers authors the option of supplying a 'cover letter'. The AJP requires authors to include such a letter, which must contain all useful contact information — email address, fax and phone numbers, postal address, etc., plus notification of any expected changes in these details.

“In order to facilitate dispassionate refereeing, neither the name(s) of the author(s) nor any institutional affiliation may be shown in the paper itself, and all references to an author's own work(s) must be disguised (e.g. by being made in an impersonal and neutral form), with journal and book titles/publishers suppressed, or omitted altogether. Acknowledgments of gratitude must likewise be omitted. (Self-identifying references may be restored after the evaluation process is complete.)”

 

 

 

 

 

Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy

No mention of peer review.

 

 

 

 

 

Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics

“Papers submitted for publication in the journal will be blind refereed. In order to facilitate double-blind refereeing, the author(s)'s name(s) should not be shown on the manuscript, and all identifying references to the author(s)'s own work(s) should be masked or omitted.”

 

 

 

 

 

Avant

“III. The peer reviewing process:

1. The manuscript is sent out to two external peer reviewers before the possible publication. For this purpose secretariat makes copies of text without author’s personal data and sends them for two reviewers. The peer reviewing process is double-blind.

2. The peer review process in Avant is done by strict specialists in the disciplines. They are outside of the Editorial Board, Advisory Board, publisher and place of affiliation of the author. We have the international Peer Review Board, but in many cases we ask external specialists.

3. The anonymous peer review includes an evaluation of the manuscript and eventual suggestions of amendments.”

 

 

 

 

 

Axiomathes: Where Science Meets Philosophy

“Reviewing Procedure

Axiomathes follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to place their name and affiliation on a separate page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should either be avoided or left blank when manuscripts are first submitted. Authors are responsible for reinserting self-identifying citations and references when manuscripts are prepared for final submission.”

 

 

 

 

 

Azimuth. Philosophical coordinates in Modern and Contemporary Age

“All essays are received by direct invitation of the Editorial board and are all double blind-peer reviewed.”

 

 

 

 

 

Balkan Journal of Philosophy

“To accommodate anonymous refereeing, the author's name and address should appear on a separate sheet and should not be repeated in the text.

“The Balkan Journal of Philosophy follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore required to submit both a complete title page AND a blind title page with their manuscripts.

“The complete title page should include:

    The name(s) of the author(s)

    A concise and informative title

    The institutional affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)

    The e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author

“The blind title page should ONLY give the title of the manuscript. Do NOT include author(s) name(s) in the manuscript text or page header.

“Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should either be avoided or left blank when manuscripts are first submitted.”

 

 

 

 

 

Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication

“Submissions to the Yearbook by contributors to the parallel sessions, authors of disputations, commentaries and critical notes are blind-reviewed.

   “Layout of the Opening Chapter Page

   “The opening page should consist of: the contributor’s name in capital letters, centered, on the first text line.”

 

 

 

 

 

Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics

“Submission Preparation Checklist

“As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

“If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

“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:

“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.

“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.

“With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.”

 

 

 

 

 

Basic Income Studies

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Behavior & Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Behavioral & Brain Sciences

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Berkeley Studies

“Submitted articles must be suitable for blind review and should be submitted to the Senior or Coordinating Editor.”

 

 

 

 

 

The Berlin Journal of Philosophy

“An open-access, peer-reviewed journal that innovates in adhering strictly to simultaneous policies of blind submission, double-blind review, and anti-plagiarism.”

 

 

 

 

 

The Bibliographia

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Bioethics

“Please ensure that the manuscript is ANONYMOUS by putting your name, contact details (including email address), and any self-identifying references in a separate file.”

 

 

 

 

 

Bioethics Research Notes

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Biological Theory

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Biology & Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Brain and Mind

“Reviewing Procedure

Brain and Mind follows a double−blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to place their name and affiliation on a separate page.”

 

 

 

 

 

British Journal for the History of Philosophy

“All submissions should be prepared for blind review, double-spaced and in a font of 12. Name and contact details should be given in a separate document.

“ScholarOneManuscripts*: Title page file: (designate as “file not for reviewif journal is double-blind)

Include:

· Article Title

· Journal name

· The full name and details of the

corresponding author

· The full names and details of all coauthors

of the paper

· Acknowledgements”

 

 

 

 

 

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

“Submissions:

• should be prepared for blind refereeing, with identifying references removed;

• must be prefaced by an abstract of about 100 words;

• need not be in any particular style on initial submission, but if they are accepted for publication we will require a version in the Journal's style;

• should be accompanied by the telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address of the corresponding author.”

 

 

 

 

 

British Journal of Aesthetics

“Articles submitted in appropriate form will be refereed blind.”

 

 

 

 

 

Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture

No website. From Philos-L posting: “Manuscripts should be prepared for blind review. The article itself should contain no reference to the author’s identity. In a separate file, please submit an author sheet with the following information: title of submission, name of author, affiliation, contact information, e-mail address, abstract (no longer than 200 words), and five key words.”

 

 

 

 

 

Bulletin of Symbolic Logic

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Bulletin of the Section of Logic

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Business and Professional Ethics Journal

“COVER LETTER

 

“The cover email letter should include:

Author(s) names and institutional affiliations

Contact information for one author, including at least email address and telephone number.

“Since a blind review process is used, no authors’ name should appear anywhere on the manuscript. In addition, because we share files electronically, it is the authors’ responsibility to strip the file of any other identifying notations, including references in the document’s properties, title, or first-person language in text of references.”

 

 

 

 

 

Business and Society Review

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Business Ethics Journal Review

“The goal of BEJR is to provide a forum for commentary on articles published in peer-reviewed business ethics journals.

“Commentaries are subject to a double-blind peer review process.”

[No Instruction to Authors for preserving authorial anonymity.]

 

 

 

 

 

Business Ethics: A European Review

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Business Ethics Quarterly

“If necessary to preserve anonymity in the review process, authors' names may be replaced with placeholders (e.g., replace "Smith, 2003" with "Author, 2003") and removed from the list of references.  However, the author should, in such cases, provide the editor with an additional document listing these anonymized sources.

In order to avoid compromising the anonymous review process, it is advisable for authors to refrain from presenting their work at conferences while it is under review at BEQ, and to remove any online postings of the manuscript.”

 

 

 

 

 

Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Canadian Journal of Philosophy

“All papers are blindly reviewed and are selected on the basis of whether they make significant, original contributions to the philosophical debates they address.

“All submissions are given blind editorial review. As many submissions as possible are sent to external referees, with a response to authors within six months of submission. When submissions are not sent for external refereeing, CJP endeavours to respond to authors within three months.”

 

 

 

 

 

Chesterton Review

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Chiasmi International

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Childhood & Philosophy

“All submissions will be anonymously reviewed by at least two members of our board of editorial consultants.”

 

 

 

 

 

Christian Bioethics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Chromatikon: Annales de la philosophie en process/Yearbook of Philosophy in Process

“The journal strongly prefers to receive submissions that are prepared for “blind review :” authors should not be identified in the attachment itself, but only in the body of the e-mail to which the document is attached.”

 

 

 

 

 

Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image

“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.”

 

 

 

 

 

Classical Antiquity

“Submissions are refereed anonymously. Contributors should omit their names and other identifying references from the manuscript, and include a cover letter with name, address, and title of article. Previous publications by the contributor should be referred to in the third person.”

 

 

 

 

 

Classical Quarterly

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Clinical Ethics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

CLR James Journal

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Cogency

“Because the identity of authors is concealed from reviewers (because the process of reviewing is a blind peer review), each manuscript should contain a separate title page containing:

(1) Title

(2) Author name(s),

(3) The author’s full address, including telephone number and e-mail.

The author’s identity should not otherwise be revealed in the manuscript.”

 

 

 

 

 

Cognitive Systems Research

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Collapse Journal of Philosophical Research and Development

No paper submission policy statement, no mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Collingwood and British Idealism Studies

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Comparative Philosophy

“Reviewing Procedure

Comparative Philosophy follows a blind peer reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested not to include their name or affiliation in their submitted papers. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided (with ‘Author’ and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the author’ name, article title, etc.).”

 

 

 

 

 

Comparative and Continental Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Confluence: Online Journal of World Philosophie

“We adopt a double blind reviewing policy, thus ensuring that the identities of both the author and the referees are not revealed during the process. When submitting your article, please ensure that your full name and address (including e-mail address), your institutional affiliation, five to ten keywords, and an abstract appear on a separate page. Your name should not appear on any page; references to your own work should not reveal your identity.”

 

 

 

 

 

Consciousness and Cognition

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Constructivist Foundations

“Before submitting your conceptual, research, synthetic or review paper, make sure that it contains the following parts.

“List of at least 5 potential reviewers who are not in a direct working relation with you and who are qualified for double-blind peer-reviewing your paper”

 

 

 

 

 

Contemporary Aesthetics

“All articles will be blind-refereed except when invited.

“Do not include the author’s name or any other identifying information. Any identifying reference in the endnotes should be left blank.

“An e-mail message with the article as an attachment to Contemporary Aesthetics should be sent to [email address]. Use "Submission" as the subject in the email address block. The message should include (1) the author’s name, (2) the title of the article, (3) an abstract of no more than 150 words, and (4) any relevant information about the author, including institutional affiliation, mailing and e-mail addresses.”

 

 

 

 

 

Contemporary Chinese Thought

“Submission of Manuscripts

Note that these instructions are for previously accepted papers only. Unsolicited

manuscripts are seldom used.”

 

 

 

 

 

Contemporary Pragmatism

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Con-Textos Kantianos

Links provided at Information For Authors page connect to DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology.

 

 

 

 

 

continent.

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Continental Philosophy Review

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Contributions to the History of Concepts

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy

“Apart from book notes all submissions are double-blind reviewed in accordance with our policy.” [One must log in in order to find out what the policy is]

 

 

 

 

 

Criminal Justice Ethics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Criminal Law and Philosophy

“Double-blind peer review

“This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit:

    A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided.

    A separate title page, containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page.”

 

 

 

 

 

Critical Horizons: A Journal of Philosophy & Social Theory

“Refereeing is anonymous unless a referee chooses otherwise. Papers are reviewed blind and it is the author’s responsibility to disguise authorship by appropriate means. When preparing your article for submission please take the following steps:

    “Remove your name entirely from the text. If you cite your own publications be sure to substitute the word ‘author’ for your own personal details and for the actual title of the work cited.

    “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 the file properties on save>Save.

    “On any PDF uploaded, remove the author names from Document Properties found under File on Adobe.”

 

 

 

 

 

Critical Inquiry

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Critical Philosophy of Race

“The journal uses a double-blind review process; please remove all references to or clues about your identity as author(s) from the main text and footnotes.”

 

 

 

 

 

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

“All authors of a manuscript should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the corresponding author. Please give the affiliation where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. … Please note that the email address of the corresponding author will normally be displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal style) and the online article.

“All published research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening, anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees, and consequent revision by article authors when required.”

 

 

 

 

 

Croatian Journal of Philosophy

No author guidelines.

 

 

 

 

 

Cultura. International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology

“Together with the manuscript, the authors must send their actual professional address and the e-mail address.

“All texts are reviewed by two experts. The double-blind peer review process is expected to take 2-3 months or more in some cases.”

 

 

 

 

 

Danish Yearbook of Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy

“Title Page

• The title page should include:

• The name(s) of the author(s)

• A concise and informative title

• The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)

• The e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author

“Blind title page: A page giving only the title without the authors' names should be

provided for use in the review process. Do not include author(s) name(s) in the text or page header.”

 

 

 

 

 

De Ethica

E-mail announcement: “All submissions will be subjected to rigorous blind review. … All submissions must be appropriately anonymized and should be accompanied by a separate file containing an abstract of 150 to 200 words and all relevant author information.”

Website: “The manuscript must be prepared for blind review. This includes making sure that references to the author(s) are removed from the file properties.”

 

 

 

 

 

Décalages: An Althusser Studies Journal

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Deleuze Studies

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Derrida Today

“Review process

All articles are peer-reviewed through a blind reviewing process. All identifying marks should be removed from your submission. Do not include your name anywhere in your article (in running headers and footers, for example), and try as far as possible to remove it from your file Properties.”

 

 

 

 

 

Dialectica

“Dialectica practices double blind refereeing, as well as blind editing, and follows the "Guidelines for the Handling of Manuscripts by the Editors of Philosophy Journals" of the Association of Philosophy Journal Editors.

“The paper must be suitable for blind refereeing. The author's name and institutional affiliation should not appear in the manuscript. References to the author's own work must be cast in such a way that they do not reveal the identity of the manuscript's author. We recommend simply replacing the entire reference, including title and facts of publication, with an expression such as 'author's article', 'author's book', 'author's book 2', etc. Acknowledgements must be removed for the initial review.”

 

 

 

 

 

Dialogue

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Dialogue and Universalism

“Submissions are sent to two referees for blind peer review. To facilitate blind refereeing, the author’s name and address should appear on a detachable title page, but nowhere else in the article. The list of the current referees is available on our website.”

 

 

 

 

 

Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review

“Manuscripts submitted using the ScholarOne system must be prepared for blind refereeing. No identifying references to the author in footnotes, headers, etc. should appear in the manuscript.”

 

 

 

 

 

Dialogues in Philosophy, Mental and Neuro Sciences

“All submitted manuscripts will be firstly evaluated by the editorial staff on thematic suitability. In this first phase only the suitability of the topics (not the quality of the manuscript) will be considered.

“Those manuscripts having passed the thematic suitability screening will be sent to three external and independent anonymous referees (double blind peer review).”

 

 

 

 

 

Diametros

“Submissions should include:

   1) the actual text, which we expect to be in good draft form; it should not include the name of the author,

   2) a separate note about the author (or the authors), giving their names, institutional affiliations, full address information for every author, their e-mail addresses and, should the authors wish, their academic titles, as well as a selection of their publications.

“The review process will respect the following anonymity guidelines:

   (1) All articles submitted to our journal will be reviewed on an anonymous basis. The Editorial Board, however, does not intend to verify that a particular text contains no references to other works of the author which might make it possible to identify him. We therefore ask authors whose texts contain such references to remove them from the initial version of their submission. They can be incorporated later in the final version that will be sent after their text has been accepted for publication.

   (2) We will also respect anonymity in the other direction. The identity of the referee will be unknown to the author, unless the former expressly wishes his name to be disclosed (i.e. not removed from the part of the review form that is destined to be sent to the author). We would prefer, however, that this latter case be the exception rather than the rule. (It might be admissible only in situations where an interesting discussion might result between the referee and the author.)”

