The Policy on Peer Review

After receiving submissions, editors at WJFH choose which articles will undergo the rigorous peer review process. If an editor is also an author on a submission or has a competing interest in the work, that editor will not conduct the peer review. Acceptable submissions will be distributed to appropriate outside experts for blind peer review. On the basis of the reviewers' reports, the editors will make a decision, and both the editors' decision and the reviewers' reports will be provided to the authors. The paper could be rejected despite a good report if further reviewers raise serious concerns that cast doubt on the study's reliability. Every publication from WJFH goes through a rigorous, double-blind peer review process before it is published. In this case, the anonymity of the authors and reviewers is equally protected.