Peer review process

Every text submitted for publication in "Gdańsk Legal Studies" is subject to a two-stage assessment process, which consists of the internal assessment stage and the external assessment stage.

At the internal assessment stage, a text submitted for publication in the journal is assessed by the Editorial Team and, on this basis, it is either qualified for the external assessment stage or rejected. At this stage, a text can be rejected on the grounds of abnormally low quality of the content, significant factual errors, inadequacy of the subject compared to the journal's profile or editorial plan, or failure to meet the journal's formal requirements. 

Next, at the external assessment stage, the text is assessed by two independent external reviewers from outside the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Gdańsk. At this stage, the journal uses the double-blind review model, which means that neither the authors nor the reviewers know each other.

A review must contain conclusions regarding qualification or rejection of an article, based on which the Editorial Team decides whether to publish it in the journal or not. 

A review is made in writing and involves a reviewer completing a review form made available on the journal's website.

The following texts are not subject to review: notes, reports, reviews and other non-substantive texts.

A list of reviewers who collaborated with the journal in the previous year is published annually in every first issue in a given calendar year.