GateBreak was created to operate without traditional peer review. This choice is intentional: GateBreak does not want to
influence, redirect, weaken, strengthen, approve, reject, or reshape the author's independent ideas, interpretations,
theoretical position, conclusions, or intellectual perspective through external evaluative pressure.
GateBreak is not a peer-reviewed journal and does not perform scientific validation, methodological approval, academic
certification, disciplinary endorsement, expert acceptance recommendation, or expert rejection recommendation.
What Peer Review Means
Peer review is a scholarly evaluation process in which external experts, usually from the same or a related field,
assess a manuscript before publication. Traditional peer review may evaluate scientific validity, methodological
strength, originality, interpretation, relevance, disciplinary contribution, and whether the work should be accepted,
revised, or rejected.
Why GateBreak Does Not Perform Peer Review
GateBreak does not perform peer review because its purpose is not to judge, certify, validate, or reshape the author's
intellectual content. GateBreak aims to preserve author independence and avoid external pressure that could influence
the author's ideas, conclusions, theoretical position, interpretation, style of argument, or independent perspective.
What GateBreak Does Instead
GateBreak performs checklist-based quality assurance related to form, format, language, references, editorial guidelines,
declarations, tables, figures, file organization, and basic consistency. These checks help prepare the article for online
publication without turning the process into peer review.
Guideline Checklist
GateBreak may check whether the article includes the required sections, mandatory author information, conduct declaration,
AI use declaration, references, table and figure indications, and other formal requirements described in the Submission page.
Language Check
GateBreak may check language clarity, readability, spelling, grammar, consistency, and basic editorial presentation.
Language support does not mean that GateBreak changes the author's argument, conclusions, meaning, or intellectual position.
Reference Check
GateBreak may check whether references are listed, cited within the text, complete enough to be formatted, and suitable for
conversion into the required standard format. GateBreak does not guarantee that every reference is real, correctly interpreted,
sufficient, or scientifically decisive; reference responsibility remains with the author.
Formal and Format QA
GateBreak QA concerns form and format: structure, layout, headings, reference formatting, table and figure numbering,
declarations, file preparation, and basic editorial consistency. QA does not concern approval, rejection, endorsement,
or validation of the author's free content.
What GateBreak Does Not Do
GateBreak does not provide scientific validation, methodological approval, academic certification, expert endorsement,
peer-review reports, reviewer recommendations, disciplinary judgment, or formal evaluation of whether the author's idea
is scientifically correct, theoretically preferable, or methodologically superior.
Support Contributors
GateBreak may receive voluntary and unpaid support from people who want to help with reference checks,
guideline checklist checks, language checks, formatting consistency, file organization, declaration checks,
table/figure checks, and basic editorial QA.
These activities are not peer review. They do not create scientific validation, methodological approval,
academic certification, editorial endorsement, reviewer status, acceptance recommendation, rejection recommendation,
or judgment on the author's independent ideas, interpretations, conclusions, theoretical position, or intellectual perspective.
Do you want to help GateBreak?
Download, complete, date, and sign the voluntary support form. Send it by email to submission@gatebreakopen.org.
Download the GateBreak Voluntary Editorial QA Support Form