 

 

 

 

 

Dilemata: International Journal of Applied Ethics

“Authors should make sure that their names are not included in the text, in order to ensure a blind peer-review process.

”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:

    “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.

    “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.

    “With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.”

 

 

 

 

 

Diogenes

“Diogenes is a 100% double-blind peer-reviewed journal. Typically, a single manuscript is submitted to two reviewers. In case of substantial disagreement between the reviews, or for any other relevant reasons, a third or more double-blind reviews are requested.”

 

 

 

 

 

Dionysius

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Discourse

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Disputatio

“All Unsolicited Contributions to Disputatio are triple-blind refereed: the names and institutional affiliations of authors are not revealed to the Editors, the editorial committee and editorial board, or to the referees. Without the prior permission of the Editors, referees and Board members will not show to other people material supplied to them for evaluation. All published submissions have been anonymously reviewed by at least two referees.

“The evaluation process has up to five sequential stages, as follows:

    Preliminary vetting by a member of the Editorial committee.

    Refereeing, 1

    Refereeing, 2 (referees may be members of the Editorial Board, or indicated by members of the Editorial Board or the Advisory Board).

    Scrutiny of submission and referees’ reports by the Editors.

    Scrutiny of submission, referee’s reports and Editors’ opinion by members of the Editorial committee.

    Final decision by the Editors.

“Submissions are made by email attachment to disputatio@campus.ul.pt. Manuscripts prepared for blind review may be submitted in .doc, .docx, .rtf, PostScript and .pdf.”

 

 

 

 

 

Economics and Philosophy

“The articles must be prepared for anonymous refereeing: that is, a referee should not be able to see or directly infer from the paper who the author is. For instance, instead of writing ‘as I have argued previously in Meier (2003)’, please write ‘as has been argued in Meier (2003)’; instead of putting ‘Name Suppressed, “Free-Will in Economics”, Economics and Philosophy 20: 123-145’, write, for instance, ‘Meier, P. (2003): “Free Will in Economics” Economics and Philosophy 20: 123-145.’”

 

 

 

 

 

Educational Philosophy and Theory

“All published research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening, anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees, and consequent revision by article authors when required.”

 

 

 

 

 

Educational Theory

“Manuscripts are sent out for anonymous review (i.e., reviewers do not know the identity of authors, and authors do not know the identity of reviewers). To preserve the advantages of anonymous reviewing, authors should avoid self-identification in the text as well as in the footnotes of the manuscript.”

 

 

 

 

 

Environmental Ethics

“Submission requirements include one paper copy along with an electronic version. Text should be double-spaced. Include a cover letter and abstract with the manuscript.

“The author’s name should not appear in the manuscript.”

 

 

 

 

 

Environmental Philosophy

“In preparing an article or discussion paper for submission, please:

    Include an article abstract of 100 words maximum

    Include author's name and institutional affiliation with the title on a separate cover page to facilitate blind review.”

 

 

 

 

 

Epekeina. International Journal of Ontology. History and Critics

“Peer Review Process

“Journal operates with a Certified Double Blind Peer Review. All papers considered appropriate for the journal are reviewed anonymously by one or two (sometimes three) reviewers.”

 

 

 

 

 

Episteme

“All self-identifying marks should be removed from the article itself to facilitate blind review. In addition to the article itself, an abstract should be submitted as a separate file (also devoid of author-identifying information).”

 

 

 

 

 

Epistemologia

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy

“Submissions may be sent electronically or by regular mail. A 100 word abstract should be included with each article.  The manuscript should be prepared for blind review with the author's name and affiliation appearing only on the first, detachable page.”

 

 

 

 

 

Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics

“On receiving a submission, the EJPE editors assess its interest for the journal and whether it should be passed on for peer-review. All retained article submissions are anonymously reviewed by 2 to 3 external referees with relevant expertise. Where reviewers disagree substantially, the editors may request further referee reports or arbitrate using their own judgement. The editors may also commission further review of a revised paper by the original referees if they consider it necessary.”

 

 

 

 

 

Ergo

“Ergo uses a triple-anonymous peer review process. The author submits an anonymized manuscript which is reviewed by a section editor (authors have the option to choose which section their submission is sent to: Ancient Philosophy, Feminist Theory, etc.). The section editor issues a decision, advised by external reviewers when appropriate. The managing editors approve this decision except in extraordinary cases, such as negligence or bias on the part of a section editor or reviewer.

“Section editors and reviewers do not know authors' identities, nor are they identified to authors. The managing editors know the identities of all parties.”

 

 

 

 

 

Erkenntnis

“Double-blind peer review

“This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit:

    A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided.

    A separate title page, containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page.”

 

 

 

 

 

Essays in Philosophy

“The Issue Editor has the sole privilege and responsibility on the question of the acceptability of papers. In the case where a reviewer fails to respond in a timely manner, the editor will render a decision without external advice. The Issue Editor has the discretion to use outside reviewers or not, as he/she sees fit.

“All papers will be blind reviewed by the issue editor and reviewers. Only the General Editor will know the identity of the individual submitting a paper.

“Since all reviewing is blind, please do not send your submission to the Issue Editor.

“Papers should be prepared with ‘blind reviewing’ in mind. Specifically, no reference should be made to the author(s) in the essay (including notes).”

 

 

 

 

 

Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics

“Please include a short biographical note about the author and an English abstract of a maximum of 150 words (900 characters with spaces).

   “All articles are anonymously reviewed. Authors’ names should therefore not appear on manuscripts and any reference to the authors’ previous works should be in the third person.”

 

 

 

 

 

Ethical Perspectives

“Manuscripts should be submitted to [email address] and prepared for double blind peer review, i.e. anonymized and including an abstract, keywords and a full bibliography (in CMS).”

 

 

 

 

 

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Ethics

“In addition, please ensure that the manuscript is anonymous by deleting all self-identifying references and any thanks to specific people from the text and notes and putting them in a separate file.”

 

 

 

 

 

Ethics and Information Technology

“Double-blind peer review

This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit:

    A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided.

    A separate title page, containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page.”

 

 

 

 

 

Ethics & Behavior

“To facilitate anonymous review, only the article title should appear on the first page of the manuscript. An attached cover page must contain title, authorship, and an introductory footnote with professional titles and mailing addresses of the authors and any statements of credit or research support. Every effort should be made by the authors to see that the manuscript itself contains no clues to their identities.”

 

 

 

 

 

Ethics & Bioethics (in Central Europe)

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Ethics and Education

“Peer Review Policy:

All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.”

 

 

 

 

 

Ethics & Global Politics

“Title page Organize the title page in the following way: 1) title of manuscript, 2) name of author(s), 3) name of department(s) and institution(s), and 4) name and full postal and email address of the corresponding author who also acts as 'Guarantor' for all parts of the paper. Please observe that the journal adheres to a 'double blind' review process and thus the title page revealing the identity of the authors should be uploaded separately.

“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:

    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.

    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.

    With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.”

 

 

 

 

 

Ethics and Information Technology

“Double-blind peer review

This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit:

    A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided.

    A separate title page, containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page.”

 

 

 

 

 

Ethics & International Affairs

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Ethics and Social Welfare

“This journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts* (previously Manuscript Central) to peer review manuscript submissions. Please read the guide for ScholarOne authors before making a submission. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are provided below.

“All submissions will be subject to anonymous peer review, normally by two referees, and the Editors' decision is final.

“Contributors who wish to reference their own previous publications in their paper are requested to anonymise their work by inserting 'Author' both in the body of the text where their name would normally appear, and also in the bibliography.

“Authors should prepare and upload two versions of their manuscript. One should be a complete text and when uploading this file, authors will then be able to define the non-anonymous version as  ‘File not for review.’

“The second version of the manuscript should have all information identifying the author removed from the file, to allow it to be sent anonymously to referees. This file should be defined as the ‘Main Document.’

“Corresponding authors should provide a full postal address and contact email address. Contributors should also include brief biographical details (not more than three lines) for each author, which may include their institutional affiliation, membership of an organisation and aspects of their biography, including experiences of social difference that they think are important and relevant to their contribution to the journal. These details should be saved as a separate file and defined as ‘Author Bio.’”

 

 

 

 

 

Ethics & the Environment

“Notes should be on a separate sheet at the end of the manuscript. Authors should submit two copies of a manuscript, one completely blinded and one including all author contact information as well as an author bio of approximately 75 words.”

 

 

 

 

 

The Ethics Forum/ Les Ateliers de l’éthique

“Published texts will be selected among the best through double-blind refereeing.”

“Be sure to submit an anonymous file, i.e. one that does not include your name or the names of co-authors, institutional affiliation or explicit references to your identity or previous work in the text or endnotes. You will have the change restore these references and information later on in the process. You should also remove your identity from the file properties by clicking on the following commands:

Windows: File > Save as … > Tools > Security > Remove personal information from this file on save > Save.

Mac: File > Save as … > Options … > (show all) Security > Remove personal information from this file on save > OK.”

 

 

 

 

 

Ethics, Policy & Environment: A Journal of Philosophy & Geography

“Manuscripts should be stripped of any reference to the author(s).  Please send a separate document containing your title page.”

 

 

 

 

 

European Journal for Philosophy of Religion

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

European Journal for Philosophy of Science

“Double-blind peer review

This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit:

    A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided.

    A separate title page, containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page.”

 

 

 

 

 

European Journal of Japanese Philosophy

No mention of blind review in downloadable Call for Papers PDF or at Authors page.

 

 

 

 

 

European Journal of Philosophy

“Format:

Text should be double spaced, and papers should accommodate anonymous refereeing (authors provide their details separately in the submission process).

“Refereeing:

It is the policy of the Journal that all published papers will have undergone a process of anonymous refereeing (i.e will have been anonymously refereed at least once), assuming that they were submitted in suitable format … .”

 

 

 

 

 

European Journal of Political Theory

“The European Journal of Political Theory operates a strictly anonymous peer review process in which the reviewer’s name is withheld from the author and, the author’s name from the reviewer. The reviewer may at their own discretion opt to reveal their name to the author in their review but our standard policy practice is for both identities to remain concealed.”

 

 

 

 

 

European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy

“Papers must be prepared for blind review, omitting self-identifying information (name and address should be placed on a separate word file, and not repeated in the text). All papers are peer reviewed.”

 

 

 

 

 

European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms

“All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double blind and submission is online via Scholar One Manuscripts .”

 

 

 

 

 

European Review of Philosophy

“Manuscripts are reviewed by the Editor(s) of the issue and blind-reviewed by two anonymous referees.

“Submitted papers will be reviewed by the Editors and blind-reviewed by two anonymous referees. For the purpose of blind refereeing, authors are requested not to include their name or affiliation in the manuscript, but in a separate file. Each submission should consist of two distinct files:

    “A frontpage containing the title of the paper, the name and affiliation of the author(s), as well as any acknowledgment.

    “The manuscript of the paper (containing only the title, the abstract and the body of the article).”

 

 

 

 

 

Evental Aesthetics

“Our contributions are selected by our Editorial Board via a rigorous process of anonymous peer-review.

”As Evental Aesthetics is a peer-reviewed journal, the Editors reserve the right to remove the author’s name and affiliation from any piece before it is sent out for review.  Likewise, reviewers’ names and affiliations will remain anonymous.

“All submissions will be peer-reviewed anonymously.”

 

 

 

 

 

Excursions Journal

“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:

    “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.

    “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.

    “With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.”

 

 

 

 

 

Existenz

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Faith and Philosophy

“Submissions must be sent as e-mail attachments (preferably as MS Word documents, although WordPerfect documents are also acceptable).

“The journal strongly prefers to receive submissions that are prepared for ‘blind review’; i.e., authors should not be identified in the attachment itself, but only in the body of the e-mail to which the document is attached.”

 

 

 

 

 

Film and Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Film-Philosophy

“If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, please ensure that it is ready for blind peer-review by removing your name from your document.”

 

 

 

 

 

Filosofija

No English-language website. From Philos-L call for papers: “Submissions should be sent by e-mail attachment to the following electronic addresses: … prepared for blind reviewing. The authors should remove from the body of the paper, the notes and the references all self-identifying references. The name, affiliation and contact information of the authors should be provided

on a separate page.”

 

 

 

 

 

Forum Philosophicum

“In order that manuscripts may be blind-reviewed (i.e. read in ignorance of authorship), the name of the author should be removed from the text.

“Papers submitted for publication in Forum Philosophicum will be subject to a process of peer review that is in line with the regulations established by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

“When appropriate, a preliminary acceptance will first be granted by the Editor-in-Chief.

“Each paper that has received such a preliminary acceptance will then be subject to double-blind review, to be carried out by two referees, both of these being recognized experts in the relevant area of philosophy with no personal or institutional connections whatsoever to the author of the submitted paper.”

 

 

 

 

 

Foucault Studies

“Anonymous papers are required with no mention of the author's name or affiliation appearing. Acknowledgements and references to the author's own work should be removed for the duration of the review process. … Please include your full academic or other affiliation, a brief biographical note and your postal address with your submission, but not in the article intended for review.”

 

 

 

 

 

Foundations of Science

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Frontiers of Philosophy in China

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal

“SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

“The journal accepts electronic submissions by e-mail to gfpj@newschool.edu. Manuscripts should be submitted in Word (.doc) or RTF (.rtf) format.

“Print manuscripts may also be submitted. These must be double-spaced, prepared for blind review, and submitted in triplicate with cover letter, to:

Submissions, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal

Department of Philosophy

New School for Social Research

65 5th Avenue, Room 250

New York, New York 10003 USA

“Authors should include a short biography giving academic affiliation, recent publications and areas of interest, and an abstract (up to 150 words).”

 

 

 

 

 

Grazer Philosophische Studien (International Journal for Analytic Philosophy)

“Except for invited submission for guest-edited special issues, GPS has a strict triple blind review policy, meaning that authors' identities are not revealed to referees or editors during review. Editors only become aware of the identity of an author if and when a paper is accepted for publication.”

 

 

 

 

 

GSTF Journal of General Philosophy

“Submissions will go through independent and professional ‘Blind Peer Review’ process.”

The paper template includes no anonymizing instructions.

 

 

 

 

 

The Harvard Review of Philosophy

“All articles are reviewed blindly, so we ask that the author’s name appear only on the first page of the manuscript and not in the body of the work.”

