With a global, multidisciplinary readership spanning academia, policy and practice, a publication in World Trade Review (WTR) guarantees high visibility and impact. The WTR prioritizes submissions that are of high scholarly quality and that develop clear policy implications from their analytical work. Since a demonstration of impact is increasingly desirable in the profile of academics, the WTR offers a platform for those eager to bridge academic silos and to shape international economic policy.

The WTR aims for a short turnaround of papers with feedback based on peer-review within 2 to 4 months. For papers that are out of scope for the journal or are poorly written and not accessible to a large and diverse audience, the editorial board reserves the right to desk reject, with a quick decision within 2 to 4 weeks after submission.  

· Original articles (max. 14,000 words, including notes and references) are original and high-quality contributions that produce innovative, methodologically rigorous, and policy-relevant research that meets the best practices as established in the fields covered in this journal.

· Research notes (max. 7,000 words) offer a novel contribution to our understanding of international trade and investment. This can include the presentation and discussion of new or updated datasets, pieces that introduce new archival data, analyses that challenge conventional wisdom in the respective disciplines, or novel theoretical or conceptual insights. For this type of manuscript, we do not require the same level of theoretical contribution and empirical rigour as for a regular research article.

· Comments from readers (max. 3,000 words) are opportunities for readers to engage with already published research articles and challenge, rebut, or amplify published articles. Before a comment on a published article is accepted for publication, a copy will be sent to the original author giving him/her the opportunity to submit a brief reply, which will also be published in the same issue of WTR.

· ‘From the Trenches’ contributions (max. 5,000 words) are opportunities for practitioners and experts to reflect on, and analyse, the actual practice of economic diplomacy in the fields of international trade and investment law.

More detail can be found on how to prepare your manuscript here and how to submit your paper here.

All these WTR content types are regarded as research articles for the purposes of Open Access Transformative Agreements.

Article Types

World Trade Review publishes:

• Original Article*
• Special Issue Article*
• Research Note*
• Comments from Readers*
• From the Trenches*
• Review Article*
• Book Review