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Try it as a journal — a worked example

This is how peer review works on the Voice of Arabic Network, shown on an invented journal: what the researcher sees, what the editorial board sees, what the reviewer sees, and what reaches the researcher afterwards.

A demonstration page: the journal, the papers and the names are invented for illustration, and none of its buttons sends anything.

1 · The journal page — as a researcher sees it

Researchers reach it from the list of journals or from a link you send. They read its rules and dates, then send an abstract and later the paper.

A Sample Journal of Arabic Studies

Accepting submissions

A fictional publisher — for illustration

About

A peer-reviewed, twice-yearly journal of linguistic and literary studies and the teaching of Arabic. It publishes original research not published elsewhere.

Publication guidelines

The paper must be original, unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere. Up to 8,000 words, with an abstract in Arabic and in English. The author's name goes on the cover page only, because review is blind. One citation style throughout.

Dates and address

Abstract deadline: 15 November 2026 · Jumada II 5, 1448 AH
Full paper deadline: 25 December 2026 · Rajab 16, 1448 AH
Review decisions announced: 29 January 2027 · Shaʻban 21, 1448 AH

Submit your paper

This journal has two deadlines: submit your abstract first by its date, then add the full paper by its own date.

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2 · The editorial screen

Only the journal's manager sees it: every paper and its state, who is reviewing it, and what each reviewer said. Authors' names are shown here to the editorial board alone.

received in all

with reviewers

revisions required

accepted

not yet assigned

Paper	Author	State	Reviewers and their verdicts
Context and meaning in Ibn Jinni Received 17 October 2026 · Jumada I 6, 1448 AH	Muhammad Ali	Under review	Abdullah Mahmoud — reading it now Noura Salem — No reply yet
Grammatical terms in modern textbooks Received 15 September 2026 · Rabiʻ II 4, 1448 AH	Sara Ahmad	Accepted	Abdullah Mahmoud — Suitable for publication Huda Khalid — Suitable for publication
Lexical borrowing in the contemporary Arabic press Received 26 September 2026 · Rabiʻ II 15, 1448 AH	Khalid Omar	Revisions required	Huda Khalid — Suitable after revisions Noura Salem — Suitable for publication
Dialogue in the Maqamat Received 4 September 2026 · Rabiʻ I 22, 1448 AH	Fatima Hasan	Revision received	Abdullah Mahmoud — Suitable after revisions Huda Khalid — Suitable after revisions
Teaching Arabic sounds to non-native speakers Received 24 October 2026 · Jumada I 13, 1448 AH	Yusuf Ibrahim	Paper received	Not yet assigned to a reviewer
Craft vocabulary in Arabic dictionaries Received 25 October 2026 · Jumada I 14, 1448 AH	Maryam Said	Abstract received	Not yet assigned to a reviewer
General remarks on rhetoric Received 9 September 2026 · Rabiʻ I 27, 1448 AH	Hasan Ali	Declined	Noura Salem — Not suitable for publication Ahmad Yusuf — Declined Abdullah Mahmoud — Not suitable for publication

Reviewers

You invite them by email; a reviewer accepts or declines, and receives the paper without its author's name.

Abdullah Mahmoud Grammar and morphology Agreed to review Huda Khalid Sociolinguistics Agreed to review Noura Salem Rhetoric and literature No reply yet Ahmad Yusuf Teaching Arabic Declined

3 · What the reviewer sees

The reviewer opens a private link sent by email and needs no account on the site.

A Sample Journal of Arabic Studies

Context and meaning in Ibn Jinni

The author's name is hidden from you, and yours from the author.

Your verdict Suitable for publication Suitable after revisions Not suitable for publication

Your notes for the author (disabled in this example)

4 · What reaches the researcher

The researcher follows the paper step by step in «My papers», with an email at each step.

Lexical borrowing in the contemporary Arabic press

A Sample Journal of Arabic Studies

1 Abstract received 12 September 2026 · Rabiʻ II 1, 1448 AH
2 Paper received 26 September 2026 · Rabiʻ II 15, 1448 AH
3 Under review 29 September 2026 · Rabiʻ II 18, 1448 AH
4 Revisions required 20 October 2026 · Jumada I 9, 1448 AH

A reviewer's note

A sound idea that needs two things: a precise date range for the press corpus, and a comparison of the borrowings described with what the language academies have approved.

The email they received

Revisions required — Lexical borrowing in the contemporary Arabic press

The reviewers have finished reading your paper “Lexical borrowing in the contemporary Arabic press”, and it needs revision. The notes are on the paper's page, where you upload the revised version.

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Try it as a journal — a worked example

1 · The journal page — as a researcher sees it

A Sample Journal of Arabic Studies

About

Publication guidelines

Dates and address

Submit your paper

2 · The editorial screen

Reviewers

3 · What the reviewer sees

Context and meaning in Ibn Jinni

4 · What reaches the researcher

Lexical borrowing in the contemporary Arabic press

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