Peer Review Process
The Indian Journal of English Language, Literary Innovation and AI (IJELLIA) takes steps to ensure that the peer-review process is fair, unbiased, and transparent. Manuscript quality is assessed based on originality, scholarly relevance, academic value, methodological soundness, ethical compliance, and contribution to English language and literary research.
Peer Review Process
IJELLIA is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal. Under this process, the identities of authors are concealed from reviewers, and the identities of reviewers are concealed from authors.
Before manuscripts are sent for peer review, all submissions received by IJELLIA undergo an initial screening by the editorial team. This screening evaluates their suitability for the journal's aims and scope, originality, academic quality, ethical considerations, and compliance with the journal's submission guidelines.
Manuscripts that satisfy the initial requirements are forwarded to suitable external reviewers with expertise in English language studies, literary scholarship, artificial intelligence, digital humanities, and related interdisciplinary fields.
The purpose of peer review is to:
- Maintain academic and scholarly quality.
- Promote research integrity and publication ethics.
- Assess the originality, creativity, and impact of research.
- Evaluate manuscript content and research methodology.
- Examine the reliability of research conclusions and interpretations.
- Critically assess linguistic, literary, and computational approaches.
- Provide constructive feedback and recommendations to authors.
- Support fair and informed editorial decisions.
- Improve manuscript clarity, presentation, and overall quality.
- Contribute to advancements in English language and literary scholarship.
Review Criteria
Manuscripts are evaluated according to the following criteria:
- Originality and novelty of the research.
- Relevance to the aims and scope of the journal.
- Appropriateness of the background literature and references.
- Clarity of research questions and objectives.
- Suitability of the research design and methodology.
- Validity and reliability of research findings.
- Appropriateness of linguistic, literary, or computational methods.
- Ethical compliance and responsible use of artificial intelligence.
- Quality of results, discussion, and conclusions.
- Scholarly significance and contribution to English studies.
- Clarity, coherence, and organization of academic writing.
- Adherence to research ethics and publication standards.
- Appropriate disclosure of AI-assisted content, where applicable.
- Accurate citation of research materials and literary sources.
- Recognition of research limitations and implications.
Editorial Decisions
Based on reviewers' comments and the editor's evaluation, one of the following editorial decisions may be made:
1. Accept Without Revision
The manuscript is accepted for publication without requiring changes to its scholarly content.
2. Accept With Minor Revisions
The manuscript requires limited corrections or improvements before it proceeds toward publication.
3. Major Revisions and Resubmission
The manuscript requires substantial changes and must be resubmitted for further editorial evaluation or peer review, as appropriate.
4. Reject the Manuscript
The manuscript is not accepted for publication based on the editorial evaluation and peer-review findings.
Authors whose manuscripts require revision should submit their revised manuscripts within the timeframe specified by the editorial team. Revised submissions should include a detailed response to reviewers, explaining the changes made and providing reasons for any recommendations with which the authors disagree.
Final publication decisions are based on scholarly merit, originality, relevance, methodological appropriateness, reliability of findings, ethical compliance, and reviewers' recommendations.
Our Commitment to Research Integrity
IJELLIA seeks to ensure confidentiality, fairness, editorial independence, transparency, research integrity, and scholarly quality throughout its editorial and peer-review processes.