For Reviewers
Guidelines for Peer Review
If you have received a manuscript from us, we ask that you treat it confidentially and inform us of any potential conflict of interest.
Please use the standardized evaluation form provided with our request. In the free-text field, add concrete comments for the authors (and editors) – objective, constructive, and respectful. You may also insert comments directly into the manuscript file.
Anonymity: Your review will be sent to the authors in anonymized form.
★ Certificate for Your Peer Review Activity
In recognition of your valuable work, we are happy to provide you with an official certificate for your review upon request. Simply send us a short email at beitraege@ihf.bayern.de.
Review Criteria
Depending on the focus of the contribution, the following criteria apply:
| ✓ Theoretical & methodological foundation | ✓ Research gap & research question |
| ✓ State of research & literature | ✓ Quality of data & analyses |
| ✓ Conceptual clarity & consistency | ✓ Rigor of argumentation |
| ✓ Presentation of results | ✓ Adequate conclusions |
Supporting Materials
| Training video (coming soon) Watch video › |
| Evaluation form Research Article/Research NoteDownload › |
| Evaluation form Insight Into PracticeDownload › |
| Evaluation form StandpointDownload › |
| Evaluation form Overview ArticleDownload › |
