Tag: Peer review

This downloadable template is a checklist and planner you can use when editing your own or a colleague's manuscript.

Every researcher experiences rejection from journals at some point. A few options after desk rejection include appealing the decision, resubmitting, or finding a new journal. Research data is valuable and should be published somewhere.

The revision process can represent a golden opportunity to enhance your work based upon input from the reviewers. With this in mind, you can respond in a way that maximizes your chances of having your paper accepted upon resubmission.

Readers' favorite downloadable resources to help you with the academic writing and publishing processes.

• Peer review is a very valuable process, but it can be very frustrating.
• It is important to maintain a positive, cordial tone even when reviewers clearly misunderstood or did not read your work carefully.

Journal cover letters are your chance to lobby on behalf of your manuscript. This AJE Journal Cover Letter Guide offers some useful tips for getting them right. It also includes a free journal cover letter template.

AJE's Presubmission Review service offers constructive feedback on manuscript structure, content, logic, and presentation, helping authors enhance their communication and increase the speed of manuscript acceptance.

Peer review can be challenging for a variety of reasons, including if a reviewer is unable to fully understand the language in a manuscript. In this article, we discuss the potential solution provided by language editing services.

• The term 'megajournal' is used in discussion of scholarly publishing, but what are the criteria for defining one?
• These journals publish a broad variety of research without judging the perceived importance, just soundness.
• Famous megajournals include PLOS ONE, Scientific Reports, and PeerJ