 

 

 

 

 

The Hastings Center Report

“All manuscripts will be subject to the standard peer review process by the Hastings Center Report editor and peer reviewers.

“Name(s) and contact information for the author(s) should appear only on an accompanying cover sheet. Include a mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and an email address.”

 

 

 

 

 

Hegel Bulletin (formerly Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain]

“All papers are double-blind refereed.

”The article file should be ready for blind review and must bear no trace of the author’s identity. The author's details (name, affiliation, email address and postal address) should be supplied either in the email or in a separate file.”

 

 

 

 

 

Heidegger Studies

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Heythrop Journal

No mention of blind review. Obtaining submission guidelines requires log-in.

 

 

 

 

 

Historical Materialism

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

History and Philosophy of Logic

“All the authors of a paper should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers and email addresses on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the Corresponding Author.  An anonymised version of a paper is also required.

“Authors should prepare two versions of their manuscript.  One should be a complete text, while in the second document information identifying the author should be removed from files to allow them to be sent anonymously to referees.  Please send both versions to the Editor upon submission.”.

 

 

 

 

 

History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

History and Theory

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

History of European Ideas

“History of European Ideas is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, original research. All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double blind and submission is via email”

 

 

 

 

 

History of Philosophy Quarterly

“Submissions should be prepared for blind review in WORD or rft (not PDF) and sent by email attachment to Richard C. Taylor at [email address].”

 

 

 

 

 

History of Political Thought

 

“Copy should be submitted as an email attachment to the relevant editor (see below). … Copies should not contain any information that identifies the author.”

 

 

 

 

 

History of the Human Sciences

“1. Peer review policy

History of the Human Sciences operates a double-blind peer review policy.

“8.4.2 Corresponding Author Contact details

Provide full contact details for the corresponding author including email, mailing address and telephone numbers. Academic affiliations are required for all co-authors. These details should be presented separately to the main text of the article to facilitate anonymous peer review.”

 

 

 

 

 

Hobbes Studies

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science

“Papers submitted to HOPOS cannot be reviewed unless they are properly blinded. To blind your paper, do not include a title page. The first page of the paper should contain the title, immediately followed by the abstract, immediately followed by the text of the paper. The author’s name should not appear on this page, nor should the author’s name appear in the manuscript, in references in the body of the text, or in the footnotes in such a way that might identify the author to the reviewer. Papers that do not conform to these specifications will be returned to the authors.”

 

 

 

 

 

Human Affairs: Postdisciplinary Humanities & Social Sciences Quarterly

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Human Rights Review

“Double-blind peer review

This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit:

    A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided.

    A separate title page, containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page.”

 

 

 

 

 

Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences

“Double-blind peer review

This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit:

    A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided.

    A separate title page, containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page.”

 

 

 

 

 

Humana.Mente

“Papers should be submitted in blind review format. Please omit any self-identifying information within the abstract and body of the paper.”

 

 

 

 

 

Humanicus

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Hume Studies

“All submissions should be word-processed or typed, double spaced, and prepared for anonymous review by referees.”

 

 

 

 

 

Husserl Studies

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Hypatia

“Anonymity

“To facilitate our anonymous review process, the author should not be identified in the manuscript or the abstract.”

 

 

 

 

 

Iamure: International Journal of Literature, Philosophy and Religion

“The double-blind review process is adopted for the journal. The reviewer/s and the author/s do not know each other’s identity.”

 

 

 

 

 

Idealistic Studies

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Identity in the Information Society

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Indian Philosophical Quarterly

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Informal Logic

“Papers submitted for publication in Informal Logic must be prepared by the author(s) for blind reviewing: there must be no identifying references in the body of the paper, the notes, or the references. Papers are initially screened blind by the four editors. Those deemed to qualify for consideration for publication are then sent to two external referees who are scholars carefully selected by the editors for their knowledge of the subject-matter of the paper and the field, their record for thoroughness and fairness, and their expressed willingness to review in a timely manner. … The editors normally do not know the identity of the author until after they have made their decision about the disposition of the paper.

“The text, if submitted to a peer-reviewed section (e.g., Articles), has had the authors' names removed. If an author is cited, "Author" and year are used in the bibliography and footnotes, instead of author's name, paper title, etc. The author's name has also been removed from the document's Properties, which in Microsoft Word is found in the File menu.”

 

 

 

 

 

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy

“This journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts* (previously Manuscript Central) to peer review manuscript submissions.

“Manuscript Style

“Submitted manuscripts must be uploaded in an editable Word format, with the title page as a separate file to facilitate blinded peer-review.

“Title page. The title should be uploaded as a separate file, with the name(s) and institutional affiliation(s) of the author(s), and the full postal and email address of the author to whom proofs, offprints, and other correspondence should be sent.”

 

 

 

 

 

Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Intellectual History Review

“Peer Review Policy:

All research articles published in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.

“All authors of a manuscript should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the corresponding author. Please give the affiliation where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after the manuscript is accepted. Please note that the email address of the corresponding author will normally be displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal style) and the online article.

All persons who have a reasonable claim to authorship must be named in the manuscript as co-authors; the corresponding author must be authorized by all co-authors to act as an agent on their behalf in all matters pertaining to publication of the manuscript, and the order of names should be agreed by all authors.”

 

 

 

 

 

inter.culture.philosophy

“Agreements

“2. Preliminarily all submissions will be reviewed double-blind.”

“Text Formatting Details

“1. Please place in front a covering page with the following information:

Title of the Paper

Name of the author

Affiliation

Email address of the author

“2. The next sheet should be the anonymous manuscript with the following structure:

Title of the text (without the author’s name)

Abstract (ca. 100 words)

Actual text

Bibliography”

 

 

 

 

 

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

“All submissions are peer-reviewed in the usual double-blind manner.”

 

 

 

 

 

International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

International Journal for the Study of Skepticism

Peer Review Process

The journal is administered by the editors who handle the daily operation and management and the oversight of reviewing. Submissions are first screened by the editors, who evaluate their pertinence and quality. They are then sent to one or two referees who are selected among the members of the Editorial Board or among other recognized specialists. The peer review process is double-blind. On the basis of the evaluation of the referee(s), the editors make a final decision.”

 

 

 

 

 

International Journal of Applied Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

International Journal of Badiou Studies

“IJBS adheres to a policy of blind, peer-review. In order to ensure appropriate review, author name(s) should appear only on the title page, references to any author's prior work should be masked, and internal identifications in the text should be avoided.

“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:

“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.

“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.

“With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.”

 

 

 

 

 

International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics

“All our articles are refereed through a double-blind process.”

 

 

 

 

 

International Journal of Dharma Studies

“Title page

“The title page should:

    provide the title of the article

    list the full names, institutional addresses and email addresses for all authors

    indicate the corresponding author

“Please note: as this journal operates double-blind peer review, the title page should be uploaded as part of the covering letter, and not included in the main manuscript file.”

 

 

 

 

 

International Journal of Ethics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Ethics

“All papers are subject to anonymous peer review.

“To facilitate our anonymous review process, the author should not be identified in the text of the submission or the title page. Neither should he or she be identifiable from any acknowledgements included at the end of the paper or in the footnotes. These can be added later in the editing process, should your paper be accepted.”

 

 

 

 

 

International Journal of Game Theory

“Title Page

The title page should include:

    The name(s) of the author(s)

    A concise and informative title

    The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)

    The e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author.”

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

International Journal of Human Rights

“All primary research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and evaluation by at least one anonymous referee.

“All the authors of a paper should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the corresponding author.”

 

 

 

 

 

International Journal of Logic and Computation

“CSC peer review process is based upon single blind review where reviewer’s name is concealed from the author(s). In order to ensure that only non plagiarized, original and high quality research publications each manuscript is assigned to at least three editors and each editor is assigned not more than two manuscripts. … Each editor further assigns manuscript to multiple reviewers.” Manuscript Preparation Guidelines for Computer Science Journals is a six-page document divided into three sections. The first two consist in consecutive repeats of the following four sentences: “This guideline is used for all journals. These are the manuscript preparation guidelines used as a standard template for all journal submissions. Author must follow these instructions while preparing/modifying these guidelines. This guideline is used for all journals.”

 

 

 

 

 

International Journal of Machine Consciousness

“Authors may suggest the appropriate persons to referee their paper. However, the Editors need not necessarily take up the suggestion. Authors may request that their identity be kept unknown to the referee.”

 

 

 

 

 

International Journal of Philosophical Studies

“Refereeing is 'double-blind' for all submissions, so authors should prepare and upload two versions of their manuscript. One should be a complete text, while in the second all document information identifying the author should be removed from files to allow them to be sent anonymously to referees. When uploading files authors will then be able to define the non-anonymous version as ‘File not for review’. Furthermore, the manuscript should not bear any marks that could lead to the identification of the author; i.e. all forms of self-reference should be omitted in the submitted manuscript.”

 

 

 

 

 

The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition

“Double-blinded Peer Review

“JPT uses a double-blind peer review system, which means that manuscript author(s) do not know who the reviewers are, and that reviewers do not know the names of the author(s). When you submit your article, you must also submit a separate title page which includes the full title of the manuscript plus the names and complete contact details of all authors. This page will not be accessible to the referees. All other files (manuscript, figures, tables, etc.) should not contain any information concerning author names, institutions, etc. The names of these files and the document properties should also be anonymized.”

 

 

 

 

 

International Journal of Synthetic Emotions

“Manuscripts should be submitted as an email attachment in .doc or .docx format to the Editor-in-Chief of the particular journal to which you are submitting. The main body of the e-mail message should contain the title of the paper and the names and addresses of all authors. Manuscripts must be in English.

“All manuscripts undergo a double-blind peer-review process. Manuscripts should be stripped of identifying information of the author and co-authors.

“A cover page should accompany the manuscript and include all contact information for all manuscript authors (affiliation, postal address, email address, and phone number).”

 

 

 

 

 

International Journal of Technoethics

“Manuscripts should be submitted as an email attachment in .doc or .docx format to the Editor-in-Chief of the particular journal to which you are submitting. The main body of the e-mail message should contain the title of the paper and the names and addresses of all authors. Manuscripts must be in English.

“All manuscripts undergo a double-blind peer-review process. Manuscripts should be stripped of identifying information of the author and co-authors.

“A cover page should accompany the manuscript and include all contact information for all manuscript authors (affiliation, postal address, email address, and phone number).”

 

 

 

 

 

International Journal of Žižek Studies

“Articles - Prospective articles should be in the range of 6,000-8,000 words, prepared for blind review, and accompanied by an abstract of not more than 250 words.

“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:

    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.

    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.

    With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.”

 

 

 

 

 

International Journal on Humanistic Ideology

“All the manuscripts submitted for publication to the Editorial team undergo an anonymous peer review procedure, necessary for assessing the quality of scientific information, the relevance to the field, the appropriateness of scientific writing style, the compliance with the style and technical requirements of our journal, etc.”

 

 

 

 

 

International Philosophical Quarterly

“Electronic submissions are preferred. Submissions should not exceed 10,000 words (including notes) and should be prepared for blind review. Information about the author should be provided in an accompanying note that should also indicate that the paper is not being simultaneously considered elsewhere.”

 

 

 

 

 

International Review of Information Ethics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

International Studies in Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science

“Manuscripts, which have been suitably prepared for blind refereeing, should be sent to the Editor ….

“They should be typed on one side of the paper, double spaced, with ample margins, and bear the title of the contribution and name(s) of the author(s).”

 

 

 

 

 

IRB: Ethics & Human Research

“Manuscripts are blind reviewed. Author identification should be removed from the text and references. This can be accomplished by referring to your work in the third person, and citing the references in the usual manner (do not delete your name from the references).”

 

 

 

 

 

Iris: European Journal of Philosophy and Public Debate

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Irregular F

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Isis

“Manuscripts (one original) should be submitted to the Editor of Isis, …. An electronic copy must also be submitted, as a Word document or equivalent (no PDFs please), either as an email attachment sent to isis@yorku.ca or on a CD included with the hard copy.

“Isis normally uses double-blind refereeing; authors should therefore identify themselves only on a detachable cover sheet.”

 

 

 

 

 

Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly

“All submissions are peer reviewed, following editorial screening, by anonymous referees.”

 

 

 

 

 

Janus Head

“Janus Head uses a peer-review process. Typically, these reviews are "blind," which means the reviewers are not aware of the identity of the authors. However, in the case of special issues, guest editors (who are aware of the identities of the authors) do make final decisions about the acceptance of papers. In the first stage of the review process, the author is notified of the receipt of his or her submission. … Once you receive notice, the work is submitted to two or more reviewers for blind review.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal for Communication and Culture

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal for General Philosophy of Science

“Title, author’s name, and full address (including an email-address) are to be supplied on a separate page, so that authors are not identified to reviewers. Each page of the manuscript should be consecutively numbered, including pages of references and captions.“

 

 

 

 

 

Journal for Peace and Justice Studies

“Manuscript submissions should be accompanied by a cover letter containing all contact information and title of the essay. No identifying information may be in the submission itself.

“All manuscripts submitted for publication must be prepared for blind review.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy

“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:

“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.

“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.

“With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Academic Ethics

“Double-blind peer review

This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit:

    A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided.

    A separate title page, containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Aesthetic Education

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Ancient Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Applied Logic

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Applied Ontology

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Applied Philosophy

“In order to facilitate blind refereeing, the author(s)'s name(s) should not be shown on the manuscript, and all identifying references to the author(s)'s own work(s) or affiliations should, if this is feasible, be masked or omitted. The name(s) of the author(s) with the title of the contribution should be included on a separate page, with the full postal address of the author who will check the proofs and receive correspondence and offprints.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Ayn Rand Studies

“Due to a constructive double-blind review process, contributors are advised to be patient as they work toward acceptance and publication of their essays.

“Only contributions not under consideration elsewhere will be accepted, and these will be subject to double-blind peer review.  Replies and rejoinders are not usually subject to such review, but they will be evaluated by the editorial board for appropriateness.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Buddhist Ethics

“Research articles will be subject to blind peer review by appropriate members of the Editorial Board or external evaluators selected at the editor’s discretion.

“All submissions should be preceded by a header containing the title of the manuscript, the name(s) of the author(s), any affiliations, mail and e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers.”

