{"id":12,"date":"2026-04-13T14:54:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/bath-student-journal-of-society-and-social-change\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:06:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:06:36","slug":"peer-review-and-open-access-policy-bath-student-journal-of-society-and-social-change","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/bath-student-journal-of-society-and-social-change\/peer-review-and-open-access-policy-bath-student-journal-of-society-and-social-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Peer review and open access policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"page-subheading half-padding-bottom\">Find out more about our journal\u2019s peer review and open access policies.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"how-our-peer-review-process-works\">How our peer review process works<\/h2>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/bath-student-journal-of-society-and-social-change\/\">Bath Student Journal of Society and Social Change<\/a>\u00a0uses a \u2018double-blind\u2019 review process for all submissions.<\/p>\n<p>This means that your identity will be unknown to the reviewer and vice versa. When you submit an article, one of our editors will anonymise your paper and send it out for peer review.<\/p>\n<p>Your reviewer will be a PhD student in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/faculties\/faculty-of-humanities-social-sciences\">Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences<\/a>, who is knowledgeable about the topic of your article.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of reviewing articles is to assess their academic and scientific quality, and to provide the author with supportive feedback and suggestions for revisions before publication.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/bath-student-journal-of-society-and-social-change\/aims-scope-and-editorial-board-bath-student-journal-of-society-and-social-change\/\">Find out more about our editors and reviewers<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"open-access-policy\">Open access policy<\/h2>\n<p>We publish all articles as Open Access, which means that articles are freely available to read online.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/library.bath.ac.uk\/open-access\/whatisopenaccess\">Find out more about our Open Access policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We license articles under the Creative Commons (CC) BY 4.0 agreement. This means that articles can be freely shared as long as proper author attribution is given.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">Find out more about the CC BY 4.0 agreement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find out more about our journal\u2019s peer review and open access policies. How our peer review process works The\u00a0Bath Student Journal of Society and Social Change\u00a0uses a \u2018double-blind\u2019 review process for all submissions. This means that your identity will be...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1584,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/bath-student-journal-of-society-and-social-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/bath-student-journal-of-society-and-social-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/bath-student-journal-of-society-and-social-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/bath-student-journal-of-society-and-social-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1584"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/bath-student-journal-of-society-and-social-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/bath-student-journal-of-society-and-social-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/bath-student-journal-of-society-and-social-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}