Be a Peer Reviewer

We are now accepting peer reviewers for the Spring 2025 volume! If you would like to join the peer review team, please email gnovis@georgetown.edu.

The peer review process is critical to the publication and generation of research across all subject areas. As a gnovis peer reviewer, you will help authors improve their paper, further develop their knowledge and expertise, and ensure the continued scholarly rigor and publication excellence of the Gnovis Journal. To learn more about what it means to do peer review, please take a look at the scholarly publishing page on the Georgetown Library website.

Gnovis Peer Review Process

When a paper submission is accepted for review, it is sent to two gnovis peer reviewers. The gnovis peer review is a double-blind process, meaning neither the author nor the peer reviewers will know each other’s name or affiliations. Submissions are matched to a peer reviewer based on the reviewer’s academic interests and/or methodological expertise. While the matching process will depend on the volume and variety of submissions we receive, we will try our best to ensure as close of a match as possible.

The peer reviewers will then read the submission critically, paying close attention to both style and content and return it with commentary to the gnovis editorial team. If the paper meets the journal’s editorial standards, the project is given back to the author for necessary revisions. The entire process requires a minimum 2-week commitment that will kick off in January/February of the following year, with the journal’s publication date typically slated for April.

Peer Reviewer Eligibility

gnovis peer reviewers have specialist knowledge about an academic field that falls within communication, culture, and/or technology and must be able to provide constructive feedback to the authors of the Gnovis Journal. For more information on what is typically published in gnovis, please refer to the Journal Submission Guidelines or past journals on the Gnovis website.

To be a gnovis peer reviewer, you must:

• Be a current graduate (Master’s or PhD) student or recent alumni of Georgetown University.
• Be interested in or consider yourself an academic peer/expert in a topic or field that falls within communication, culture, and/or technology (for more information on which topics are typically covered in gnovis, please refer to the Journal Submission Guidelines or past journals on the Gnovis website).
• Attend the Peer Reviewer Orientation (Zoom) in October and one of the Peer Reviewer Learning Sessions (in-person) in mid-November. We will send more information on when these sessions will be held in the first half of the fall semester.
• Fill out the Gnovis Peer Reviewer Matching Form which will help the Gnovis Editorial Board with the eventual peer reviewer–submission matching process.

If you have any questions or would like to join the peer review team, please email gnovis@georgetown.edu.