 

 

 

 

Journal of Business Ethics

“The Journal of Business Ethics follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested not to put their name(s) in the manuscript. Self identifying citations and references in the article text should either be avoided or left blank when manuscripts are first submitted.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Business Ethics Education

“The title page should contain the name, institutional affiliation, postal address, telephone number, fax number, country code, and electronic mailing address of each author. The second page should include the manuscripts title and an abstract that is 150 words or fewer. The manuscript should begin on the third page. All submissions will be double blind reviewed. Apart from the first page, the identity of the author(s) should be completely removed from the abstract and manuscript, and appear only on the title page.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Catholic Social Thought

“Unsolicited manuscripts may be submitted to the Journal of Catholic Social Thought, and they are subject to blind review by the Editorial Board.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Causal Inference

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Chinese Philosophy

“The Journal of Chinese Philosophy is a blind peer-reviewed philosophical journal devoted to the study of Chinese Philosophy and Chinese thought in all their phases and stages of development and articulation.”

 

 

 

 

 

The Journal of Clinical Ethics

“PEER REVIEW

“The majority of articles published in The Journal of Clinical Ethics are subject to double-blinded peer review. The manuscripts are reviewed by experts who do not receive remuneration. Some of the reviewers serve as Associate Editors for the journal. The Associate Editors receive a complimentary subscription to the journal, but receive no other compensation.

“Some manuscripts are invited by members of the editorial staff, and, as a result, are not subject to outside blinded peer-review. They are subject to review by an internal editorial board.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Cognition and Culture

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics

“The JCN is a double-anonymous peer-reviewed journal. In order for a manuscript to be considered for publication, the JCN requires the following:

“An electronic copy of the manuscript with the author's name on the title page only and no identifying information of authorship within the manuscript …”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Consciousness Studies

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

The Journal of Contemplative Inquiry

“JOCI operates a blind peer review process during which the identities of the author and the reviewers are concealed. Please be sure to remove your name (and the names of any co-authors) from your manuscript text and your file properties.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Critical Realism

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Dharma

No mention of blind review, bad link to information page.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Economic Methodology

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Early Modern Studies

“The journal is peer-reviewed, which means that all manuscripts will undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial screening by the editors and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Ethics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy

“Please remove your name and other identifying information from the file before you submit. We recommend that before you upload your paper, go to "file" >> "properties" and erase all personal information listed in that window, particularly the author's name.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy

“The Journal of French and Francophone Philsophy adheres to a policy of double-blind peer review. … In order to ensure appropriate review, the author name(s) should appear only on the title page, references to any author's prior work should be masked, and internal identifications in the text should be removed.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of General Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Global Ethics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Hellenic Studies

“At first submission, typescripts

must not contain any indication of the author’s identity; authors should, wherever possible, refer to their own work in the third person. More extensive and personalized reference to an author’s previous work may be made in the final version”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Human Values

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Indian Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Indian Philosophy & Religion

Website contains no author instructions or submission guidelines, no mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Information Ethics

No submission information supplied at website.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas

“All contributions will be blind-refereed.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of International Political Theory

“Journal of International Political Theory operates a strictly anonymous double-blind peer review process in which the reviewer’s name is withheld from the author and, the author’s name from the reviewer. The reviewer may at their own discretion opt to reveal their name to the author in their review but our standard policy practice is for both identities to remain concealed. Each manuscript submitted to the Journal of International Political Theory first undergoes an internal review by the Editor to determine whether it should be sent out for further external peer review. This step of the review process is designed, in part, to ensure that submissions are an appropriate fit with the journal's particular remit, as well as to ensure that manuscripts meet adequate standards to be sent for external peer review. Each manuscript sent for external peer review is reviewed by at least two referees.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Islamic Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Japanese Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy

“Double-blinded Peer Review

JJTP uses a double-blind peer review system, which means that manuscript author(s) do not know who the reviewers are, and that reviewers do not know the names of the author(s). When you submit your article via Editorial Manager, you will be asked to submit a separate title page which includes the full title of the manuscript plus the names and complete contact details of all authors. This page will not be accessible to the referees. All other files (manuscript, figures, tables, etc.) should not contain any information concerning author names, institutions, etc. The names of these files and the document properties should also be anonymized.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics

“On the cover page, you must state:

1. your address;

2. your telephone number (including work, home, and cellphone numbers), fax number, and email address and your preference for communication;

3. a two-to-three (complete) sentence bio of each author, including the author's present title and institutional/corporate affiliation and any academic degrees and from what institutions they were received (please include full name, city, and state); and

“Any acknowledgments must be stated on the cover page only. If you send the file as an attachment, be sure your email includes contact information in the event we can't open the attachment.

“Peer review: Decisions to accept or reject papers are based on the recommendations received during blind peer review.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies

“The author’s name should not appear anywhere on the manuscript, nor in the file name. If the content refers to the author, it should do so covertly. The author should provide her or his name and biographical note in the email to which the manuscript is attached. The full title of the article should be stated in the email and included in the manuscript.

“Each article is subject to editorial screening and at least two anonymous reviews.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Logic and Analysis

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Logic and Computation

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Logic, Language and Information

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Mass Media Ethics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Mathematical Logic

“Manuscripts submitted are first screened by the editors; only those on subject matters within the scope of the Journal are sent to expert referees for evaluation. This two-tier screening process helps to ensure an appropriate focus as well as high scientific quality of the Journal.

 

“(Optional)

Authors are invited to submit the names, addresses and e-mail addresses of up to five potential reviewers. Decision on whether or not the suggested referees are used lies solely with the editors.”

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Media and Communication

“All submissions are double-blind refereed.

“All full articles considered for the main issues of the journal, as well as any special issues, will be sent for double blind peer review by experts in their relevant field.

“Submissions should be attached as a Word document with a separate title page which includes the title of the paper, author’s name(s), institutional affiliation(s) and email address(es).”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Medical Ethics

“JME operates double-blind peer review which requires authors to submit an anonymous version of their manuscript file: To be uploaded as the Manuscript File including abstract)

This file should be anonymous and should NOT include:

Any author names (including file path in document footer)

Author institution details

Author contact details

Acknowledgements

Competing interests (if declared)

Ethics approval statements that refer to your institution

Please ensure tracked changes are switched off if previously used.

“In order that the review process can be as efficient as possible for both authors and reviewers, all manuscripts are initially reviewed by the editors and a decision is made about whether to send the paper for review. Only a proportion of papers (about half) are sent for review.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Medical Humanities and Biothics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Medicine & Philosophy

“Authors are strongly encouraged to submit manuscripts via email. The manuscript should be prepared using MS Word or as an already blinded PDF and should be clearly labeled with the authors’ names.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Military Ethics

“Peer Review Policy

All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Mind and Behavior

“Authors requesting blind review must specify and prepare their manuscripts accordingly.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Modern Wisdom

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Moral Education

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Moral Philosophy

“Double-blinded Peer Review

“JMP uses a double-blinded peer review system, which means that manuscript author(s) do not know who the reviewers are, and that reviewers do not know the names of the author(s). When you submit your article via Editorial Manager, you will be asked to submit a separate title page which includes the full title of the manuscript plus the names and complete contact details of all authors. This page will not be accessible to the referees. All other files (manuscript, figures, tables, etc.) should not contain any information concerning author names, institutions, etc. The names of these files and the document properties should also be anonymized.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Moral Theology

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Multi-Valued Logic and Soft Computing

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Nietzsche Studies

 

“All manuscripts should be prepared for blind review with all identifying references and notes deleted in their entirety.

“On submission, authors are required to provide an abstract of no more than 150 words, current institutional affiliation, and preferred current email address.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Philosophical Economics

“The Editorial Board first evaluates submissions in-house, deciding whether to send them for blind peer review. If inappropriate, will be rejected at this stage.

If a manuscript passes this first stage, it is sent to peer reviewers, who are selected for a manuscript based on their corresponding area of expertise according to the Editorial Policy.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Philosophical Logic

“Manuscripts should be prepared for blind reviewing: neither the author's name nor the author's affiliation should be included in the manuscript, and references to the author's own work should be phrased in such a way that they do not reveal the identity of the author. Any other identifying information, including acknowledgments, should likewise be removed.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Philosophical Research

“All submissions should be prepared for blind review. This means that the author's name and other identifying information should be removed from the text. Please also remove identifying information from other locations, such as under ‘Properties’ section in a Word file.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Philosophy

“All submissions must also be formatted for double-blind review.

“We now require that all submissions be made by sending an email to submissions@journalofphilosophy.org with the manuscript file attached in PDF or Word format. Please include your name, contact information, and the title of your paper in your message. All submissions will be acknowledged by email, and all subsequent correspondence regarding the manuscript will be sent via email rather than post.

“Further, manuscripts must be prepared for double-blind refereeing, with any and all revealing references to the author removed, including personal acknowledgments. Any submission that does not adequately conceal the identity of its author will not be read.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Philosophy in Schools

“Following initial screening by the journal's Editors, articles will be subject to the normal processes of peer-review for scholarly refereed journals, including blind reviewing by at least two referees drawn from the Editorial Committee (or from other international scholars with special expertise as necessary).

“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:

    “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.

    “With Microsoft Office documents, author identification should also be removed from the properties for the file.

    “For Microsoft 2003 and previous versions, and Macintosh versions of Word:

       Under the File menu select: Save As > Tools (or Options with a Mac) > Security > Remove personal information from file properties on save > Save.

    “For MacIntosh Word 2008 (and future versions)

        Under the File menu select "Properties."

        Under the Summary tab remove all of the identifying information from all of the fields.

        Save the File.

    “For Microsoft 2007 (Windows):

        Click on the office button in the upper-left hand corner of the office application

        Select "Prepare" from the menu options.

        Select "Properties" for the "Prepare" menu options.

        Delete all of the information in the document property fields that appear under the main menu options.

        Save the document and close the document property field section.

    “For Microsoft 2010 (Windows):

        Under the File menu select "Prepare for sharing."

        Click on the "Check for issues" icon.

        click on "inspect document" icon.

        Uncheck all of the checkboxes except "Document Properties and Personal information".

        Run the document inspector, which will then do a search of the document properties and indicated if any document property fields contain any information.

        If the document inspector finds that some of the document properties contain information it will notify you and give you the option to "Remove all," which you will click to remove the document properties and personal information from the document.

    “For PDF files:

        With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Philosophy of Education

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Philosophy of Life

“Manuscripts of papers will be examined by two anonymous referees. Manuscripts for essays and book reviews will be reviewed by the editor(s).”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Philosophy, Science & Law

“REVIEW PROCESS

“Submitted manuscripts will undergo double blind peer review in order to determine whether the subject matter fits within the scope of the journal and to assess the quality of the manuscript. The Editor will remove all identifying information from a submitted manuscript before it undergoes review. Some categories of manuscripts, such as solicited book reviews and letters to the editors, may be exempt from the peer review process.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Political Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Power

“Details of the author's institutional affiliation, full address and other contact information should be included on a separate cover sheet along with a note on the exact length of the article.

Two copies of each manuscript should be submitted electronically. One with the authors details attached and one anonymous for peer review.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Practical Ethics

“The Journal of Practical Ethics is an invitation only, blind-peer-reviewed journal.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Pragmatics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Religious Ethics

“Because the JRE review process is blind — referees are not supposed to know the identity of the author — authors must avoid writing their submissions (including notes) in a way that discloses their identity.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Scottish Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Semantics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Social Ontology

“Anonymisation: When submitting her/his paper for the first time the author should delete her/his name as well as other indications of her/his identity from the manuscript. This way the anonymity of the review process is guaranteed.

“Contact information: The author needs to provide her/his complete contact information.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Social Philosophy

“The Journal's new editorial process is web-based, with blind review of articles not only by referees but also by the editor, and it will enable a faster response-time for submissions.

“Papers should be submitted electronically by email attachment to [email address].  Please submit an abstract along with the paper, both blinded for peer review. Please include full identifying information within the text of the email.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Somaesthetics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Speculative Philosophy

“Because unsolicited manuscripts submitted for publication undergo a blind review process, the author's name should appear only on the cover page of the manuscript.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Studies in Logic

“Manuscripts must be prepared for blind review. The author should submit two versions of the papers, with and without author's information respectively. In the blind version, the author's name and affiliation should not appear on the first page as the author. The acknowledgement or references to author's own work should not lead the reader to infer the author's identity.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Symbolic Logic

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of the American Philosophical Association

“One editor (or possibly two co-editors) will work with a team of associate editors, a small group of advisory editors, and a large and highly diverse group of consulting editors. The journal will operate under a governing board including members of the editorial team and of the APA’s board of directors.

“J-APA will use triple-blind review. Reviewers will be assigned by an editor or associate editor with appropriate knowledge of the subfield.”

[From the Interfolio.com announcement:] “Associate editors will be responsible for selecting referees and, in the light of referees’ reports, for evaluating submissions with a view to determining their suitability for the journal. This work will require communication with the editor(s) and others. It is expected that a subset of the associate editors will be represented on the governing board.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology

“All submissions are sent to two referees for blind peer-reviewing.

“As all essays are subject to blind peer review, please delete all personal information from the file (including the properties page) and send these on a separate file and/or cover letter.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of the History of Ideas

“Please eliminate all identifying information from your manuscript, in order to facilitate blind peer review. If you must include references to your own work, avoid using the first person in connection with it.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of the History of Philosophy

“MANUSCRIPTS should be sent as e-mail attachments in Rich Text Format (RTF) or as MS Word documents to  (until June 30, 2010) jhpeditor@duke.edu or (after July 1, 2010) jhp@mailplus.wisc.edu.

“All direct and indirect references to the author in the manuscript should be removed. (This includes identifying references which appear unbeknownst to many authors in the document’s “Properties” section, which is found under “File” in MS Word.) Submissions not prepared for blind review will be returned for correction.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of the Philosophy of History

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of the Philosophy of Sport

“JPS uses a double-blind peer review process. Therefore, the author's name and institutional affiliation should not appear on the manuscript, nor should references in the manuscript be presented in a manner that would allow the reader to identify the author.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Theological Studies

“Articles should be submitted by e-mail attachment, preferably in rich text file (.rtf) format. Authors who are not able to submit email attachments should enclose a floppy disc or CD-ROM with their submission.

“To facilitate anonymous refereeing, the author's name and institution should not appear at the head or foot of the article.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

“If your manuscript was mask reviewed, please ensure that the final version for production includes a byline and full author note for typesetting.”

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Value Inquiry

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal on African Philosophy

“The journal editor(s) make an initial appraisal of each submission. If the topic and treatment seem potentially appropriate for the journal, the manuscript is sent out to 2 reviewers.

