Tag: Peer review

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

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.

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

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.

• Most researchers are not meaningfully mentored or trained in the process of peer review.
• There are ways to gain experience, even before you are leading your own research group.

A large amount of time, nearly 15 million hours, is spent on reviewing rejected papers each year. An industry standard for portable peer review would reduce the amount of time busy researchers spend reviewing and re-reviewing the same papers.

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.

• 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.

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.