Peer Review

Manuscripts will be reviewed by the Editorial Board and then a panel of referees. Comments will be made available to the contributors without disclosing the referees' names. The manuscript will be evaluated based on its appropriateness, contribution to the discipline, cogency of analysis, conceptual breadth, clarity of presentation, and technical adequacy. To ensure that manuscripts are evaluated solely on their merit, the author's identity is concealed from referees during the review process.

All submitted manuscripts to WILAYAH are subject to initial appraisal by the Editorial Board and, if found suitable for further consideration, to blind peer review by at least a single independent, anonymous experts in the field. The reviews' recommendations are taken into consideration by the Editors in arriving at publication and revision decisions. Comments and feedback from the external reviewers are sent to the authors, and they are notified of the journal's decision (accept, accept with revisions, reject). The entire review process will anywhere between 3 and 5 months after the submission of the manuscript. Throughout the process, all communications, review reports, and decisions are treated confidentially at all times. The Editors' decision is final. All new submissions to the WILAYAH are automatically screened using Turnitin within the editorial system. Editors may also choose to run a similarity report at any other point during the review process or post-publication. The default similarity report view (inside Turnitin) gives the percentage of the manuscript's text, which has overlap with one or more published articles.