“ARC Journals has a ‘double blind’ peer review process. Authors are not told who reviewed their paper and reviewers are not told who wrote the paper. Peer reviewers become aware of the identity of the authors after the article is published.”

“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: etc.”

 

 

 

 

 

Kairos Journal of Philosophy & Science

“1. The submitted texts will be refereed by at least two referees. The Editorial Board will communicate the referee's evaluation as soon as possible. The referees and authors identities shall remain anonymous (double blind process).”

 

 

 

 

 

Kant-Studien

“If at all possible, please provide an e-mail address for ease in correspondence.

“Contributions, essays, and articles will be considered without knowledge of the author’s name. They will be anonymously evaluated out of house or by the editors, who will then decide whether the submission is suitable for possible publication. Reviews will be evaluated by the editorial office. This includes requested reviews as well. “

 

 

 

 

 

Kant Studies Online

“The manuscript file should not bear your name because all articles submitted will be double blind peer-reviewed.”

 

 

 

 

 

Kant Yearbook

“The Editorial Board of the Kant Yearbook is composed of renowned international experts, and selects papers for publication through a double blind peer review process.”

 

 

 

 

 

Kantian Review

No website available.

From back cover:

“The article file should be ready for blind review and must bear no trace of the author’s identity. The author’s details (name, affiliation, email address and postal address) should be supplied either in the email or in a separate file.

“A biographical note of around 75 words giving the author’s name, affiliation, principal publications, etc. should also be supplied, on a separate cover sheet.”

 

 

 

 

 

Knowledge Cultures

“Anonymity

We do not release reviewers’ identities to authors or to other reviewers, except when reviewers specifically ask to be identified. Unless they feel strongly, however, we prefer that reviewers should remain anonymous throughout the review process and beyond. Before revealing their identities, reviewers should consider the possibility that they may be asked to comment on the criticisms of other reviewers and on further revisions of the manuscript; identified reviewers may find it more difficult to be objective in such circumstances. We ask reviewers not to identify themselves to authors without the editor's knowledge. If they wish to reveal their identities while the manuscript is under consideration, this should be done via the editor, or if this is not practicable, we ask authors to inform the editor as soon as possible after the reviewer has revealed his or her identity to the author. We deplore any attempt by authors to confront reviewers or determine their identities. Our own policy is to neither confirm nor deny any speculation about reviewers' identities, and we encourage reviewers to adopt a similar policy.

“Double blind peer review

All papers in this journal have undergone editorial screening and anonymous double-blind peer review. All material submitted to our journal will be reviewed by the Editorial team. Papers may be rejected without full peer review, remaining papers will be sent for external peer review. Our journal operates a double-blind peer review process and aims to provide rapid peer review with papers receiving a first decision within an average of 30 days.”

 

 

 

 

 

Krisis

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Kritike

“KRITIKE is a refereed journal, so make sure that your text is prepared for blind review, meaning your name and institutional affiliation should not appear in the body of your paper. Please include a short abstract (200 words or less) of your paper.”

 

 

 

 

 

Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy

“KRITIKE is a refereed journal, so make sure that your text is prepared for blind review, meaning your name and institutional affiliation should not appear in the body of your paper.”

 

 

 

 

 

Language & Communication

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Language Sciences

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Language Under Discussion

[Guidelines for Contributors:] “Contributions to Language Under Discussion should be submitted as an e-mail attachment to editors@ludjournal.org. Please clearly indicate the type of contribution (focus article, discussion, roundtable issue, or discussion note – in which case please also indicate the issue number for which it is intended), the name(s), affiliation(s), and contact details of the author(s), and attach an abstract (up to 200 words or up to 100 words for discussion notes) and a list of no more than five keywords or tags. The manuscript itself should be prepared for blind review and paginated.

” An important feature of the review process in LUD is that an initial decision to reject a contribution is not yet a final verdict. We believe that a good peer review process should look more like a dialogue than like a monologue, and that authors of rejected papers have the right to defend their work against criticism in the review process. If the author(s) of a rejected contribution can convince the editors that the arguments for rejecting the paper are misguided or flawed, or that the critique voiced against the paper more properly belongs to the post-publication discussion stage, we will be glad to publish a suitably revised version of the paper. That said, if the editors remain unconvinced, they will make the final decision to reject.

[Guidelines for Reviewers:] “As an anonymous referee, you are in many respects placed in a position of power over the author(s) of the submission you are reviewing. Please be mindful of the human aspect of this position, especially as regards the language and style you are using in passing your judgment.”

 

 

 

 

 

Lato Sensu, Revue de la Société de philosophie des sciences

Could not access Author Guidelines page.

 

 

 

 

 

The Law & Ethics of Human Rights

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Law and Philosophy

“Law and Philosophy follows a double−blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to place their name and affiliation on a separate page. Self−identifying citations and references in the article text should either be avoided or left blank when manuscripts are first submitted.”

 

 

 

 

 

Law, Ethics and Philosophy

At website: “First submissions should not contain acknowledgements or any information that could identify the author to reviewers.”

In Philos-L announcement: “All published submissions will be subject to double blind review …”

 

 

 

 

 

Legal Ethics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Legal Theory

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

The Leibniz Review

By invitation only. No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Levinas Studies

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Lexicon Philosophicum: International Journal for the History of Texts and Ideas

“Peer Review Process

“Lexicon Philosophicum is a double-blind peer reviewed journal.

“The 2011 and 2012 issues are part of the European projectJournal Homepage Image AgoraScholarly Open Access Research in European Philosophy (2011-2013). Author who wish to submit a manuscript to the journal, as part of the editorial process, agree to participate in the experiment evaluation. The goal of the experiment is to enhance and determine standards for peer review in the humanities and social science in the field of open collaborative peer review.

“The Peer Review process consists into three main stages:

    General eligibility and quality check by the editors. The editorial procedures will be designed to follow best practice concerning excellence, impartiality, transparency, purposefulness, efficiency, confidentiality and integrity (cf. European Peer Review Guide, pp.12-16).

    Double-blind peer review stage, in which the identity of the reviewers and the authors is kept confidential from each other.

    One-month of open-review, during which registered users of the journal platform will be enabled to comment on and to discuss the selected and peer reviewed papers. Authors will be able to use these comments and discussions to revise their final submission for publication.

Lexicon Philosophicum follows the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity.”

 

 

 

 

 

Libertarian Papers

“After an initial inspection by the editors, manuscripts will be submitted to a double-blind peer review process.”

 

 

 

 

 

Life Sciences, Society and Policy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations

“All papers in this journal have undergone editorial screening and anonymous doubleblind peer review. All material submitted to our journal will be reviewed by the Editorial team. Papers may be rejected without full peer review, remaining papers will be sent for external peer review. Our journal operates a double-blind peer review process and aims to provide rapid peer review with papers receiving a first decision within an average of 30 days. Authors may be requested to produce the data on which their manuscript is based (or associated documents, e.g. ethical approval letter) by the Editor(s) or their assignee for examination. All submitted manuscripts are treated as confidential documents.”

 

 

 

 

 

Linguistics and Philosophy

“A double blind peer review procedure (where the identity of the author is not revealed) is observed when the author requests. An author need merely remove any identifying information in order for this procedure to be followed. If an author wishes to identify themselves, only a single bind [sic] procedure is used.”

 

 

 

 

 

Locke Studies

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Logic and Logical Philosophy

“All papers submitted to Logic and Logical Philosophy will be reviewed by two anonymous reviewers.”

 

 

 

 

 

Logic and Philosophy of Science

“All papers must be prepared for blind review and will be evaluated by anonymous referees.”

 

 

 

 

 

Logic Journal of the IGPL

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Logica Universalis

“The manuscript should be written in LATEX. It must include a title, the author’s name(s), an abstract, and the keywords. The 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification codes should be added, if applicable. Pictures should not be in color, their resolution should be at least 300 dpi, and all used fonts must be embedded.

All authors should give their complete addresses along with an e-mail address, if applicable.” No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy

“Preparation for blind refereeing

“All papers (but not the reviews) have to be prepared for peer-review double blind refereeing. Please delete all references that could identify you as the author. (In case you are submitting a Word file do not forget to remove all respective information from the file’s properties). We aim to receive the reports of two referees within a period of three months.”

 

 

 

 

 

λogoi

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Logos & Episteme

“[A]ll articles, with the exception of articles from the invited contributors, will be subject to a strict blind-review process. Therefore the authors should avoid in their manuscripts any mention to their previous work or use an impersonal or neutral form when referring to it.”

 

 

 

 

 

The Lonergan Review

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

The Lyceum

“Papers, prepared for blind review, may be submitted via email attachment to lyceumphilosophy@gmail.com. Please submit a separate cover letter with your contact information and academic affiliation, if any.”

 

 

 

 

 

Manuscrito

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Mathematical Logic Quarterly

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

“Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy follows a double−blind reviewing procedure. Each submitted manuscript will be reviewed by two anonymous peer rewiewers. Authors are therefore requested to place their name and affiliation on a separate page. Self−identifying citations and references in the article text should either be avoided or left blank when manuscripts are first submitted.”

 

 

 

 

 

Medieval Philosophy and Theology

“Manuscripts must be prepared for blind review:

    The author's name and institutional affiliation must not appear, so described, in the manuscript.

    References to the author's own work must be cast in such a way that they do not reveal the author's identity. (We recommend simply replacing the entire reference, including title and facts of publication, with an expression such as Author's article, Author's book, Author's book 2, etc.)

    Acknowledgements that could allow a reader to deduce the author's identity must be removed for the initial review.

    Any prefatory or explanatory remarks intended for the editors or readers must also be given anonymously, not in the cover letter.”

 

 

 

 

 

Meinong Studies

No description of editorial policies or instructions for authors at website.

 

 

 

 

 

Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy

“Papers are refereed by two anonymous reviewers. … All submissions should be prepared for blind reviewing: authors should remove all information that could reveal their identity and provide their name and contact information on a separate page.

“Texts should be prepared for blind reviewing. Authors should write their name, position, affiliation, and contact information (including e-mail address) on a separate page.”

 

 

 

 

 

Metaphilosophy

“Manuscripts and other communications to the editors should be sent via e-mail or regular mail to:

Metaphilosophy

“Manuscripts should be prepared for blind submission.”

 

 

 

 

 

Metaphysica

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Metascience

By invitation only. No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Metatheoria: Journal of Philosophy and History of Science

“Manuscripts are peer reviewed in a double-blind review process.

”Page 1 should contain the article title (small letter, bold and centred), the names and affiliations of all authors, their postal addresses and emails. Acknowledgements should also be mentioned in this page, as a footnote (* from the article title). Funding agencies should be named completely.

“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:

    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.

    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.

    With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.”

 

 

 

 

 

Methode – Analytic Perspectives

“The acceptance of contributions is the result of an anonymous evaluation process (typically, the well-known double-blind peer review process). Every article that is submitted for publication is first evaluated by the Editorial Team and further forwarded to three anonymous reviewers, chosen on the basis of the subject of the article.”

 

 

 

 

 

Metodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

“The text should be prepared for anonymous refereeing, with revealing acknowledgements and self-identifying references removed.

“Please send a separated Title Page that should include:

The name(s) of the author(s)

A concise and informative title

The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)

The e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author.”

 

 

 

 

 

Midwest Studies in Philosophy

By invitation only. No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Mind

“MIND employs a system of ‘triple blind review’: the referees and editors do not know the identity of the authors, and authors do not know the identity of the referees.

“New submissions are sent by the Editorial Administrator to a member of the editorial team who makes an initial assessment about its suitability.”

 

 

 

 

 

Mind & Language

“A submitted paper will usually be sent to two referees who will be asked to comment on both its intrinsic quality and its accessibility to the interdisciplinary readership of Mind & Language. Authors may request that their name be withheld from referees, in which case it is the responsibility of the author to prepare the manuscript in such a way that after detachment of the title page there remains no indication of authorship.”

 

 

 

 

 

Minds and Machines

“Double-blind peer review

“This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit:

    A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided.

    A separate title page, containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page.”

 

 

 

 

 

Mind and Matter

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Mind and Society

“Double-blind peer review

This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit two versions of their manuscript:

    The full version including all author names and affiliations.

    A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should either be avoided or left blank.”

 

 

 

 

 

Minerva

“Manuscripts should be anonymised for blind refereeing, and contributors are asked to number all pages. Submissions are judged exclusively on their philosophical merits.

“Please include:

“The proposed Title of the Paper.

“The Author's name, qualifications and affiliations (if any).

“The Author's full postal and email addresses.

“An Abstract of 100-300 words.”

 

 

 

 

 

Modern Intellectual History

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

The Monist

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Moral Philosophy and Politics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Multiple-Valued Logic

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

NanoEthics: Ethics for Technologies that converge at the nanoscale

“NanoEthics employs a double blind reviewing procedure. Authors are asked to anonymize their articles before submitting them (including removing their name from the head of the article and removing all self-identifying citations and references).

“A separate sheet should contain the following information:

- running head (shortened title)

- title

- author(s)

- affiliation(s)

- full address for correspondence, including telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address.”

 

 

 

 

 

Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly

“Our review process is “blind”: reviewers are not told the identity of the author. When you submit materials for publication, it is important not to indicate your identity in any way in

the body of the text.”

 

 

 

 

 

Natural Language Semantics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy

No English language option at website. From the Philos-L announcement: “The Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy (NJLP) (formerly known as Rechtsfilosofie & Rechtstheorie) is an international, double-blind peer reviewed journal which aims to encourage the study of legal philosophy, legal theory and the foundations of the legal sciences.”

 

 

 

 

 

Neuroethics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

The New Bioethics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

New Blackfriars

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

New Nietzsche Studies

“No identification of author should occur in the text or notes as all submissions may be subject to anonymous peer review.”

 

 

 

 

 

The New Year Book for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Newman Studies Journal

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

The Nigerian Journal of Philosophy

No website, no mention of blind review in Philos-L announcement.

 

 

 

 

 

Nordic Journal of Aesthetics

“All submissions that are not invited will be subjected to blind review. The author’s name should therefore not appear on manuscripts and any reference to the author’s previous work should be in the third person.”

 

 

 

 

 

Nordic Journal of Philosophical Logic

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Nordic Wittgenstein Review

“Submission Preparation Checklist

“All author identification information has been removed from the submission file(s), as well as from the document’s properties. No versions of the paper are available online. (Any risk of breach of the blind review should be avoided;…)

“Peer Review Process

“The journal implements a double-blind peer review process. The editorial procedures will be designed to follow best practice concerning excellence, impartiality, transparency, purposefulness, efficiency, confidentiality and integrity (cf. European Peer Review Guide).

