H.W. Wilson’s indexing services identify a journal as peer-reviewed if it meets with one of these criteria:

A description of the journal's peer review process appears in its instructions to authors or manuscript submission guidelines.

OR

Notice of an independent editorial review board is given in the journal's front matter. The academic or scholarly affiliation of each member of the board must be identified. (Those without affiliations are presumed not to be independent.)

What makes H.W. Wilson's assignment of a peer review label uniquely reliable?

Wilson’s professional staff of librarians and subject specialists determines that a journal merits "peer reviewed" status only after first-hand examination of the journal. We do not rely on secondary sources such as Ulrich's International Periodical Directory or our own perceptions of a journal's scholarship.

The peer review label on a journal indexed in WilsonWeb means specifically that an independent scholar has recommended the article for publication. Users should be aware that many journals with serious and even scholarly content do not use the peer review process.