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For papers where an e-mail apparently got through, Vines and his colleagues received a response about half the time, regardless of when the paper was published.
The timely need and demand for this special issue can be witnessed by tremendous responses to the announcement of call for papers, where 37 submissions were received, all of which have been gone through in-depth peer review.
For papers where there is insufficient information to determine eligibility, the study authors will be contacted for clarification.
For papers where a definite decision to reject could not be made based on title and abstract alone, the full text was examined.
For papers where data were not presented for the association of the exposure (SEP) and outcome, we contacted authors for these data if the study was published in the last 5 years.
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As you open the different trays and covers, look carefully inside for paper where it should not be.
Editors' and authors' assessments of quality were very similar, except for reviews of papers where reviewers had recommended rejection.
It is, of course, the mysterious manuscript, which the professor glances at and then shoves into a stack of papers where it languishes for a year.
We are currently also investigating text mining methods (8) as a parallel approach to triaging papers for full curation, primarily for those papers where authors do not respond to our e-mail or where there is no e-mail address for the corresponding author (∼1.5% of papers).
For this stage, full text was retrieved for any papers where the information contained within the abstract was deemed insufficient to make a decision upon eligibility.
Recruiters can help by allowing extra time for written papers where appropriate; 25% extra time is recommended.
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