Peer Review Policy

Submissions to Caliban. French Journal of English Studies must be original work not submitted simultaneously elsewhere.

The peer-review is triple-blind. Two external reviewers assess each submission. In the case of contradictory reviews, the journal sends the revised papers out to one more peer-reviewer. In this process, the identities of not only the authors but also the guest-editors are hidden from the reviewers. In addition, the identities of the reviewers are hidden from the authors. The criteria for review are appropriateness to the journal’s niche, original thought/original contribution to research in the field, competence regarding previous research in the field, and argumentative and linguistic clarity. Unless the author takes a long time to revise, the whole process takes about three months, though sometimes there are delays, which we are trying to eliminate.

Informal pieces (interviews etc) and guest-editors’ introductions or afterwords, are evaluated in-house (by general editors and/or members of the editorial or the advisory board). Book reviews are evaluated in-house only by the Book Review editors.