The lack of tools to objectively evaluate manuscript quality and participants' self-assessment makes it difficult to interpret the results of this type of study.
After much nervous anticipation, he was led into the editorial office and was put to work evaluating manuscripts.
Volunteer editors read and evaluate manuscripts and give feedback to the authors.
I wish to thank very much those reviewers who provided their time and expertise in evaluating manuscripts for the Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics in 2014/2015.
Authors should be aware that EHP now routinely evaluates manuscripts for possible plagiarism.
This diversity of approaches and thoroughness precludes a coherent, consistent process for evaluating manuscripts for peer-reviewed journal publication.
In circumstances in which a significant conflict of interest exists, Environmental Health editors and reviewers will recuse themselves from evaluating manuscripts, and any additional issues must be declared.
On behalf of the Editorial Board of CCS, I wish to reassure readers and authors that we are committed to evaluating manuscripts on the basis of their scientific quality, not on whether author's can pay article-processing charge.
As an aid to authors who hope to satisfy gatekeepers' expectations for good writing, it is helpful to explain the criteria reviewers use to evaluate manuscripts, especially if criteria other than the quality of the scientific content are used [ 23, 44].
