But authors also worry that such suggestions can make a manuscript appear suspect or that their responses may offend other scientists.
AK carried out substantial part of the work by diagnosing the patients, treating and following up them, analyzing the acquired data and made a draft manuscript to finalize it upon suggestions and advice from the other authors.
However, there is a fine line between trying to express in a crisp and compelling manner the contribution made by a manuscript and making claims that are beyond what the manuscript does or could do.
To put that in context, the Royal Society provides information on their average times to a decision being made on a manuscript for five of their journals here, and the range is between 23 and 43 days.
We request that the EHP editors implement policies to ensure that any alterations made to a manuscript be clearly marked and reviewed by the author before going to press.
The key additional experiments that we feel are necessary to make a revised manuscript acceptable for publication by eLife are as follows.
But in August the Art Institute made a facsimile of the manuscript available at www.artic.edu/magicofamerica.
The moveable type of the 1460s and 70s certainly made a communications revolution, but manuscript scribes and vellum documents survived long into the 16th century, and beyond.
Four years after the shortened The Saragossa Manuscript made a huge impact worldwide, with no less than Luis Buñuel lauding it, came The Doll (1968), Has's first film in colour, a story of unrequited love combined with a sharply satirical observation of Polish society during the turbulence of the mid-19th century, exposing snobbery and greed.
Fears that it would not be passed by the censor – and, if it was, that audiences would not be warm – may have played a part in that calculation, although, re-reading it in 1929, the dramatist made a note on the manuscript that it was "very poor", according to Nelson, although he and Chambers have (in my view, justifiably) over-ruled this view.
Both FHL and NH, as the corresponding authors, have made a great contribution to manuscript direction and experimental design.
