Jape Review Process

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name: jape-review-process
description: Use when navigating the Journal of Applied Econometrics (JAE) editorial process — single-blind peer review by anonymous reviewers in addition to the Editor, with final accept/reject authority vested in the Editor-in-Chief, plus the three-papers-under-review cap and the rule that rejected papers are not resubmittable unless invited.
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# Review Process at JAE (jape-review-process)

## When to trigger

- Setting expectations for how a JAE submission will be evaluated
- Understanding who decides and what referees focus on
- Planning a pipeline around JAE's submission and resubmission rules

## How JAE review works

- **Single-blind peer review.** Official text: manuscripts are "single-blind peer reviewed by **anonymous reviewers in addition to the Editor**." Reviewers are anonymous; **authors are not** — do not anonymize the manuscript the way a double-blind journal would.
- **Editor-in-Chief decides.** Final acceptance or rejection rests with the **Editor-in-Chief** (Barbara Rossi). Co-editors handle many papers, but the final call is the EiC's. (The full current co-editor roster is **待核实** against a live board page.)
- **Rejected papers are not resubmittable unless the Editor invites it.** Treat a rejection as final absent an explicit invitation.
- **Cap:** no more than **three papers** from the same author may be under review at once — stagger submissions.

## What applied-econometrics referees check

Because JAE is empirical and replicable, expect reviewers to probe whether the **estimand is identified** on your real data; whether the **method is useful** in that setting; whether **inference** is appropriate (HAC, clustered, weak-IV-robust); whether **robustness** is shown (in the unlimited online appendix); and whether the work is **reproducible**, consistent with the mandatory Data Archive deposit. Treat replication objections as central, not administrative; a clean package pre-empts many. Do not infer process details beyond what the source map verifies.

## Output format

```
【Model】single-blind; reviewers anonymous, authors not — prepared? [Y/N]
【Authority】final decision = Editor-in-Chief
【Pipeline】≤ 3 papers under review for this author? [Y/N]
【Resubmit】reject is final unless invited — understood? [Y/N]
```

## Supplementary resources

- [`../../resources/official-source-map.md`](../../resources/official-source-map.md) — single-blind, EiC authority, three-paper cap (and 待核实 board notes)