Peer Review Process

The Indian Journal of Computational Literature and Language Innovation (IJCLLI) endeavors to approach the peer-review process in a fair, unbiased and transparent manner. Originality, scholarly relevance, academic value, methodological soundness, ethical compliance, and contributions to the computational literature and language research are taken into consideration when evaluating manuscripts.

IJCLLI is a double blind peer-reviewed journal, where reviewers and authors do not know each other during the review process.

All manuscripts received by IJCLLI proceed to an initial screening by the editorial staff to determine whether they are relevant to the aims and scope, original, academically sound, ethically sound, and meet the journal submission guidelines.

Manuscripts that satisfy the initial criteria are forwarded to relevant outsider reviewers who have relevant skills in computational literature, literary studies, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, digital humanities, and other relevant interdisciplinary areas.

Peer review is aimed at achieving the following:

• Across the board uphold academic and scholarly standards.
• Encourage proper research ethics and integrity in publication.
• Assess the originality and importance of research.
• Evaluate the scholarly relevance and methodological soundness.
• Critically evaluate research results and conclusions.
• Assess the fitness for purpose of a computational, linguistic, literary or analytical approach.
• Give constructive criticism and recommendations to writers.
• Help to make fair and unbiased editorial choices.
• Enhance the clarity, presentation and quality of manuscripts.
• Promote progress in computational studies of literature and language.

The manuscripts are judged according to the following criteria:

• Originality and novelty of the research.
• Appropriateness of the topic for the journal.
• Use of appropriate background and references.
• Clarity in research goals & questions.
• Appropriateness of research design and methodology.
• Quality and validity of research results.
• Appropriateness of computational, linguistic, literary or analytical approaches.
• Ethical compliance and responsible use of AI.
• Quality of results, discussion and conclusions.
• Contribution to computational literature and language studies; significance.
• Organisation and quality of academic writing.
• Compliance with research and publication ethics.
• When using AI assistance, appropriate disclosure of such assistance, if applicable.
• Proper referencing of research and literary sources.
• Knowledge of research limitations and implications.

Based on the reviewers' comments and editor's evaluation, the following decisions may be made:

• Accept without revision.
• Accept subject to minor revisions.
• Ask for significant changes and re-submission.
• Reject the manuscript.

All authors who are asked to revise manuscripts are expected to respond to the reviewers' comments within the stipulated time and explain the changes made in their manuscript and for any disagreement with reviewers' comments.

Scholarly merit, originality, relevance, methodological appropriateness, reliability of findings, ethical compliance and reviewers' recommendations are all factors that are taken into consideration when making the final publishing decisions.

IJCLLI strives to maintain confidentiality, fairness, editorial independence, transparency, research integrity, and scholarly quality in the editorial and peer review processes.