“The eligible articles will then be submitted to double-blind review, in which the identities of the reviewers and the authors are kept confidential from each other. Each article will be read by the editors and then, in cooperation with the editor-in-chief, assigned to two or more reviewers.

“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.”

 

 

 

 

 

Northern Plains Ethics Journal

“Manuscripts should be double-spaced and prepared for blind-review.”

 

 

 

 

 

Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic

“The NDJFL uses blind (math) and double-blind (philosophy) review. Papers should be in a form that facilitates this process (displays/does not display author name). You may be asked to reload your manuscript if the editors deem it necessary to have your name added or deleted.”

 

 

 

 

 

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Noûs

“In order that manuscripts may be read in ignorance of authorship, we request that names of authors and their institutional affiliations not appear on manuscripts.”

 

 

 

 

 

NTU Philosophical Review

“All submitted papers will be sent anonymously to two experts for evaluation.

“8. Submissions should be complete with the following information both in Chinese and English: title, abstract (no more than 500 words), and keywords (no more than five). Papers must follow the National Taiwan University Philosophical Review Style sheet.

“9. Please also provide the following information on a separate sheet of paper: name, institution, and position, contact address, email address, and telephone or fax number.”

 

 

 

 

 

Nursing Ethics

“Nursing Ethics adheres to a rigorous double-blind reviewing policy in which the identity of reviewers and authors are concealed from both parties.”

 

 

 

 

 

Nursing Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

The Open Ethics Journal

“Bentham Science follows the single blind peer-review procedure for submissions of all manuscripts to its journals. Single blind is the most common type of peer-reviewing in which the identity of the reviewers is not disclosed to the authors of the submitted manuscript concerned. The anonymity of reviewers allows for objective assessment of the manuscript by reviewers and also free from any influence by the authors on the reviewers comments.”

 

 

 

 

 

Open Journal of Philosophy

“Authors are invited to provide the names of three well qualified reviewers. Current e-mail addresses must be provided for all suggested reviewers.

“Submitted manuscripts adhering to journal guidelines are reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief or an Editor, who will assign them to reviewers. The Editorial Board prepares a decision letter according to the comments of the reviewers, which is sent to the corresponding author.”

 

 

 

 

 

Open Theology

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Organon F International Journal of Analytic Philosophy

“A submitted paper will be usually sent to two referees. Therefore, manuscripts should be prepared for blind reviewing. Authors are asked to include their full name, academic affiliation and full address for correspondence, including e-mail address, in a detachable first page of their manuscript.”

 

 

 

 

 

Overheard in Seville: The Bulletin of the George Santayana Society

“Manuscripts should be prepared for blind review. Identifying information should not appear in running heads, footnotes, references, or anywhere in the manuscript. Identifying information in footnotes or reference may be replaced with blanks or dashes.”

 

 

 

 

 

The Owl of Minerva

“The manuscript must be submitted in a form appropriate for blind review. The author's name should appear only on a separate title page. The body of the manuscript must contain nothing that reveals the author's identity.”

 

 

 

 

 

Oxford Journal of Law and Religion

“OJLR uses a blind submission process. In order to ensure an impartial review of your submission, please do not identify yourself in your manuscript. You will be required to submit an anonymous main document and a separate title page with acknowledgments (including all sources of funding and support, and substantive contributions of individuals), and co-author names, to allow blinded review.”

 

 

 

 

 

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Oxford Studies in Epistemology

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Oxford Studies in Metaethics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Oxford Studies in Metaphysics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly

 

“All manuscripts should be submitted to the managing editor by e-mail: ppq@dornsife.usc.edu , according to the following instructions: The submission e-mail should have the subject "NEW SUBMISSION: [name of article]". Make sure the body of the e-mail includes the author's name, institutional affiliation(e.g. School of Philosophy, USC), the department's full address (e.g. 3709 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA, 90089), as well as the title of the submission, and a brief abstract (approx. 150 words). The manuscript itself, prepared for blind review, should be sent as a PDF or word document attachment to the e-mail submission.”

 

 

 

 

 

Paideia

“One copy must be completely anonymus, whereas should the author's contact be indicated in the second one. Morevorer, a cover letter and the author's cv are required.”

 

 

 

 

 

Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy

“All pieces published in the essay section of PARRHESIA are double blind peer-reviewed.”

 

 

 

 

 

Passions in Context

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Perspectives International Journal of Philosophy

From e-mail Announcement: “Please submit two versions of your article, one version prepared for blind review.”

Website Instructions for Authors makes no mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Perspectives on Science

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

PhaenEx

“Submission Preparation Checklist

“As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

    All references that explicitly reveal the identity of the author have been removed from the manuscript.”

 

 

 

 

 

Phenomenology and Mind

“Submissions are subject to double blind review.”

 

 

 

 

 

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Philo

“MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION:  Submissions should be prepared for blind review. The author’s name should not appear on the manuscript, and self-identifying citations should be avoided.

“ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION: Manuscripts must be submitted by email. Include “PHILO” in the subject line of the message. The text of the message should include the author’s complete contact information, including surface mail address, email address, and daytime phone number. The paper and abstract should be attached to the message and saved as a Microsoft Word file.”

 

 

 

 

 

Philosofict

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

The Philosopher

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophers' Imprint

“Submissions to the Imprint are refereed anonymously and selected for publication on the basis of their estimated long-term significance.

“The Editors select for publication only those submissions which are judged to be of lasting value, on the basis of a blind refereeing process.

“Prepare your paper for blind refereeing by removing personal references. Save the paper in PDF format, ensuring that personal references have not been automatically added in a "Properties" or "Summary" field.”

 

 

 

 

 

The Philosophers' Magazine

Blog. No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophia

“Double-blind review procedure

The journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to place their name and affiliation on a separate page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should either be avoided or left blank when manuscripts are first submitted. Authors are responsible for reinserting self-identifying citations and references when manuscripts are prepared for final submission.”

 

 

 

 

 

philoSOPHIA

No mention of blind review, no website.

Philos-L advertisement: “>The editors invite submissions from scholars who work at the intellectual and philosophical intersections of continental philosophy and feminist theory in the hope of opening a wider dialogue around a diverse array of questions concerning sexual difference, sexuate identity, women writing and being written about in philosophy, and the interrogation of canonical texts.

“Please direct editorial questions to [the editors].”

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophia Africana

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophia Christi

“SUBMISSION METHOD: Contributors should send a blind-review ready paper, saved as a Microsoft Word version or as an .rtf file, through our online submission form

“The author’s name should appear only on a removable cover sheet.

“On this cover sheet, please include your basic contact information (e.g., mail and e-mail address, phone number, and personal or faculty website address).

“Please also indicate your professional credentials.

“We welcome copies of your CV!”

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophia Mathematica

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophia Naturalis

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophia Reformata

“Ideally, manuscripts must be prepared for blind review. The author’s name should appear only on a separate cover letter or e-mail, and any references to the author’s work must be made in the third person. (Please also be aware that identifying information can lurk in the Properties of a Microsoft Word file, or in other metadata.)”

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophia Scientiae?

“Peer-review process

“Each submission is handled in tandem by the managing editor and a subject-specific editor, who monitor the entire peer-review process.

“The anonymized manuscript is sent for review to two referees, selected among the members of the editorial board, the associate editors, external experts. The referees' reports are reviewed by the subject-specific editor, who recommends acceptance, acceptance with minor changes, revision and resubmission, or rejection. Based on these reports, the editor-in-chief, the managing editor, and the subject-specific editor jointly decide what action to take.

”Articles accepted by the Editors, after anonymous refereeing by at least two experts, shall be published provided that the authors respect the conventions specified below.

”2 Preparation and structure of articles

a) First/cover page

Supply the title of the article followed by:

Author’s surname, first and other names, followed by the author’s institutional or academic affiliation(s).

“Addresses of the authors

Authors should provide their Institutional postal address (to be published at the end of the volume) Private postal address (for the contract) e-mail address.”

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophic Exchange

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophica

“Since each issue is devoted to one topic, we do not accept spontaneously submitted papers.”

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophical Explorations

“Peer Review Policy:

“All research articles published in this journal have undergone rigorous double blind peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two referees.

“Preparing papers for blind review

Please make sure that your submission is carefully prepared for blind review, i.e. that there are no references to yourself or to your work in your paper. This includes removing references to earlier work (these can be added later). In case of a revision or resubmission: make sure your response to the referees is also blinded.”

 

 

 

 

 

The Philosophical Forum

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophical Inquiries

From Philos-L post: “Needless to say, the submission system in use on this website and thus the double-blind peer-review process do not apply to the present first issue of the journal …”

From website & PDF: “All papers considered appropriate for the journal are reviewed anonymously by two (sometimes three) reviewers.”

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophical Inquiry

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophical Investigations

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophical Issues

By invitation only.

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophical News

“[T]he editors solicit specific contributions focused on the current philosophical debate, of either theoretical or historic character.

“Beyond including articles and reviews, the issues will invite interviews as well.” No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophical Papers

“Articles prepared for blind review will be blind reviewed.”

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophical Perspectives

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophical Practice

“All contributions will be anonymously reviewed, either by members of the Editorial Boards or by panels of ad hoc Reviewers drawn from practitioners, researchers, academics or others who have made significant contributions to the

field. Decisions regarding publication will be made by the Editors with advice from the Editorial Boards or Reviewers, with feedback provided to authors on decisions taken.”

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophical Psychology

“Authors should prepare and upload two versions of their manuscript. One should be a complete text, while in the second all document information identifying the author should be removed from files to allow them to be sent anonymously to referees. When uploading files authors will then be able to define the non-anonymous version as ‘File not for review’.”

 

 

 

 

 

The Philosophical Quarterly

“4. Articles must be submitted in a form suitable for blind refereeing; personal acknowledgements should be removed. PDF submissions should include the author's details in a separate document.

“5. When submitting papers, authors should specify whether they are male or female or else explicitly state that they prefer not to supply this information. Information on gender is collected for statistical purposes only and the editors will not be made aware of an author's gender until a final decision about publication has been made. Referees are not provided with any information about authors at any stage.”

 

 

 

 

 

The Philosophical Review

“Send articles by e-mail to phil-review@cornell.edu. In the e-mail, include the title of the article, the author's name and postal address, and the author's institutional affiliation.

“Neither the author's name nor the author's affiliation should be included in the manuscript, and any acknowledgments should be removed. References to the author's own work should not reveal the author's identity. Any prefatory or explanatory remarks intended for the editors or readers must be given anonymously, not in the cover letter.

“The Philosophical Review practices a system of triple-blind review (with some qualifications; see below). Manuscript readers are not aware of the identity of a manuscript’s author, and the editors are not informed of the author’s identity until they have reached a decision on the manuscript.

“When it comes to resubmissions, the following should be noted. Since an author’s identity is revealed to the editors after a verdict has been reached, the editors will know the identity of the author in the case of a resubmission. Moreover, while the editors will typically aim to send the resubmitted manuscript to the same referee(s) who originally read the paper, there are exceptions to this general rule.”

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophical Studies

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophical Studies in Education

“Papers received on or before December 1 will be considered for publication by an editorial review board, consisting of the Editor and Contributing Editor of Philosophical Studies in Education and the Program Committee of the Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society, and will make final decisions based on double-blind review about articles to be included in the journal.”

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophical Topics

By invitation only. No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophical Writings

“Submission Requirements

    The name and address of the author should NOT appear on the essay.

    A cover sheet should be included with the author's name & contact details.”

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy and Geography

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy and Literature

No mention of blind review; recommended style sheet inaccessible.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy and Progress

“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:

    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.

    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.

    With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.”

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy and Public Affairs

“To facilitate blind review, please remove author-identifying information from the text and notes and provide it in a separate file or document.”

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy and Public Issues

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy & Public Policy Quarterly

“The Quarterly has a double-anonymous review process.  Please ensure that your submission does not identify you as the author.

“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.”

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy and Rhetoric

“The author’s name and any other indications of author identity should be removed from the manuscript prior to submission. … Authors are requested to provide E-mail addresses and indicate institutional affiliation or independent scholar.”

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy & Social Criticism

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy & Technology

“All submissions are subjected to double-blind peer review, the average peer review time is 3 months.”

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy and Theology

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy & Theory in Biology

“The title page must include keywords and a short abstract (~150-300 words), but no identifying information about the authors must be present anywhere in the manuscript, since we use a double blind review process. This also means that self-citations throughout the manuscript have to be in the third person or, if appropriate, removed with the note 'suppressed for review.'”

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy Compass

“Submission Checklist

Please submit, in Microsoft Word (.doc) format:

  • An anonymous version of your article, incorporating the title, abstract, full text, Works Cited list, any figures, tables or captions. Please do not include references to yourself as the author of the paper.
  • A separate title page (inc. your article title, name, affiliation and correspondence address / email address).
  • A one-paragraph short biography”

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy East and West

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy in Review

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy in the Contemporary World

“Submissions are blind reviewed by two members of the Editorial Review Board or by others chosen by the Editor.

“Manuscripts should be prepared for blind review and should be accompanied by a short abstract.”

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy Now

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy of Management

“Reviewing Procedure

We follow a double-blind reviewing procedure with submitted papers reviewed by two referees.”

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy of Music Education Review

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy of Photography

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy of Science

“Manuscripts must be prepared for blind review. Please see the section 'Blinding Your Paper' on this page.

“Blinding Your Paper

“Papers submitted to Philosophy of Science must be blinded prior to review. Papers cannot be reviewed unless they are properly blinded. To blind your paper, follow these guidelines:

    There is no need for a title page. The first page of the paper should contain the title, immediately followed by the abstract, immediately followed by text of the paper. Your name should not appear on this page as the author.

    Generic references to 'I' or 'me' (or other first-person pronouns) are permitted, unless they appear in conjunction with evidence that would lead the reader to infer to whom the pronoun refers.

Check that the paper has no running headers or footers with your name.”

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

No mention of blind review. The link to the guide for the preparation of manuscripts was nonfunctional.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy Study

“All papers considered appropriate for this journal are reviewed anonymously by outside reviewers.”

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy Today

“Since a blind review process is used, no authors’ name should appear anywhere on the manuscript. In addition, because we share files electronically, it is the authors’ responsibility to strip the file of any other identifying notations, including references in the document’s properties, title, or first-person language in text of references.”

