Peer review process

All research articles received by Neomedieval will be subject to the following arbitration system:

1. First, articles will be reviewed internally by the management team, which will decide on the relevance of the article with respect to the journal's areas of research and on whether or not to continue with the evaluation process. Authors whose articles have been rejected will be notified in writing of the reasons for this decision. An article may be rejected for failing to meet the journal's research standards or for not being related to the debates, methodologies and issues that are of primary interest to Neomedieval.

Articles that pass this internal evaluation will be submitted to the Turnitin plagiarism detection programme before moving on to the external evaluation phase. Any irregularities detected will be notified to the authors, which may result in the article being excluded from the evaluation process.

2. Secondly, articles will be reviewed by external reviewers, chosen for their recognised prestige in the field of study of the article. In accordance with the blind peer review system, each article will be evaluated anonymously by at least two specialists in the field of study. A greater number of evaluations may be requested when deemed appropriate (from different disciplines or traditions). After reading and analysing the reviews, the journal's editorial board will make a reasoned decision on each article, which may be rejection, acceptance without modifications, acceptance with minor modifications, or the need for structural modifications.

In the case of articles submitted to the miscellaneous section, only those texts that receive excellent evaluations, do not require major modifications, and, in the opinion of the journal, make a very significant contribution to the field of study will be published. The number of articles published in this section is necessarily limited, and therefore the selection process is very demanding.
Evaluations will take into account the originality and scientific quality of the proposal, its contribution to the field of study in which it is registered, its use of appropriate methodological tools, its coherence and clarity of presentation, and its interest for the development of neo-medievalism.

Authors whose articles have been rejected will be notified in writing of the reasons for this decision. Similarly, those whose articles are accepted for publication will be notified. This process depends on external evaluation, which is unpaid and voluntary, and may therefore take several months. Neomedieval aims to provide the results of the peer review process within a period of no more than six months from the date the article is submitted or, in the case of the monographic section, no more than six months from the closing date of the call for submissions.
Reviews will be evaluated internally by the journal's editorial team and the decision will be notified following the same procedure as for research articles.