Peer-review policy

Urban Transformations operates a double-blind peer-review system, where the reviewers do not know the names or affiliations of the authors and the reviewer reports provided to the authors are anonymous.

The benefit of double-blind peer review is that it allows reviewers to judge the manuscript based on content alone, and they are not unconsciously biased by knowledge of who the authors are.

Urban Transformations also publishes thematic collections. The peer review process of any submission associated with a thematic collection is handled by Guest Editors who are responsible for assigning at least two referees to each article and evaluating the reviews. Like our Associate Editors, Guest Editors make recommendations and request and evaluate revisions, but only the Editors-in-Chief can make final decisions of accept or reject on any thematic collection article. Any articles submitted to a thematic collection by Guest Editors are also handled confidentially by Associate Editors outside of the normal refereeing process of the thematic collection to ensure that the evaluation of these articles is completely objective.