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Phronesis

“Double-blinded Peer Review

All papers submitted to PHRO are reviewed by the Editors; they may, in addition, be submitted for review to external referees. In respect of these referees, PHRO uses a double-blind peer review system, which means the manuscript author (s) do not know who the reviewers are and the reviewers do not know the names of the author(s). When you submit your article via Editorial Manager, you will be asked to submit a separate title page which includes the full title of the manuscript plus the names and complete contact details of all authors. This page will not be accessible to referees. All other files (manuscript, figures, tables, etc.) should not contain any information concerning author names, institutions, etc. The names of these files and the document properties should also be anonymized.”

 

 

 

 

 

Plato Journal: The Journal of the International Plato Society

“The Plato Journal follows a double-blinded peer review process.

“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:

    “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.

    “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.

    “With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.”

 

 

 

 

 

Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

The Pluralist

“A submission must omit self-identifying information to allow for double-blind review.”

 

 

 

 

 

Plurilogue: Politics and Philosophy Review

“To propose a review, please contact the editor, Tom Bailey, at [email address].

“Submitted reviews will be blind refereed by a member of the editorial board.”

 

 

 

 

 

Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Polish Journal of Philosophy

“In order that manuscripts may be blind-reviewed (i.e. read in ignorance of authorship), we request that names of authors and their institutional affiliations not appear on manuscripts or the electronic copy. However, a covering letter should include the title of the paper and all useful contact information — address, fax and phone numbers, email address, etc. In certain cases, the Editor-in-Chief may require that this be done before the paper is further considered.”

 

 

 

 

 

Political Studies

“To upload a manuscript, please prepare the following files:

1. An abstract of 150 words

2. A title page with names and affiliations of all authors

3. The article with any references to the identity of the authors (for example, in acknowledgements, headers, footers or in the reference list) removed to allow for double-blind peer review.”

 

 

 

 

 

Political Theology

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Political Theory

“All identifying information should be removed from the manuscript. Manuscripts that do not meet the submission standards will not be considered.

“How to Submit

Authors must prepare and submit two separate files to Political Theory via our website (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pt):

(1) One 'Main Document' which contains only your manuscript;

(2) One 'Supplementary File' that includes a title page with full contact information; a brief biographical paragraph noting current affiliation, research interests, and recent publications; an abstract of no more than 150 words; and five keywords to facilitate electronic access. A cover letter is not required.”

 

 

 

 

 

Politics, Philosophy & Economics

“1. Peer review policy

“Politics, Philosophy & Economics operates a strictly blinded peer review process in which the reviewer’s name is withheld from the author and, the author’s name from the reviewer. The reviewer may at their own discretion opt to reveal their name to the author in their review but our standard policy practice is for both identities to remain concealed.”

 

 

 

 

 

Pop. Kultur und Kritik

No paper submission guidelines at website.

 

 

 

 

 

Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics

“Essays in an acceptable format will be refereed blind by a member of the editorial advisory board.”

 

 

 

 

 

Pragmatics & Cognition

“Manuscripts should be prepared for blind review and submitted electronically in Word Format to [email address].

“All manuscripts should be accompanied by a separate file, containing the contributor's name, affiliation, postal address, e-mail, and homepage URL if available, as well as a biobibliographical note (50-75 words).”

 

 

 

 

 

Praxis Journal of Philosophy

[From website:] “No direct or indirect references to the author should be included in the manuscript (unless it is a book review), making it suitable for blind review. To ensure your document is not identified, please go to File > Properties > Summary, make sure you delete all relevant information and save the file.

[From 1st but not 2nd E-mail announcement 10.12.2012:] “Praxis operates on the policy of double-blind peer review.”

 

 

 

 

 

Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association

“Each volume includes topical papers delivered by invited speakers, up to sixteen other papers selected for the meeting by blind review, and the President's Address.”

 

 

 

 

 

Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume

By invitation only. No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Process Studies

“Manuscripts submitted to Process Sudies will be sent out by the editor to 2 or 3 experts in the topic area in a double-blind assessment process, assuming the editor's first assessment of the manuscripts concludes that the manuscripts are appropriate in content and style for more formal assessment in consideration for publication.”

 

 

 

 

 

ProtoSociology

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Psychological Inquiry

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Psychological Research

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Public Affairs Quarterly

“Those submitting material for consideration for publication should supply an electronic copy to paqjournal@gmail.com. Manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout and prepared for blind-review.”

 

 

 

 

 

Public Health Ethics

“All self-identifying information should be removed from manuscripts submitted to Public Health Ethics, and should appear in the title page only. Personal citations may be retained as long as these citations do not identify the author of the article to reviewers.”

 

 

 

 

 

Public Philosophy Journal

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Public Reason

“All contributions whether articles or reviews are welcome and should be sent by e-mail as attachment at brancoveanu@publicreason.ro. Papers will be refereed on a blind basis by Public Reason’s referee board.

“Please limit your paper submission to 8000 words, including footnotes and references, and format it for blind review (the text should be free of personal and institutional information). Along with the article, but not in the article, please send contact details: current affiliation, address, telephone number and email address.”

 

 

 

 

 

Quality & Quantity

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Questions: Philosophy for Young People

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Radical Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Radical Philosophy Review

“Submissions should be sent as e-mail attachments (preferably in MS Word) to the coordinator of the executive editorial committee, Harry van der Linden, at hvanderl@butler.edu. Please attach two copies, one of which prepared for blind refereeing with all direct or indirect references to the author removed. Include an abstract of no more than 100 words, a short author bio, and e-mail and mailing address.”

 

 

 

 

 

Ramom Llull Journal of Applied Ethics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Ratio

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Ratio Juris

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rationality, Markets and Morals

“Peer Review Policy

“All research articles undergo a rigorous double-blind peer review including initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing. If these articles are accepted, they are marked as ‘peer reviewed’.

“Referees are asked to assess the quality of submitted papers and to point out mistakes, errors, omissions, unclear passages, and digressions. They may also offer substantive criticism. If, however, a high-quality paper encounters substantive criticism by a referee, the editors may still accept the paper without revisions concerning the substantial points of disagreement, and invite the referee to publish a comment, to which the author may respond.

“To encourage discussions of current topics, contributions to the discussion section have to pass only a lighter and faster review process by the editors. The same applies to book reviews and to some invited contributions to special topics marked as ‘article’ (see Concept and Structure).”

 

 

 

 

 

Reason Papers

“All Articles should be submitted in a format appropriate to blind review. Articles undergo review on a double-blind peer review basis, and may be sent on that basis to multiple reviewers. All manuscripts also undergo extensive review by the Editors after passing peer review; authors should therefore be prepared to respond to both substantive and editorial comments on their manuscript after acceptance.”

 

 

 

 

 

The Reasoner

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Relations: Beyond Anthropocentrism

“All submitted works undergo anonymous double-blind review.

“To preserve the integrity of the peer-review process, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of authors and reviewers from becoming known to each other.

“Check that the online instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.”

 

 

 

 

 

Religious Studies: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion

“No article will be accepted for publication without blind review. The text of submitted articles must be ready for this and must bear no trace of the author’s identity. Articles that are not ready for blind review will be rejected.”

 

 

 

 

 

Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Res Philosophica

“All submissions to the journal are peer refereed. All unsolicited submissions are triple anonymous refereed: The author is anonymous to both the editor and the referee, and the referee is anonymous to the author. (We take anonymous review seriously; please see the instructions on how to prepare manuscripts for anonymous review.) If an editor can determine the identity of the author, no matter who the author, she will recuse herself from the review process entirely, and a suitable replacement will be found.

“Anonymity

“The journal takes the anonymity of the review process seriously. Please prepare your manuscript for blind review appropriately. Submissions that are not so prepared will be rejected.

“Nothing that could be used to identify the author should be included in the submitted document. Please be sure to follow all of the following instructions:

    Do not include a cover page

    Do not include your name as the author, your email, or your institution

    Please check the document properties to be sure that it does not include identifying marks. (These often include author's name, email, or institution.)

    Please anonymize any allusions to personal communications from named individuals with "[NAME REMOVED]."

    Please anonymize acknowledgements and thanks with "[ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS REMOVED]."

    When citing your own work, do not anonymize but do remove first person pronouns. That is, instead of, for example, "As I argued in Smith 2010 . . .", please use "As Smith (2010) argues . . ."”

 

 

 

 

 

Res Publica

“Double-blind peer review

This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit:

    “A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided.

    “A separate title page, containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page.”

 

 

 

 

 

Research Ethics

“The quality of submitted articles is evaluated independently by double-blind peer review.

“1. Peer review policy

“All research papers submitted for publication in Research Ethics will be subject to double-blind peer review.  Research Ethics operates a strictly anonymous peer review process in which the reviewer’s name is withheld from the author and, the author’s name from the reviewer. The reviewer may at their own discretion opt to reveal their name to the author in their review but our standard policy practice is for both identities to remain concealed.”

 

 

 

 

 

Research in Phenomenology

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Retfaerd: Nordic Journal of Law and Justice

“All submissions are anonymously peer-reviewed by two referees external to the editorial board.

“Title: the title of the article should be written on a separate page, together with information on the author, institute affiliation, address, contact numbers and e-mail, and a 150-word abstract.

“All received academic contributions will be peer-reviewed anonymously by 2 experts. The articles will be sent anonymously by the editors, and later sent to 2 experts chosen by the editorial board. … In extraordinary cases the peer-review can be conducted by a member of the editorial board where the article was received. This can only happen if it not possible to find other opportunities for peer-review and only as long the anonymity between the author and the expert can be maintained.”

 

 

 

 

 

Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice

“Rethinking History is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, original research. All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double blind and submission is .”[sic]

“All authors of a manuscript should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the corresponding author. Please give the affiliation where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after the manuscript is accepted. Please note that the email address of the corresponding author will normally be displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal style) and the online article.

“All persons who have a reasonable claim to authorship must be named in the manuscript as co-authors; the corresponding author must be authorized by all co-authors to act as an agent on their behalf in all matters pertaining to publication of the manuscript, and the order of names should be agreed by all authors.

“Please supply a short biographical note for each author.”

 

 

 

 

 

Review of Contemporary Philosophy

““Anonymity

We do not release reviewers’ identities to authors or to other reviewers, except when reviewers specifically ask to be identified. Unless they feel strongly, however, we prefer that reviewers should remain anonymous throughout the review process and beyond. Before revealing their identities, reviewers should consider the possibility that they may be asked to comment on the criticisms of other reviewers and on further revisions of the manuscript; identified reviewers may find it more difficult to be objective in such circumstances. We ask reviewers not to identify themselves to authors without the editor's knowledge. If they wish to reveal their identities while the manuscript is under consideration, this should be done via the editor, or if this is not practicable, we ask authors to inform the editor as soon as possible after the reviewer has revealed his or her identity to the author. We deplore any attempt by authors to confront reviewers or determine their identities. Our own policy is to neither confirm nor deny any speculation about reviewers' identities, and we encourage reviewers to adopt a similar policy.

“Double blind peer review

All papers in this journal have undergone editorial screening and anonymous double-blind peer review. All material submitted to our journal will be reviewed by the Editorial team. Papers may be rejected without full peer review, remaining papers will be sent for external peer review. Our journal operates a double-blind peer review process and aims to provide rapid peer review with papers receiving a first decision within an average of 30 days.””

 

 

 

 

 

The Review of Metaphysics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Review of Philosophy and Psychology

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Review of Symbolic Logic

“Manuscripts should be submitted to the Coordinating Editor. Electronic submission is encouraged: send an e-message with the manuscript attached in pdf format. The body of the e-message should include the title of the paper, the authors, its length in pages, and a clear-text copy of the abstract.

“Authors who prefer blind refereeing are invited to prepare their papers accordingly.”

 

 

 

 

 

Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger

No website. Philos-L announcement:

“Submitted papers will be subject to double-blind refereeing.

“Submissions must be prepared for blind review: the identity of the author and any other identifying information must not appear anywhere in the document. A separate cover sheet must be included that contains the author information and paper title.”

 

 

 

 

 

Rhizomata: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Rivista di estetica

“Rivista di Estetica practices double blind refereeing and publishes both in Italian and English.

“Every submission requires:

– a .doc file with the full text

of the article, prepared for blind referee

– a .doc file with a ten lines abstract

(in English)

– a .doc cover file containing the following data (on behalf of the editorial board):

1) author (with address and e-mail address)

2) title, date of the last version”

 

 

 

 

 

Romanian Journal of Bioethics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies

“Scholarly articles submitted to the journal are reviewed anonymously.

“Scholarly papers are refereed by the double-blind method, so identification of the author should be easily removable.”

 

 

 

 

 

Russian Sociological Review

“Two anonymous reviewers usually review papers that are accepted for the consideration. As a rule, one reviewer is a member of the editorial board. The reviewing process is double blind, which means that neither author(s) nor reviewers know personal details of each other.”

 

 

 

 

 

Russian Studies in Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Sartre Studies International

“The editors certify that all materials, with the possible exception of editorial introductions, book reviews, and some types of commentary, have been subjected to double-blind peer review by qualified scholars in the field.”

 

 

 

 

 

SATS: Northern European Journal of Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Schutzian Research: A Yearbook of Worldly Phenomenology and Qualitative Social Science

“All submissions will be blindly reviewed by at least two experts in the appropriate field.”

 

 

 

 

 

Science and Consciousness Review

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Science & Education

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Science and Engineering Ethics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Science, Religion & Culture

“Blinded Review: All submitted manuscripts will be reviewed by at least two experts in the field. The names of the reviewers will thus not be disclosed to the author submitting a paper.”

 

 

 

 

 

Shape

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Sign Systems Studies

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Signs

“A separate title page should include the article title and the author's name, postal address, telephone number, e-mail address, and fax number, if available. To protect anonymity, the author's name should not appear in the manuscript, and all references in the body of the text and in footnotes that might identify the author to the reviewer should be removed and cited on a separate page.”

 

 

 

 

 

Social Choice and Welfare

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Social Epistemology

“Authors should prepare and upload two versions of their manuscript. One should be a complete text, while in the second all document information identifying the author should be removed from files to allow them to be sent anonymously to referees. When uploading files authors will then be able to define the non-anonymous version as “File not for review”.”

 

 

 

 

 

Social Philosophy & Policy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Social Philosophy Today

“Each volume contains a selection of papers presented at the International Social Philosophy Conference, an annual event sponsored by the North American Society for Social Philosophy.”

