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The review process for submissions to Demographic Research is designed to ensure high quality and rapid turn-around. Quality will be ensured by peer reviews similar to those employed by academic journals generally. Rapid turn-around will be accomplished through an expedited review system that will use Internet communication techniques and streamlined procedures. Reviews will be carried out by Scientific Review Board members, all of whom have been selected by the editor and the publisher of the journal. We draw our reviewers from the most prominent scientists working in demography and related disciplines.
All members of the Scientific Review Board will receive information about every submission to the journal. In addition, all members will be able to view each submission and will be able to post their own comments if they wish. We will also send special invitations to review articles to selected members of the Scientific Review Board. Persons with the same primary institutional affiliation as any of the authors of the submission will be excluded from these activities on a case-by-case basis.
Scientific Review Board members have agreed to make recommendations quickly. Usually the author will be notified of the outcome within four weeks of submission. The Editor reserves the right to override recommendations of the Scientific Review Board as he sees fit, and it is the Editor who gives final approval on material reviewed by the Board. Details of referee reports, as well as the Editor’s decision made on a particular manuscript, are not discussed with the authors.
Reflexions submitted to Demographic Research are usually brief contributions that critically assess various aspects of the content published in the journal. Reflexions may also focus on currently-discussed or "hot topic" demographic research findings, data, theory, tools, methods, or publications which have not been previously discussed in the journal. Most reflexions are reviewed by a process similar to that used for articles. However, the reviewer pool for a reflexion which comments upon a particular article in Demographic Research will consist of: (1) the original reviewer pool for the article eliciting the commentary and (2) the corresponding author of that article. Reflexions can be in written format (text) or multimedia format (video or sound-clip).