Re-Imagining Peer Review Survey

The CELJ Re-Imagining Peer Review survey examines various systems of peer review currently in use in humanities and humanistically oriented social sciences (HSS) journal publishing. The goal of the survey is to uncover current challenges and perceived biases as well as possible improvements and solutions to problematic peer review processes by those most involved in the scholarly humanities publishing process (i.e., authors, reviewers, editors, and publishers).

This survey is distributed by CELJ, the board members of which serve as the project team for this study. Funding for the survey comes from The Mellon Foundation as a part of a larger study CELJ is conducting on peer review.

The survey should take 25–35 minutes, although a deeply engaged response could take longer. 

The anonymized data will be used to write a report on peer-review in humanities/HSS journal publishing, which will be distributed Spring 2026 via open-access repository with the anonymized and aggregate data set of survey responses.