Conventional guidelines for referee reports
How to write a good review (general conventional guidelines)
We are happy for you to use whichever process and structure you feel comfortable with when writing a peer review.
Remember: The Unjournal doesn’t “publish” and doesn’t “accept or reject.” So don’t give an Accept, Revise and Resubmit, or Reject-type recommendation. We ask for quantitative metrics, written feedback, and expert discussion of the validity of the paper's main claims, methods, and assumptions.
Writing referee reports: resources and benchmarks
Semi-relevant: Econometric Society: Guidelines for referees
Report: Improving Peer Review in Economics: Stocktaking and Proposal (Charness et al 2022)
Open Science
PLOS (Conventional but open access; simple and brief)
Peer Community In... Questionnaire (Open-science-aligned; perhaps less detail-oriented than we are aiming for)
Open Reviewers Reviewer Guide (Journal-independent “pre-review”; detailed; targets ECRs)
General
The Wiley Online Library (Conventional; general)
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