Journal of e-Democracy and Open Government (JeDEM)

Reviewing for JeDEM usually takes place within a timeframe of one month. However, occasionally we might also ask for quicker reviews depending on our publication process and if other reviewers have been falling through. As JeDEM strives for a rapid publishing process, we appreciate reviewers sticking to the timeframe. We will provide you with a reviewing template. These are set up to help you with the important points we would like to have covered, such as overall evaluation, relevance, theory, methodology, presentation, validity, references, contribution, originality and interest. The template provides you with some guidelines questions. The review is a qualitative description, analysis and feedback to the author and editor. JeDEM does not use a questionnaire. Still we ask you to consider the cornerstones and guideline questions of reviewing in your feedback. JeDEM offers two types of reviewing: double-blind and editorial reviews. Double-blind reviewing is done by our pool of reviewers and applies to a) research papers and b) reflections. You will be assigned to the appropriate template. Please consider that reflections do have different requirements in terms of methods (f.i., a reflection can also comprise literature reviews, comments, discussions or interviews).