Mountain & Humanities | 지리산권문화연구원

Judgement Procedures

All submissions will be examined and referred by editorial members in the first round, based on their field of specialization. Submissions that pass the first round of editorial review will proceed through a double-blind peer review of two specialists.

1. Unbiased Examination

The editorial board must fairly deal with all submitted theses without any personal prejudice or bias. The two criteria of editorial review are the quality of submitted theses and the established submission guidelines. Also, in order to examine submitted theses more deeply, the editorial board must rely only on the peer reviewers with specialist knowledge and impartial judgement in the academic field concerned.

2. Blind Peer Review

Peer reviewers must fairly and sincerely examine the theses entrusted to them by the editorial board according to the following objective criteria.

3. Criteria used for reviewer’s examination are as follows

Clarity and logical consistency of argument
Originality and concreteness of content
Thesis’s contribution to the academic field concerned
Accuracy of writing form and expression
Compliance with submission guidelines

4. Grades of the final evaluation through examination are as follows

Publishable without correction
Publishable with minor correction
Resubmitable with major correction
Unpublishable

Reviewer 1’s Judgement	Reviewer 2’s Judgement	Total Judgement
Publishable without correction	Publishable without correction	Publishable without correction
Publishable without correction	Publishable with minor correction	Publishable without correction
Publishable without correction	Resubmitable with major correction	Publishable with minor correction
Publishable without correction	Unpublishable	Resubmitable with major correction
Publishable with minor correction	Publishable with minor correction	Publishable with minor correction
Publishable with minor correction	Resubmitable with major correction	Resubmitable with major correction
Publishable with minor correction	Unpublishable	Resubmitable with major correction
Resubmitable with major correction	Resubmitable with major correction	Resubmitable with major correction
Resubmitable with major correction	Unpublishable	Unpublishable
Unpublishable	Unpublishable	Unpublishable

When submissions are encouraged to ‘publish with minor correction’ or ‘resubmit with major correction’, authors must correct and resubmit their manuscripts by the specified due date.