Transparent policies.
Accountable publishing.

01 · Identity & ownership

Clear about who publishes the work.

Wrenford Publishing Limited trades as Wrenford Academic in the United Kingdom. Editorial decisions are made independently from commercial, sponsorship and partnership interests. Each journal page will identify its owner, publisher, editor, editorial office, dedicated contact and full registered mailing address.

02 · Open access, copyright & licensing

Immediate access with explicit reuse rights.

Wrenford's open-access journals make scholarly articles freely available immediately on publication, without registration, subscription or embargo. Open-access research will not be mixed with subscription-only research in the same title.

• Authors retain copyright unless a journal clearly discloses a different arrangement.
• The default licence is Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0); any title-level alternative must be stated before submission.
• The copyright holder and licence link must appear on every HTML and PDF article.
• Authors may deposit the submitted manuscript, accepted manuscript and Version of Record in a repository without embargo, subject to the article licence.
• Third-party material with different rights must be clearly credited and labelled.

03 · Peer review & editorial decisions

Independent assessment, editor-led decisions.

Research and review articles are evaluated by qualified experts who are independent of the journal's editorial team. Each journal publishes its review model, identity-masking arrangements and any non-reviewed article types.

1. Editorial screening. Scope, originality, ethics, reporting and basic methodological suitability are checked.
2. Independent review. Normally at least two independent subject experts review research articles; conflicts are screened before invitation.
3. Author revision. Authors receive consolidated comments and respond point by point.
4. Decision. The handling editor weighs the evidence and recommendations; reviewers do not make the final decision.
5. Record. Submission, acceptance and publication dates appear with the Version of Record.

Acceptance is never guaranteed. Editors, board members and guest editors who submit work receive an independent process with no involvement in the decision. Supplementary materials and review exceptions are identified on the article.

04 · Publication ethics & research integrity

Procedures for the difficult cases.

Complaints and appeals

Authors and readers may raise a confidential concern through the journal's dedicated editorial contact. Appeals must identify the decision, grounds and supporting evidence. A senior editor who was not responsible for the original decision reviews the case. Complaints about an editor are escalated to the publisher or an independent member of the journal's governing body. Outcomes are provided in writing and do not guarantee reversal of an editorial decision.

05 · Artificial intelligence & automated tools

Disclosed use, human responsibility.

• Authors disclose generative-AI use beyond routine spelling, grammar, formatting or language editing.
• AI tools cannot qualify as authors or be cited as the authoritative source of a claim.
• Authors remain accountable for accuracy, originality, attribution, permissions and the integrity of all submitted content.
• Reviewers and editors must not upload confidential manuscripts to generative-AI services or use them to create assessments.
• Any routine publisher use of automated tools is disclosed, tested and subject to human verification; automated integrity flags never determine an outcome alone.

06 · Editorial governance, diversity & independence

Scholarship governs scholarship.

Every journal has a named editor and a subject-qualified advisory or editorial board of at least five appropriately qualified editors who are not all from the same institution. Names, roles and institutional affiliations are kept current, members consent to serve, and the board is reviewed regularly. Recruitment seeks broad disciplinary, institutional and geographical representation among editors, reviewers and authors. Decisions are based on scholarly merit and are not affected by nationality, ethnicity, political belief, race, religion, gender, disability, institutional prestige or ability to pay.

Editorial endogeny is monitored: articles with an editor, board member or reviewer as an author must not exceed 25% of research content in either of the latest two issues, or in the latest calendar year for continuous publication.

07 · Author fees, waivers, revenue & advertising

No hidden charges. No commercial influence.

Before submission, each journal states every possible submission, processing, publication, page, colour, language-editing, membership and withdrawal charge. A journal with no author charges states this explicitly. Where waivers apply, the eligibility rules, amount, responsible author, timing and application route are disclosed. Fee or waiver status is not visible to reviewers and does not influence editorial decisions.

Revenue sources—including author fees, services, sponsorship, subsidies, reprints, conferences or special issues—are disclosed at journal level and are separated from editorial decision making. Wrenford journals do not carry intrusive advertising; any future advertising policy will identify permitted categories, decision responsibility and separation from editorial content. Any manuscript invitation or direct marketing must be accurate, appropriately targeted, unobtrusive and easy to decline.

08 · Scholarly record, metadata & preservation

Discoverable now. Preserved for the future.

• Each article has a unique landing page and downloadable full text, normally in HTML and PDF.
• Articles display title, authors, affiliations, abstract, keywords, references, licence, copyright holder and submission/acceptance/publication dates.
• Persistent identifiers, normally DOIs, are registered and maintained; author identifiers and funder metadata are supported where available.
• Metadata is supplied regularly to relevant registries and discovery services and is updated after corrections or retractions.
• Each journal names its independent long-term preservation arrangement before launch, using a recognised archive listed in the Keepers Registry or an equivalent service.

09 · Publishing schedule & special issues

Regularity without shortcuts.

Each journal declares and maintains a realistic publishing schedule. Special issues remain within scope and under the Editor-in-Chief's authority, follow the same external-review and ethics standards as regular content, and are clearly labelled. Guest editors are vetted, supervised and recused from decisions on their own work. Guest-editor submissions receive an independent process and make up no more than 25% of the special issue. Unexplained changes in article volume, authorship geography or citation behaviour are reviewed as potential integrity signals.