"editorial modifications" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when you are talking about the changes or adjustments that were made to a text by an editor or editor-in-chief. For example: "The editor made several editorial modifications to the article before it was published."
A new draft research manuscript; a previously published paper is not acceptable because it may have received much editorial modification in the review process.
"That the Times is still essentially the same paper seems to me so plainly the case as to refute the word 'new' in 'the new, faster-format Los Angeles Times.' What small novelty there is would have received very little promotion had it begun as a routine editorial modification.
The cave's interior containing a concealed nuclear vault was subjected to several changes up to two months before the effects' delivery date based on editorial input, including modifications to its scale.
The BRIF sub-group has initiated a dialogue with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) [ 28] in order to inform journal editors about the BRIF issues and to promote the modification of editorial guidelines accordingly.
A work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship, is a "derivative work". 17 U.S.C. § 101 (emphasis added).
See related editorial by Lundberg and Venables, Post-translational modifications can create neo-antigens that become targets of autoimmune responses [ 1, 2].
"Only Half a Bailout" (editorial, Oct. 22) is right about the need for loan modifications to stem the foreclosure crisis.
Other modifications were made to the online version of the editorial to reflect news as it happened through the day on a fast-moving story; that's not unusual.
Should the changed editorial have carried an editor's note to explain the modification?
See related editorial by Frizzell and Kraus, http://breast-cancer-research.com/content/11/6/111 PolyADP-ribose polymerases (PARPs) catalyze a posttranslational and energy-consuming modification of proteins by polyADP-ribosylation.
