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What is the minimum one can communicate with coauthors
What are the minimal communication points with coauthors necessary for peer-review?
I am faced with a slightly hostile and poorly trained group of coauthors (the latter is not their fault: they are ...
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Substantial changes to manuscript in the revision process [duplicate]
Is this acceptable to revise a manuscript more than what reviewers suggested? In fact, due to some issue, the authors may find out that there are some issues even reviewers could not address, so they ...
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Do journals allow authors to bring their own reviewers [duplicate]
Some papers are published under category "communicated by ...". Do this mean the author contact this person to review the paper instead of editorial board? My question is: do journals generally allow ...
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Awaiting AE Recommendation to Awaiting AE Assignment
Paper just went to this after review. Any idea what this means in terms of the paper's status at this point?
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Review time after third submission
We have submitted a manuscript in a Finance journal. Within 1.5 months, they gave us the comments of two reviewers. The Reviewers gave positive remarks but wanted some correction. We carefully ...
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Rebuttal in a journal
Recently our paper was rejected in an journal.
Now, after two resubmissions a Reviewer was not satisfied and the editor sent it to an independent reviewer, who was satisfied with our previous ...
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How shall I reply to the editor after a major revision of my paper?
After I received referee's comments, I revised my manuscript a lot. The referee actually made one major comment, and I addressed that in one paragraph. But I also changed other parts of the paper in ...
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Who assigns paper to reviewers for a conference and what are the challenges?
Note: I'm aware that the reviewing process in a journal has been explained elsewhere on this site.
My question is about the process for peer-reviewed conferences.
Question 1: In a peer-reviewed ...
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Is it ok to write a follow-up paper for a paper which has been accepted but not available online yet?
My field is image processing and computer vision.
I wrote a paper and presented it in a conference in November 2015. The paper is yet to be available in IEEE Xplore. Now, I've written a follow-up ...
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Extending a paper being peer-reviewed? [duplicate]
I'm currently peer-reviewing a paper (for a computer science conference; review is double-blind). While reading it, I came up with a method for the problem they're solving, somewhat inspired by their ...
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what are the conditions that make the status changed from Reviewing Completed to Reviewers Assigned? [duplicate]
I got major revision and the status was under review for the 2 reviewers from 10/7/2024 and go Reviewing Completed in 26/7/2024 but the status become Reviewers Assigned after sometime.
Does that mean ...
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Why does the status of my manuscript keep changing? [duplicate]
I submitted an article to a philosophy journal published by Springer. It has been 6 months since I submitted but the status keeps changing. It went under review for 2 days (after going through a ...
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Benefits of being a journal referee from an individual's perspective and its hidden dynamics [closed]
What are the benefits of being a journal referee from an individual's perspective?
What hidden dynamics serves as the undercurrent for referees to be tough or lenient? The dynamics could be academic ...
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What do you call a paper without solid analysis and discussion?
I find in my reviewing activities that the last few years I've encountered more and more papers that are "data dumps". They tend to be papers with lots of data but very little analysis, ...
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Some errors I found in the manuscript after it was accepted [duplicate]
I have a slight issue with the manuscript that I submitted and got accepted after the review process. After reading through the proofed document, I realized that the number of studies I have counted ...
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Can I suggest certain proofreading software in article review?
The questions that deal with language errors during peer-review
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typically recommend suggesting the authors seek proofreading help from a person who is proficient in English.
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Adding a list of changes or raised rebuttal during the revision process
If the editorial manager wants a list of changes during the revision process, is it normal to add another file (what should this be called? Should it be a highlight or the name of the file is not ...
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The date that the final manuscript is due is in a few weeks. Should I get response now about if my paper was accepted or not?
I submitted my paper on 1 July for the issue with these dates:
deadline for submitting 31/7
final manuscript due 15/11
I got a change in the date at "9/9 under review" then "28/9 with ...
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My manuscript suddenly went from "Awaiting Final Decision" back to "Awaiting Reviewer Scores" ... what do you think happened there? [duplicate]
Does it happen that the editor asks the reviewers to re-review a paper? For about 10 days or so it has been "awaiting final decision" after a few months of under review and then awaiting ...
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Major revise with three reviewers. What will editor consider after sending revision?
Our paper recently got a "major revision", with comments from three reviewers. Two of them were actually ok, just answers for a few questions and rephrasing of some parts. The third reviewer ...
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Should I send an email to the journal to ask about a submission 4 months ago? [duplicate]
I submitted a manuscript in December, and it was assigned to an editor in March. It went under review and one reviewer report was ready in late March. I have been waiting for the last two months for ...
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example of department letter in support of waiving article processing charges
Looking for examples/ drafts of letters from department head in support for waiving/ getting discount on article processing charges. The journal is asking for such a letter stating that there is no ...
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What is the accepted percentage of overlap in the expanded conference version of a journal? [duplicate]
I submitted a journal paper to a Springer journal (Computer Science), and it is still under review for a year. I submitted the fourth revision recently. As it is taking more time than expected and I ...
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Submission for IEEE-template-based paper in Arxiv
Can we submit our journal paper(formatted in IEEE-paper style) in arXiv which is already submitted in IEEE journal for review(the paper's decision is not yet made)? or it's mandatory to publish the ...
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What does it mean that the status of a submitted major revision is simultaneously 'awaiting reviewer scores' and 'awaiting decision'?
A major revision was submitted to a journal. After some days, the status changed to 'awaiting reviewer scores', but there is also the status 'awaiting decision' right next to it. How should this ...
