Peer Review Policy

All research articles published in Veritas undergo double-anonymised (double-blind) peer review: the identities of authors and reviewers are concealed from each other throughout the process. Every submission is first screened by the editorial office for scope, completeness, and originality, including plagiarism screening using similarity-detection software. Manuscripts that pass the initial screening are assigned by the Editor-in-Chief to a handling editor and sent to at least two independent reviewers with expertise in the manuscript’s subject area. Reviewers are drawn from outside the author’s institution and are required to declare any conflict of interest before accepting an assignment.

On the basis of the reviewers’ reports, the handling editor recommends acceptance, minor revision, major revision, or rejection; the final decision on every manuscript rests with the Editor-in-Chief. Where reviewer reports conflict, a third reviewer is consulted. Authors receive the anonymised reviewer reports with the editorial decision. The average time from submission to first decision is [4] weeks, and from acceptance to publication [4] weeks.

Book reviews and editorials are subject to editorial review rather than external peer review, and are identified as such at publication. Special issues, when published, follow the same peer-review procedure as regular issues, with the Editor-in-Chief retaining responsibility for all content.

Submissions authored by members of the Editorial Board, or by staff of the publishing institution, follow the identical double-anonymised procedure and are handled by an editor with no relationship to the author; the author takes no part in any stage of the editorial handling of their own manuscript.