Peer review policy

All articles are "blindly" reviewed by independent experts appointed by the editorial board from among experts in the relevant field of research. The editor-in-chief makes the final decision to publish or reject the article, guided in his actions by the reviewers' conclusions. When submitting an article, authors may ask to exclude from the list of possible reviewers no more than two scholars or two higher education institutions.

The peer review process can take up to 8 weeks, depending on reviewers' workload and complexity of the article topic. Finally, the editors inform the author about the experts’ remarks and about the decision to accept the manuscript for publication or refuse to publish.

In case of a favorable decision of the editorial board, the author makes the appropriate corrections and sends the editors the final version of the manuscript. When approving the content of the journal issue, the editorial board is guided by the date of receiving the latest version of the article.

We expect potential reviewers to adhere to the principles of publishing ethics, understanding conflicts of interest, confidentiality, and timeliness.

Publication ethics

We encourage each reviewer to familiarize themselves with the Ethical Guidelines for Reviewers, approved by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Conflict of interest

If the reviewer cannot be objective in evaluating the manuscript due to personal, financial, professional, political, or religious issues concerning the author, he must refuse to review. In more detail.

Confidentiality

A Reviewer that consented to a blind review of the material is not entitled to transfer this right to a third party. If he cannot review for some reason, he must refuse to review and notify the editor.

The reviewer may receive advice from third parties, but he must notify the editor.

Manuscripts should not be shared or discussed with anyone outside the peer review process.

It is forbidden for reviewers to contact the authors directly; the editor can only do this.

Timeliness

If the reviewer cannot complete the review on time, he must notify the editor within the allotted time.

The reviewer must agree to the review only if he can submit a review within an agreed period.

If the reviewer cannot complete the review for some reason, it will be ethical to suggest an alternative reviewer to the editor.

If you want to become a reviewer of our journal, please, fill out this form. Reviewer Application Form

Peer review process

  1. After the editor-in-chief or his deputy has approved the article for review, two reviewers are appointed; at this point, we will notify the author that the article is under review.
  2. Reviewers will have access to the manuscript only after agreeing to review it.
  3. Potential reviewers have one week to respond to the invitation letter to become a reviewer.
  4. If the reviewer does not respond to the invitation letter within a week, he will receive a reminder message within ten days of sending the first
  5. After receiving the reviewer's consent, he is given a maximum of 6 weeks to prepare the review and send it to the editors.
  6. If the reviewer has not uploaded the review within the specified number of days after the response deadline, a reminder message will be sent to him within 50 days from
  7. The reviewer writes a review by filling out a special form provided by the editors.
  8. The reviewer is offered a Guide for Reviewers, a Conflict of Interest Reminder, and a link to Ensuring Blind Peer
  9. The reviewer receives the text of the article without indicating the authorship. If in any way the authorship becomes known to the reviewer, he is obliged to inform the editor and refuse to review.
  10. The review process on this platform is organized in a way that from the Request, Handbook (Reviewer's Guide), Downloading and Reviewing, Completion the Reviewer can always return to the previous stage and even cancel the review by returning to the Request. In addition, at each stage, the system offers tips, actions that the reviewer should
  11. The reviewer will have the opportunity to discuss issues with the editor and anonymously with the author.
  12. To ensure the possibility of double blind peer review, it is necessary to ensure that the authors and reviewers will not know anything about each other. To this end, authors, reviewers, and editors (who upload files) should verify whether the following steps have been made on the text file in the file properties:

-The authors of the document removed their names from the text, using the "Author" and the year in bibliographic references and footnotes, instead of the authors' names, titles of articles, etc.

-The authors of the document deleted personal data from the properties of the file by following these steps:

  1. Microsoft Word for Windows:
    1. Click "File"
    2. Select "Information"
  • Click "Troubleshoot"
  1. Click "Explore Document"
  2. In the Document Inspector dialog box, select the types of hidden content you want to check.
  3. Click "Delete All"
  • Click Close
  • Save the file
  1. Microsoft Word for macOS:
    1. Go to "Tools"
    2. Click "Protect Document"
  • Select "Remove personal information from this file on save"
  1. Click "OK" and save the file
  1. Adobe PDF reader:
    1. Click "File"
    2. Select the "Settings" tab
  • Delete the name in the "Author" tab
  1. Click "OK"
  2. Save the document

List of peer reviewers

Bess Yue Wang,    PhD (Communication), Senior Lecturer at School of Communication for Hong Kong Baptist University; Hong Kong, China

Anastasiia Bessarab, D. Sci. (Social Communications), Professor, Municipal Institution of Higher Education «Khortytsia National Educational Rehabilitation Academy» of Zaporizhzhia Regional Council, Ukraine

Yurii Bondar,    PhD (Political Science), Associate Professor, Head of Department of Social Communications at the Institute of Journalism, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv; Kyiv, Ukraine
Maria Butyrina,   D. Sci. (Social Communications), Professor, Head of Department of Mass and International Communication at the Oles Gonchar Dnipropetrovsk National University; Dnipro, Ukraine
Lesya Gorodenko, D. Sci. (Social Communications), Professor, Institute of Journalism, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv; Kyiv, Ukraine
Vita Goyan,  D. Sci. (Social Communications), Professor, Head of Department of Cinematography and TV Arts at the Institute of Journalism, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv; Kyiv, Ukraine

Valeriy Ivanov, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Chair of the Department of Advertasing and Public Relation, Educational and Scientific institute of Journalism, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
Nadia Zelinska,   D. Sci. (Philology), Professor, Head of Department of Media Communications at Ukrainian Academy of Printing; Lviv, Ukraine
Tetyana Kovtun, PhD (Philology), Associate Professor, Institute of Journalism, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv; Kyiv, Ukraine
Vitalii Kornieev, D. Sci. (Social Communications), Associate Professor, Deputy Director at the Institute of Journalism, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv; Kyiv, Ukraine
Yuliya Nesteryak, PhD (Social Communications), Assistant Professor, Institute of Journalism, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv; Kyiv, Ukraine

Svitlana Panchenko, Doctor PhD of Cultural Studies, Associate Professor, Ukraine
Olga Porfimovych, D. Sci. (Politic Science), Professor, Institute of Journalism, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv; Kyiv, Ukraine
Kristy Roschke,  PhD (Communication), Professor, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, expert in media literacy, Arizona State University; Phoenix, AZ, United States of America
Nataliya Sydorenko, D. Sci. (Philology), Professor, Head of Department of History of Journalism at the Institute of Journalism, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv; Kyiv, Ukraine
Vasyl Teremko, D. Sci. (Social Communications), Professor, Head of Department of Publishing and Editing at Institute of Journalism, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv; Kyiv, Ukraine
Olena Tkachenko,    D. Sci. (Philology), Professor, Sumy, Ukraine
Olga Trischuk, D. Sci. (Social Communications), Professor, Head of Department of Publishing and Editing at National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”; Kyiv, Ukraine
Yurii Finkler,   D. Sci. (Philology), Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, professor of the
Department of Journalism; Ukraine
Victoriya Shevchenko,   D. Sci. (Social Communications), Professor, Head of Department of Multimedia Technologies and Mediadesign at the Institute of Journalism, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv; Kyiv, Ukraine
Yaroslav Yanenko,   D. Sci. (Social Communications), Associate Professor, Department of Journalism and Philology at Sumy State University; Sumy, Ukraine