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The benefits of strong PhD dissertation referees in case of a 3 paper dissertation?
I have submitted a three paper PhD thesis.
At my university, there is no defense. Instead, four referees read, make a decision, and may ask for revisions, similar to a paper review process.
My ...
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Resubmitting the revised version of an article after deadline [closed]
I have already sent a manuscript to an Emerald Journal. The manuscript was reviewed and the deadline for submitting the revised paper was set for July 30. It's been about a month since the deadline ...
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Request an extension for paper revision
The deadline for submitting my revised paper for a journal is July 30th. I emailed the editor and asked for the deadline in two weeks, but the editor did not respond. Where is the problem? Why didn't ...
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Research Summary Article Published. Can I Submit the Full Research Paper Elsewhere?
Last year, I submitted an original research paper (approx 3000 words) to a public health journal (USA). The editors advised me that they were unable to assign it sufficient priority to allow ...
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Confusion regarding manuscript status in IOP's article tracking system and ScholarOne Manuscript System [duplicate]
I had submitted a manuscript in an IOP journal a month back. In the IOP's article tracking system, the status changed from "1st reviewer agreed to report" to "Editorial Assessment" ...
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With editor status changes to Submitted to Journal After 5 weeks [duplicate]
May I please ask what does this mean. I submitted a manuscript to an Elsevier journal, for 5 weeks it had "with editor" status, now it has changed to "Submitted to Journal". What ...
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Waiting for one more reviewer due to being unresponsive - what to expect? [duplicate]
I have submitted a paper to an Economics journal in September 2019. It was assigned to reviewers in October of the same year. When being assigned, I was told by the journal office, that the review ...
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Why has the status date changed while the status remains unchanged at "Editor Assigned"?
I submitted an accepted paper after a second revision to a springer journal on 24th Avril and the status stayed at "Revisions Being Processed " for two days. The status changed to "Editor Assigned" on ...
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Under peer review
Hi I have a paper submitted to a journal. The manuscript has been under review for 2 years now. I made 2 attempts at contact with one of the editors at separate times last year but with no success at ...
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Why Elsevier Journals don't change status of a paper?
Why Elsevier Journals don't change status of a paper?
I am new to this publishing world and I don't have much knowledge in this field.
I am Junior Researcher.
I communicated only one paper until ...
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Definitions of IEEE RAS review "dimensions"
When reviewing for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, you are asked to rate the submission on the following qualities:
Originality of concepts
Theoretical contribution
Technological ...
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Waiting with a lot of uncertainty [closed]
I have to choose between industry and academia (1 year left). I think the success of below two points according to me is a minimum qualification to get accepted for PhD. But I am afraid of total ...
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Is it rude to ask the associate editor about manuscript status for second time?
About six months ago I submitted a paper in one of the very reputed IEEE Transactions. I have observed from different papers published in that journal that the average time for receiving the first ...
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Journals with fast response? [closed]
Are there any other impact factor journals for electrical, electronics, communication engineering (or multi-disciplinary) with a very fast response like mdpi journals? I know it is not wise to ask for ...
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Order of authors when publishing bachelor's thesis (CompSci)
Forgive me if this is a duplicate; i found a few somewhat similar questions, but none which matches my situation exactly.
I wrote a bachelor's thesis in computer science. After I was done, we (myself, ...
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CS Conference paper reviews, decision and supervisor issue [closed]
I have submitted one research paper in a famous Top rank conference, my main supervisor was not happy to submit because he thought it will be rejected and still needs to be improved but my co-...
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Any suggestions for a rapid publish journal in material science? [closed]
I am looking for a rapid publish journal in material science, environmental science or electrochemical science, open access journals are OK.
This is so weired that my defense committee requires me 3~...
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Editor decision OJS system
After 3 days of sending my paper to the reviewers by the editor i have a new status saying that "New reviews have been submitted and are being considered by the editor". and 1/4 Assigned reviews ...
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Accessing previous versions of papers in EasyChair
EasyChair allows authors and chairs to "replace" previous versions of a submission. Is it possible to access previous versions?
(Context: I'm interested in the extent to which EasyChair supports a ...
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What should I do with a workshop paper which is peer reviewed, but only available on the workshop website?
I presented a paper in a workshop in CS. The workshop was related to a good conference, and they had a peer review system for evaluating the papers. But they do not have a proceeding and only made the ...
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After Major Revision what is the decision? [duplicate]
I submitted an research paper to Elsevier journal after 4 months i got major revision
i submitting my revised paper,
After one month i receive comments from reviewers. Editor letter stated that "I am ...
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How to cite a published review report of a journal article?
I found an interesting idea that was discussed in detail in a published reviewer report on an article in journal X (an open peer review journal) and I want to mention it in my manuscript.
How to ...
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Under what option should i upload a revised main document when using manuscriptcentral?
[please edit this question or propose a better title, English is not my native language]
Recently my paper was accepted with major revisions in a journal using mc.manuscriptcentral in its submission ...
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Manuscript status changed from "Reviews completed" to "Editor assigned" [duplicate]
I have been confused with the present status of my manuscript whose status follows the following timeline:
Manuscript initially submitted through Editorial Manager (Springer): 25 Jan 2017
Under ...
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Will they send my paper to the opposed referee?
All journals asked me to name opposed referees.
Will they really not send my papers to those whom I opposed?
Some journals seems intentionally send to those whom I opposed.
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