This would entail an entirely new set of experiments, and since it is eLife's policy to invite revision only when it is likely that the required experiments can be done in a short time frame, we are declining the study at this time.
We are potentially very interested in the work provided that your premises hold up—,but because it is eLife policy to only invite revision when it is clear that required experiments can be done in a short time frame, we are declining the work for now.
An invited revision should be submitted via the revision link to the online submission system provided in the decision letter, not as a new manuscript.
Some of the new submission are still under invited revision and some of the acceptances were of manuscripts originally submitted in 2016, so dividing 38 by 258 to get an acceptance rate is not fully appropriate, but it does provide a reasonable approximation of the journal's acceptance rate.
Wilbourn, MP; Casasola, M (Submitted, invited revision under review).
Caruso V. C., Pages, D. S., Sommer, M. A. and Groh, J. M. (Under invited revision).
We invite a revision that attends to the following questions and reservations.
Guest Editors of a Special Issue or Section handle manuscripts as they come in, invite reviewers, request revisions and then recommend acceptance or rejection to the Editor-in-Chief who takes a final decision on all manuscripts.
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The authors of these 16 papers were invited to submit revisions and responses to the round one criticisms for a second round review by the area chairs and other members of the program committee as needed.
