Questions tagged [peer-review]
On the evaluation of work (typically, a publication or grant proposal) by the author's peers. This includes: refereeing, which is often used to determine an academic paper's suitability for publication in a journal or conference; peer evaluation of teaching skills; peer review of research grant proposals; and post-publication review of a book or article, as is common in the field of mathematics.
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We appealed an editor's decision and sent a revised version, but he hasn't acknowledged it since 5 weeks
This is about a post-review rejection. This is one of the top journals in our field. The reviewers found our work interesting but sent a long list of controls and additional experiments to do. The ...
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Disclose your identity as a reviewer after publication period? [duplicate]
I was a reviewer of an article that was finally published some time ago in a high impact journal.
I plan to apply to an open competition for a teaching assistant position in a subject very related to ...
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The editor mixed up the reviews and rejected my paper based on the reviews of a different paper! Now they're denying everything. How to proceed?
I have heard lots of stories about rejection based on unfair reviews, etc. But this is a new one for me, and I wanted to seek the Academia SE's advice...
We recently submitted a paper (let's call it A)...
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What is the status of a paper in IEEE after ADM?
The paper status got Under Review directly after submission, with the name of an ADM. But it is around two weeks nothing changed.
What is the next stage in IEEE and how long does it take? Does it need ...
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How often should I send a reminder to the editor of a journal? [duplicate]
I am a Mathematics PhD student, number theory background. My research article is under review in a journal since 1 year 4 months.
Since I am a PhD student, I am expected to have publications in time. ...
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A journal editor has pretended my referee report actually came from two separate referees
I have encountered another weird situation as a referee. A couple of months ago, I submitted a referee report for an article, asking for major revisions. (This is theoretical physics, in which ...
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Proper way of responding to reviewers' comments
I need to resubmit a revised version of my paper to a journal. While submitting, I was asked to provide a list of responses to the reviewers' comments. I've started wondering about an accepted way of ...
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How often do editors reach reviewers whose expertise don't match the paper?
It's inevitable that sometimes, editors will invite reviewers whose expertise don't match the paper very well (example).
How often does it actually happen, and what percentage is considered acceptable?...
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When all the experts of a field collaborate, who peer-reviews the article?
Here's an example of the kind of paper I'm thinking of: Quantum gravity phenomenology at the dawn of the multi-messenger era—A review. The scope of the review is grand (1578 references cited) and ...
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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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Does this manuscript status change mean it is a desk rejection?
I submitted my manuscript 2 weeks ago to a Wiley journal that uses ScholarOne to manage submissions. It went from Submission received to Selecting/assigning Reviewers, then to Evaluating ...
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Options about responding to offer from editor to transfer manuscript to lower-tier journal
I recently submitted a first-author paper to a top-tier scientific journal (A). The editor responded that the paper would not be reviewed in that specific journal (A), but that it could be transferred ...
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Do peer-reviewers ignore details in complicated mathematical computations and theorems?
Upon reading many papers in my field, which is Mathematics. I have come across many complicated theorems and proofs in which long overwhelming computations have been done. While paying attention to ...
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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.
From ...
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Do authors prefer to see reviewer reports before a decision?
Suppose there is a paper with 3 promised reviews, 2 of which have been submitted. In this scenario there will usually be no decision while the editor waits for the third review. Will the author want ...
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2nd review round, referee did not accept the invitation - what are my options?
On a submission for a 2nd-round revise-and-resubmit in an Elsevier journal, one reviewer who did provide 2 rounds of positive feedback did not accept the invitation to re-review, 40 days after the ...
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How did journal editors find peer reviewers before the internet?
How did journal editors find peer reviewers before the internet? I personally find Google (& Web of Science and similar internet resources) such an invaluable tool that I can't imagine how editors ...
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My co authors backed out after paper acceptance, how to proceed
My paper was accepted in an open access journal, I am the corresponding author, but soon after acceptance my co-authors refused to pay their part of the article processing charges (APC) and sent me ...
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Advisor getting involved in semi-pseudoscience
I am a final year PhD student and recently my advisor started collaborating with some people engaged in what I would call semi-pseudoscience. For the sake of anonymity, I won't give the details but ...
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Can published papers from non-international journals decrease the level of a CV?
Consider a PhD candidate that still does not have publications in international journals but has some papers in local journals (peer reviewed but non-listed in international rankings) from their ...
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Is it normal for a revised submission, which is reviewed by the same reviewers, to take a longer review-time than the initial submission? [duplicate]
I have submitted a manuscript to a journal. Five months after the initial submission, I have received the decision, which was a major revision. After submitting the revised manuscript three weeks ...
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Reviewing papers for MDPI: general feeling as a reviewer
So simple question for those that already reviewed for MDPI: how did you feel about the quality of the other reviewers (in general)?
I have reviewed a handful of papers now as I feel it is necessary (...
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Where can I find the double-blind math journals? [closed]
At the moment, I am aware the American Mathematical Monthly and Mathematics Magazine (from several years) and Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (from one year, approximately) are using ...
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Incorrect report and no answer from editor
Several months ago I submitted an article to a journal with good reputation. Then I received two different reports. One was asking for minor revision. However, the second one overlooked at the content ...
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Does the teaser image need to be a picture in the paper? [duplicate]
I am submitting a paper to a journal. The journal requires submission of a teaser image.
Please also identify a teaser image from your manuscript that may be
used in the abstract book as part of the ...
