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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Can you describe profile of respondents in the result section?
I have read many articles where the description of respondents (their characteristics) are put at the beginning of results section. Is it ok? Will your manuscript be rejected if you did so, but ...
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Who should I message for the status of a paper?
I need to check the status of my paper. Should I message the Editor-in-Chief or the Journals Editorial Office (JEO)?
While Editor-in-Chief who sent to me the comments of the reviewers.
Will it be a ...
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Should one wait with resubmitting revisions until the very last day?
A colleague of mine recently suggested to wait with the re-submission of a revised article until the very end (e.g. the deadline day). His rationale is that reviewers might be less inclined to dig in ...
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what does means Paper status: Finished? [duplicate]
I submitted my paper to a journal. After 6 mounth with status: under review, yesterday the status changed to "paper status: Finished". I don't understand what does means by this?
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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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Is missing or adding a word accidentally in a citation serious mistake. Can it be fixed before publishing? [duplicate]
You accidentally made a mistake in a citation in a submitted paper. For example, you cited a list from one author and you accidently made a mistake in one of the bullets. Let's say you added a word ...
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Will reviewers focus on mistakes in references such as missing fullstop or not italic?
I am new to this research world and very confused. I submitted the manuscript to a journal and a few hours after I submitted it, I realized that I had made some mistakes. While I was working on ...
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Should I improve the article even the reviewers didn't request to do it?
Currently, I submitted my article to the frontiers series and received comments from the reviewers. After revising the article, I let a native English speaker help me to check it.
She made great ...
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Who is supposed to message in this situation? [duplicate]
I need to inquire about the expected date for the final decision as I sent the minor revisions since one month . should I message Editor-in-Chief or Journals Editorial Office (JEO). what is the time ...
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Withdrawing a manuscript after reviews - acknowledging reviewers in new submission
My coauthors and I have submitted a paper to a fairly prestigious journal. We have received favorable reviews and were in the process of incorporating the reviewer's suggestions into the final ...
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what should i do in this situation , please? [duplicate]
I got minor revisions for my paper and sent it by 20/9 , in 23/9 I got change in the status to be "with the editor" then I got change in the date in 5/10 and the status is "with the ...
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Conference rejects submissions with undeclared Conflicts of Interest (COI) automatically found on DBLP instead of using them to choose reviewers. Why?
I read some email about some paper submission:
Here are potential COIs [Conflicts of Interest] found by our automated tool, which uses DBLP to detect recent coauthorships: [Alice, Bob]. Per [...
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How do Journals find reviewers and their contact information?
I recently received an email asking to review for a reputable journal (I recognize the journal, and the person listed as Associate Editor is listed as an associate editor on the journal's editorial ...
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Is it possible to re-submit the manuscript again without being restricted to a specific time?
My manuscript was submitted to a reputable magazine. During the revision process, I revised the manuscript again. When the reviewers finished making changes, the comments I received matched the ones I ...
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Should I ask for a fast response?
I got minor revisions and sent the updates by 20 September but didn't get any response yet. I asked the editor by 10 October for the status and he replied that “the paper is with the editor for the ...
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I am an independent researcher (without affiliations). Where can I find articles to peer-review?
I am an independent researcher in the field of data science, discrete mathematics and parallel computing. I looked up Elsevier and MDPI. They all ask for affiliations to allow me to peer-review. Is ...
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Reviewer asked me clarify a point – should I add it to manuscript or to the response to reviewer?
A reviewer asked me to clarify one point:
why was a triple marker offered to a 39 year old women? Is it a
routine practice in your setting? Did we offer quadruple? Or was it
not available? Please ...
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Do I need to get my supervisors to double check the article at the copyediting stage?
Basically I'm at the last stage of the article review process. We've already been through 2 rounds of copyediting (after the peer review stage), which none of my supervisors read as they trusted me to ...
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Is there a "blind" e-print service?
Motivated by questions such as Double blind review allowing arXiv submissions :
is there a respectable e-print website (ideally Arxiv itself) that allows me to submit a "blind preprint", i.e....
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Manuscript status changed to under review again after with associated editor, what could be the reason? [duplicate]
Recently I submitted major revision to the IEEE journal. For 16 days, my manuscript status was showing to be under review and after that status changed to with associated editor for a day. Now status ...
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What does "revision is due by" mean?
I got a minor revision with the message "Your revision is due by 19 Oct 2022." I sent the comments in by Sept. 23.
Will I have to wait until Oct. 19 for an update, as the status still with ...
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Do I have to report all data and how should I deal with outliers if there are too many?
Say I have a hypothesis and then did the experiment 10 times and collected 10 data points. Five of the data points agree well with my hypothesis, but the other five are outliers. I strongly believe in ...
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How to ask politely the editor to urge the reviewers to finish the reviews in the best short time
I want to respectfully ask the editor to finish the review of my paper in the shortest time possible, because I got an early deadline to defend my thesis.
Here are some details on the review process ...
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Do you consider EPJ Web of Conference - papers as peer-reviewed papers?
I have published a few conference proceedings papers in the Journal EPJ Web of Conferences. All of them had some level of peer-review included, but not as rigorous as in a "normal" journal ...
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Is it okay to re-send a manuscript to another editor if there's no answer after three months?
