For reviewers
Peer review is a pro bono activity to support the quality of scientific works, which performs several tasks:
- evaluating the quality of a text to help journal editors decide whether to publish it;
- feedback to the author of the paper on the strengths and weaknesses of the work with suggestions on what and how to improve the work before it becomes published.
As a rule, authors of already published papers on a similar or related topic are invited to review.
A review form is sent to the reviewer along with the anonymous manuscript of the paper, which should be filled in within 3 weeks.
This journal adheres to high international and domestic standards for the ethics of scientific research, so it accepts articles in the form of anonymous texts, which are further double-blind peer-reviewed by anonymous reviewers from a cohort of psychoanalytic specialists. Two reviewers independently evaluate the submitted article according to the criteria of compliance with the purpose of the journal, logic, and comprehensibility of the presented content, ethics, and compliance with the current state of psychoanalysis. In this way, the objectivity of the assessment and the validity of the feedback received by the author of the article is achieved. Extracts from the review forms filled out by the reviewers are sent to the author of the article, who must take into account the changes suggested by the reviewers and comment on the review in writing. If the author does not agree with some corrections, their justification is agreed with the reviewer who suggested them. In justified cases, a third reviewer can be invited for consultation.
