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Should you ever pick "recommended" or "opposed" reviewers for journal submissions in social science?
This question applies to all disciplines but I am curious here about social science journals in particular. Is it ever a good idea to name/identify specific reviewers that you would like to have them ...
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Status of a manuscript whose required reviews are completed
I have submitted a paper to a good math journal in first week of May 2024. After a month (+ a week at most), the online system shows the status “Required reviews completed”. However, to this day, I ...
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Should I review for a journal that charges authors excessively? [closed]
This is a follow-up/correction of this previous question (which I cannot alter since it has been answered, but was advised to ask a new question instead).
Of course, journal publication has its costs, ...
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Short comment paper - time to review Vs urgency of the topic
Several weeks ago, I submitted a comment paper/policy brief of about 800 words to a journal. The paper critiques frequent reports published by major international organizations, which I believe ...
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Should I review for a journal charging authors?
One of the main journals in my field has recently switched to 100% open access, and charges an article processing charge (APC) of about 2500 ($/€/£). For some researchers this is automatically covered ...
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Reviewer's Concerns about Excessive Simulation Results [closed]
I am currently in the process of addressing the feedback received from a reviewer regarding a manuscript I've submitted. The primary concern raised is that there are "Too many simulation results ...
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Status still “Pending decision” but date has changed [duplicate]
I submitted a paper to a Taylor & Francis journal. It was peer reviewed and the status has been “Pending decision” since January 30. On January 31, the status stayed the same but the date had ...
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How to write review requests that are not classified as spam?
I'm the editor of a statistical journal (currently it doesn't have an Impact Factor but will have one soon as far as our information goes). I have experienced that it is very hard to find reviewers ...
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How to deal with author's extensive self-citation? [duplicate]
As a scientific journal reviewer, how can I deal with a manuscript where the authors cited their own works extensively (14 times) in the manuscript?
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Upon resubmission, can I oppose some previous reviewers if I stronly disagree with their comments?
I submitted a manuscript to an Elsevier journal. I was given a major revision after a two-month review period. The comments from the two reviewers are positive and constructive. It took me a month to ...
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Being in "1 Reviewer(s) invited" state for 4 months, What should I do? [duplicate]
I have submitted an article in a math journal, the status has remained at "1 Reviewer(s) invited" for the past 4 months. In an attempt to understand the reasons behind this delay and seek an ...
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Can an author choose the reviewer of their book?
I suspect the answer is no. The problem is, there is a group of scholars who would invariably trash the works of young scholars from a certain school of thought (they already did).
My book was ...
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Should I review for journals where I would not publish my own papers?
Sometimes I receive review requests from journals that are not popular among my colleagues. I'm not so sure about the situation of these journals. They are typically Web of Science SCI Q2 journals (e....
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Revised manuscript for a long time [duplicate]
We have submitted a review to high-impact factor journal in Elsevier, and after 15 days only, the reviewing process has ended with major revision. We addressed the suggested point carefully and the ...
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Need clarification on the status of my manuscript in ScholarOne [duplicate]
I recently submitted a manuscript to a journal using the ScholarOne submission system. After the second round of review, the editor provided some minor language revisions, and all three reviewers had ...
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I submitted an article to a too high-ranking journal, should I cancel?
I am a Postdoc, recently I submitted my first single-author publication (physics). I had one journal in mind and briefly discussed the idea with several seniors, and nobody really objected. Now I ...
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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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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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Can published papers from non-international journals decrease the level of a CV? [duplicate]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What is the difference between Abstract and Author Summary?
What is the difference between "Abstract" and "Author Summary"?
Example: OpenAWSEM with Open3SPN2: A fast, flexible, and accessible framework for large-scale coarse-grained ...
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How many [conceptual] sections should an "Introduction" contain? [closed]
How many [conceptual] sections should an "Introduction" contain?
I need to know this so that I can better arrange the Introduction section of my paper.
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Should I contact journal editor?
I submitted an article to a journal last year in July. It took some months for it to be processed and peer reviewer to be assigned.
I received the first decision in March (major revisions). The ...
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Chance of publication in top combinatorics journals after complicated submission history
(First appeared in Mathoverflow) In May 2020, I submitted a paper to a notable Combinatorics journal where a couple of earlier papers in the topic of my paper had been published. It was one of my ...
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