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Social Research

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Social Studies of Science

“Social Studies of Science operates a double-blinded peer review process in which the reviewer’s name is withheld from the author and, the author’s name from the reviewer. The reviewer may at their own discretion opt to reveal their name to the author in their review but our standard policy practice is for both identities to remain concealed. All manuscripts are reviewed initially by the Editors and only those papers that meet the editorial standards of the journal, and are appropriate within the aims and scope of the journal, will be sent for outside review.”

 

 

 

 

 

Social Theory and Practice

“Papers should be prepared for blind review and submitted electronically (preferably as Microsoft Word documents) to stp-philosophy@fsu.edu. Author-identifying information, any deleted references or acknowledgments, and a statement that the paper has not been published previously in any form and is not currently under consideration elsewhere should be included in a separate note. An email address should be provided for acknowledgment of receipt.”

 

 

 

 

 

Solidarity: The Journal for Catholic Social Thought and Secular Ethics

“All submissions are treated as Unsolicited Contributions and double-blind refereed.

To ensure its integrity, the refereeing process for all unsolicited contributions to the Solidarity [sic]is double-blind: the names and institutional affiliations of authors are revealed neither to referees nor members of the Editorial Board; likewise, referees and Board members remain anonymous both to each other and to the author in each particular case. Without the prior permission of the Editors, referees and Board members will not show to other people material supplied to them for evaluation. All published submissions have been anonymously reviewed by at least two referees.”

 

 

 

 

 

Soochow Journal of Philosophical Studies

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Sorities: Digital Journal of Analytical Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal

“For procedures related to submitting an essay, consult the CHS website (http://www.lib.fsu.edu/CHS/).” This page was not accessible.

 

 

 

 

 

South African Journal of Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

South American Journal of Logic

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Southern Journal of Philosophy

“All references to the author (direct and indirect) must be removed in order to ensure blind review. Please check the body of the text, abstract, notes, and document meta-data to confirm the absence of any self-identifying references.”

 

 

 

 

 

Southwest Philosophical Studies

“SPS is a blind and peer reviewed journal which publishes ten to twelve of the best papers accepted into the annual conference.”

 

 

 

 

 

Southwest Philosophy Review

“Author's name should appear only in a separate cover letter, and submissions should be formatted for blind review.”

 

 

 

 

 

Speculations: A Journal of Speculative Realism

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science

“If submitting a paper for peer review, the paper is anonymized. See instructions for ensuring a blind review.

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:

“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.

“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.

“With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.”

 

 

 

 

 

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Studia Leibnitiana

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Studia Logica

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Studia Neoaristotelica

“E-mail manuscripts to studia@skaut.org as two files, containing the following items:

File one:

    the anonymized paper

File two:

    the abstract(s)

    list of keywords

    author’s name, affiliation and scholarly profile

    author’s e-mail address

    author’s postal address

    author’s personal website address (if any).”

 

 

 

 

 

Studia Phaenomenologica

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Studia Philosophica Estonica

“Reviewing Procedure

Studia Philosophica Estonica follows a double−blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to omit their name and affiliation from the manuscript. Self−identifying citations and references in the article text should also be avoided or left blank when manuscripts are first submitted.”

 

 

 

 

 

Studia Spinozana

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Studies in Christian Ethics

“1. Peer review policy

“Studies in Christian Ethics adheres to a rigorous double-blind reviewing policy in which the identities of the referees and the author are concealed from all parties.”

 

 

 

 

 

Studies in East European Thought

“Reviewing procedure

Studies in East European Thought follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to place their name and affiliation on a separate page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should either be avoided or left blank when manuscripts are first submitted. Authors are responsible for reinserting self-identifying citations and references when manuscripts are prepared for final submission.

“Manuscript Preparation

“Title page

“The title page (separate) should include:

- The name(s) of the author(s)

- A concise and informative title

- The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)

- The e-mail address, phone and fax numbers of the corresponding author”

 

 

 

 

 

Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology

“Do not identify author names in the actual text of your manuscript; all such information is discarded when we receive your submission. To add or edit co-authors, you must use the “revise submission” form.

Make sure all author and co-author information is complete. Click on “Preview submission” to make sure that all your co-authors' names and affiliations appear correctly.

Do not include acknowledgments in your manuscript. Instead, enter acknowledgments in the coverpage footnote section on the “revise submission” form, so that they may be incorporated into the title page produced for publication.”

 

 

 

 

 

Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

“Studies uses the peer review system; articles should be submitted prepared for blind review. For more information, please read the journal's peer review policy.” [This link goes to a page stating, “Sorry, the page you are looking for cannot be found.”]

 

 

 

 

 

Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics

“Referees

Please submit, with the manuscript, the names, addresses and e-mail addresses of three potential referees. Note that the editor retains the sole right to decide whether or not the suggested reviewers are used.

“Essential title page information

“• Author names and affiliations. Where the family name may be ambiguous (e.g., a double name), please indicate this clearly. Present the authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name and, if available, the e-mail address of each author.

“• Corresponding author. Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. Ensure that phone numbers (with country and area code) are provided in addition to the e-mail address and the complete postal address. Contact details must be kept up to date by the corresponding author.”

 

 

 

 

 

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

“Studies uses the peer review system; articles should be submitted prepared for blind review. Details of the Peer Review policy are available from the journal's homepage:”

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Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

“Studies uses the peer review system; articles should be submitted prepared for blind review. Details of the Peer Review policy are available from the journal's homepage [link].” [This link goes to a page that does not contain details of the journal’s peer review policy]

 

 

 

 

 

Studies in Logic

“Manuscripts must be prepared for blind review. The author should submit two versions of the papers, with and without author's information respectively. In the blind version, the author's name and affiliation should not appear on the first page as the author. The acknowledgement or references to author's own work should not lead the reader to infer the author's identity.”

 

 

 

 

 

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

“The papers will be double-blind reviewed and theref

ore authors are asked to remove any self-

identifying citations.”

 

 

 

 

 

Studies in Philosophy and Education

“Double-blind peer review

This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit:

    A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided.

    A separate title page, containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Studies in Social Justice

“Submissions are reviewed by two independent assessors who may or may not be members of the Editorial Board. The review process will be anonymous and you are asked to avoid identifying yourself in the submission.

“Submission Preparation Checklist

“The text, if submitted to a peer-reviewed section (e.g., Articles), has had the authors' names removed. Identifying information such as institutional affiliation and acknowledgements have been removed. The author's name has also been removed from the document's Properties, which in Microsoft Word is found in the File menu.”

 

 

 

 

 

Symposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Symposium

“All articles submitted to Symposium are peer-reviewed. Upon receipt of a manuscript an initial determination is made by the editor about the likelihood of a submission securing two favorable referee reports from scholars in the field. Some submissions are rejected at this stage. Otherwise the submission is forwarded to two referees from the editorial board for assessment on a double-blind basis. Manuscripts accepted for publication generally receive two favorable reports and final approval from the editor.”

 

 

 

 

 

Synesis: A Journal of Science, Technology, Ethics and Policy

“Synesis follows a double−blind reviewing procedure. Each submitted manuscript will be reviewed by (at least) two anonymous peer reviewers. These reviews will help the co-editors reach a final decision about whether a manuscript should be accepted for publication.

“Submissions should include these attachments: 1) a brief cover letter stating the names, titles, and contact information of all authors, indicating the corresponding author, that the work is original and has not been submitted elsewhere, and acknowledgment of copyright transfer.”

 

 

 

 

 

Synthese

“Double-blind peer review

“This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit:

    A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided.

    A separate title page, containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page.”

 

 

 

 

 

Synthesis Philosophica

“Every article has to pass 'double-blind' peer-reviewing procedure, with two anonymous reviewers.”

 

 

 

 

 

Sztuka I filozofia

“We inform all prospective contributors to Sztuka i Filozofia about the rules which we intend to follow when accepting texts for publication:

“In order to facilitate the blind reviewing process, authors are asked not to disclose their identity anywhere within the text’s pages. The text should start with the full title of the article on top of the first page. Additionally, the article should be preceded by a cover page containing: full title of the article, abstract (150-200 words) and key words, name and surname of the author, a short note on the author i.e. title, academic affiliation or present work affiliation, and an email address that can be disclosed to the journal readers.”

 

 

 

 

 

Teaching Ethics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Teaching Philosophy

“Papers should be suitable for blind review.”

 

 

 

 

 

Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology

“The first page of the manuscript should contain the title of the paper, an abstract of 50-100 words, and 2-5 comprehensive keywords. Each page of the manuscript should be consecutively numbered, including pages of notes, references, and captions. The paper should be prepared for blind review with no endnotes or document properties identifying the author or the author's institution. Please be careful to check the properties of your file to ensure anonymity.

“The title of the paper, the author's name and full affiliation address (including email) must be supplied in a separate file (MSWord, Rich Text or Open Office Format) attached to the same email as your manuscript submission.”

 

 

 

 

 

Telos

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Teorema

“The text must be suitable for blind review.”

 

 

 

 

 

Theology and Science

“Authors should prepare and upload two versions of their manuscript. One should be a complete text, while in the second all document information identifying the author should be removed from files to allow them to be sent anonymously to referees. When uploading files authors will then be able to define the non-anonymous version as ‘File not for review’.”

 

 

 

 

 

Theoretical & Applied Ethics

“Do not type your name, academic affiliation, or any other self-identifying information in your paper. Put that information on your cover letter. Papers are reviewed "blind," so that referees do not know whose paper they are reading.”

 

 

 

 

 

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Theoria

“Manuscript submission

“Before submission please ensure that you have prepared your material according to the journal guidelines and that you have current and accurate e-mail addresses for each author. Manuscripts should be submitted to the following website: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/theo

“Full submission instructions can be found on this website. If you do not have access to the internet, please contact the Theoria office to discuss alternative means of submission.”

Full submission instructions require login. No mention of blind review.

The above quotations are from a Swedish website. At a different URL, apparently a Spanish website, the editorial guidelines include “THEORIA is a peer-reviewed journal. According to its topic, each paper is assigned by the Editors to the competent area editor. This latter will choose two external referees. They will provide a report on a blind version of the paper and, on this basis, the area editor will make the final decision about publication.” The submission instructions at this website include “Step 3. Uploading the Submission

“Upload here a PDF version (.pdf) prepared for anonymous refereeing, with all the identifying information removed.”

 

 

 

 

 

Theoria & Praxis

“Manuscripts shall be subject to a double-blind reading, ensuring the integrity of the peer-review process.

“The journal is double-blind refereed. And to ensure the integrity of this process, the authors should delete their names from the text, and use "Author" instead where applicable. Names and contacts should be provided in a separate document.”

 

 

 

 

 

Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Theory and Decision

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Theory & Psychology

“As the Editors prefer to obtain anonymous reviews, the manuscript should include two title pages, one with identifying information and one with a title only. All identifying information should be excluded from the body of the text as well. Only manuscripts prepared in this fashion can be subject to blind reviews.”

 

 

 

 

 

Thesis Eleven

“Thesis Eleven operates a conventional single-blind reviewing policy in which the reviewer’s name is always concealed from the submitting author.”

 

 

 

 

 

Think: Philosophy for everyone

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Thinking & Reasoning

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

The Thomist

“Contributions should be formatted for blind review, and submitted in both electronic and print form.”

 

 

 

 

 

Thought: A Journal of Philosophy

“Anonymity

“To facilitate our anonymous review process, the author should not be identified in the manuscript or the abstract.

“All submissions are blind reviewed at all stages of the review process.”

 

 

 

 

 

Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Topoi

“The journal welcome proposals for whole issues devoted to a specific topic (topos) of philosophical interest.

“Each proposal should include the following information:

• Guest editors: names, affiliations and contact details …

• Expected contributors: a list of prospective authors who will contribute to the issue. For each author, the list must include the topic of his/her contribution, his/her affiliation, and an indication of whether or not the person in question already agreed to submit a paper for that issue. The list of invited contributors can be supplemented by a call for papers, but … (ii) no less than half of the expected contributions have to be by invitation, i.e., already mentioned in the proposal

“Manuscript Preparation

Title page. The title page should include:

- The name(s) of the author(s)

- A concise and informative title

- The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)

- The e-mail address, phone and fax numbers of the corresponding author.”

 

 

 

 

 

Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical

“Manuscripts normally will be sent out for blind review.”

 

 

 

 

 

Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy

“All manuscripts, prepared for blind review, should be sent to: [email address]”

 

 

 

 

 

Transmission: Journal of the Awareness Field

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Ultimate Reality and Meaning

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Universitas Philosophica

“Contributions are evaluated by the Editorial Committee and academic peer-reviewers in a double-blind system.”

 

 

 

 

 

Utilitas

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Utopian Studies

“Utopian Studies asks two referees to blind review each manuscript.

“Contributor contact information (e-mail address) should be submitted for the editor along with the manuscript.”

 

 

 

 

 

Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Vivarium

“Double-blind Peer Review VIV uses a double-blind peer review system, which means that manuscript author(s) do not know who the reviewers are, and that reviewers do not know the names of the author(s). When you submit your article via Editorial Manager, you will be asked to submit a separate title page which includes the full title of the manuscript plus the names and complete contact details of all authors. This page will not be accessible to the referees. All other files (manuscript, figures, tables, etc.) should not contain any information concerning author names, institutions, etc. The names of these files and the document properties should also be anonymized.”

 

 

 

 

 

Wassard Elea Rivista

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

William James Studies

“Because unsolicited manuscripts are blind reviewed, each must include a separate title page listing the title of the paper, the author's name, institutional affiliation, word count and current contact information (mailing address, email address, and phone number). There should also be no references in the paper, footnotes or endnotes that compromise the anonymity of the author.”

 

 

 

 

 

Women Philosophers’ Journal

No website, no mention of blind review in Philos-L announcement.

 

 

 

 

 

World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

Yearbook on History and Interpretation of Phenomenology

No mention of blind review.

 

 

 

 

 

*ScholarOne Manuscripts
System [formerly Manuscript Central]

“Submitting Your Manuscript to ScholarOne Manuscripts: A Guide
“To submit your manuscript, you will need the following files:
· A Title page file with the names of all authors and co-authors*
· Main document file with abstract, keywords, main text and references
· Figure files
· Table files
· Any extra files such as Supplemental files or Author Biographical notes
“Word templates are available for many of our journals, but please check the Instructions for Authors page of the journal before you use them.
“If you are submitting to a journal that uses double-blind peer review, please note that you will need to save the title page as a separate file and designate it as ‘not for review’.”