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May my distinguished referee award be withdrawn if I inform the editors that I've actually left academia?
I left academia years ago and am self-employed, but haven't stopped refereeing papers for one of the journals I published a few papers in. Now I've been informed by the editors that I've been selected ...
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Multiple proposals assigned to the same study section in NIH
I would like to know everybody's ideas about having multiple NIH proposals being reviewed in one study section/scientific review group (group of peer reviewers that evaluate proposals on a particular ...
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Reviewer left no comments. What should I do?
I received a major revision from IEEE Transactions, however one reviewer left no comments. Earlier this already happened to me and the reviewer had left the comments in “Comments to Editors” section. ...
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Is a 20 days period of time enough to review a journal paper for a first time even if the paper subject is in the heart of my research area?
I have accepted a journal paper for a peer review for the first time. However, given a very limited time to review it, I’m no longer confident about whether to continue or come back from it.
The ...
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Can a research paper be accepted if its results are very close to previous works but are not better than those?
There are different metaheuristic algorithms for evaluating optimization benchmark problems, some give better results than others and some don't. If a novel metaheuristic has a very close fitness ...
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Is it normal to reject a peer-reviewed paper and then reject it after accepting it without specifying the exact reasons?
It seems that a paper has been peer-reviewed and then rejected again, which is weird:
An "independent, internal review" had "identified a number of issues
with the peer-review and ...
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Ethics of using knowledge gained from reviewing submissions available as preprints
There seems to be a notion that, when reviewing a paper, you are not supposed to use the knowledge acquired from that paper in your own research. In particular, you shouldn't build upon the paper's ...
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Is there any other chance for looking to the paper after rejection?
I got a rejection after minor revisions although I handled all requirements.
I got comments from two reviewers:
Reviewer #1: Good work. Like the paper.
Reviewer #2: I like these kinds of quantitative ...
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What should I do when the review process takes longer than expected? [duplicate]
First case: my paper got minor revisions and is "under review" since 27/10. Is it normal to take all this time for minor revisions? Can I ask the editor to remind the reviewers or can I ask ...
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Responding to a reviewer who asks to clarify a sentence containing an irrelevant word
In one of the papers, I have mistakenly written a wrong/irrelevant word which makes the sentence vague. The sentence contains review of somebody else's work. The referee is confused and has asked for ...
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Can the academic editor accept a paper if the reviewers have opposite opinions? [duplicate]
I have submitted a paper for review. I have made 4 revisions. The one reviewer accepted the paper and the other reviewer rejected the paper. Is there any chance that my paper will be totally accepted ...
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Peer Review, round 1, 6 reviewer reports, what could be the reason?
I have sent a manuscript to Optica, I have published there before and in other high-impact journals. This time my submission was first sent to 5 referees (I listed three names as requested). I thought ...
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Reviewer detects problems on my paper on the 4th revision that he did not notice on the previous 3 revisions
I submitted a paper that has now been reviewed four times. In the first revision the two reviewers had comments, which I addressed. On the 2nd revision the reviewers had fewer comments, which I also ...
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One reviewer (or more) hasn’t responded yet. Should I send an email, or should I wait longer? [duplicate]
I recently wrote my first paper and submitted it to the solar energy journal in late August. About two weeks later, its status changed to “under review” and an email has sent to me with a link to a ...
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Can I mention that the article is extremely short in a query to the editor?
Every advice on query letters to editors on the status of a manuscript after months of silence says not to sound demanding, impatient, not to give the editor motive for disliking you, etc.
I’ve got a ...
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How to deal with attacks focusing on minor points and subjective points in an academic debate/paper writing?
I wrote a paper that invalids a previous result. The referee heavily attacks "minor points" such as typos, misuse of jargons, overall "hard to read", and some story-telling or ...
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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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Empirical method without any solid theoretical background
I am working on a paper after peer review and struggling to address one of the comments that states "empirical method without any solid theoretical background". It is a paper about machine ...
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Revision for the fourth time with major revisions disguised as minor revision
I sent an article to a journal of a reputed publisher. After about six months and 3 revisions, of which 2 were major and 1 was minor, I re-submitted the article. However, after the third revision, I ...
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How do I deal with a referee who tries to make me cite ten of their articles? [duplicate]
I have received back an article asking for major revisions. As far as I know, the journal is a reputable one. The referee stated that the introduction is 'very short and poor' and that the authors ...
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Review recommendation when you can't review all of the paper
I'm reviewing a paper on a theoretical topic in the physical sciences. My opinion is that one part of the paper is valuable and deserves to be published, but another part needs attention from a ...
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Asking Editor to remind reviewer about my paper
I have a paper in submission and only managed to revise it after more than 8 months when I emailed the editor a reminder about my paper. I have re-submitted my paper about a month ago but from the ...
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Should I improve the article even the reviewers didn't point out? [duplicate]
A reviewer's comment:
some sections, such as A, are very short and they need to be expanded or removed; other sections such as B and C are very superficially developed
So I am wondering if I am ...
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Is "academic incest" a concern with research grant applications?
A colleague and I, early-career researchers, are planning to submit a research funding proposal. The research program we are envisioning would need a third PI with complementary expertise and ...
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A quick process of peer-review? [duplicate]
I submitted my paper to a Taylor Francis Journal on Sept 21. Only recently it appeared out for review on Oct 25 and now shows reviews completed. I suspect that it will come out as a rejection. It ...
