Become an ELR Reviewer

Who We Welcome

ELR welcomes expressions of interest from linguists whose research expertise is relevant to the journal's scope and who are prepared to provide fair, constructive, and academically substantive peer review.

Reviewers may be established scholars, early-career researchers, postdoctoral researchers, or advanced doctoral researchers with demonstrable expertise in the subject area concerned.

Selection as a reviewer is based on relevant academic expertise and the needs of an individual manuscript. Registration or expression of interest does not create an automatic entitlement to receive review assignments.

Areas of Expertise

ELR is particularly interested in expanding its international reviewer network across theoretical, formal, historical, and empirically informed areas of linguistic research.

Reviewer Responsibilities

A reviewer is expected to evaluate a manuscript on its scholarly merits rather than on whether the reviewer personally adopts the same theoretical framework or analytical assumptions.

• Provide an independent and academically reasoned assessment.
• Identify significant strengths as well as substantive problems.
• Distinguish theoretical disagreement from demonstrable error.
• Comment on the adequacy of evidence, analysis, argumentation, and engagement with relevant scholarship.
• Provide constructive recommendations where revision could improve the work.
• Disclose conflicts of interest that could compromise independent review.
• Treat unpublished manuscripts and editorial materials as confidential.

How Reviewing Works at ELR

Reviewers are normally selected and invited by the Co-Editors-in-Chief and the relevant Subject Editor. At least two external scholars normally participate in the evaluation of manuscripts selected for peer review.

1. Invitation A reviewer receives an invitation identifying the manuscript topic, review deadline, and relevant editorial information.
2. Accept or Decline The invited scholar confirms whether the review can be completed independently and within the requested time.
3. Review The reviewer reads the anonymous manuscript and provides a scholarly report and editorial recommendation.
4. Editorial Assessment Reviewer reports are considered by the Subject Editor and Co-Editors-in-Chief as part of the academic decision-making process.
5. Completion The reviewer report becomes part of the confidential editorial record associated with the manuscript.

Confidentiality and Research Integrity

Reviewer access to an unpublished manuscript is granted solely for the purpose of scholarly evaluation. Unpublished arguments, data, analyses, examples, or other materials must not be appropriated or used without permission.

Reviewers must not upload confidential manuscripts, review reports, or protected editorial correspondence to external AI systems or other services where doing so could compromise confidentiality, privacy, copyright, or the integrity of peer review.

For the journal's wider standards, see Ethics and Disclosures .

Express Your Interest

Linguists interested in joining the ELR reviewer community are invited to provide a concise academic profile so that the editorial team can identify appropriate areas of expertise.