I sent a manuscript to a refereed journal and got no response three months after submission. The journal doesn't specify how much a review lasts, or when should I expect to hear back from them. ...
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Different results according to the method use
I am preparing a rebuttal letter to reviewers and the editor about one of my manuscripts. The reviewers were concerned about the results and they suggest running the same models but using another way ...
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Withdraw a manuscript then submit a revised version [duplicate]
I wrote a manuscript and submitted it to a journal. One day I realize there is a critical mistake in the manuscript, so I revised my manuscript. Now I don't know if I can submit a revised manuscript ...
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First author is against further experiments prior to publication, but corresponding author decides to do so anyway. Is this justified?
We submitted our paper and got rejected. Now we want to submit somewhere else. Me (first author) wants to submit the paper as it is, while the corresponding author wants to do further experiments. Is ...
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Research motivated by referee assignment
I was recently asked to review a paper. I liked the paper a lot and eventually recommended it for publication after minor revisions. The paper inspired me to do further research on some questions ...
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The reviews are completed but the editor does not send the final decision and I am in a hurry
I have submitted a paper and both reviewers stated that the work is very well-written, novel, very well-done etc., and asked only some very easy questions. After I sent the revised version, on the ...
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Can editors affect the odds of a paper being accepted into their journal?
Assuming one submits a paper to an academic journal where the editor is positively or negatively biased towards you, what can they do to affect the odds of the paper getting accepted? An ideal answer ...
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How to properly criticize/comment on literature without being offensive?
For example, many of the published papers didn't take A into account when running some simulations to calculate B and I am trying to address the importance of A in my paper. How should I properly ...
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Is it ethical to submit papers under a false identity and affiliation to avoid peer review bias?
According to Huber, J., Inoua, S., Kerschbamer, R., König-Kersting, C., Palan, S., & Smith, V. L. (2022). Nobel and novice: Author prominence affects peer review (August 16, 2022):
We invite more ...
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Rejected by Editor-in-Chief based on 'incorrect grammar' 18 months after submission. Who to contact?
A colleague of mine working outside of Europe has encountered an absolute bizarre and, IMO, utterly unacceptable situation for the first time in their decades-long career as a chemical engineering ...
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How to deal with demanding fees to accept the article
An author submitted a manuscript to a Scopus and a Web of Science Journal. Few months later, he received an email including the full name of the author, name of Journal and the title of the submitted ...
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Can I recommend my own [non-academic] article to an author in a peer review?
I am currently peer-reviewing a paper for a journal. I will recommend acceptance with majors, though the journal has asked for any other citations which may be useful to be presented to the author.
I ...
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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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What to do with authors who ignore all the criticisms and suggestions from reviewers?
In reviewing a paper in analysis (mathematics), I provided a detailed review report that I feel was not too harsh (at least well within the realm of reasonable).
Today, the authors came back with a ...
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How long should one wait before submitting to another journal after a mistake in the decision-letter was made by the first journal?
I have received a decision letter with a rejection. The letter contained two reports recommending publication and two reports, with negative comments, which have nothing to do with the manuscript, and ...
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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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How to contact the editor about a possible mistake in the decision letter?
I have received the decision on a manuscript that I have submitted. The editor in chief decided to reject the paper stating that the reviewers are advising against the publication of the manuscript.
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Is it normal to reject a paper due to a large amount of ambiguity and lexical errors instead of recommending a major revision?
I'm writing a report regarding a paper in mathematics, which I have spent three months reviewing. During this period, I have tried to understand the ideas presented by the authors, but in vain.
The ...
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Should I accept an invitation to review a research paper as an undergraduate?
I recently received an invitation to review a paper at a conference in China. This is the first time I am being invited to review. I do feel qualified to do it since I have worked on the topic for ...
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Is it normal that the editor says "the referee report is for editor's eye only so I cannot share it with you"?
I recently receive an editorial letter that is unwilling to share referee reports. The letter explicitly mentions the existence of such report but the editor don't want to send it to me.
Is not ...
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My "in review" article appeared online on ResearchGate - uploaded by a reviewer
My team submitted an article to an MDPI journal 7 weeks ago. The manuscript quickly went into peer review. After a few weeks, MDPI contacted us and asked us to provide a list of potential reviewers. ...
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How should I respond to a review request after a review was declined?
I reviewed a manuscript for a journal from a well-known publisher.
I received
A gentle reminder that we sent you an invitation on ... to review the revised version of the following paper
I responded ...
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What to do if one reviewer asks to delete and another asks to add more details to a proof?
I received a referee report for my single authored paper recently in Mathematics. Both the referees have asked for a revision.
I am having a problem with a proof of a theorem in the paper.
Reviewer A ...
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Answering a reviewer when I am not sure if I am right
One of the reviewers has asked a technical question that is not related to the main scope of the paper that I submitted. On top of this, I am not sure if the answer I am going to give is correct or ...
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Is it normal to be given two weeks to accomplish major revisions?
I have recently received a decision on a manuscript in the field of mathematics, which I have submitted to a journal a while ago. The reviewers comments were typical: modifying the abstract, ...
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Is it common to not have comments when reviewing a revision of a paper?
After reviewing a journal paper, I typically receive the revision of the paper to review. This is expected, but most often, my comments are addressed by the authors, and I have no further comments. I ...
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